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The NPR Politics Podcast

Weekly Roundup: Thursday, April 7

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

News, Daily News, Politics

4.425.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A look at the race and a new level of testiness, especially among Democrats, as the primary season moves from Wisconsin to New York, plus the latest on a string of religious freedom laws in states like Mississippi and North Carolina making national news. This episode, host/White House correspondent Tamara Keith, campaign reporter Sam Sanders, digital political reporter Danielle Kurtzleben, and editor/correspondent Ron Elving. Find the team on Twitter @tamarakeithNPR, @samsanders, @titonka, and @NPRrelving, or email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. More coverage at nprpolitics.org.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, this is Tamara Keith and I'm at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York

0:06.0

where Hillary Clinton event is winding down. You can hear the music is still very loud.

0:12.0

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0:36.1

Okay, here's the show.

0:41.4

It's the NPR Politics Podcast here with our roundup of the week's political news. We'll talk

0:46.4

about the state of the primary races. It moves into New York following wins in Wisconsin for

0:50.9

Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz. We'll do some listener mail and in the show with Can't Let It Go,

0:56.7

where we all share something. We're just a little bit obsessed with this week and make sure to stick

1:01.8

around for that because three words, wine ice cream. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House

1:07.4

and the campaign. I'm Sam Sanders, campaign reporter. I'm Danielle Kurtzleben, digital political

1:11.7

reporter. And I'm Ron Elving, editor, correspondent, journalist, emeritus. We had an episode Wednesday

1:16.7

morning with some early Wisconsin results. But just to review Ron and Danielle, what happened,

1:23.9

Democratic side, Republican side, let's go. One sided on both sides. You had Bernie Sanders winning

1:30.1

71 counties, Hillary Clinton winning one county. Milwaukee County, the most populist, but only by

1:36.2

a few percentage points she got wiped out. 13 percentage points overall and on the Republican side,

1:42.1

another 13 percent win. This one for Ted Cruz. He was not as dominant in terms of crossing the

1:47.6

entire state. But he was much more dominant in terms of delegates because he got 36 delegates

1:53.8

Donald Trump only got six. And on the Democratic side, while Bernie Sanders got more, it wasn't so

2:00.1

much more than it actually changed the percentage he needs to get from here on out to overtaker

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