A Guide to the Suddenly Crowded Republican Primary

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Candidates for the Republican presidential nomination keep entering the field, despite the fact that Donald Trump polls consistently as the front-runner and Ron DeSantis has emerged as the clear No. 2. Why do so many lesser-tier Republicans think they have a real shot? Shane Goldmacher, a national political correspondent for The Times, offers a guide to the new crop of candidates and discusses their rationale for running. Guest: Shane Goldmacher, a national political correspondent for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	I'm announcing today that I'm running for President of the United States of America.
0:16.2	From New York Times, I'm Michael Boreau.
0:19.0	This is the Daily.
0:20.5	Today.
0:21.5	For a strong America.
0:25.1	For a proud America.
0:27.2	Before God and my family.
0:29.2	I'm running for United States President of the United States of America.
0:37.5	Day after day, more and more long-shot Republicans are throwing their hat into the 2024 presidential
0:44.8	race despite a set of seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their way.
0:50.8	My colleague, Shane Goldmacher, offers us a guide to the new crop of candidates and their
0:57.1	rationale for running.
1:02.7	It's Thursday, June 5th.
1:07.5	Shane, hello.
1:11.6	Hello, Michael.
1:12.9	Good to see you.
1:13.9	Nice to see you as well.
1:16.5	Shane, your bylines and your daylines in the times tell us that you have been in Iowa.
1:22.8	The reason we want to talk to you is because this Republican race is now truly it feels
1:28.4	underway and because several new candidates have entered the race in just the past few
1:33.0	days.
1:35.0	That's a little bit confounding in a way because of what we already know about this Republican
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