Hangers On Week: Why Candidates Stick Around w/ Amy Walter

This Day in Esoteric Political History

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🗓️ 25 February 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Throughout this election year, we’re going to be doing a few special series tied to the notable stretches in an election cycle, from primaries to conventions and October surprises and more. This is “Hangers-On Week” our look at the point in the primary calendar where candidates are, for one reason or another, still hanging around.

For the first episode of Hangers-On Week, Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report to lay out the basic categories of the candidates who stick around a little too long: from those who want to shape policy, to those who become punchlines, and those with a different agenda in mind.

Who else deserves to be on our list of hangers-ons? What other categories would you slot candidates into? Let us know!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:11.0	Today we are kicking off a multi-part series that we are calling Hangers On Week.
0:16.0	Historically, it's that part of the election calendar late February into early March
0:20.1	where the presidential primaries are rolling along.
0:22.5	There might be one or two or three candidates in the mix who have a shot,
0:26.9	but then there's also this whole group of other candidates just hanging on.
0:31.3	They probably don't really have a shot at the nomination, but for one reason
0:35.8	or another they are still out there on the trail, running ads, doing their thing. So we wanted to spend some
0:41.4	time with the K-inichs and the
0:43.6	the Allen Keys of the world.
0:45.4	So welcome everyone to Hangers On Week.
0:48.7	And what better guest for this than Amy Walter,
0:50.9	who is going to join us for the first two episodes of this series.
0:53.2	Amy is the editor and publisher of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter, has been on the show
0:58.8	before, but thank you so much for doing this.
1:01.2	Welcome Amy.
1:02.4	Thank you, J for doing this. Welcome Amy.
1:03.0	Thank you, Jody.
1:04.0	Although being on the hangers-on, it almost seems as if maybe you're saying something
1:10.0	about me.
1:11.0	Right.
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