Hello listeners welcome to Politico's nerdcast I'm your host Scott Bland.

Coming up this week we talked about campaign strategies for the

2020 field in general last time so we're doing a little bit of a shot

chaser thing we're gonna be taking a deep dive this week into

Elizabeth Warren's campaign strategy with a political reporter who was on the trail

with her. And then we're going to jump into the new qualifying rules for the

second set of Democratic presidential debates and why a bunch

of candidates hate them.

And so we've got some of Politico's campaign reporters who have been covering that coming

on the show as well.

Just a heads up before we jump in here,

we are taping this a little bit before noon eastern

on Thursday, May 30th, so it's all up to date

as of then.

All right, let's get started.

I want to welcome the guest for our first segment.

Alex Thompson, National Political Reporter for Politico.

Hey Alex.

Hey, how you doing, Scott?

I'm doing great.

How are you? I'm doing great.

Thank you so much for coming in.

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