The 2018 Senate lookahead

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🗓️ 7 July 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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POLITICO reporters discuss the number of Republican Senate candidates that have decided not to actually run for Senate in 2018 and the tariff President Donald Trump is reportedly considering on major steel producing countries — one of several big issues on the table this week at the G-20 meetings in Europe, alongside Trump’s first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello listeners it is Thursday July 6th 2017 I'm Scott Bland your host and you are
0:06.7	listening to Politico's nerdcast we've got a mini episode coming to you today
0:11.1	on this abbreviated holiday week. First we're going to talk
0:14.0	about some developments in the 2018 Senate landscape. Yes, it's you know only I guess
0:19.6	17 months away at this point but we're already seeing some candidates jump in and some
0:25.2	Republican candidates who we expected to challenge some of those Red State Democratic
0:29.2	Senators actually deciding not to run for Senate.
0:32.4	We're going to dive into their decisions a little bit.
0:35.0	And we're also going to preview President Donald Trump's second foreign trip
0:38.6	to the G20 meetings in are starting today.
0:43.0	A couple quick housekeeping notes before we get going.
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1:05.6	With that let's introduce the panel this week.
1:07.6	Hello senior politics editor Charlie Mutesian.
1:10.0	Hello Scott Bland thanks for being here as always.
1:12.6	We have National Politics reporter, Aliana Johnson.
1:15.6	Hey, father to be, Scott Bland.
1:18.6	Yeah, a couple months.
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