Hey y'all, it's the NPR Politics Podcast and we are here with a quick take for you about

you're already guessed it.

The Donald Trump campaign.

Now my wife is constantly saying, darling, be more presidential.

This was Donald Trump back in April.

And I'll be at some point, I'm going to be so presidential that you people will be so

bored and I'll come back as a presidential person.

So the question all year has been whether or not Donald Trump can actually pivot to run

a different campaign after locking up the nomination for his party.

So far, the answer is no.

No, no, no, not at all.

We're going to talk about that and more.

I'm Sam Sanders, campaign reporter.

I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House and the campaign.

And I'm Dominican Montenegro political editor.

All right, so I just spent a few days with the Trump campaign last week in North Carolina

and Florida.

I have a lot to say about that.

I hadn't been with Trump in a few months.

So let's just start by taking a moment to say the idea of this episode is to talk about

how it seems Donald Trump is not going to quote pivot for the general campaign.

And in the last three or four days, there has been more evidence to support that claim,

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