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Hello and welcome to this emergency edition of the 538 Politics podcast. I'm Galen Druke

and we may not have full results from the 2022 election, but the 2024 election has, I

guess, officially begun Tuesday night former president Donald Trump announced his candidacy

for president from Mar-a-Lago. It was a long speech that touched on much of what Trump

has talked about for the past six and a half years, but probably more importantly is

what this all means. Trump left office in 2021 after denying the legitimacy of American

democracy itself. He tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election through various

avenues, which reached an apex when his supporters violently stormed the Capitol during the certification

of electors in Congress on January 6th. Trump continues to face legal liability over his

role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election alongside other investigations.

While Trump has kept a tight grip on the GOP since 2016, at this point his support is not

unanimous, especially amongst elites within the party. So here with me to talk about all

of this is editor-in-chief Nate Silver. Hey, how are you? How are you feeling about the

start of the 2024 election exactly one week after the, well, not even end of the 2022 election?

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