The Battle For The Base
The NPR Politics Podcast
NPR
4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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This episode: political correspondent Susan Davis, presidential campaign correspondent Sarah McCammon, presidential campaign reporter Stephen Fowler, and White House correspondent Asma Khalid.
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| 0:24.0 | This is Ryan in Los Angeles, |
| 0:26.0 | and I'm doing the very boring thing |
| 0:29.0 | of eating a sandwich in between Zoom calls. |
| 0:37.8 | This podcast was recorded at 12.08 PM on Friday February 23rd. Things may have changed by the time you hear this. Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:44.0 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:45.0 | Okay, but that's so relatable, right? |
| 0:51.0 | I'm not, now I need to know what kind of sandwich. |
| 0:53.1 | If I was going to have a sandwich, |
| 0:54.0 | it would probably be a BLT. |
| 0:55.0 | I think that's a good sandwich. |
| 0:55.9 | I don't know. |
| 0:56.9 | That was a pretty crunchy bite at the end, |
| 0:57.7 | so it was probably something good like that. |
| 0:59.8 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 1:01.8 | I cover politics I'm Sarah |
| 1:03.7 | McCammon I cover the presidential campaign I'm Stephen Fowler I also |
| 1:07.2 | cover the presidential campaign and the South Carolina Republican presidential |
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