Weekly Roundup: Thursday, April 28

The NPR Politics Podcast

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🗓️ 28 April 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The state of the race, where Bernie Sanders goes from here, and what's behind Ted Cruz's running mate pick, Carly Fiorina. This episode, host/campaign reporter Sam Sanders, White House correspondent Tamara Keith, campaign reporter Sarah McCammon, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson. More coverage at nprpolitics.org. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.

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0:00.0	Alright so guys we have a special guest today. Can you tell us your name?
0:03.9	Hello my name is Ellis. Nice to meet you Ellis. Hey Ellis. So Ellis you're what eight years old?
0:10.8	You are here today because it is take your child to work day. So thank you for joining us.
0:15.9	Yeah you're gonna read actually the first line of our intro right? You're gonna do that. You want to say it?
0:22.2	Hey y'all, it's the MPR Politics Podcast.
0:27.0	That was great. I want you to do it one more time with so much energy on the hey y'all like so much energy.
0:31.6	Hey y'all it's the MPR Politics Podcast.
0:38.7	Thanks Ellis. It's the MPR Politics Podcast here with our wrap of the week's political news.
0:43.5	We'll go over this week's Big Batch of Primary States and some unusual political maneuvering on the GOP side.
0:49.2	We'll also do some listener mail and as always we'll in the show with Cantletit Go where we all share
0:54.6	something we just can't stop thinking about this week. I'm Sam Sanders campaign reporter.
0:58.8	I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House and the campaign. I'm Sarah McCammon campaign reporter
1:03.1	and I'm Mara Lias and National Political Correspondent. Let's take a second to notice that three out of
1:08.3	four of our panel today is women. You're gendering us. I've got our gender cards. You've got your
1:15.1	gender cards. What do they look like? Can I see the gender card? No. We don't show mail people our
1:20.3	gender card. Mell people. Mine is platinum. Nice. Oh yeah. And we're going to see it put on the
1:26.1	table a lot. You know. All right. First up big news of the week. Primary is in the northeast. Let's
1:31.8	talk about the Democrats. First, barring anything extraordinary happening. Hillary Quentin is going to
1:37.4	be her party's nominee. Correct? Correct. This is done. Close to done. It is mathematically
1:44.0	implausible for Bernie Sanders to get the nomination at this point. Hillary Clinton, if you include
1:49.0	super delegates and I know a lot of people don't like to include super delegates. But if you include
1:53.2	super delegates, she is 90% of the way to clinching the nomination. Yeah. These last two weeks have
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