Is This Any Way to Choose a President?
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 22 April 2016
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Adam Gopnik joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the eccentricities of the nomination process.
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| 0:48.4 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. |
| 0:53.9 | It's Friday, April 22nd. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Friday, April 22nd. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. On Wednesday, after winning the |
| 1:00.6 | Republican primary in New York, Donald Trump spoke at a campaign rally about the upcoming contest in |
| 1:05.8 | Pennsylvania. And if you win Pennsylvania, you get 17 delegates. |
| 1:11.6 | And the rest of them are up for grabs. |
| 1:13.6 | And then they can take the delegates, they can put them in airplanes and fly them to resorts, |
| 1:19.6 | they can have dinners with them, they can put them in hotels. |
| 1:21.6 | Essentially what they're saying is they can buy the election. |
| 1:25.6 | I think it's such a bad system. It's so unfair. I call her |
| 1:31.1 | crooked Hillary. I can tell you this is a crooked system. This is a bad, bad system. |
| 1:37.2 | Adam Gopnik joins me to discuss Trump's latest crusade against the fairness of our electoral system. |
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