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Politics Unpacked

Who should Trump fear?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

As the Democrats struggle to find a candidate, Matt Chorley asks The Times' US team David Charter, Henry Zeffman and Ben Hoyle who has momentum, who could take the White House and what they miss from home.

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0:00.0

Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey.

0:11.0

So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. Hello and

0:25.0

welcome to the Red Box politics podcast in the Times I'm Matt Jolly

0:31.0

and with Parliament in recess and the government doing nothing except not preventing flooding

0:36.9

breaking up the BBC and hiring eugenics loving weirdos now seemed like a good time to check in on what is happening on the other side of

0:44.7

the Atlantic. If you thought the Labour leadership contest was a long-winded

0:48.4

underwhelming affair, just wait till we get stuck into the race to be the

0:51.2

Democratic candidate to take on Donald Trump.

0:53.5

We'll discuss the state of the special relationship and ask Henry Zefman who swapped

0:57.4

Westminster for Washington three weeks ago how he is getting on learning American.

1:02.4

He's also just started US elections email it's like Red Box but he only does it once a week

1:08.9

to sign up to that and Red Box or any other of the Times brilliant emails you can go to the Times

1:14.8

dot-Cuddy UK forward slash bulletins if you're a time subscriber.

1:19.3

Before that a big hello to everyone who waited and reviewed the podcast last week as you were instructed to do.

1:25.5

A special cheerful hello to Catherine Landale, Bergen Street and Phil G.S.

1:31.1

for being so nice. It would make me blush to repeat what you said, but it's slightly

1:35.0

less special, I know to Jimmy the Fox, who apparently doesn't enjoy sycophantic giggling, and hello to Rubber Ricci, but he won't hear it because he's unsubscribed.

1:45.0

Shame.

1:46.0

So to this week, I'm joined on the line from Washington by David Charter, the US editor of the Times,

1:51.0

and Washington correspondent Henry Zefman and from California Ben Hoyle the US

1:56.4

West Coast Bureau Chief of the Times which sounds very glamorous but I have been to the

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