It’s his party: American primaries
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 18 May 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:06.7 | In New York, I'm John Fassman. |
| 0:09.2 | And in London, I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:11.3 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:18.1 | Eyes in the skies increasingly have a new tool at their disposal. |
| 0:21.5 | It's called Wide Area Motion Imaging, and it's a better way to look for changes on the |
| 0:25.3 | ground. |
| 0:26.7 | We ask how to sift through the slew of data it produces, and what threats to privacy |
| 0:30.8 | it presents. |
| 0:34.2 | And food prices are going up all over, but there's a spike coming for a particular snack |
| 0:39.2 | in Britain. |
| 0:40.4 | Berries. |
| 0:41.4 | We ask why the war in Ukraine will have such a pointed effect on the strawberries and |
| 0:45.8 | cream industrial complex. |
| 0:56.0 | We ask why the war in the West up though. |
| 1:03.4 | Yesterday, primary voters in five states went to the polls. |
| 1:07.8 | In Idaho and Western North Carolina, the establishment had a good night. |
| 1:13.0 | Idaho's incumbent governor Doug Little, fended off a challenge from a far-right insurgent |
| 1:17.6 | backed by Donald Trump. |
| 1:19.5 | And in North Carolina, Madison Caulforn, a young congressman who called Ukrainian President |
| 1:24.0 | Philotomir Zelensky a thug, and who claimed without evidence to have been invited to |
| 1:28.3 | orgies by his colleagues, lost to an establishment-backed state senator, despite having Donald |
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