The Election Trail: From Iowa to New Hampshire
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Hot on the heels of the Iowa caucus, Republican candidates Donald Trump, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis prepare for the next primary showdown in New Hampshire.
Sarah and Justin unpack if it could prove to be a tougher test for Trump and a way back into the race for the other candidates.
And, why are the Democrats infighting after Biden’s idea to bump the state from its prized primary calendar slot?
HOSTS: Sarah Smith, North America editor Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter
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This episode was made by George Dabby with Catherine Fusillo, Madeleine Drury, Maia Davies and Claire Betzer. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The series producer is George Dabby. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Number one question, Sarah. |
| 0:06.2 | Have you thought out yet? |
| 0:07.4 | Because I'm not sure I have. |
| 0:10.1 | I much prefer the cold to the heat. |
| 0:13.0 | So, I mean, yes, it was a bit chilly. |
| 0:16.0 | You couldn't stand outside for more than about 10 minutes. |
| 0:18.5 | You had to have your gloves on and your hat on, but, |
| 0:21.0 | compared to say, standing outside that courthouse in Miami when Donald Trump was |
| 0:24.9 | first arraigned in the heat and the humidity, that was awful, I'll take the cold any day. |
| 0:29.3 | You see, I'm the opposite. |
| 0:30.2 | So when I was doing your job here, I always used to go to Miami because I love the heat because I'm a southern Englishman softy and the cold really gets to me and I thought I'd come prepared for the cold in Iowa. My goodness I hadn't. You promised furry underwear, but it was more of a promise than a reality as as to |
| 0:48.0 | so much of what I come up with and frankly whatever underwear I had wasn't enough. Anyway, you were busy as you always are and you got a pretty extraordinary interview |
| 0:56.5 | on Monday night. |
| 0:57.8 | Yeah, I bumped into Eric Trump. |
| 0:59.8 | I mean it wasn't a total surprise, I was in a Trump event, but hours before Donald Trump was expected |
| 1:05.3 | to arrive, Eric was wandering around, so I whipped out my mobile phone and asked him if he would |
| 1:10.0 | speak to the good people of America. And do you know what he was very |
| 1:13.3 | pleased to talk to the BBC because he is obsessed with the UK because of all the |
| 1:17.8 | golf courses there, Turnberry and the one up at Aberdeen and so we had to chat |
| 1:22.2 | a little bit about how he has transformed |
| 1:24.1 | terbury before he would then agree to talk about politics. |
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