Does the GOP race for second even matter?
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🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Nikki Haley is up, Ron DeSantis is down and Trump is still trouncing both of them. Today, we’re debriefing on the Republican presidential primary and how Trump’s legal battles are shaping the race.
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Politics reporters Dylan Wells, Isaac Arnsdorf and Ashley Parker sit down for a roundtable about the current state of the Republican primary race. Right now, it’s a competition for second place, with all the candidates trailing behind former president Donald Trump in polls. But is there actually a path to victory for them? And what happens if Trump gets convicted before November of next year?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Martin here. So it probably won't surprise you that I read a lot of stories from the Washington Post, in part because it is actually my job. |
| 0:12.0 | But it turns out that this year I read 1,141 Washington Post stories. |
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| 0:29.1 | things like who's your top author? What topic did you read about? How much time and how many pages did you read in the Washington Post? What's your reader type? |
| 0:36.0 | It is fascinating because it gives you insight into yourself and what interested to you and what surprised you over the year. |
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| 0:46.1 | newsprint go to Washington Post.com slash newsprint and if you wait till the end of the show, I will tell you more about my personal newsprint |
| 0:55.4 | and what I was reading this year. |
| 0:57.3 | All right, so that's it for the newsprint. |
| 0:59.4 | And now here is today's show. In this presidential election cycle, |
| 1:08.0 | there has been this feeling of deja vu. |
| 1:10.8 | I think that comes up a lot when I talk to voters on the trail. There's a sense of |
| 1:14.0 | inevitability about the fact that it will likely be a Trump-Biden rematch again. |
| 1:20.0 | Dylan Wells is a campaign reporter for the post, |
| 1:22.6 | and for the last several months, |
| 1:23.9 | she has been closely following the Republican primary, |
| 1:27.1 | along with my colleagues Ashley Parker, |
| 1:29.1 | I'm senior national political correspondent, |
| 1:32.0 | and Isaac Arnstorf. I'm Isaac Arnstorf. |
| 1:33.7 | I'm Isaac Arnstorf. |
| 1:34.8 | I mainly cover Trump. |
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