Trump gets into the midterms. Big league.

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

News, Politics, Government

4.0 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Ahhh Midterm season is (still) in the air. With president Trump back on the road, we've been hearing him drop some midterm hopefuls' names on the rally trail. When he's not dropping names out front, his 2020 re-election campaign is behind the scenes dropping dolla dolla bills, ya'll. We talk about who Trump wants to come out on top and what that's going to take. Then, we break down how ch-ch-changes to the electoral map will impact the outcome of 2020. PLUS: a mini-Mahtesian on mic! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello listeners. This is Politico's Nurdcast. I'm Charlie Matessian in for Scott Bland this week. This week on Nurdcast, Donald Trump wades into the midterm elections, bigly because
0:20.7	there's no other way he could do it right?
0:23.0	Plus, from 2018 to 2020,
0:27.0	we'll take a look at the election map
0:29.0	and why there may be many, many more battleground states in the next presidential election
0:35.0	than there have been in recent presidential elections.
0:38.0	I'm excited about this one, so stick around.
0:40.0	A reminder to our listeners to subscribe to the nerdcast, rate us, and write a review.
0:45.8	And stay tuned for the end of the show when we'll have a contribution from one of the
0:49.5	Nurdcast's biggest fans. One more note before we begin.
0:54.0	We're taping this segment a little bit before noon eastern on Thursday, August 2nd,
0:59.0	so it's all up to date as of then.
1:02.0	Okay, let's get started. up to date as of then.
1:03.6	Okay let's get started.
1:05.4	I want to welcome our guest this week.
1:07.7	First, Nurdcast regular and political White House reporter Nancy Cook.
1:11.7	Hi Nancy.
1:12.4	Hey, thanks for having me.
1:13.3	Welcome back.
1:14.4	And we've also got Politico's Burgess Everett, Maine's favorite son in the studio.
1:21.0	We usually have you by phone.
1:22.2	It's great to have you in the studio.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from POLITICO, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of POLITICO and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.