Nikki Haley, Feminism & The Modern Republican Party
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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This episode: political correspondents Susan Davis & Sarah McCammon, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Sarah, and I'm at Madison Square Garden to watch the final this show ever. |
| 0:07.8 | I came here from DC to join my oldest brother, Witness's favorite band's final performance. This |
| 0:16.1 | podcast was recorded at 1212 p.m. on Monday, December 4th. Thanks may have changed by the time you hear this. |
| 0:26.0 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:28.0 | One thanks for sure, I will be rocking and rolling all night. |
| 0:36.0 | You know I saw some Xers I know on social media there but I didn't know it was the last concert. |
| 0:41.0 | I don't believe it. There's always a comeback tour. There's always a |
| 0:43.7 | comeback tour. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Susan Davis. I cover |
| 0:47.9 | politics. I'm Sarah McCammon. I cover the presidential campaign. And I'm |
| 0:51.1 | Maralayason National Political Correspondent. And before we get to today presidential campaign |
| 0:58.0 | trail. |
| 0:59.0 | North Dakota Governor Doug Bergam has dropped out of the Republican presidential primary. |
| 1:03.6 | Mara, he never really seemed to stand a chance in that field. |
| 1:13.2 | No, and no one ever really knew why he was running except for he was a governor of a state and he had a lot of money. |
| 1:18.0 | Money will help. |
| 1:19.6 | We interviewed him for the politics podcast and I would say tonally he was also a really nice guy a very |
| 1:25.0 | distinctly different personality from the frontrunner and maybe there wasn't much interest |
| 1:30.6 | in that either. |
| 1:31.6 | Yeah he wasn't a national figure, nobody knew who he was, and this is a race where |
| 1:37.4 | Trump is so dominant, it's just hard for minor candidates to get any traction. |
| 1:42.1 | And you've got to give Bergham some credit right for staying. for and he still showed up. So, it might be what he's best known for in the campaign look back. |
| 1:56.0 | Well, a narrowing field is a good thing for the Republicans left in the primary who are trying to beat Donald Trump. |
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