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Hello listeners and welcome to another edition of Politico's

nerd cast.

I'm Scott Bland, your host.

This week on the Nerdcast, we're going to be talking caravans, tax cuts, tariffs, and the

increasingly tenuous link between what President Donald Trump is talking about on the campaign trail

and what's actually happening in reality.

Plus, what would happen if you watched hundreds and hundreds of campaign ads?

What themes would emerge?

What would you learn? would you go insane?

A brave political colleague will join us to talk us through it.

A reminder before we get started to our listeners to subscribe to the Nurdcast, rate us, and write a review.

And one more note before we begin, we're taping this a little bit before noon

eastern on Thursday, October 25th, so it's all up to date as of then.

All right, let's jump right into this.

I want to welcome our guests.

We have Senior Politics Editor Charlie Matessian,

happy to have you here, Charlie.

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