Handpicking The RNC
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondents Asma Khalid and Franco Ordoñez and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:20.4 | Hi, this is Brendan, Mave, Ellen, and Doug. |
| 0:24.0 | We're here in Watertown, Massachusetts about to try nine different chilies for our sixth annual |
| 0:29.2 | chili cook-off. |
| 0:30.8 | This podcast was recorded at 12.35 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, March 11th of |
| 0:37.5 | 2024. Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but right now |
| 0:41.3 | it's chillie time! |
| 0:44.0 | The insink! |
| 0:50.0 | Good weather for a chili cookoff, especially in Massachusetts. |
| 0:53.6 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:55.9 | I'm a Smachala that cover the White House. |
| 0:57.7 | I'm Frank Ordonez, I cover the presidential campaign. |
| 1:00.2 | And I'm Domenical Muntenauerer, a senior political editor and correspondent. |
| 1:03.0 | And today on the show, we're going to talk about the merger of the Trump campaign and the |
| 1:07.4 | RNC. On Friday, the Republican National Committee voted to install a series of |
| 1:12.0 | new leaders hand-picked by none other than |
| 1:14.6 | the former president and 2024 presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump. |
| 1:19.0 | Before we talk about what this all means, Franco you were in Houston for that RNC meeting. |
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