The New Hampshire Primary, with Chris Pappas

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🗓️ 7 February 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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After the chaos of Iowa, New Hampshire is set to deliver the first clear results of the 2020 presidential race. And on the show to preview the first primary vote is New Hampshire Congressman Chris Pappas. The freshman Democrat is new to Washington, but he's been around Granite State politics his entire life. He was elected state representative at 22, but has been meeting presidential candidates since he was 7. His family's Manchester restaurant has been a waypoint on the trail to the White House for decades. He discusses New Hampshire politics, his state's fight against the opioid crisis, and his choice next Tuesday (both who he's voting for, and whether to do a ballot selfie.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Iowa Caucasus in Chaos.
0:02.0	This is a mess.
0:04.0	If it isn't a mess, it'll do to the mess gets here.
0:06.0	It's about the chaos and confusion that has rocked the first major political contest of the but not in the way Iowans would have wanted. It's still unclear who exactly won the Iowa Caucasus.
0:25.0	We still don't really know what happened in Iowa last night.
0:29.0	I'm Isaac Dovere, and this is the ticket. I'm back in Washington for a few days now, but
0:37.5	Monday night I was in West Des Moines. I was at a caucus site in a holiday inn.
0:42.0	And as the night we're on, we started to hear there was I was at a caucus site in a holiday in.
0:43.0	And as the night we were on, we started to hear there was some reporting errors, and it just seemed
0:46.6	isolated.
0:47.6	The caucus process is always messy.
0:50.6	And then, very quickly, over the course of about 20 minutes it went from, huh, there might be something wrong to,
0:57.0	oh wow, there is a widespread problem.
1:00.0	So what exactly was the problem? There is growing outrage and frustration over the Iowa
1:06.2	Caucus app. This app just failed. I didn't get any sleep on Monday night and I haven't got much sleep since. Of the results we know, it's clear that Pete
1:14.7	Buda judge had a better night than expected. Bernie Sanders appears essentially tied
1:18.9	with him for delegates, though he seems to have gotten more votes. The headlines after Iowa though aren't about the candidates. though,
1:23.0	he seems to have gotten more votes.
1:22.0	The headlines after Iowa, though, aren't about the candidates.
1:25.0	They're still about Iowa.
1:27.0	The delay raising new questions about the future of the Iowa caucuses.
1:31.0	If there was ever a time the Iowa caucuses could go away, this could be the final straw that broke the camp.
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