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The NPR Politics Podcast

Weekly Roundup: Wednesday, December 30

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

Politics, Daily News, News

4.425.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2015

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In this New Year's Eve eve edition of the weekly roundup, the NPR Politics team looks ahead to 2016's Iowa Caucuses and New Hampshire Primary, plus a look at battle for control of the Senate in the new year. This episode: host Sam Sanders is in Iowa and campaign reporter Asma Khalid is in New Hampshire, with political editor Domenico Montanaro and digital political reporter Jessica Taylor in Washington. Find the team on Twitter @samsanders, @asmamk, @JessicaTaylor, @DomenicoNPR, and at npr.org/politics.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to the NPR Politics podcast.

0:05.9

During the thick of the holidays when you're ready for a break or some alone time, there's

0:10.9

a bunch more NPR podcasts you should check out.

0:14.6

Comedy and pop culture, creative storytelling, and insights into economics and the hidden

0:19.2

forces that shape us.

0:21.4

Find all our NPR podcasts at npr.org slash podcasts and on the NPR One app and enjoy the

0:28.1

holidays.

0:29.1

Okay.

0:30.1

No.

0:31.1

Hey y'all, it's the NPR Politics podcast here with a New Year's Eve edition of our weekly

0:45.7

roundup.

0:46.7

And the New Year is what we're talking about today.

0:49.3

It may not sound different, but I'm coming to you today from Iowa City, Iowa.

0:53.4

And Osmo, you're somewhere else as well.

0:55.0

Yeah, that's right.

0:59.0

I'm Osmo Halle that I covered demographics in the campaign.

1:02.0

And today I'm in Boston, but all week I've been crisscrossing the Granite State, the

1:03.0

Granite State being New Hampshire.

1:04.0

Cool.

1:05.0

And we got two others.

1:06.0

Here in DC, I'm Dominica Montenar, a political editor.

1:08.0

And I'm Jessica Taylor.

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