On The Trail With Bernie Sanders

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In an ongoing series, the NPR Politics Podcast is hitting the road and interviewing 2020 Democratic presidential candidates. In this episode, Scott Detrow and New Hampshire Public Radio's Josh Rogers sit down with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to ask about why he's the best pick for president. This series is produced in collaboration with NHPR and Iowa Public Radio.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast on Scott Detro.
0:06.4	Throughout the summer, we're taking you on the road to meet the 2020 presidential candidates.
0:11.2	Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!
0:14.1	That's why two days after the first presidential debate, I was standing next to a new Hampshire
0:18.5	middle school, watching for Montsen under Bernie Sanders take a picture with a pug.
0:23.1	I told the dog to smile. I just smile. I go to God, I don't think the dog smiles.
0:30.8	These special episodes are a collaboration with Iowa Public Radio and New Hampshire Public
0:35.4	Radio. That's where longtime New Hampshire Public Radio political reporter Josh Rogers
0:39.8	comes in. Hey Josh! Hey Scott! Several inflatable unicorns just went by on a right-hand
0:45.2	side. Can you describe where we are standing right now? It is Pride Parade, balloon-bedec
0:50.7	revelers or heading east. Bernie Sanders is over our shoulder, surrounded by supporters.
0:57.6	It is hot. It is definitely hot, I will say that.
1:00.7	There was another unicorn stitched onto the front of Bernie Sanders' baby blue baseball
1:05.4	cap. He was marching down the middle of the street and Nashua was Pride Parade.
1:09.7	Transphobia's got to go! Hey hey! Go home! Transphobia's got to go!
1:15.3	Sanders ran a surprisingly close primary campaign against Hillary Clinton in 2016.
1:20.6	Bernie's trying again in 2020. Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary
1:27.2	handle. It was basically a blowout of Hillary Clinton. This time around the polls are looking
1:31.7	a little different. Well everybody knows Bernie Sanders. He did win with ease last time.
1:37.3	It's not simply Bernie against the machine and that's complicating things. There are
1:41.8	a lot of candidates whose platforms are a lot like Bernie's was four years ago.
1:47.0	To the parade we met up with Sanders a few towns over in an old banquet hall where he was
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