Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, life and the Trump presidency.

And before we start this episode, I'd like to draw everyone's attention to our new Not the New York Times offer, which we're offering to encourage readers to subscribe to the Spectators' US edition, which is excellent. I edited.

And the reason we're running the not the New York Times offer is because we are very unlike the New York Times.

I don't know if you're aware of this, but the famous newspaper, the most famous newspaper of America,

has recently hounded out one of its best editors because the paper

had published a slightly controversial article.

The paper staff and bizarrely many of its readers now demand total conformity of opinion in the

opinion pages.

We think that's very boring and we want to tell America that the spectator is different.

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We've been around longer than the Times, in fact, 23 years longer to be precise,

and we encourage our writers to disagree with each other.

We want arguments and we want people to disagree.

It makes for much better reading. We also try not to take ourselves

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I'm joined by Matt MacDonald, who is managing editor of the Spectators' US edition.

And we're going to be asking, is Camilla Harris a good vice presidential pick?

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