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Oh, Hi this is the Josh Marshall podcast with Kate Riga. Last night we had Super Tuesday, which you know that used to be, Super Tuesday used to be at

least on one side of the, you know, one side of the party divide it was like a pretty big thing usually in most

years you basically know where things are going but it's going to be where one

you know one candidate wherever there's the contested primary.

It's usually where the last stand of the person who's losing or when the dominant front runner is going to kind of, you know, put it to bed basically.

And obviously yesterday we didn't have either one of those things because it's been clear to anyone who's

paying attention for at least a year who the party nominees are and at least

yesterday we finally I think we finally got to the point where mainstream news

organizations now feel able to say, okay, now we have the nominees. Trump is the nominee, Biden is the

nominee. Obviously that was helped to a significant extent by Nicky

Haley announcing that she's getting out of the race. But there we are, we're going to get into,

you know, there's still a fair amount of things to discuss there. Before we do that,

Kate and I are going to just hit briefly some other news that that to imagine that that that was couldn't have been accidental it's it's sort of it's it's it's kind of the way to

kill a story if you're a political person but we finally had Kirsten cinema announce what, I mean I could have announced that for her a year ago or two years ago that she's not running again, which you know in a sense I guess she was kind of the last to find out she's not running again

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