“The RNC: Now, With 5x More Trump!”

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🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Republican National Convention lineup is heavy on Trump and light on policy, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris see their favorability rise after last week’s convention, Trump touts another unproven Covid treatment, and Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testifies before Congress. Then New York Times reporter Kevin Roose talks to Tommy about Trump’s embrace of the QAnon cult.

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:20.1	Welcome to Pieds Ave America, I'm John Fabra.
0:22.2	I'm John Loveett.
0:22.9	I'm Tommy Vittor.
0:23.7	On today's Pied Kevin Rousse of The New York Times talks to Tommy about Trump's embrace
0:27.4	of the Q&N on cult.
0:28.9	Before that, we'll talk about
0:29.9	what's in store for this week's Republican National Convention,
0:32.8	how the public reacted to last week's Democratic Convention,
0:35.8	and the latest on the Postal Service Crisis.
0:38.1	But first, love it, how is the show this weekend?
0:40.8	We had a great convention special.
0:43.1	Senator Brian Schatz, Emily Heller, Naomi Ekperigan, Josh Barrow.
0:48.8	We had a good time, we broke down the speeches.
0:52.5	That's all you really need to know.
0:54.4	Fantastic, fantastic.
0:56.2	Also tomorrow is Tuesday, which means there's a brand new episode
0:59.1	of Missing America Out.
1:00.5	Ben talks to an anonymous activist about the daily marches and protests taking place in Hong Kong.
1:04.9	And they sound the alarm on the dangers of a growing authoritarian power.
1:08.9	So check it out wherever you get your podcasts.
1:11.9	Also, if you want to hate watch the RNC with us,
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