‘The Run-Up’: The Republican Party Sorts Through Its Mess

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🗓️ 9 April 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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The Times reporter Astead W. Herndon and the team are back for a new season of “The Run-Up” and they’re looking ahead to the 2024 presidential election, which in many ways has already begun. In this first episode, Astead heads to California for the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting to explore the tangled lines and scrambled allegiances that animated the effort to unseat Ronna McDaniel, the chair of the R.N.C.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Michael.
0:02.4	Today we're sharing the first episode of the new season of our politics show The Run Up.
0:08.0	If you listen to the first season, which ran here on the daily, you'll remember that
0:12.4	it told the story of the lead-up to the midterms.
0:15.7	How we got to that moment where Americans on both sides of the aisle were feeling so hopeless
0:23.3	and where the stakes of the election seemed to be democracy itself.
0:29.4	A lot of that story was about the grassroots and their disconnect with the establishment.
0:35.5	A story many years in the making.
0:38.6	This year, The Run Up is turning its attention to the other side, to the establishment,
0:43.7	the party insiders.
0:45.6	And that's because this is a very particular moment in American politics.
0:50.6	The midterms seem to send a very clear message that voters were rejecting extremism and
0:56.4	election denialism and really don't trump himself.
1:01.2	So how in the aftermath of those results would the parties move forward, especially with
1:07.6	trump seeking re-election and an indictment looming?
1:12.3	How would they try to position themselves and what would they try to do in these months
1:17.2	when no one is really paying attention?
1:20.3	That's where The Run Up picks back up this season and the story starts inside the Republican
1:27.4	party.
1:28.4	Take a listen.
1:29.4	Hey!
1:30.4	You made it!
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