Hello,

welcome back for another edition of Politico's Nurdcast.

I'm Scott Bland, your host.

This week on the Nurdcast,

we're bringing together two of the best minds

on our White House team and our congressional team to just talk us

through what happened at the White House this week and the the fallout from

President Donald Trump's racist tweets last weekend. Plus we were tracking a ton of new campaign finance information at the beginning of

this week and we came away with some really interesting points from one of our top political reporters about the state of the campaign, why a big

shrink to that big Democratic primary field might be coming soon, and also exactly

what's powering the very top of the Democratic primary right now.

As always, we're taping this on Thursday, today that's July 18th, so it's all up to date as of

then.

All right, let's dive right into it.

I want to welcome our guests.

First in the studio from the political White House team,

we have Gabby Orr.

Hi Gabby, thank you so much for joining us.

Thanks for having me.

And on the line from Capitol Hill, Heather Kagan. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me.

And on the line from Capitol Hill, Heather Kegel from Politico's dynamite Congress team.

Hi Heather.

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