One Thing: 2024 GOP Primary Primer with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 9 July 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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At least 12 candidates have announced a run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, setting up a crowded field ahead of the first primary debate next month. Former President Donald Trump still holds a strong lead in polling despite multiple criminal indictments, so will any candidate be able to unseat him? We look at exactly who is running and examine the different visions of the Republican party they are pitching to voters. Guest: Jake Tapper, CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:13.0	There are certain things most people do when they're running for president. Take former vice president Mike Pence. He celebrated the 4th of July in Iowa.
0:16.0	He marched in a parade, shook a lot of hands,
0:18.0	and even visited an ice cream shop in Lamar's,
0:21.0	which by the way calls itself the ice cream capital of the world.
0:24.8	Who knew?
0:25.8	These are the kinds of things you do to get in the good graces of early state voters.
0:31.6	But Pence did not get an entirely warm welcome in the Hawkeye state.
0:35.8	If it wasn't for your vote, we would not have Joe Biden in the White House.
0:42.4	Do you ever second-guess yourself?
0:45.0	That was a constitutional right that you had to send those votes back to the states' home.
0:50.0	At a local pizza shop in Sioux City, a woman confronted the former Vice President about
0:55.8	his vote to certify the 2020 election results on January 6th.
1:00.2	I'm sorry, ma'am, but that's actually what the Constitution says.
1:03.0	No vice president in American history ever asserted the authority
1:06.5	that you have been convinced that I had.
1:08.5	And Pence calmly but forcefully pushed back. With all due respect, I said before, I said when I announced President Trump was wrong about
1:18.0	my authority that day and he's still wrong.
1:22.1	It's clear that former President Donald Trump and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election loom large in this race.
1:29.0	And Mike Pence is one of 12. Yes, 12 declared Republican candidates for president. So does a
1:36.7	crowded field mean Trump is going to coast? My guess this week is CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper.
1:48.0	We're going to get you up to speed on this race with the candidates to watch
1:51.0	how some are pitching their vision for a post-Trump future,
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