The Big Republican Debate Preview with Jake Tapper
Americast
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4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
As the last Republican presidential hopefuls try to qualify for the opening debate of the primary in Milwaukee next week, Donald Trump is deciding whether to turn up or to surrender to a court in Georgia. Jake Tapper, who has moderated election debates for CNN, joins the Americast team to explain what they are like behind the scenes and how this one could play out.
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Sarah Smith, North America editor • Marianna Spring, disinformation and social media correspondent • Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent
GUEST: • Jake Tapper, CNN anchor and author
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This episode was made by Daniel Wittenberg, with Alix Pickles and Catherine Fusillo. The technical producer was Gareth Jones and the editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Justin, last week we were talking about how overused the phrases unprecedented and |
| 0:09.6 | historic have become when we're talking about American politics, particularly what's been going on with Donald Trump. |
| 0:15.0 | I think I've been a very good girl and not used one of them in any of my coverage over the last seven days, but it's been tricky. |
| 0:22.0 | Yeah, and it's going to become even |
| 0:24.0 | trickier there's no question about that because you've got the debate to report on |
| 0:28.2 | and in the debate there will be all manner of phrases that are used that have been |
| 0:32.3 | used before all sorts of |
| 0:33.6 | stop phrases all sorts of things that are obviously being memorized |
| 0:36.7 | entire sentences entire attack lines and you're going to have to point that out |
| 0:41.0 | and you're going to have to fall into some cliches of your own. |
| 0:44.0 | We might have to come up with our very own Americas, a bingo card for this to call out any of the |
| 0:49.8 | overused and particularly cliched phrases. |
| 0:52.4 | I know we're going to hear a lot about |
| 0:53.7 | woke on that stage that's for sure. And playing along with us rather than just us |
| 0:58.6 | AmeriCast presenters we have CNN anchor Jake Tapper who's got experience of debates like this. Nice to |
| 1:05.2 | meet you Jake. Nice to meet you. Ask her about her undercover voters. |
| 1:08.4 | Yeah no day. They're already coming up later, don't you worry. A few days ago I called the fake news the enemy of the people and they are. They are the enemy of the people. |
| 1:18.6 | I think back to cliches that Trump kept using in 2016, Jake. |
| 1:22.8 | What do you think we could hear this time? |
| 1:24.6 | What would be your chosen buzzword? |
| 1:26.7 | I imagine rigged election is something that we'll hear if Donald Trump is there. |
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