Trump's General Election Pivot
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🗓️ 21 September 2023
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Summary
With the first primaries still months away, Trump skips more debates and pivots to a general election strategy with a primetime speech to autoworkers in Michigan and an attempt to cast himself as more moderate on abortion. Will it work? Then, Politico Congressional correspondent Daniella Diaz joins the show to help make sense of the GOP’s shutdown shit show. Finally, the most divisive topic on Capitol Hill this week: what John Fetterman is allowed to wear.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Potsade of America, I'm John Fabra. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Dan Fifer. |
| 0:23.0 | On today's show, Team Biden tells anxious Democrats to chill out. |
| 0:27.1 | Daniela Diaz of Politico joins to talk about the Republican shut down shit show. |
| 0:31.3 | And Dan and I weigh in on what is by far the most consequential issue in Congress this |
| 0:36.9 | week, what John Federman is wearing, I've got to steal myself for that one. |
| 0:42.5 | Alright, but first, even though the Iowa caucuses are still four months away, Donald Trump |
| 0:47.6 | is already acting like he beat his primary opponents and the 91 felony charges he's |
| 0:52.1 | facing. |
| 0:53.1 | He's now reportedly skipping the third Republican debate in Florida and he's skipping |
| 0:57.7 | next week's debate here in California so that he can give a prime time speech in the |
| 1:01.4 | battleground state of Michigan where he will pretend to be pro-workers who an audience |
| 1:05.2 | that will reportedly include plumbers, electricians, pipefitters and auto-workers whose union |
| 1:10.6 | is currently on strike. |
| 1:12.8 | Trump's also been trying to pretend he's more moderate than most Republicans on the issue |
| 1:16.0 | of abortion, which is finally getting him some actual criticism from the popular Republican |
| 1:21.5 | governors of Iowa and Georgia, as well as his sorry excuse for a primary opponent, Ron |
| 1:26.7 | DeSantis, who hit Trump on the issue during an Iowa radio interview. |
| 1:30.5 | I don't know how you can even make the claim that you're somehow pro-life if you're criticizing |
| 1:37.8 | states for enacting pro-life protection, so I think if he's going into this saying he's |
| 1:43.5 | going to make the Democrats happy with respect to right to life, I think all pro-lifers should |
| 1:49.2 | know that he's preparing to sell you out. |
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