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The Playbook Podcast

June 18, 2019

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

Daily News, Politics, Government, News

4.2614 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

The two worlds of President Donald Trump, the Pentagon sends 1,000 more troops to the Middle East and more in today's Audio Briefing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good Tuesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, sponsored by BP.

0:06.6

And I'm Jake Sherman. Donald Trump will officially launch his 2020 campaign in Orlando tonight.

0:11.7

He does so amid signs of unease in his own camp about his electoral prospects, despite what any other president would be touting as an enviable record.

0:19.9

There are two ways to look at the political

0:21.4

climate in Trump's Washington. The pro-Trump world. As the president and his allies see it,

0:26.3

a second term should be his for the taking. After all, the economy is solid, inflation is low,

0:31.0

and growth is chugging along despite some warning signs. The United States has not entered any

0:35.8

new wars on Trump's watch, and America's even

0:38.2

speaking to old adversaries. His base is with him, and tonight's rally in Florida will draw tens of

0:43.0

thousands of people in a critical part of a crucial 2020 state. Despite withering pressure

0:48.4

from investigations on the Hill at DOJ and New York, Republicans are not abandoning the president.

0:53.9

And then there's the anti-Trump world.

0:56.5

Trump's foes are just as certain he's going to lose.

1:00.5

Trade wars with Mexico and China are hurting farmers in the Midwest and pushing up prices for

1:05.4

everyone else.

1:06.9

A surge of migrants from Central America has swamped the border.

1:10.7

The United States could be dragged into a war with Iran at any moment now.

1:15.4

And talks with North Korea have stalled.

1:17.8

Internal Trump polling shows the president trailing in key battleground states he needs to win.

1:23.0

With numbers so bad, Trump fired some of his campaign's pollsters.

1:28.1

He's losing to almost every single Democratic candidate.

1:31.7

Impeachment looms on the horizon, and should that happen, some Republicans could begin jumping ship to save themselves.

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