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🗓️ 24 March 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Domenico Mantanaro joins us to cover the political landscape! Trump trials, the general election, the Robert Hur report, and Congress. Plus, is Donald Trump taking over the RNC to help bail him out of his financial problems? And as a reporter, how does Domenico maintain objectivity vs neutrality?
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0:35.6 | NPR's senior political correspondent Dominico Montanaro joins us I believe |
0:41.5 | Dominico is the first NPR correspondent to Grace this |
0:45.6 | podcast and we established something very fundamental about NPR right off the bat |
0:51.5 | which is that it's not NPR's job to be neutral, it's NPR's job to be |
0:57.8 | objective. |
0:59.7 | As an example, Domenico points out right away that the last presidential election was not stolen. |
1:07.0 | Now I would draw from that conclusion that Trump is either delusional or evil or both. |
1:14.2 | I'm not sure that Dominico would go that far, |
1:16.5 | at least publicly. |
1:18.4 | I didn't think to ask him. |
1:20.5 | But it's hard not to draw that conclusion if you acknowledge that Joe Biden won the last presidential election, which of course he did. |
1:27.0 | And I think that should be a big issue in the campaign because from the polling I've seen 85% of Trump voters |
1:36.4 | say they believe that Trump won that last election. That's the exit polling I've seen throughout the primaries. So 15% of |
1:46.4 | Trump voters think that Trump lost and still voted for him. |
1:50.9 | Or, or that more than 15% of Trump voters think Trump lost but don't |
1:57.9 | want to admit to someone who's polling them. Which means, well I'm not sure what it means, but I think it means that a lot of Trump voters don't |
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