Hello listeners this is political

this is political's nerd cast I'm your host scopland

this week on the nerd cast the world of democratic presidential

hopefuls is shrinking and that's inspiring desperate measures.

Campaign reporter Elena Schneider will join us to explain just what's going on as the debate stage shrinks

and some candidates drop out of the 2020 presidential race.

Plus, we are going on the road.

Well, we're going to talk to a reporter who went on the road

to town hall events for members of Congress all around the country

where she and her colleagues saw vulnerable

Democrats being grilled on impeachment by voters.

reporter Sarah Ferris has been to some of those town halls.

She's going to tell us what she's been hearing.

As always we are taping the show on

Thursday today that's August 29th so if any more candidates drop out after August

29th they're not going to be in here.

All right, so starting off this week, more than half of the Democratic

presidential field has gotten bounced from the party's debate circuit

as of Wednesday night.

But many of them are not meekly exiting stage left, although actually a few of them are, maybe a few more than we expected.

Here to talk about it, National Political reporter, Elena Schneider.

Elena, welcome.

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