Joe Walsh's Mission is to Stop Trump

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🗓️ 8 February 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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On the day he dropped his campaign to be the Republican presidential nominee, Virginia Heffernan talks to former Illinois congressman Joe Walsh about facing Trumpites, the pressure to please conservative advertisers, when the Tea Party became populist, his now-infamous "grabbing my musket" tweet, and his pledge to support the 2020 Democratic nominee for president. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.5	was 5%.
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1:23.7	Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, I'm Virginia Heffronin.
1:26.2	I'm going to speed into today's show because I'm chomping at the bit to get to today's
1:31.2	guest, former Republican Congressman from Illinois, Joe Walsh.
1:36.2	What's that word, former, modifying, anyway, you might ask?
1:40.0	Well, yes, Joe Walsh is no longer a congressman, but he is also no longer a Republican.
1:46.8	Joe just today suspended his campaign to primary Trump as a Republican, having gotten 1%
1:53.3	or something in the Iowa caucus, and he now says he will campaign for any Democrat who
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