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Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

Derailing the Primary Trump Train: Can Any Candidate Do it?

Rick Wilson's The Enemies List

Lincoln Square

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.93.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

With a cast of GOP primary characters like Pence, DeSantis, Christie, Haley, and Ramaswamy, can anyone derail the Trump Train on its way to the general election? Rick Wilson and Niall Stanage, associate editor of The Hill, analyze the challengers’ strategies and just how slim to none their chances of beating Trump are. And what conversation about Trump would be complete without talking indictments, mug shots, trial dates and why it’s all so very appealing to GOP primary voters? Rick and Niall dive in. Timestamps: [00:00:01] Six words: Georgia protests, Trump threats, GOP resistance, Fannie Willis case. [00:04:06] Trump on trial before Super Tuesday: Unfazed GOP voters. [00:06:51] Bizarre legal reality show: Trump ahead. [00:10:02] Trump's rivals struggle to compete. [00:12:54] Republican primary shaped by Trump. [00:16:17] Trump's advantage: winner-take-all, Ramaswami's candidacy useful. [00:18:49] Divide non-Trump vote, Ramaswamy rises. [00:21:49] Media bias toward excitement. [00:25:01] Trump-centric chaos eclipses Biden. [00:27:57] Con man hustles for Trump's attention. Follow Resolute Square: Instagram Twitter TikTok Find out more at Resolute Square Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Resolute Square

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There was also maintain what was called an enemy's list, which is rather expensive and continually being updated

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Immaculate, want Republican instead

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Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay?

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The women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having a margin

0:34.0

On January 6th of 2021, you had tens of thousands of people peacefully protesting

0:41.0

So, it's not right we can spare spirits here, it's not killing us, it's real

0:46.0

I'm Rick Wilson, and this is the enemy's list

0:50.0

Welcome back to the enemy's list, folks, I'm Rick Wilson, and my guest today is now Stanage, a political reporter at the Hill

0:57.0

A guy who has some great insights on the landscape of the 2024 election to come

1:02.0

And I wanted to go across the waterfront with him and talk about a whole bunch of the things that are in the news and developing as we are recording this

1:08.0

And with that, now welcome so much, thank you brother for coming on the podcast

1:12.0

Deleted to be with you Rick, how are you doing?

1:14.0

Great man, great, so let's start out with the looming story of Georgia, because you've been writing a lot about it

1:21.0

And particularly about both the legal ramifications of the Fanny Willis case that's been brought against Trump

1:27.0

And some of the political drama in Georgia related to it because of the people that in the state that actually stood up to Trump at the time in 2020

1:36.0

Tell me a little bit about some of your reporting coming out of Georgia and about the case that's taken up so much of America's attention in the last few days

1:43.0

You know, obviously that's a huge case, Rick, it's difficult to sort of grade the cases, the foreign indictments that there's a former president faces

1:52.0

But Georgia is a very important one, I think just on a basic level before we get into the wades you're into the specific reporting

2:00.0

The fact that that call exists between Trump who was then present and Brad Rathansberger, the famous find me the votes to over 11,000

2:11.0

And Rathansberger has said publicly that he regarded it as a threat when Trump rather vaguely but ominously suggested

2:19.0

There would be something criminal that Rathansberger didn't go along with him

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