Hello listeners and welcome to another episode of Politico's nerd cast I'm Scott Bland

this week on the nerd cast Trump's evangelical Christian base has ignored a lot of his behavior until now and we're looking at

one new thing that's causing problems for Trump.

blasphemy.

Plus, Iowa, the first caucus state shaping up to be a big test for the Democratic 2020 presidential

candidates.

Our reporters Chris Cadillago and Natasha Carrecki and our senior politics editor, Charlie

Matessian, were on the ground and will join us to share what they saw at the Iowa State Fair recently.

As always, we're taping this on Thursday. Today that's August 15th, so it's all up to date as of then.

All right, let's get started.

I want to welcome our guests.

White House reporter Gabby Orr is joining us.

Hello, Gabby.

Hello, thanks for having me.

Thank you so much for being here.

So Gabby, you wrote a piece that got a ton of attention this week.

President Trump had a rally a few weeks ago.

And it made headlines.

I think everyone will recognize the reason why as we play the clip right here. Here back, Now Gabby, that was right back,

Now Gabby, that was July 17th in North Carolina when Trump went after Somali-born Democratic representative

Ilhana Omar an American citizen. But some Trump supporters were more fixated

on something completely different that happened during the rally.

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