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The Pivot

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2016

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to Mark Leibovich about Trump's transition into a more tolerable candidate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Are you ready to make America great again?

0:03.2

Bernie Sanders doesn't get it. Hillary Clinton doesn't get it.

0:05.8

Barack Obama, he really don't get it.

0:07.4

The next time we see him, we might have to kill him.

0:09.8

Donald Trump has a lot of work to do, telling us what he's going to do specifically.

0:14.3

I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be present.

0:16.7

And the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people.

0:19.5

This is Trumpcast, the show also known as Orange is the new hack.

0:34.5

I'm Jacob Weisberg.

0:36.2

And I'll be honest, I'm worried that this podcast might not be over in July, which is

0:40.3

what I was hoping.

0:41.8

Michael Kinzley, who taught me most of what I know about political journalism, used to

0:45.4

have a saying about campaign coverage.

0:47.8

The first rule is that the story has to change.

0:50.9

A static field serves nobody's interests.

0:53.3

There's a whole vocabulary of front runners and underdogs, momentum, beating expectations

0:59.5

that we in the press use to keep the story evolving.

1:02.9

If you were listening to the TV commentary last night after the New York primary, you

1:07.1

might have noticed that last week's narrative, Trump can't get to 1237 delegates by the end

1:13.5

of the primaries is now out the window.

1:16.6

And never mind that Trump today is only fractionally more likely to get to 1237, even with his

1:23.0

pickup of some extra delegates in New York.

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