America looks set for Trump v Biden
Americast
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🗓️ 24 January 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The Americast team pore over the New Hampshire results after an evening in which Donald Trump looks to have the Republican nomination all but sewn up. Nikki Haley says she's a fighter and that the race "is far from over" but is there really a route back from here?
Earlier in the evening, Sarah caught up with former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who told us why he thought Trump’s various indictments have helped him in the polls so far.
And, Ron DeSantis officially suspended his campaign before the New Hampshire primary. What next for him? We answer your questions about the Florida governor.
HOSTS: • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Marianna Spring, disinformation and social media correspondent • Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent
GUEST: • Sean Spicer, Former White House Press Secretary under Donald Trump
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This episode was made by George Dabby with Catherine Fusillo, Madeleine Drury and Claire Betzer. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The series producer is George Dabby. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Okay guys, let me set this scene for you. |
| 0:06.6 | It is 10 to 11 here in New Hampshire, 10 to 4 in the morning in the UK. |
| 0:11.2 | The snow has just started gently falling down out of the night sky and you can see it in the floodlights in front of this bizarre hotel which is shaped like some kind of English medieval castle and in there is where |
| 0:25.4 | Donald Trump and his team are celebrating their victory in New Hampshire and I |
| 0:30.0 | can tell you all of that because I can see it from outside my hotel room window. I have not on this occasion been |
| 0:35.7 | invited into the Trump party I'm afraid so I can only tell you what it looks like |
| 0:40.4 | from the outside but that's not going to stop us talking about what's |
| 0:43.5 | happened here in New Hampshire tonight and what it means for the race going |
| 0:46.2 | forward. Yeah and in one sentence what has happened Sarah is that Donald Trump |
| 0:50.6 | has won and won well enough that he is absolutely unquestionably |
| 0:56.7 | the front runner to go forward. In fact that's really not putting it strongly enough, is it? |
| 1:01.0 | Nicky Haley says she's carrying on, but I mean, |
| 1:04.6 | where is she going to win or when? |
| 1:07.0 | Well, that's a good question, and it remains to be seen |
| 1:09.0 | whether she really is going to carry on all the way |
| 1:11.5 | to the next primary, which is in a month's time in |
| 1:14.2 | our home state of South Carolina. We'll talk about some of that a bit later, but it is |
| 1:18.1 | worth saying at this point we don't have all the results in but it appears that |
| 1:21.1 | although Trump has won a perfectly victory, it's not as huge as he might have hoped. |
| 1:25.8 | So maybe that's what gives a glimmer of hope to the Haley campaign. |
| 1:30.1 | Welcome to America Cast, New Hampshire Primary Special. |
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