Checks and Balance: Starting places
Checks and Balance from The Economist
The Economist
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Chris Christie and Mike Pence have become the latest to enter the Republican primary. Despite his legal woes Donald Trump commands a huge lead in the early polling and the man thought most likely to challenge him, Ron DeSantis, has been stumbling. Can anyone beat Trump to the nomination?
Congressman Bob Good explains why he’s backing DeSantis over Trump. Jon Ward, author of “Camelot’s End”, remembers an early frontrunner who lost a big lead. And The Economist’s James Bennet surveys the field.
John Prideaux hosts with Charlotte Howard and Idrees Kahloon.
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| 1:17.0 | We recorded this episode just before the news that Donald Trump has been indicted for mishandling classified documents landed. |
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