The Front-Runners
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 2 March 2016
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Evan Osnos and Benjamin Wallace-Wells join Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the challenges Donald Trump poses to Hillary Clinton and the Republican party.
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| 1:11.1 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. |
| 1:17.1 | It's Wednesday, March 2nd. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:22.3 | Yesterday was Super Tuesday, and the results for once were much as expected. |
| 1:27.1 | Here is Donald Trump on his victories. |
| 1:30.3 | Look, I'm a unifier. I know people are going to find that a little bit hard to believe, but believe me, |
| 1:34.4 | I am a unifier. Once we get all of this finished, I'm going to go after one person. That's Hillary Clinton, |
| 1:40.5 | on the assumption she's allowed to run, which is a big assumption. I don't know that |
| 1:44.5 | she's going to be allowed to run. And here is Hillary Clinton on hers. We have to make strong the |
| 1:52.7 | broken places, restitch the bonds of trust and respect across our country. Now, it might be unusual, as I've said before, |
| 2:03.5 | for a presidential candidate to say this, |
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