The 5th Democratic Debate Takeaways
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Scott Detro, I cover the campaign. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm a smuggler that I also cover the campaign. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm Wanna Summers, I cover politics. |
| 0:11.7 | And I'm Dominic Omancin, our Senior Political Editor and correspondent. |
| 0:15.1 | It is 11.50 Eastern on Wednesday, November 20th, the 5th Democratic debate hosted by MSNBC |
| 0:22.6 | and the Washington Post just wrapped. |
| 0:24.5 | Awesome, you're in Atlanta. How is it down there? |
| 0:27.4 | That's right, I am. I am at the Tyler Perry Studios and we are still sort of in the midst |
| 0:34.4 | of this media center, a spin room. It's all one big warehouse space and it's been a noisy night. |
| 0:39.9 | But I would say, you know, to me, the debate felt kind of like a status quo debate, |
| 0:43.2 | but I'm sure we'll talk more about that. |
| 0:44.4 | Definitely. Before we get to that though, some other very important stuff we got to work through, |
| 0:48.5 | Wanna, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:50.5 | Thanks. |
| 0:51.2 | You have just joined our 2020 team to cover demographics and culture for the campaign. |
| 0:55.8 | You are a longtime national political reporter and I only recently learned that you're very |
| 1:00.0 | into pinball. |
| 1:01.0 | I am. I now have four machines in my basement and I play tournaments that have more, have |
| 1:06.8 | hundreds of people. The biggest one was a thousand people in Pittsburgh. So that's what |
| 1:10.2 | I do with my spare time. |
| 1:11.2 | So do you win tournaments? |
| 1:13.2 | I mean, you must win tournaments if you have like four in your basement, right? |
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