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The Conversation with Dasha Burns

Iowa: We're in this for the long haul

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

News, Government, Politics

4.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

It's the 2020 Iowa caucuses and basically nothing went according to plan. Scott Bland talks with POLITICO reporters Eugene Daniels, Charlie Mahtesian, Laura Barrón-López and Elena Schneider about Iowa's role in the political process and what on earth happened on caucus night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, NurdCasters.

0:05.0

And is that I don't know that part.

0:07.0

That was Eugene Daniels.

0:12.0

One of our many on-the-ground reporters in Iowa. That was Eugene Daniels. Hello.

0:13.0

One of our many on-the-ground reporters in Iowa for the past week, or two or months, actually.

0:18.0

I'm tired and cold and hot in all of the things.

0:21.0

He's been here for the better part of two weeks covering Andrew Yang.

0:23.5

Eugene has been to lots and lots of Yang events.

0:26.5

And it's been really exciting and kind of nerve-wracking also.

0:31.0

And Yang often plays the same song at his rallies.

0:34.0

Mark Morrison's 1996 hit, Return of the Mac.

0:37.0

We asked, like, why this song, it's older, there's like cursing and stuff in it and they said it wasn't political and it was fun and quote-unquote. It's still slabs.

0:49.0

That's what I was told. The Nerncast has been in Iowa embedded with our reporters who are getting a little

0:55.4

delirious with all these campaign songs. It still slabs. She said should never turn on me your life.

1:05.0

They can tell us what it feels like to go to your ump teen Pete Budajajed rally, for example.

1:10.0

And I have now almost committed his 36 minute sort of speech plus

1:13.8

Q&A to memory. That was our reporter, Elena Schneider, and our senior politics

1:18.5

editor, Charlie Matessian, while he's been going to Iowa for a long, long time.

1:24.0

There really is no typical day.

1:27.0

I was up till 3 o'clock editing last night.

1:30.0

And Charlie had spent a lot of his time in Iowa this year in a windowless room at the Des Moines downtown Marriott Hotel,

1:36.0

editing stories from reporters driving all over the state.

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