What Happened At The First 2024 Republican Primary Debate
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and former vice president Mike Pence held much of the focus during the debate.
This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, national political correspondent Sarah McCammon, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Kelly from Omaha, Nebraska. As a 46-year-old working mom, I'm going |
| 0:05.9 | back to college to get my master's degree in political science and American |
| 0:09.6 | government. I've picked out my back to school outfit and I'm heading into my |
| 0:13.4 | first class constitutional law. This podcast was recorded at 11.58 pm Eastern |
| 0:19.9 | time on Wednesday, August 23rd of 2023. Things may have changed by the time you |
| 0:25.6 | hear this, but I'll be learning about we the people will probably be writing a |
| 0:29.4 | paper and we'll definitely be daydreaming about one day being friends with the |
| 0:33.2 | NPR politics crew. Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:39.6 | Ah, well she's got a friend in us for sure. We're here and we'll have a |
| 0:44.7 | appropriate after this debate. That's true. Taking constitutional law. Well hey |
| 0:48.3 | there, it's the NPR politics podcast. I'm Usma Khalid. I cover the White House. |
| 0:51.9 | I'm Domenico Montanar, senior political editor and correspondent. And tonight we |
| 0:56.2 | are coming to you all very, very late because the first GOP presidential |
| 1:00.9 | debate of the 2024 campaign season just wrapped up and our colleagues Sarah |
| 1:06.3 | McCammon and Franco Ordonia's were there in person in Milwaukee at the debate. |
| 1:11.7 | Hey guys, how you hold it up? Hey there. We're good, right Franco? Yeah. |
| 1:17.1 | Energize for this late night podcast episode. I'm really glad that you're able to |
| 1:21.1 | join us. I hear a bit of hubbub behind you. I'm sure there's still a lot. It sounds like |
| 1:24.4 | going on behind you all. We're in the press room and if I can just sort of peel |
| 1:27.9 | back the curtain a little bit, Franco and I were sitting right next to each other |
| 1:31.1 | during the debate. And then in order to make this podcast work, we had to split |
| 1:36.1 | up because you know feedback is a bad thing. So we just hauled Franco's stuff |
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