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The NPR Politics Podcast

Thursday, November 3

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

News, Daily News, Politics

4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Five days to go. This episode: host/campaign reporter Scott Detrow, congressional correspondent Susan Davis, and political editor Ron Elving. More coverage at nprpolitics.org. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Before we start the show, a reminder to follow all of our political reporting on the NPR-1 app.

0:05.2

That's NPR-O-N-E. You can find all your favorite podcasts, including CAR Talk. That's right, CAR Talk.

0:12.2

Not just on your radio, also available as a podcast, with advice, tips, troubleshooting,

0:17.7

and occasionally answers to CAR questions. Get CAR Talk now on the NPR-1 app or at NPR.org-slash-podcasts.

0:25.2

Okay, here's the show. Hey there, it's the NPR-Politics podcast for Thursday, November 3rd,

0:33.6

five days to go until election day. I've got Detro campaign reporter. I'm Susan Davis,

0:38.5

I cover Congress. And I'm Ron Elving, Editor Correspondent. Ron, I thought that was you,

0:42.4

but I wasn't sure behind the pile of crumbled old styles and champagne and Chicago Cubs here.

0:48.1

Not to mention the penance, and these penance are the only penance we've had in Chicago. They're

0:52.0

the things that come on sticks. Congratulations, Ron. If you don't know, Ron, as a huge Cubs fan,

0:58.5

how are you feeling? As though I have actually moved into an alternative universe in which everything

1:05.5

is really just different and looking back on the old universe, I wonder why it's taking you guys

1:10.8

so long to choose a president. Now, Ron, you said you were going to sing the Cubsong on the podcast.

1:16.6

I think it would be best to play the Cubsong on the podcast. Maybe should we end with that or do it

1:21.0

right now? I think we could do it at the end. Okay. Okay. But speaking of the world series,

1:25.8

a lot of the people I follow online were saying, this is such a great break from the presidential

1:30.7

campaign, which was true. But both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were aggressively advertising

1:37.6

during the World Series game, which was good for good since it was the highest watch game in 25

1:41.5

years. But let's start the politics part of this politics podcast by digging into some of these

1:47.0

ads. Donald Trump had one called change. Well, we'll listen to this one for a little bit first.

1:51.4

Hillary Clinton won't change Washington. She's been there 30 years. Taxes went up. Terrorism spread.

1:58.0

Jobs vanished. But special interests in Washington insiders thrived. Donald Trump will turn

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