314: Iowa Is in the Books, Now What?
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🗓️ 19 January 2024
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Host Reed Galen is joined by Lincoln Project Senior Advisor Joe Trippi to discuss the 2024 Republican Iowa Caucuses of this past week, what they mean for the GOP field, and what comes next in the march towards the 2024 election. Plus, Reed and Joe share their favorite Iowa stories from the campaign trail. If you’d like to hear more from Joe Trippi, be sure to subscribe to That Trippi Show. For more from Reed Galen, be sure to subscribe to “The Home Front”. If you’d like to ask a question or share a comment with The Lincoln Project, send an email to podcast@lincolnproject.us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, it's Reed. Before we get started, it's 2024. We've been waiting. Here it is. We've |
| 0:06.9 | been talking about this. Everything we did in 2021 to prepare for 2022. Everything we did in 2022 to prepare for |
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| 0:42.4 | And I cannot say thank you enough. And now, on with the show. |
| 0:50.2 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. |
| 0:56.6 | I'm your host, Reed Galen. |
| 0:58.8 | Today, I'm once again joined by Joe Trippi, senior advisor to Lincoln Project, legendary Democratic strategist, and host of That Trippie show. |
| 1:07.7 | Joe, welcome back. |
| 1:09.5 | Good be with you, Reed. |
| 1:10.6 | All right, so Joe, as we're recording this, |
| 1:12.3 | we're less than 24 hours out of the Iowa caucus results. You have probably as much experience |
| 1:19.3 | in Iowa in caucuses in cold weather as anybody, as anybody. Really glad that neither of us were there. |
| 1:25.9 | Me too, right, yes. Although it is funny to see all of the TV people like, how cold is it? The Iowans are like, can you give up on the cold? Like, this is not a thing. Yeah, right. Have you been to Iowa in the winter before? Only every four years, I guess. All right, so Trump wins 52%. DeSantis at 22-ish, Haley at 19, and then Vivek at 7 or 8, he's gone now. |
| 1:49.0 | Only about 10% of registered Republicans turnout. |
| 1:53.1 | And so now here we are. |
| 1:54.9 | Usually there's second place is the first ticket out of Iowa, but DeSantis has already said, |
| 1:59.3 | I'm skipping New Hampshire. |
| 2:00.6 | I'm going |
| 2:00.8 | straight to South Carolina. Haley says, now it's finally a two-person race, as if it's ever been a race. |
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