Andrew Marr: What if the Trump assassination attempt had succeeded?
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has been greeted like a messiah at the Republican National Convention. But what if that bullet had been an inch to the right?
Just over 48 hours after narrowly escaping death from a gunman’s bullet, Trump has been confirmed as the Republican Party’s candidate for president in the upcoming election. He has named critic-turned-loyalist JD Vance as his running mate.
Andrew Marr joins Hannah Barnes on the New Statesman podcast to discuss how the attempt on Trump's life has impacted his standing among Republicans - and why political assassinations "never work".
They also discuss the implosion of the Welsh Labour government, and the King's Speech will reveal about the core beliefs of the Labour government.
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| 0:00.0 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:02.0 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:03.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah Barnes, associate editor at The New Statesman, and you're listening to the New Statesman podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | For the last eight weeks we've been publishing daily episodes covering the UK's general election |
| 0:18.0 | and we're going to continue to publish every day this week, |
| 0:21.0 | but our focus, along with the rest of the world has turned at least |
| 0:24.3 | temporarily to the United States. Just over 48 hours after narrowly escaping |
| 0:30.2 | death from a gunman's bullet, Donald Trump has been confirmed unsurprisingly as the |
| 0:36.1 | Republican Party's candidate for president in the upcoming election. |
| 0:40.3 | He's also named Critic turned loyalist J.D. Vance as his running mate. |
| 0:45.8 | Now I'm joined in the studio as it's a Tuesday by our political editor Andrew Mar. |
| 0:50.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:51.0 | Thank you, Hannah. |
| 0:51.5 | Later in the podcast we're going to turn back to the UK |
| 0:54.5 | and look at that string of resignations |
| 0:56.5 | we've seen today from the Welsh government |
| 0:58.2 | and look ahead to tomorrow's King's speech. |
| 1:01.0 | But let's kick off with Trump and the United States. |
| 1:04.0 | J.D. Vance, quite an extraordinary speech overnight about, well, Britain, really. |
| 1:10.5 | Yes, we're still trying to work out how to think about J.D. Vance. A lot of people here know him from his extraordinary memoir, |
| 1:16.6 | Hill, Billy, Elegi, about growing up white and poor in a kind of drug-ravaged community in the Appalachians and he has been seen right across |
| 1:24.6 | the board by writers and politicians of the left as well as the right as an |
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