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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, power and prejudices.

This year, 2024, is an election year in America, a presidential election year.

And so we will be doing two podcasts a week, rather than our usual one, because we want to

and because we know you can't get enough Americano in your life.

I am delighted to be joined here in Chile, New Hampshire, by Matt McDonnell,

who is the Spectator's senior managing editor.

Sure, that works.

That's your title for now.

And Zach Christensen, who is Spectator World's editor,

and we are covering the primary here.

And yesterday we went about a fair bit.

We saw Nikki Haley twice for our sins.

And Ronda Santis out on the campaign trail.

And, well, let me put it to you both.

This feels a bit like a Potemkin primary at the moment

because even though they're both campaigning,

they're almost sort of talking in terms of defeat.

Well, they don't.

I mean, as we observed yesterday,

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