Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm Sarah Izger that Steve Hayes and that weird looking dude over there's Jonah Goldberg

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Well, we'll see how this podcast goes

There's the Trump town hall the verdict in the EG in Carol case

And sure George Santos wasn't dated. We've also got a few

2024 polls that are they outliers? Is this where things are headed?

And I don't know the economy is still weird. We'll see. We'll just see where this goes

Let's dive right in all right. I want to start by reading a post from Ben Shapiro about last night that I thought was

Was well, frankly, worth our time

CNN did Trump a massive favor last night and everybody knows it. Here's why

This town hall was built as a Republican primary town hall, which means that presumably Trump should have been asked about issues

Republican voters care about like say Fauci and COVID criminal justice reform and Alice Johnson and crime the border wall in a legal

immigration etc

Now let me present a partial list of the issues Republican voters don't care about

EG in Carol January 6th Georgia election questions national archives documents Alvin Bragg's allegations

These are all Democrats top issues

Caitlin Collins the moderator asked zero of the questions Republicans cared about and all the ones Democrats cared about so in other words

This was built as a GOP primary last night, and it was just Caitlin Collins asking questions Democrats have about Trump

Republican voters sense this so when Trump took out the kitchen sink and began hammering Collins into the wall with it

They cheered Republicans will always and correctly cheer biased moderators being steamrolled by Republican candidates no matter what those candidates actually say

Trump wins more favor with Republican voters Democrats remain off-put

Independence continue to wonder why we're really litigating 2020

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