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🗓️ 10 May 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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0:00.0 | Trump celebrates 100, Durbin is leaving after 44, |
0:04.8 | and Santos's sentence is 87. |
0:07.8 | But who's counting? |
0:09.5 | Certainly not on the political junkie. |
0:12.1 | You like Ike, I like like, everybody likes I for president. |
0:16.3 | Add light to you, and think to me, I don't care how you quoted. |
0:20.2 | Come on and vote for Kennedy, vote for Kennedy, and we'll come out on top. |
0:27.4 | Vote for Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, because they're the ones to lead the USA. |
0:44.0 | Thanks for joining us, and welcome to episode 423 of the political junkie. |
0:45.5 | I'm Ken Rudin. |
0:51.8 | Before I get into a celebration of Donald Trump's first hundred days, a flashback to election night, 1996, courtesy of Dan Rather of CBS News. |
0:57.9 | In Illinois, this is for the seat of the retiring Democratic Senator Paul Simon. |
1:02.8 | Our CBS News estimate is when all the votes are in and encountered. |
1:05.7 | Representative Dick Derman, the U.S. representative there, will hold on to this seat for the Democrats in Illinois. |
1:12.5 | Dick Durbin, the Illinois Democrat, who was first elected to the House in 1982, |
1:17.7 | and then, as you just heard, to the Senate in 1996, |
1:22.4 | announced he will not seek a sixth term next year. |
1:25.5 | We will explore Durbin's career later in the program. |
1:29.4 | And we also have a possible coming and definite leaving in New York. |
1:34.5 | Elise Stefannick, who was originally nominated by President Trump to be UN ambassador, |
1:40.2 | but whose nomination was later called back when Republicans realized their margin in the House was dwindling |
1:45.7 | and they needed her to stay put, suggested that she may be quitting the House anyway to run for |
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