Hello,

welcome to Politico's Nerdcast. I'm Scott Bland, your host, and this week we will be talking about voting, voting,

voting, voting. We had more primaries. What did we learn from the primaries in four states this past Tuesday night?

We had Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, and Texas, a nice slice of the South there.

Plus, House Speaker Paul Ryan learns that being a lame duck makes a tough job even tougher.

He's dealing with a rest of conference on all sides right now over immigration, especially, but

also other issues.

We'll talk through that with one of our congressional experts.

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One more note before we begin, we are taping this a little bit before noon, eastern on Thursday,

May 24th, so it is all up to

then.

let's get started. I want to welcome our guests to members of political crack campaign staff. We have politics reporter Daniel Strauss,

our governor's expert, hi Daniel.

Hey Scott.

And we have Steve Shepard Shepard our polling expert and but you're involved in

everything these days right Steve a little bit of everything sure yeah all right

so let's jump into our first data point

coming out of these big primaries on Tuesday.

Zero.

Data point is zero.

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