Americanswers! Marjorie Taylor Greene, disinformation campaigns, and who will run in 2028?
Americast
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4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The team regroup to make more predictions about possible candidates for the Democrats and Republicans in 2028. We also take stock of foreign influence operations ahead of the upcoming US election. What has the US learnt since the last election?
Plus, Ivanka Trump played an influential role in her father’s first administration, but she’s since disappeared from the public eye. Could she reappear in Trump’s next White House?
HOSTS: • Marianna Spring, Disinformation & Social Media Correspondent • Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent
GUEST: • Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at Department for Homeland Security
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This episode was made by George Dabby with Claire Betzer. The technical producer was Philip Bull. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | We're ready to answer more questions and that means we can turn over our question |
| 0:09.0 | exam papers and Anthony you can get yours from the lovely Claire who is producing your end in DC. |
| 0:15.0 | Excellent thank you I'll get my number two pencil out here and sharpen ready to go. |
| 0:19.0 | And I believe that Miles you've got yours virtually. |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah I'm looking at it now it's like an intense I believe that Miles you've got yours virtually. |
| 0:22.8 | Yeah, I'm looking at it now. |
| 0:24.0 | It's like an intense pub quiz this week. |
| 0:26.4 | This is going to be wild. |
| 0:28.6 | So our very first question is from Jennifer in Edinburgh, |
| 0:32.2 | and she asks, is there any sense of where either the |
| 0:35.2 | Republicans or Democrats see themselves in four years time at the next election in terms |
| 0:39.8 | of who some potential nominees might be for each party. |
| 0:42.8 | Well, Miles, why don't you talk about the Republicans first and all address the Democrats? |
| 0:46.6 | Yeah, I'll take the Republicans and right now I think most of those Republicans who have presidential |
| 0:51.7 | ambitions, see four years from now like it's 40 years |
| 0:55.8 | from now it feels very far away because it's tough for them to imagine a world |
| 0:59.7 | in which Donald Trump is not the figurehead of the party. |
| 1:03.9 | Now that said, the way a lot of them |
| 1:06.3 | are jockeying for position to try to get ahead of Donald Trump |
| 1:10.9 | and be kind of the figure head of the party in the next cycle is by trying to |
| 1:15.2 | subordinate themselves to them. So a lot of the people you see auditioning to be |
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