"Veep" Producer Frank Rich: Trump Can Win
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4.4 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2016
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 1:38.9 | Kafka, sell socks and other products. Thank you for having me. You did not predict your Monday |
| 1:44.0 | was going to start off this way. I sort of like it. My father had a retail shoe store, so I sort of feel back in a kind of nostalgic swim about choosing to talk. You've seen people hawking products before. I have. We're here to talk about one of your products. You work on Veep. Yes. One of my favorite shows that's on HBO. When you hear this on Thursday, you'll be able to wait a couple days and watch it on Sunday. Season 5, great political satire. We'll talk about that. And then that's my awkward transition to the actual not satirical political landscape we're looking at right now. We're taping this on Monday the day before the New York primary, so we're not going to bother sort of predicting the exact delegate count. |
| 2:22.3 | Safe to say, most pundits, including yourself, think that Trump and Hillary win by a significant |
| 2:28.0 | margin. Yes, I think so. I think people will be looking. I think Trump is considered likely |
| 2:32.7 | to win in a romp, at least at this |
| 2:34.5 | point. I think people will look at how big Hillary Clinton's margin is. Needless to say, if either |
| 2:40.0 | of them should lose, really unlikely in Trump's case, I guess a tiny possibility in Hillary's that |
| 2:45.2 | would, as they say, reset the race. So let's assume the race has not been reset. Let's assume you're |
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