S4 Ep18: Nevada: State of Confusion (with Jon Ralston)
The Focus Group Podcast
The Bulwark
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Hello, Hello everyone and welcome to the focus group podcast. I'm Sarah |
| 0:28.2 | Longwell publisher of the bulwark and today we are taking you to Nevada. Did I say it right? |
| 0:36.7 | You did, I'm impressed. |
| 0:38.1 | Okay, and look, I know what you're probably wondering. |
| 0:41.0 | The whole political world right now is focused on |
| 0:42.8 | South Carolina and whether Nicky Haley can make a dent in Donald Trump's lead in her |
| 0:47.4 | home state but there is a super weird contest going on in Nevada that much of the political world is |
| 0:54.3 | overlooking and I want to talk about it. The presidential contest in Nevada is just a |
| 0:59.1 | complete mess because there are actually two contests and this is going to happen before South Carolina. |
| 1:04.8 | This is coming up on the sixth and the eighth. |
| 1:07.2 | There is a primary which is going to reward zero delegates and |
| 1:11.5 | Donald Trump is not on the ballot for it. |
| 1:14.4 | Then there's a caucus which will award delegates |
| 1:18.7 | and Nicky Haley isn't on the ballot for that one. |
| 1:22.1 | And Republicans can vote in both contexts. isn't on the ballot for that one. |
| 1:22.6 | And Republicans can vote in both contests if they want. |
| 1:26.6 | And Nevada also has a unique, |
| 1:29.0 | none of these candidates option on the primary ballot |
| 1:32.3 | that a lot of Trump supporters are opting for. |
| 1:35.6 | So got all that? Me neither. |
| 1:38.3 | But my guest today can untangle all of that for us and he can explain why Nevada is still important in this primary |
| 1:44.2 | and going to be really important in November of 2024. John Ralston, CEO, an editor of the |
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