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The NPR Politics Podcast

Republican National Convention: Tuesday, July 19

The NPR Politics Podcast

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News, Daily News, Politics

4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Day one of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. This episode: host/campaign reporter Sam Sanders, congressional correspondent Susan Davis, and political editor Domenico Montanaro. More coverage at nprpolitics.org. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey y'all, it's the NPR politics podcast and we are coming to you from the Republican

0:06.8

National Convention here in Cleveland.

0:08.9

This is our first daily episode of the convention and-

0:12.4

What a day it was, right guys?

0:14.5

It was a long day.

0:16.5

It was a good start.

0:17.5

This is my first day of my first convention ever.

0:19.0

Oh, congratulations.

0:20.0

Thank you.

0:21.0

I made it.

0:22.0

It was long.

0:23.0

You know what?

0:24.0

It was a calm day.

0:25.0

There wasn't a lot of like- there was no violence or like heavy protest-

0:27.0

But there was some floor drama.

0:28.0

It was not what I wanted.

0:29.0

We're going to have episodes for you guys every morning this week during the RNC and next

0:33.1

week every morning during the DNC in Philadelphia.

0:36.4

So let's get right to it.

0:37.4

I am Sam Zander's campaign reporter.

0:39.1

I'm Susan Davis.

0:40.1

I cover Congress, but this week I'm reporting from the floor from Cleveland.

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