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The Playbook Podcast

Apr. 10, 2023: Trump’s gravitational pull warps the 2024 field

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Government, Politics

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

How other 2024 GOP hopefuls are navigating Donald Trump, and what political news you need to be paying attention to. Playbook co-author Rachael Bade talks with reporter Sally Goldenberg.

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0:00.0

Presented by Airlines for America.

0:03.4

Good morning. Happy belated Easter to those who celebrate.

0:07.6

This morning, I'm taking my nine-month-old to the White House Easter egg roll,

0:11.9

though I'm pretty sure I'm more excited than she is.

0:15.3

I'm Rachel Bade. It's Monday, April 10th.

0:18.5

So the big things I'm watching today are, number one, the continued fallout

0:23.8

from this Trump judge who essentially outlawed the abortion pill last week, and specifically

0:28.9

the scrutiny on this turning in an unusual direction right now, toward Democrats, actually.

0:35.1

Over the weekend, progressives like Ron Wyden and AOC started calling for the

0:39.4

Biden administration to just ignore this judge's ruling instead of trying to appeal it. And that is

0:45.5

really threatening to sort of change the subject away from the merits of the judge's verdict,

0:50.0

where I think a lot of Democrats want to keep the focus to this sort of debate about democracy

0:55.7

and the role of the judiciary and the rule of law.

0:59.4

Number two, the GOP's reaction to Tennessee Republicans ousting two black lawmakers for protesting gun laws.

1:06.4

Last week we saw a bunch of Democrats accuse the Tennessee State House of being number one, tone deaf for

1:12.3

using such an extreme sanction on an issue that a lot of people frankly care about, and number two,

1:18.2

racist for not punishing a white lawmaker who did the exact same thing as these two black lawmakers.

1:24.5

But this week, we are going to hear from Republicans on this matter,

1:29.8

specifically wealthy Republicans are going to be flying in to Nashville for the RNC's donor

1:35.4

retreat. And we do expect officials like Donald Trump, Mike Pence, and some other

1:41.0

congressional Republicans who will be there for this donor retreat to have to weigh in on this matter.

1:46.3

I just talked to a Republican official last night and he was admitting to me that basically this is

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