A Campaign "Misquote," the Sports Doc Crisis, and Semafor’s Benjy Sarlin on the GOP Debate

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Bryan is back with Weekend Headlines to review a misquote from Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, then discuss sports docs' equivalence to memoir and Tucker Carlson’s biography (0:48). Later, Bryan is joined by Semafor's Washington bureau chief, Benjy Sarlin, to react to the first GOP debate. They discuss candidates’ approach to Ron DeSantis, talk through Nikki Haley’s and Mike Pence’s campaigns, touch on a Trump-less debate, and then predict who may win Iowa and who may drop out before then (7:10). Host: Bryan Curtis Guest: Benjy Sarlin Producer: Erika Cervantes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, this is Craig Horlbeck from The Ringer Fantasy Football Show.
0:04.4	Join me, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to help you
0:09.0	win your draft, win your league, and most importantly, avoid that last place punishment.
0:13.5	Follow The Ringer Fantasy Football Show on Spotify.
0:16.7	Hello media consumers, welcome to Pressbox Final Edition.
0:23.6	Ryan Curtis of The Ringer here, along with producer Erica Servantes.
0:27.8	In five minutes, we're going to bring on SEMA 4's Benji Sarlin, who was in Milwaukee
0:32.4	last night to cover the first GOP debate.
0:35.2	Benji is a super, super smart campaign observer, while I've known for a very long time, you're
0:39.8	going to want to hear his takes about last night's events.
0:43.5	But first, Ryan Williams isn't walking through that door.
0:46.4	Let's do weekend headlines.
0:49.8	I was misquoted.
0:50.8	I mean, taken out of context.
0:53.8	Vivek Ramaswamy was arguably the winner of last night's debate, at least if winner is
0:58.9	code for the candidate who got attacked the most by other Republicans.
1:03.6	Ramaswamy had kind of a tough week.
1:06.0	Before the debate, the Atlantic quoted him wondering aloud about 9-11 conspiracy theories.
1:12.4	Now on such a damaging story, Ramaswamy's first move was to throw out a familiar political
1:17.7	chestnut.
1:19.0	I was misquoted.
1:20.8	That's not exactly what I told the guy.
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