Impeachment Froze the Democratic Primary

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🗓️ 15 October 2019

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The impeachment inquiry has crowded out all but the most urgent news about the 2020 presidential election. In doing so, it’s frozen the Democratic primary in ways that have helped Sen. Elizabeth Warren at the expense of almost every other candidate. How long will the freeze-frame last? Guest: Amy Walter, National Editor of the Cook Political Report and Friday host of WNYC’s The Takeaway. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Consider for a second the unfairness of it all.
0:07.8	Here we are about to have our sixth Democratic presidential debate.
0:11.8	If you're one of the 12 candidates up on that stage tonight, this was supposed to be your
0:17.1	time.
0:18.3	This was supposed to be a fall focused on 2020 Democrats.
0:23.8	Amy Walter talks politics on WNYC's The Takeaway.
0:27.6	She's also the national editor at the Cook Political Report.
0:30.6	She says in a presidential election year, this season usually has a rhythm to it.
0:36.7	Debate in October, the third quarter FEC reports coming out in October, debate in November,
0:47.0	the field, theoretically winnowing, the more debates, the higher the threshold to get
0:53.6	onto the debate stage.
0:55.8	Sounds like you had a really nice little calendar laid out.
0:59.3	I did.
1:00.3	I knew exactly what was going to happen.
1:03.2	And then it didn't.
1:04.6	Yeah.
1:05.6	And then this impeachment thing happened.
1:12.2	If you want to get just how much the political landscape has shifted for these candidates,
1:17.6	just go back and watch the last Democratic debate.
1:20.8	No one mentions Ukraine.
1:22.7	No one talks about federal elections violations.
1:25.7	Yeah, nothing's changed, but everything's changed.
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