Inside a Trump rally

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🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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At a Kentucky rally, President Trump's supporters ordered the media to "Do your job!" and reveal the identity of the Ukraine whistleblower. The Wall Street Journal's Mike Bender explains how these events have changed the American political landscape and Sean Rameswaram speaks with a superfan who has attended 18 rallies. And counting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	President Trump appeared at a rally in Lexington, Kentucky last night.
0:12.8	But this time it wasn't something he said that turned a lot of heads.
0:17.7	Kentucky Senator Rand Paul stole the show.
0:20.5	We also now know the name of the whistleblower.
0:24.6	The whistleblower needs to come before Congress as a material witness because he worked for
0:30.3	Joe Biden.
0:31.6	At the same time, Hunter Biden was getting money from corrupt oligarchs.
0:36.0	I say tonight to the media, do your job and print his name.
0:50.7	The president was impressed.
0:53.1	Wow, that was excellent.
1:01.3	President Trump likes to sure think.
1:03.4	When he goes to a ballgame in DC, he gets booed.
1:06.6	When he visits California, he forgets the name of the town he's visiting.
1:10.6	But when he speaks at one of his rallies, the crowd is willing to go wherever he wants.
1:17.0	Sometimes they'll even go a step or two further.
1:24.4	The president has been holding his rallies since 2015 and winning the presidency didn't stop
1:30.1	him.
1:31.1	But heading into the 2020 election, we wanted to find out what it is about these rallies
1:35.6	that keeps people coming back.
1:37.8	And to help with that, we found an expert.
1:40.4	The short answer is I've been to over 50 rallies.
1:44.0	This is Mike Bender and he covers the White House for the Wall Street Journal.
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