Special Episode: On The Ground in Iowa
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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This episode: campaign correspondents Scott Detrow and Asma Khalid, senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro, and political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast, I'm Scott Detro. |
| 0:20.6 | Tomorrow Iowa caucuses. |
| 0:22.7 | This campaign has been going on for a year. |
| 0:25.6 | Now the actual contests are beginning. |
| 0:28.6 | All weekend, producer Barton Gerdwood, editor Eric McDaniel, and I drove hundreds of miles |
| 0:33.4 | to see the top polling candidates as they made their final pitches in the final hours |
| 0:38.0 | before the big day. |
| 0:39.3 | Alright, we are getting into our very large white Chevy Silverado. |
| 0:45.9 | My first car was a Ford Ranger, so I have some pickup truck experience, but this is about |
| 0:49.3 | twice the size. |
| 0:52.2 | Our first stop was supposed to be North Liberty Iowa to see former Vice President Joe |
| 0:56.1 | Biden, where we were going to meet Osma Hollett, but real talk, we got lost and it was my |
| 1:01.9 | fault. |
| 1:02.9 | Hey, how's it going? |
| 1:03.9 | It's good, how are y'all? |
| 1:04.9 | That's Osma on the phone. |
| 1:06.5 | We put in the wrong location into the GPS, so we are making up time. |
| 1:13.9 | We'll be there in two minutes. |
| 1:18.0 | We were lucky because Biden is notoriously late to his events. |
| 1:20.9 | If you're media, you can just go in right here. |
| 1:26.7 | Okay, so we made it in time. |
| 1:28.9 | We got to the right location. |
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