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Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for May 19, 2016.

I threw a chair in Reno just to watch it fly edition. I'm David Plott's of

Atlas Obscure at joining me this week at a distance, at a remove, far away.

John Dickerson, a fascination, you are where John. I'm in New York City. Can we

just pause for a moment and appreciate that excellent show title you made up?

Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. That's very sweet of you.

Yeah. I knew you would like it. Yeah. Oh my God. Fantastic.

That other voice you heard is Emily Bathlin of the New York Times, who's even

though she's at the New York Times. She's not in New York. She's in New Haven.

Indeed. I am in New Haven in my lair.

On this week's Gap Fest is the Democratic Party falling apart. We'll talk about

that. Then this week in Trumpiness, groping tax returns, Megan Kelly, the

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