so i have to confess that this podcast is going to be brought to you by uh

sovignon blanc in a world of hiate paper cup

nice i have been in Milwaukee now for four days and it is uh

it is time to drink debates over folks we are mama

mama has got her pino and she's ready to podcast girls

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girls are whiskey drinker um but jeffrey's part of the liquor track

yeah i'm alone on the liquor track on the wine and beer track

hello and welcome to this post debate edition of the 538 politics podcast

i'm going to be totally blunt here i don't have a script in front of me i

just got back to my hotel i was in the spin room at the debate so folks

we are doing it live this was the first republican primary debate

of the season a lot happened they made it through a bunch of different topics

some of them topics that republicans mostly agree on like the economy and

immigration and some of them that the republicans on stage clearly did not

agree on like abortion and climate change and

ukraine and so it was a pretty lively debate pretty substantive at points

there were some clear disagreements of course trump came up another point of

disagreement on the stage we did some pre polling with uh ipsos and the

washington post which we will get into we don't have the post polling yet

because we are recording this at quarter past midnight

eastern time so we will maybe talk about that next

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