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🗓️ 29 August 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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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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