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The Campaign That Wasn’t

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Leon Neyfakh talks to Sasha Issenberg about Trump's campaign, or rather, lack thereof. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.3

Child, what's the truck you want to meet in?

0:05.2

I love you, sir!

0:07.2

Nobody uses any Russian slaves.

0:09.9

Nobody calls me the only one.

0:11.5

It's microaggressions.

0:12.5

He does not know what Mexico is, not Jews, not mothers, not blacks, no one but his own

0:17.2

hands.

0:18.2

The rich.

0:19.2

When Trump says we'll lose our country, that's not just a, I mean, maybe he's being a little

0:24.1

old street.

0:32.5

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man whose own children reportedly just

0:35.8

fires campaign manager, Donald Trump.

0:38.4

I'm Leon Nefak, in for Jacob Weissberg, while he's at invocation for next few weeks.

0:42.8

Last Friday, I was amazed to read that the Trump campaign is a grand total of 30 staffers

0:46.9

on the ground nationwide.

0:48.8

This seems shockingly low, but also somehow totally in line with how I envisioned the

0:52.0

day-to-day operations of Trump headquarters.

0:54.6

It may be wonder, has Trump succeeded in spite of his, let's say, non-traditional approach

0:58.3

to campaigning?

0:59.5

Or because of it?

1:00.5

And what does modern effective campaigning look like in 2016 in the era of Donald Trump?

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