Who's the Democratic Candidate Gonna Be?
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Heaton records his New Hampshire experience hitting up Biden, Pete, and Yang rallies, plus thoughts on Warren, Bernie, and Klobuchar. He talks about his all-too-brief love affair with the Andrew Yang candidacy, and most importantly--who's going to scoop up the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination in the wake of the New Hampshire primary.
Season 2, Ep 33
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the political orphanage when everyone else is fighting about whether we have to drink Coke or Pepsi, |
| 0:14.8 | we're already on our second bourbon. I'm your host Andrew Heaton, and I'm still in New |
| 0:20.1 | England, for tax purposes. |
| 0:23.7 | The New Hampshire primary is over. |
| 0:26.3 | Bernie Sanders won in the Senator and his ecstatic burn ward march onwards to Nevada. |
| 0:32.2 | Pete Budajeged stretches his wings as the new Obama in a very close second place. |
| 0:37.8 | Amy Klobuchar's campaign gets a much needed insulin boost from a strong third place showing and Andrew Yang |
| 0:44.6 | begrudgingly admits that his campaign is a solid 20 years ahead of the rest of |
| 0:49.7 | the Democratic Party and goes into suspended animation until which time smarter future Democrats can thaw it out. |
| 0:57.0 | Democrats are trying to figure out two things. |
| 1:00.0 | Who could feasibly beat Donald Trump and what it means to be a Democrat? |
| 1:07.0 | To answer those questions the Democratic Party has coagulated into three |
| 1:11.5 | caucuses. |
| 1:13.1 | On the left, the super ultra progressive corner, |
| 1:18.3 | permanently marching up a hill with their fists in the air |
| 1:21.5 | are Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. |
| 1:24.3 | There are some important distinctions between these two candidates, but they are united in a firm |
| 1:28.6 | belief that society is a vast Tinker Toy Set to be arranged and engineered by good-hearted statists for the benefit of all us cogs. |
| 1:37.0 | Warren plays fourth, fourth, and that means she's donezo. |
| 1:42.0 | Warren is the Smarty Pants candidate. That means she's donezo. |
| 1:42.8 | Warren is the smarty-pants candidate. |
| 1:45.2 | If you ask a Democrat what they think the biggest problem in America is, |
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