This is Sarah Stewart Holland, and this is Beth Silvers, thank you for joining us for

Pantsuit Politics.

Welcome to Pantsuit Politics, where we take a different approach to the news. Today we

are going to discuss the first GOP presidential primary debate, which took place in

Milwaukee on Wednesday night. We will also talk a little about Donald Trump's counterprogramming

to the debate with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and stick around outside of politics,

because at the request of just about everybody in DMs, we're going to talk about Rush Talk.

We received some truly fantastic listener messages this week. There were excellent questions

about the Georgia indictment and the legal swirl around Donald Trump. There was a message

from someone who gave us some context about one of our current favorite judges, Beth finally

learned with the C.I. Stanford. Are you going to tell the people what Robert McBernie's

middle initials stand for? It's Charles Iverson, don't we all feel like we should have like

a secret handshake now of our own, because we know that. I mean, we so happy.

Amazing. A listener like went to school with him, so she's like, I just went and got

the yearbook. Amazing, y'all are amazing. And then there was this completely gorgeous

message from a listener who described her life over the past few years as she's listened,

and she said that she always feels a few degrees off from average, but that in listening

to us, she never feels ignored or dismissed in our conversations and how we make her feel

less lonely. And it was just, I want to say it because I know y'all are going to laugh,

but it did make me cry. I wrote just a few degrees off average and her name on a post

it note and put it in my studio space. It touched me so much and inspires me to really

think about everybody in our audience as we do our work. So thank you for writing to

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