Weekly Roundup: Friday, January 15

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

Politics, Daily News, News

4.4 • 25.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week, a recap of Thursday night's GOP debate, a look at the new levels of competition between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, and — two weeks from the Iowa Caucuses — which state might really be the most demographically representative in the nation. Plus a listener question and what the NPR Politics team can't let go. This episode: editor and correspondent Ron Elving and campaign reporter Asma Khalid join hosts Sam Sanders and Tamara Keith. Find them on Twitter @samsanders, @tamarakeithNPR, @asmamk, @NPRrelving, and at npr.org/politics.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to the NPR Politics Podcast.
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0:10.1	Play along with the Seinfeld themed version of Taboo, games of mysterious phenomena, and
0:15.2	see what you know about some of the lesser known puppets on Sesame Street.
0:19.5	Ask Me Another is like Trivia Knight without the bar tab.
0:22.6	Play along now at npr.org slash podcast.
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0:29.8	And on the npr.1 app.
0:31.8	Hey y'all, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:37.5	Here with our round up of the week's political news, we've got a lot.
0:40.7	Thursday nights GOP debate, a new level of competition on the Democratic side of the race, and we
0:46.0	will end the show, per usual, with can't let it go.
0:49.2	Where we all share something we just can't stop thinking about this week.
0:52.8	First some introductions.
0:53.8	I'm Sam Sanders, campaign reporter.
0:55.6	I'm Tamara Keith, White House correspondent.
0:57.6	I'm Usma Khalid, I cover demographics in the campaign.
1:00.4	I'm Ron Elving, editor correspondent, journalist emeritus.
1:03.4	All right, big news of this week was the state of the union.
1:06.1	We had an episode on that Wednesday.
1:07.8	Check it out.
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