Trump's primary challengers

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Jane, Dara, and Matt talk about Donald Trump’s potential 2020 presidential primary challengers — Joe Walsh, Bill Weld, Justin Amash, and others, and what their bids mean for the post-Trump future. We also ruminate on a white paper exploring potentially racist hiring practices. Links to resources discussed: “Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld explains why he’s primarying Donald Trump” by Jane Coaston, Vox “The problem with primarying Trump” by Jane Coaston, Vox “Former Rep. Joe Walsh, once a Trump supporter and conspiracy theorist, is running for president” by Jane Coaston and Sean Collins, Vox “Decades before Trump, Marion Barry fooled D.C.” by Jane Coaston, MTV News “Ex-Newark Mayor Is Accused of Misusing Campaign Funds” by Richard Pèrez-Peña, New York Times White paper Hosts: Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior correspondent, Vox Ezra Klein (@ezraklein), Editor-at-large Vox Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics reporter, Vox Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica More to explore: Subscribe for free to the Ezra Klein Show, a Vox podcast where Ezra brings you far-reaching conversations about hard problems, big ideas, illuminating theories, and cutting-edge research. About Vox:Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us:Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.0	Birthday podcast.
0:39.0	Oh yeah, happy birthday, Jane.
0:40.0	Thank you.
0:41.0	Happy birthday, she was saying.
0:42.0	No.
0:43.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box Media Podcast Network.
1:00.0	I'm Matthew Glacias here with Jane Kostin, Pro Publicas Darrylind.
1:04.0	We are going to talk today about some dense methodology at the end.
1:10.0	That gave us a whole econometric seminar.
1:13.0	With a simple who knows, math is hard, but what's easy is mounting primary challenges to Donald Trump.
1:21.0	Is it?
1:22.0	No, well, it's easy to run.
1:25.0	It's hard to win.
1:27.0	I think it's safe to say that Trump will probably be the Republican nominee in 2020.
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