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Mark Interviews Brittany Shepherd from ABC News

Mark Simone

Mark Simone

News

4.4652 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Larry Mendte fills in for Mark Simone. Larry and Shepherd talked about Vivek Ramaswamy pulling his TV ads before the Iowa caucus. Does that mean his campaign is in trouble?

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0:00.0

The Mark Simone show continues on 710 WOR.

0:04.2

And for Mark, here again is Larry Menti.

0:09.6

So the Iowa caucuses will be coming up in the middle of the month.

0:15.2

We're about a little bit more than two weeks away.

0:18.5

And then it all starts.

0:20.0

Then everything starts for real.

0:21.6

We're going to have a winner and a loser. We're going to have a frontrunner, all of that.

0:26.0

Although for some reason, I guess that people don't put as much credence into the Iowa caucus

0:32.0

because it rarely produces a winner at such strange format, and Iowa isn't exactly representative

0:41.4

of the entire country, but it is our tradition, and it is pretty cool when you're out there

0:48.3

to see the caucuses take place. And something, and certainly, Ron DeSantis, is putting a lot into Iowa, and so was Vivek Ramoswamy,

0:57.6

but something interesting just happened.

1:01.0

Vivek Ramoswamy pulled all his TV funding in Iowa.

1:08.0

So now what does that mean?

1:10.1

Well, luckily we have somebody that might have the answer.

1:12.8

Brittany Shepard is an ABC News national political reporter. Brittany, thank you so much for joining us today.

1:19.5

And to answer the question, what does that mean?

1:22.9

You know, it's a good question. And I think the insinuation, if you're in Ramoswami's world,

1:27.8

that there might be some writing on the wall that something is going wrong in your campaign.

1:31.7

If you remember, after that first debate, Ramoswami has like a bit of a wind behind his sales.

1:38.2

People were seeing him as charming, even though he's getting beat up by many of the other Republicans on stage. And if you were somebody who wants to support Donald Trump,

1:45.9

you probably were also supporting a vague Ramoswami

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