17: Jon Ralston on Nevada and Ruy Teixeira on Ideological Motivations
Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt
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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Nevada debate moderator Jon Ralston from The Nevada Independent discusses Bloomberg's first debate in Nevada. Ruy Teixeira helps us understand the ideological motivation providing greater context on his Washington Post column. On the 'Back Page', James and Al talk about the pervasiveness of corruption.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 2020 Politics War Room with James Carvill in New Orleans. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm Al Hutt. |
| 0:11.8 | We have a fabulous guest once again, John Roxton from Las Vegas. |
| 0:15.4 | I'm going to come back to John in just a minute. |
| 0:17.7 | But let me first ask you to please subscribe, rate, and review 2020 Politics War Room on Apple |
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| 0:28.2 | We are doing it from American University where we are in collaboration with the Sign |
| 0:33.0 | Institute and the great Amy Dacey. |
| 0:35.4 | You know, James, we have to have Amy on one time. |
| 0:37.5 | She not only worked in politics for you, she's an expert on, she's thought about brokerage |
| 0:41.6 | conventions. |
| 0:42.6 | But you know, James, I traveled around the country for many, many years covering politics. |
| 0:46.7 | And there's a handful of states at that that you can go to and you know there's one person |
| 0:50.9 | who knows everything. |
| 0:51.9 | And if he or she tells you it is, it is the gospel. |
| 0:55.8 | And no one is, no one fits that bill better than John Roxton and Nevada. |
| 1:00.5 | For years, he has been the go to person out there for anybody who cared about it. |
| 1:04.5 | He publishes now his own publication out there following politics. |
| 1:08.8 | He's going to be a moderator on that debate tonight in Las Vegas. |
| 1:14.0 | So when we have John Roxton, James, we have the world today. |
| 1:18.2 | Hey John, first of all, thanks for being with us. |
| 1:21.5 | I am struck that every debate we've had just about so far, the focus has been on the |
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