Quick Take: The Battle for Control of the GOP

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🗓️ 14 November 2015

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

What does it mean to be a Republican today? The GOP's presidential candidates are fighting to answer that question. This episode: Sam Sanders, campaign reporter; Domenico Montanaro, Washington desk editor; Mara Liasson, National Political Correspondent. Find the team on Twitter @nprpolitics and at npr.org/politics.

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0:00.0	Hey there, Sam Sanders here, popping in to let you know that this episode was recorded
0:04.1	before the terrorist attacks in Paris late Friday night.
0:07.6	It was a horrible event and one we're going to talk about here on the podcast in an episode
0:11.3	soon.
0:12.3	But for now, here's this episode.
0:14.3	Hey y'all, it's the NPR politics podcast.
0:20.9	Here with a quick take on something really interesting that's been unfolding over the
0:24.0	last week or so within the Republican Party.
0:26.8	It's a storyline that's been building for some time now and it was on the main stage
0:30.5	last week at the Fox Business Network debate.
0:33.3	That night featured a lot of exchanges like this one between Florida Senator Mark Rubio
0:37.6	and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.
0:39.6	How is it concerned?
0:40.6	I know that Rand is a committed isolationist.
0:42.5	I'm not.
0:43.5	I believe the world is a stronger and a better place when the United States is the strongest
0:48.0	military power in the world.
0:49.4	Marco, Marco, how is it conservative?
0:52.5	How is it conservative to add a trillion dollar expenditure for the federal government?
0:57.0	We've talked a bit about this in the podcast last Friday and we've really been watching
1:00.7	it since 2010 with the birth of the Tea Party movement.
1:04.1	It's this evolving debate about what it means to be a conservative in today's Republican
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