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Spectator Out Loud: Freddy Gray, Lara Prendergast and Emma Byrne

Best of the Spectator

The Spectator

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.4785 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

On this week's podcast, Freddy Gray explains how Trump could still pull his greatest trick yet (00:45) Emma Byrne considers whether she will be bankrupted by the next housing scandal (12:30) Lara Prendergast argues that wearing floral masks isn't worth the hassle. (19:11)

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0:00.0

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0:05.2

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0:10.1

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0:24.6

Welcome to Spectator Out Loud. I'm Fraser Nelson.

0:32.2

Every week we ask some of our writers to read out their articles from the magazine.

0:36.0

And this week we have Freddie Gray writing about Donald Trump's re-election campaign.

0:38.9

We have Emma Byrne writing about her extraordinary situation being caught up in the new cladding scandal and finally Larry Prendergast in the pitfalls of

0:44.8

floral masks. First, Freddie Gray. Keep America Great is President Donald Trump's 2020 re-election

0:52.5

slogan and it sounds off.

0:56.0

The phrase doesn't have the same ring as Make America Great Again, the mantra that Trump pinched from Reagan and repeated to victory in 2016.

1:05.0

As an acronym, Cag is uglier than Maga. The words particularly jar

1:12.0

when America's cities are burning,

1:14.5

homicide rates are spiking,

1:16.3

almost 180,000 Americans have died of or with COVID,

1:20.1

and the country is reeling from the largest economic shock of all time.

1:24.7

You call that great?

1:27.4

Then again, 2020 is an even crazier year than 2016, and the

1:32.7

maddest news is that Donald Trump might be about to defy the odds again and win. He remains

1:39.4

much loathed, divisive, behind in the polls, but he's suddenly running a much better campaign than his opponent,

1:46.5

the Democratic nominee Joe Biden, and it's beginning to show.

1:50.9

Compare and contrast the two big party conventions we've just witnessed.

1:55.4

This week, the Republican Party had its quadrennial nomination fest,

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