The Edition: who will Trump pick for his running mate?
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🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Veep show: who will Trump pick for his running mate? Freddy Gray goes through the contenders – and what they say about America (and its most likely next president). ‘Another thought might be buzzing around Trump’s head: he can pick pretty much whoever he wants because really it’s all about him. He might even choose one of his children: Ivanka or Donald Junior. What could sound better than Trump-Trump 2024?’ Freddy joins the podcast. (02:10)
Next: Will and Lara take us through some of their favourite pieces from the magazine, including David Shipley’s piece on the issues in the criminal justice system and Patrick Kidd’s article on the C of E’s volunteering crisis.
Then: Everest. This year marks 100 years since George Mallory’s doomed expedition. On the 8th June 1924 George Mallory and his climbing partner Sandy Irvine were seen through binoculars 800 ft from the summit of Mount Everest, but sadly were never seen again. Whether they did reach the top – almost 30 years prior to Edmund Hillary’s confirmed summit – has been the source of debate and myth for a century. Two new books will be released this year revisiting the attempt, and the man behind them. One by former political editor at the Sun, Tom Newton Dunn (great nephew of Mallory) and the other by mountaineer Mick Conefrey – which is reviewed this week in The Spectator. Tom and Mick joined the podcast to discuss. (17:51)
And finally: Next week marks the anniversary of the death of Spectator’s Low Life columnist Jeremy Clarke. And on Tuesday a new collection of his columns is being published: Low Life: The Final Years. The book begins with his cancer diagnosis in 2013 and goes up until his last column, published two weeks before his death last year. Regular readers will know that Jeremy’s genius was to capture the beauty and absurdity of the everyday – he chronicled it all with extraordinary frankness and brilliant wit. And so to remember Jeremy, and his peerless writing, we were joined by his widow, the artist Catriona Olding, who writes a guest Life column in this week’s magazine, and his friend Con Coughlin, defence editor at the Telegraph. (33:35)
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| 0:42.5 | the runners and riders for Trump's Vice President pick, revisiting the doomed 1924 Everest |
| 0:48.6 | expedition, and remembering the writing Jeremy Clark. |
| 0:56.9 | Well, it's Wednesday afternoon at 2.30. The magazine went to press about an hour ago. |
| 1:02.5 | And our cover line is Veep Show, Freddie Gray, on the race to become Trump's running mate. |
| 1:08.7 | Can you talk us through briefly how that came about? Well, it's I think a |
| 1:13.0 | long running point of interest who Trump is going to pick for his VP. As Freddie points out |
| 1:19.8 | in his cover piece, you know, a big reason for this is that, you know, while Trump may be younger |
| 1:24.0 | than President Biden, he does turn 78 next month. And constitutionally, he can't |
| 1:28.8 | serve a third term. So eventually there will need to be an heir to the MAGA movement or the |
| 1:34.8 | America First movement. And I think in a lot of Republican circles, the Republicans who are kind of |
| 1:40.4 | jostling to be the one that Trump picks, apprentice style, to be his VP |
| 1:45.8 | running mate, that person will be pretty well placed to pick up the mantle. I think what Freddie |
| 1:51.2 | does a great job within his piece is just taking you through a lot of these possible candidates, |
| 1:56.8 | the people that Trump is considering, and the kind of perhaps slightly desperate ways in which |
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