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Somebody's Gotta Win. I think it's fair to say that the 2024 race officially started on Sunday, whether the Republicans like

it or not. And they were pretty flat-footed over Biden's announcement that he was dropping

out of the race, even though I'm pretty sure they expected it

at least towards the end. They were outraged, they called it a coup, they were getting

conspiratorial, which to me sounded desperate. So I brought in the Bulwarks Mark Caputo on the show

to talk about the Trump campaign's new strategy

now that they have an entirely new candidate to deal with

with just 100 days until the election.

Mark, I want to start with the headline from your latest

piece. Trump campaign is planning to Willie Horton-Kamala Harris. You write, the

question is not just whether it will work, but whether Republicans,

including the former president himself, will have the discipline to keep the

racial subtext of their new strategy from becoming the text. Where do we even begin?

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