#2: With Four Contests Down, Will It Be Trump vs. Hillary?
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2016
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
This week on In The Thick, Maria Hinojosa is joined by Basil Smikle, Executive Director of the New York State Democratic Party, Tarini Parti, BuzzFeed reporter covering Capitol Hill, and Julio Ricardo Varela, Futuro Media Group's resident political editor. Listen to their predictions on Party nominations, VP selections and the Latino Vote in advance of Super Tuesday. We get our guests to speculate on whether the vote will be Trump versus Hillary in November and what strategies they'd use if they were in charge. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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| 0:00.0 | Basil like Dazzle, Sminkle like Michael. |
| 0:03.0 | I've been doing that. |
| 0:04.0 | Your whole life. |
| 0:05.0 | H is in Harry, I is in India, and as in Nancy, O is in orange. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey, welcome to In The Thick. This is a podcast about politics and race to the |
| 0:16.6 | ballots in 2016. I'm Maria Njosa and today I'm joined by Tarini Parti, |
| 0:21.1 | Buzzfeed news reporter covering Capitol Hill. Hey Tarini Party, Buzzfeed News reporter covering Capitol Hill. |
| 0:23.8 | Hey Tarini, and you're joining us from Washington, |
| 0:26.4 | Nisi. |
| 0:27.4 | We also have in the studio with us, Basil Schmichael, a political consultant, |
| 0:31.7 | policy analyst, and a contributor to The Hill, which is a digital |
| 0:34.9 | publication, Hey, Basil. |
| 0:36.3 | Hey, Good morning. |
| 0:37.3 | Gullio Ricardo Guarella, who is our digital director and also our political guru here at the |
| 0:42.1 | Futura media group, |
| 0:43.0 | Buenos Diaz Julio. |
| 0:44.3 | Good morning, Buenos Aires. |
| 0:45.9 | So I'm going to start with a quote. |
| 0:47.9 | I don't know if you guys do skin, but I'm a skim girl. |
| 0:51.6 | So it says, what to say to your friend who's having her bachelor party in Las Vegas. |
| 0:55.9 | What happens in Las Vegas Nevada could affect the GOP nomination for president. |
| 1:00.1 | So what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas? No, no more. |
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