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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics and now the Joe Biden presidency.

We will be looking at how a 78-year-old president will change America and we'll be asking if normalcy, which is what he promised to bring, has returned to American politics.

The answer, of course, is no.

I'm joined today by Kate Andrews, who is the spectator's economics correspondent, and we're going to be talking about Donald Trump's speech yesterday at CPAC.

Now, Kate, he started by saying, hello, CPAC, do you miss me? I'm guessing that you haven't particularly missed Donald Trump speeches, although I did note that you were eagerly tweeting about it.

Yeah, it was almost triggering. No, I can't say I've missed his speeches terribly, but it turns

out that the crowd at CPAC definitely did, that there was appetite for him to take the stage in the

keynote slot at CPAC, and I mean, the crowd was going absolutely wild.

So they miss him. A lot of Americans miss him. He got the second highest vote share of any

presidential candidate in U.S. history. The difficult thing for Donald Trump is that Joe Biden

got the highest, something that he was very keen to play down again last night over and over

talking about how he

believes the election was rigged, despite there not being substantial evidence for this, for these

claims have been thrown out of courts. And, you know, he was really focused on Trumpism,

on the idea that his four years in the Oval Office have not brought that to an end. He was doubling

down on all of his policy positions from the border wall to his position on big tech.

And whilst he never actually said that he was running in 2024, he made several references to it.

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