You're going to be. We're back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Jordan Boyd,

staff writer here at the Federal List.

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I'm joined today by Matt Kittel, our senior elections correspondent at the Federalist,

and a voice loyal listeners will get well acquainted with in upcoming weeks.

Matt, welcome to the program.

Well, thank you for having me and I've enjoyed this podcast for a long time

because I think it embodies everything that is the federalist.

Yes, we're so glad you're here and it's so fun to see the evolution of people who listen to the

podcast now becoming what is going to be our temporary

host of the podcast so and Matt if I'm not mistaken you officially joined the

Federalist elections team at the beginning of this year but you have been

writing for us for quite a time before that as a

contributor is that right? That is absolutely right yes I've been a federalist loiterer for

some time and then had the great opportunity, very blessed to have been able to join the Federalist at the first of the year in what I think is just an outstanding and absolutely vital team of reporters.

Election coverage, election integrity coverage more so, particularly going into this critical election year.

But yeah, I wrote for the Federalist for years in different capacities at different news organizations

as a freelance reporter and had the good fortune to get to

know a lot of the folks of the Federalist before I joined in January.

Yes and we got the great pleasure of getting to know you even better when we all went to Staff Retreat

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