Knives Out: The Democratic Primary Is About to Get Messy

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🗓️ 24 January 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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It’s finally here! No, the impeachment—we’re talking about the Iowa Caucus. After what feels like 30 years of speculation (but has really been three), Jordan Brown, a political consultant and fundraiser who has spent time on the ground with almost all of the Democratic nominees, joins Nick to explain how the Democratic primary could play out from Iowa to New Hampshire to Super Tuesday, why the country is at its biggest crossroads in history, and whether impeachment, which likely won’t end in Trump’s removal, will help or hinder his prospects of winning a second term. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Season 2 of Julia, the Max Original Series about the Life and Times of Julia Child returns
0:09.5	Thursday, November 16th.
0:11.6	Stream on Max and listen to dishing on Julia, the official companion
0:15.6	podcast.
0:16.6	Welcome to Inside the Hive. I'm your host Nick Bilton. I have a very exciting
0:24.4	guest today. Jordan do you want to introduce yourself? I'm Jordan Brown. I live
0:28.8	here in LA. I'm a political consultant and I work with folks in the entertainment industry and
0:35.4	politics and and political people from DC
0:38.3	So every time there's like a someone visiting from from DC who's kind of on the presidential circuit over the last year
0:46.1	Jordan has been involved in that in some way and so every time I see my
0:50.4	I'm always like what's going on what's the gossip what's this what's that and the other and here we are
0:55.1	nine days away it feels like it's been 35 years since this whole thing started but nine days
1:00.7	away from the Iowa caucus, what's going to happen?
1:04.0	Well I think there are two routes.
1:06.7	Number one is each of the top four candidates wins one of the early states and then it's a mess.
1:12.6	Wait, wait, so the top four candidates being
1:15.2	Biden, Sanders, Warren, and Pete Buda Judge.
1:20.3	I think Amy Klobuchar has sort of surged recently so you maybe
1:24.4	maybe call it a top five. So one of the so they all win so one so is
1:29.4	there's a world where one of each of them wins like a different state and
1:32.4	then it's a complete mess?
1:34.0	Yeah like let's say Pete wins in Iowa there's a ton of on-the-ground enthusiasm for him.
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