Inside a Trump 2024 Rally in Iowa
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🗓️ 27 September 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Last week, Benjamin Wallace-Wells, who writes about politics for The New Yorker, went to Dubuque, Iowa, to attend a Trump rally. Wallace-Wells is now covering his third Trump campaign for President. This time, what stood out to him most was how much the rhetoric of the G.O.P. has shifted in the course of those three cycles. The former President, once an insurgent and inflammatory voice, now just sounds like an ordinary Republican. Wallace-Wells joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss what he heard from voters in Iowa, what he has observed in the broader Republican field, and why Donald Trump’s 2024 lead has been so significant.
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| 1:22.9 | Earlier this week, you reported on your first Trump rally in a really long time, in Dubuque, Iowa. |
| 1:28.9 | How did that feel? |
| 1:30.4 | What was the energy like? |
| 1:32.7 | It was weirdly mundane. |
| 1:35.0 | It was much less boisterous, much less deranged, much less destabilizing than the Trump rallies I went to. It seems, you know, |
| 1:45.9 | curiously like a kind of regular Republican rally. |
| 1:50.8 | That's my colleague Benjamin Wallace Wells, who covers American politics for the New Yorker. |
| 1:56.3 | Ben made some time to speak with me this week, right after reporting on the ground in Iowa, |
| 2:00.4 | where the state caucuses are only four months away. You're listening to the political scene. I'm Tyler Foggett, |
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