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The Dispatch Podcast

Welcome to the 2024 Elections | Interview: Ben Jacobs

The Dispatch Podcast

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.43K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Political reporter Ben Jacobs examines the state of the Republican primary and explains the different strategies that Donald Trump’s opponents have embraced in hopes of dethroning him. Also: —Why caucuses are unfair; —Jamie’s caucus speech; and —The idiosyncratic choices of Iowa voters. Show Notes: -Watch this episode on our YouTube channel -Nature of Trump's campaign broadly -Article about Speech for Jim Gilmore Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast. I'm Jamie Weinstein. My guest today is a good friend of mine, Ben Jacobs. He has worked for The Guardian and The Daily Peace reporting on politics and campaigns and now does freelance for a wide variety of publications and we'll be traveling to Iowa as you are probably listening to this

1:16.1

podcast now to cover the duration of the Iowa caucuses and then on to many other states to cover the primaries.

1:25.0

He also lived in Iowa as a college student where he went,

1:29.1

it's where he went to college.

1:30.7

So I've brought Ben on to do a little bit of an explainer on the Iowa

1:34.6

Caucasus how they work kind of the mechanics what strategies tend to work what

1:39.4

strategies tend not to work and also discuss obviously the state of the Republican primary and what we might see happen on caucus night.

1:50.0

So I think you're going to find this informative and interesting, but without further ado, I give you my friend Ben Jacobs, welcome to the dispatch podcast.

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Thanks for happening.

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