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The Rachel Maddow Show

Republicans assemble oddly insulting set of 2024 candidates with Senate control on the line

The Rachel Maddow Show

MSNBC

Madow, Washington, Rachel Maddow, Congress, Campaign, Policy, Election, President, Nbc, Public, News, Government, Maddow, Politics, Issues

4.534K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Plus, Trump fails to attract courthouse protest despite all-caps pleas for support

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0:00.0

Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour, really happy to have you here. Have you ever seen Vip?

0:05.0

It aired for seven seasons on HBO. It's Julia Louis Dreifis. She won a whole slew of Emmys for it. She won like six consecutive Emmys for it or something.

0:16.0

She plays Vice President Selina Meyer, who's just this instantly iconic American TV political figure.

0:25.4

If you've ever seen, even if you haven't,

0:26.8

you probably know about the character.

0:27.9

She's really ambitious.

0:29.4

She really wants to be president, not just vice president,

0:32.0

but she's also just a total disaster.

0:34.6

She's this craven and calculating political animal, but she spends all her time having to put out fires

0:41.9

of her own making,

0:43.0

fires of her staff's own making,

0:44.7

she's just a disaster.

0:47.1

And one of the sort of signature production things

0:52.4

in the show, one of the things in the show.

0:53.2

One of the things that the show does to great effect

0:56.0

is that they use every last second of the show.

1:00.4

During the end credits of each episode, the image on the right side of the screen

1:04.8

kind of squishes down a little bit and they highlight in this part while the

1:09.8

credits are rolling at the end they highlight these campaign screw-ups in their various PR

1:14.3

disasters. So the end credits are like the best thing in the show. The end credits in

1:19.0

one episode might be her ranting to her staff after a puff-piece television interview turned out to be

1:24.9

substantive or her awkwardly trying to connect with high school students who are

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