The Pick is In

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🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

On this special bonus episode, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann discuss the breaking news of Trump's pick for his vice-presidential running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance (R).

Plus, the crew dives into Judge Aileen Cannon's decision to dismiss special counsel Jack Smith's case against Trump in Florida, where the former president is charged with illegally retaining classified documents after his presidency.

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0:00.0	We will never give up.
0:02.0	We will never conceive that doesn't have to.
0:05.0	The mother that Theresa could not beat these charges.
0:07.0	And now if you don't mind, I'm going to go into the icebox and sit for a long time.
0:11.0	Thank you everyone.
0:20.3	Welcome to the Trump Trials sidebar from the Washington Post. I'm Libby Casey and I'm with James Homen columnist as well as Rhonda Colvin,
0:24.8	senior political correspondent and as you can probably tell we are not in our studio
0:29.1	we are in Milwaukee at the Fyserf Center, the home of the Republican National Convention happening this week.
0:36.0	We're recording this special episode on Monday afternoon with a lot of breaking news to cover,
0:42.0	including this just in that JD Vance is
0:46.4	Donald Trump's pick to be his running mate. James let's start there you and I
0:51.4	are right here with the delegates doing the roll call vote
0:55.1	nominating Donald Trump right behind us and we heard Mike Lee just announce on this stage in the
1:00.9	area rather Senator Mike Lee of Utah say it's JD Vance and we also
1:05.8	saw a truth social post from Donald Trump himself. Let's talk about that pick.
1:09.0	It's a major pick. This is a 39- old from Ohio who is going to be next in line to be
1:16.2	the Republican standard-bearer whether Trump wins in 2024 or not. He represents
1:22.1	sort of the populist side of the party, what they call the
1:25.6	national conservatives. He has a more isolationist view on foreign policy, a more
1:31.4	protectionist pro-tariff view on economics and it does really very much fit with Trump trying to package himself
1:40.8	as a populist. It's striking that he's making Vance the pick coming right off the assassination
1:46.2	attempt over the weekend because Vance right away on Saturday. He's kind of he's close with Don
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