Florida Man: Trump’s re-election campaign
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🗓️ 18 June 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the 100th episode of the Intelligence on Economist Radio. |
| 0:08.9 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:10.9 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:17.0 | Muhammad Morsi rose to power in Egypt in 2012 after the Arab Spring. |
| 0:22.6 | He was an unlikely and ungainly leader who was deposed in a coup just a year later. |
| 0:28.6 | Yesterday, still enduring trials on trumped-up charges, he died in court. |
| 0:33.6 | His passing is emblematic of just how far the country is from its dreamed of democracy. |
| 0:39.4 | And the group stages of the Women's World Cup have almost finished. |
| 0:43.6 | It's drawing much more attention than past tournaments. |
| 0:46.4 | The way sponsorship is divvied up among the English lionesses has changed, |
| 0:50.8 | and that is bringing long overdue money into the sport, if not into the player's pockets. |
| 1:16.6 | But first... This is a movement like we've never seen in the history of our country. President Donald Trump will officially announce today that he's running for a second term in office. |
| 1:20.6 | And we will make America great again. Thank you. Mr. Trump kicks off his campaign with a historically |
| 1:34.8 | low approval rating, but he retains a great deal of support, not least from within his own party. |
| 1:40.9 | Vice President Mike Pence and the First Lady Melania Trump will join him at his campaign |
| 1:45.2 | launch in Orlando, Florida. When Mr. Trump rallied in the same city during the 2016 campaign, |
| 1:50.7 | he still had ground to make up on Hillary Clinton. I love you. I love you. It's a movement, folks. |
| 2:00.0 | It's a movement. His. It's a movement. |
| 2:01.0 | His taking of Florida was crucial to his eventual victory. |
| 2:05.6 | It's not about me, it's about you, believe me. |
| 2:09.6 | This is a movement. |
| 2:11.6 | In the 2020 race, it'll again be the biggest prize among the battleground states. |
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