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Welcome to the political scene, a weekly discussion about the big questions in American politics.

I'm Susan Glasser and I'm joined by my colleague, Jane Merr.

Hey, Jane. Hi, Susan.

So guess what? Late breaking news. No Evan this week. He's delayed on a trip back to D.C.

So it'll just be us today and a very special guest. We'll get to her shortly. But first, let's set the scene. In just a few weeks, the Republican Party is all but assured to officially name a convicted

felon, Donald Trump, to become, for the third time in a row, the Republican Party's presidential

nominee. We're only one week out from this conviction. Already, Trump and his followers have

launched a concerted attack on the conviction and indeed on the

entire justice system that produced it. And yet it's really an open question whether anything

at all has changed in the presidential race as a result of it. I'm especially interested,

I have to say, right now in what Republican voters are thinking and those independents who may no longer identify as Republicans, but maybe they really are.

So we thought, who better to join us than somebody who actually grew up in that world, who understands them.

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