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podcast about the Democratic contenders hosted remotely by Ryan Lizza. This is the political scene,

a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Friday, August 14th.

I'm Ryan Lizza, the Washington correspondent,

at the New Yorker. One week ago at the first Republican presidential primary debate,

Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, had this to say about his opponents on both sides.

Well, first, let me say, I think God has blessed us. He's blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates.

The Democrats can't even find one.

Since then, the presumptive Democratic frontrunner, Hillary Clinton, has unveiled a new education proposal,

and more attention has been trained on her main challenger, Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont.

I'm joined this week by Amy Davidson at our studio in New York and Margaret Talbot from Washington to discuss the emerging

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