#9: Escape from New York
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2016
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The New York presidential primary resulted in lopsided victories for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. But questions remain over disenfranchised voters and rules that prevented millions from casting a ballot. Join Julio Ricardo Varela, Political Editor with the Futuro Media Group, as he dissects the election with Basil Smikle, Executive Director of the New York State Democratic Party and Hadas Gold, Media Reporter for Politico.
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| 0:00.0 | I just tweeted out Hillary Clinton, NBC News projects for winning the New York primary, |
| 0:05.2 | and you would have thought that I tweeted out a picture of like ugly babies. |
| 0:09.8 | Welcome to The Think, a podcast about politics in the race to the White House in 2016. |
| 0:17.0 | We're the show that examines the week's political coverage through a diverse lens with different perspectives. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm your host, Julio Ricalo Barella, |
| 0:24.8 | filling in for Maria Nahosa, who is reporting in Chicago this week. |
| 0:30.0 | Joining us today in our Harlem studio is Basil Schmykel, executive director of the New York State Democratic Party, and former Clinton Senate staffer, |
| 0:38.0 | Basil, what's up man? |
| 0:40.0 | Hey, how's everybody doing? |
| 0:41.0 | I'm great, Basil. I'm sure you're relieved that the New York primary is over. |
| 0:44.5 | And in Washington, D.C. we have Hadas Gold Media Reporter for Politicalo. |
| 0:48.9 | Hi. |
| 0:50.1 | Thank you so much for joining me in this week's episode of In The Thick. |
| 0:53.4 | The New York primary has come and gone, and as expected, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump |
| 0:59.4 | won by huge margins. |
| 1:02.0 | Huge! See what I did there. |
| 1:04.0 | Let's start on the Democratic side by looking at some exit polling data. |
| 1:08.0 | Clinton continued to win communities of color big time. |
| 1:12.0 | She won the African American vote by 50 points and she won the |
| 1:15.3 | Latino vote by 26 after trailing in some recent polls. Why was Bernie unable to |
| 1:21.9 | win communities of color? |
| 1:23.9 | Basil, go for it. |
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