Hey y'all, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

Here with a quick take today on something I think most people don't even know is a thing.

Presidential candidates have apps now.

They do.

And not all the candidates, but one in particular we're going to talk about.

First some intros.

I am Sam Sanders, a campaign reporter here at NPR.

I'm Amita Kelly, I'm a digital editor and producer on the Washington S.

And I'm Scott Dattro, I cover tech and the campaign.

And Scott, I'm just going to turn this thing over to you because like WTF, candidates

have apps.

A couple of candidates have apps.

Rand Paul has an app, Ben Carson has an app, Ted Cruz has an app and that is the app that

I took a look at.

It's pretty interesting.

So the whole idea of it is to make supporting Ted Cruz to make campaigning for Ted Cruz a big

game.

So I talk about this.

Hey, but this is not a game.

Scott, this is serious business.

People run it for president.

Yeah, but you know, in a perfect world you can get your guy elected president and you

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