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The NPR Politics Podcast

Midterm Update: Trump Pivots To Immigration; Where The Parties Put Their Money

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

News, Daily News, Politics

4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

With a week left till the midterm elections President Trump is focusing on hardline immigration policies that helped him win in 2016. And Republicans shift the focus of their spending efforts in the final days. This episode: political reporter Asma Khalid, Congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, Congressional reporter Kelsey Snell, White House correspondent Scott Horsley, and political editor Scott Horsley. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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Hi!

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This is Rob, Sim, Hossal, Louis, Murad, Bench,

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Yutin, Laura, Tara, Halle Matz,

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Hazem, Lucia, Diane, Megan,

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William, Eddie, Mariana,

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from the Rosenwald Rare Books Room of the Library of Congress,

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where we're meeting after a year of research and libraries and archives in Mexico,

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Indonesia, Mongolia, China, Pakistan, the US,

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Japan, Britain, Cambodia, Nigeria, Italy, Taiwan, Peru, Guatemala, India, Spain,

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Macedonia.

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You're listening to the NPR Politics Podcast, which was recorded at

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256 pm on Tuesday, October 30th.

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Keep in mind that things may have changed by the time you hear it.

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We were all in a snarky mood.

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That timestamp was a good reset.

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Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

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President Trump wants to eliminate birthright citizenship.

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