Roundup: Ron DeSantis Wants GOP Backup; John Fetterman Gives A Mental Health Update
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Also, NPR's Scott Detrow sits down with Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman for his first interview since returning to the Senate after a six-week hospitalization for clinical depression.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we're at the Boston University, |
| 0:03.5 | we're in the Oslo Spring concert. |
| 0:06.5 | This podcast was recorded at 12.09 pm on Friday, April 21st, 2023. |
| 0:14.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, I've changed by the time you hear it. |
| 0:17.5 | The will still be practicing fully into your air performance. |
| 0:23.0 | A OK, years to show. |
| 0:27.5 | Well done, well done. |
| 0:31.5 | Oh, listen to that. |
| 0:33.5 | It's like the presidential March version of the NPR Politics podcast. |
| 0:38.5 | So classy. |
| 0:39.5 | Yeah, that's how we do. |
| 0:40.5 | We keep it classy with a capital A. |
| 0:43.5 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. |
| 0:45.5 | I'm Ashley Lopez. I cover politics. |
| 0:48.5 | Susan Davis, I also cover politics. |
| 0:50.5 | And I'm Dominic Amantinar, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent. |
| 0:54.5 | Florida Governor Rhonda Santis was in Washington, DC this week, |
| 0:57.5 | hoping to get a little love from his fellow Republicans |
| 1:00.5 | and maybe boost his cred as a possible challenger to Donald Trump. |
| 1:04.5 | And it did not go well. |
| 1:06.5 | It didn't, you know, Rhonda Santis has not formally declared he's running for president, |
| 1:10.5 | but he's doing all the things you do when you want to run for president. |
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