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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.

Hi, welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.

My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland area attorney and sometime Republican strategist Jay Carson.

Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Ask the Politics Guys podcast, where we answer a question that's on the minds of our listeners.

We plan to post a new episode most Wednesdays, but because we don't have a regular

Politics Guys episode for Sunday, December 27th, we're putting this up in its place.

So here's our question for this week.

Okay, what's the question?

Dear Politics Guys, Donald Trump has been leading in all the Republican polls by a wide margin

for months, but I keep on hearing

so-called political experts say that he doesn't have much chance of winning the nomination.

Why not? And would it really be all that bad if he did win the nomination?

That's actually two questions. Yeah, it really is. I thought I'd let it go. But, you know,

I think it's really a great question.

I want to say, first off, you're right.

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