Hello listeners it is Thursday April 13th. I'm your host Scott Bland and you are

listening to Politico's nerd cast. We talked special elections last week and

guess what we're going to talk special elections again this week. There was one in

Kansas on Tuesday that broke so late we didn't discuss it in the last episode and

one number there has sparked a particularly interesting debate among Democrats

among Republicans between both parties.

It was the margin, the Republican margin of victory in a district that Donald Trump won by 27 points

in November.

So we'll talk about what that means and doesn't mean coming right up.

Also this week, Trump is reversing himself on a growing number of campaign pledges, especially in the past few days.

And the 100-day marker of his administration is coming up.

What does that mean and what does Trump

have to show for it? All that and more on this week's episode. A couple quick

housekeeping notes before we get started here. Remember, please email us your

questions at nerdcast at politico.com and please

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iTunes or your favorite podcast app. Okay let's get started. With me this week we have chief

investigative reporter Ken Vogel. That's me, hi. Senior reporter Nancy Cook.

Thanks for having me. And with us to talk about these special elections

national political reporter Gabe to Benedetti.

What's going on?

Oh that's not all that you're good for though, Gabe.

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