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The NPR Politics Podcast

Quick Take: March 22 Contests

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

News, Daily News, Politics

4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

229 delegates were at stake on Tuesday with primaries/caucuses in Arizona, Idaho, and Utah. Campaign reporter Scott Detrow and political editor Domenico Montanaro wrap up some of the results. For more, find the NPR Politics team on Twitter, at nprpolitics.org, or write the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.

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0:00.0

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

0:05.6

I'm Scott Detro, Campaign Reporter, and we've got a quick episode for you today with some

0:10.2

of the results of Tuesday night's voting in Arizona, Idaho, and Utah.

0:14.7

We hear myself along with political editor, Dominico Montenoro.

0:18.2

We didn't know everything at the time we recorded this around midnight, but we had enough

0:22.2

to give you some key takeaways, particularly on Arizona, the biggest prize of the night,

0:27.6

for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both won.

0:30.4

Of course, it's been a busy news week already with the President's script, Cuba, and the

0:34.9

terrorist attacks in Brussels.

0:36.6

We'll talk more about those events in a roundup at the end of the week.

0:40.5

Okay, here's Dominico and me, Tuesday night.

0:44.6

So, Dominico, we're here in the studio after midnight.

0:50.4

What do we know at this point in time?

0:52.0

Where all the excitement happens through midnight here in the podcast studio.

0:57.3

What we know is that it was a big night for the frontrunners, the clear frontrunners,

1:01.5

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both won Arizona, and that's a pretty big deal and a blow

1:06.6

to the Bernie Sanders campaign on the Democratic side because the Sanders campaign had put Bernie

1:11.7

Sanders into Arizona the night of March 15th.

1:16.5

That Tuesday night to say, look, the next six weeks are going to be big for Bernie Sanders.

1:21.3

There's going to be a win streak and that that's where the potential winning streak could

1:26.8

start.

1:27.8

Now, with Idaho, you expect Bernie Sanders to do pretty well.

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