Picking a Trump V.P.: The Field of Dreams or a Field of Nightmares?

Matter of Opinion

New York Times Opinion

Society & Culture, Ross Douthat, News, New York Times, Journalism

4.2 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week, the hosts do the dirty work of strategizing the best vice-presidential candidate for Donald Trump to campaign with, and break down what goes into consequential (and not so consequential) V.P. picks. Plus, Carlos’s team has a Fightin’ chance next year.

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0:00.0	From New York Times opinion, I'm Michelle Coddle.
0:05.0	I'm Ross Daltha.
0:07.0	I'm Carlos Lozada.
0:08.0	And I'm Lydia Pol Green.
0:10.0	And this is matter of opinion. My friends, it is election go.
0:14.0	My friends, it is election go time. We are rolling into the last weekend
0:27.6	before gaggles of Iowa Republicans gather at their caucus sites to kick off the actual voting in this year's
0:35.3	presidential race. It is time for real live voters to start having their say.
0:40.3	Real Americans. Oh, wow. As the resident political junkie, I am absurdly excited, despite not being a fan of the Iowa
0:48.6	caucuses per se.
0:50.1	But I need to know, has anyone else here spent them some quality time in Iowa?
0:54.0	I saw Field of Dreams a couple of times.
0:56.0	No, no, that is all the same.
0:58.0	That's about it.
0:59.0	That's as close as I've come to Iowa.
1:00.0	As careful listeners of this podcast, no, I'm from Minnesota, but I have nothing to say about Iowa.
1:05.8	I think I've been there once.
1:07.6	Oh my God, Ross?
1:09.0	I have been to political conventions all over this fair country, but I have never been to the Iowa
1:14.5	Caucasus. I am the only one to be lost in an Iowa cornfield. So Michelle what's it
1:18.9	what's it really like? I am not a fan of the Caucasus I have to say I have a loud critic of the process and of having
1:26.8	one state be the first off the line every single year. It is a bizarre and fascinating experience and I would love to sit here and pick it apart all day long.
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