Republican Rumble
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
While his challengers clashed in Milwaukee, Donald Trump skipped the first Republican debate of the campaign for the relative comfort of an interview with ex-Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson.
Did any of the other presidential candidates surprise? It’s an Americast Wisconsin special as the team try cheese curds and sip beer at a bar near the venue and link up with Sarah, who’s in Atlanta waiting for Trump’s latest arrest, to break down the showdown and the no-show.
And Marianna chats to local voters about how the politics has been playing out on their social media feeds.
HOSTS: • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Marianna Spring, disinformation and social media correspondent • Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent
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This episode was made by Rufus Gray with Catherine Fusillo. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The series producer is Daniel Wittenberg and the editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
BBC SOUNDS CHAPTERS: 00:00 – Trump’s Debate No-Show 04:07 – Debate Winners and Losers 18:36 – US Voters Social Media Panel 33:31 – Cheese Curd Wisconsinbly
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | News Talk 1130 WISN. |
| 0:08.8 | Welcome to the Dan O'Donnell Show. |
| 0:10.8 | No Trump, no problem. But do you know what Trump is going to be doing instead of the debate he's going to court |
| 0:17.5 | Right now we are sitting in a bar in Milwaukee and above Anthony's head I can see a sign that says vote |
| 0:23.9 | responsibly and we're here because the first Republican election debate has been |
| 0:29.1 | happening not very far from where we're sitting right now and that is where |
| 0:31.9 | Anthony has just come from. |
| 0:33.3 | I did just come from the debate and now I'm sitting here at the bar. |
| 0:36.2 | I actually have a beer in hand drinking, responsibly as everyone in this establishment is. |
| 0:41.1 | And yeah it was a fun couple of hours. I was surprised at how |
| 0:45.7 | lively the debate was and that it was able to stay entertaining even without |
| 0:51.0 | Donald Trump on the stage. |
| 0:52.6 | And Sarah, we're missing you in Milwaukee |
| 0:55.1 | with us right now because you're not in Milwaukee. |
| 0:57.0 | No, I've gone on ahead to Atlanta, Georgia |
| 0:59.6 | because at some point in the next 24 hours, |
| 1:01.8 | Donald Trump will have to hand himself in at Fulton County Jail to be booked on the charges of election interference that he's facing here in Georgia. |
| 1:12.0 | We think that a mug shot photograph will be taken. He'll have to have his fingerprints taken and be processed through the jailhouse and he's going to turn it into a spectacle as he usually does. He might even wait until prime time television |
| 1:25.5 | viewing before he actually comes here in order to try and make sure he's got the |
| 1:29.2 | maximum audience for him turning up at the jail. |
| 1:33.0 | And by the time our Radio 4 listeners are tuning into this, |
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