Election 2024: Race for the White House
Power Play
POLITICO
4.2 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
As Donald Trump’s seemingly unstoppable campaign to win the Republican nomination gathers pace, most eyes in America and the world are moving to the more important contest — between him and Joe Biden.
Trump’s resurgence is causing jitters in the Biden camp. He has a small but consistent lead in national polls. Will Biden manage to keep hold of the electoral coalition that brought him to the White House four years ago?
Host Anne McElvoy brings together two leading pollsters and party strategists for their inside analysis of where the race is heading. Jim Hobart is partner at Public Opinion Strategies, who has worked on Republican campaigns; Maggie Omero is principal at the Democratic polling firm GBAO.
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| 0:00.0 | God Yes, the U.S. |
| 0:05.0 | As you know, two weeks ago in Iowa, we had a great time in Iowa. |
| 0:09.0 | We had a great time in Iowa. |
| 0:11.0 | 40, 40 degrees below zero. We won the Iowa |
| 0:16.6 | Caucasus by the largest margin in the history of the caucus. |
| 0:20.9 | Donald Trump is having the time of his life sweeping all before him in the |
| 0:25.4 | Republican primaries with emphatic victories in Iowa and New Hampshire. As his |
| 0:30.6 | campaign juggernaut rolls on it looks almost certain he'll be facing Joe Biden in November. |
| 0:36.5 | Choice is clear. |
| 0:38.5 | Donald Trump's campaign is about him, not America, not you. |
| 0:43.6 | The President certainly has enough on his plate |
| 0:46.0 | as he weighs up the options in response to deadly attacks |
| 0:49.2 | on a US base in Jordan and the Tinderbox |
| 0:52.3 | that in the Middle East threatens to explode at any moment |
| 0:55.0 | that raises questions of how either candidate |
| 0:58.0 | would affect hot spots around the world |
| 1:01.0 | and America's global role. |
| 1:03.0 | So all eyes on either side of the Atlantic are on the race for the White House this year. |
| 1:08.0 | And while Trump maintains a small lead in the national polls, |
| 1:12.0 | Biden is desperately trying to keep hold of the |
| 1:14.6 | electoral coalition that brought him to power four years ago. The stakes could |
| 1:19.7 | hardly be higher. Welcome to Power Play from Politico where we talk to some of the world's most powerful |
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