Hello and

Welcome to Politico's 2016 nerdcast where we give you the story behind the stories and geek out on this

amazing circus of an election. It's Thursday, May 12th. I'm Kristen Roberts, political's national editor and here's where we are.

Donald Trump is again at war with the

Republican National Committee. He's talking about Vice Presidents or he's not but

we know who's in his head. We take a look at just how weak Hillary Clinton is.

Bernie Sanders won't leave her alone and it's setting up to be a pretty bad nightmare

in the general election. And then we're going to talk about the polls. They were certainly right in the general election. And then we're going to talk about the polls.

They were certainly right in the primary

when looking at Donald Trump.

And now, again, we're going to question

whether they're right this time in showing

an incredibly tight race with Hillary Clinton.

Sit back, listen, and I hope you enjoy it.

I'm sitting here with, my favorite people Ken Vogel hello Eli Stogles hello Charlie

Matessie and senior politics editor hi Kristen.

Hi while we're meeting there are some other people meeting.

It's Donald Trump and Paul Ryan, and it's coming as Donald Trump seems to think that he should

be running the GOP, not just commanding the loyalty of the voters,

but getting to run the party apparatus. So, Ken, tell me what's happening in the war

between Donald Trump and Rines-Prievis. Yeah, it's a struggle over control, not of the philosophy and the platform of the Republican

Party.

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