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🗓️ 26 April 2017
⏱️ 56 minutes
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0:00.0 | Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski. |
0:17.3 | Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University. |
0:23.5 | My co-host this week, as always, is Cleveland Area Attorney and sometime Republican strategist Jay Carson. |
0:30.2 | My guest today is political scientist Larry Sabado. Professor Sabado is the director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, which includes |
0:38.4 | Sabado's Crystal Ball, one of the foremost election forecasting sites in the United States. |
0:43.8 | Professor Sabado is the author of many books, including A More Perfect Constitution, the Kennedy |
0:48.6 | Half Century, and most recently, he was the lead editor on Trump, the 2016 election that broke all the rules. |
0:56.0 | He regularly appears on national news outlets such as Fox, CNN, and MSNBC, offering invaluable |
1:02.4 | insight and analysis of polls and elections. |
1:05.6 | I've been following his work since my grad school days at the University of Kentucky, |
1:09.4 | and so I'm really excited to have the |
1:11.2 | opportunity to talk with him today. |
1:13.3 | Professor Sabino, welcome to the show. |
1:15.5 | Thank you so much. |
1:16.4 | Thanks for having me. |
1:17.3 | You know, I'd like to start with your most recent book, Trump, the 2016 election that broke |
1:21.8 | all the rules. |
1:22.9 | So what were the main rules that the election broke, and how was Donald Trump able to successfully break them? |
1:30.2 | Well, the first rule, obviously, is that party leaders have a great influence in choosing the nominee. |
1:38.9 | And when you have loads of endorsements from people who tend to guide voters in their districts or states, |
1:46.6 | you have a very good chance to be nominated. Well, the party leaders were for anybody but |
1:53.8 | Donald Trump and maybe Ted Cruz, but especially Donald Trump. And yet he beat 16 other |
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