Hi, this is Jen in Huntersville, North Carolina, where yesterday I received 100 pounds of

Lingguini, thanks to two of my best friends. 90 pounds of desposta is now in my mini-cooper

and going to the local soup kitchen later today. This podcast was recorded at.

206 PM on Tuesday the 23rd of June. Things may have changed by the time you hear this.

Okay, here's the show.

I think about 100 pounds of Lingguini is what I like to call a good problem.

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House.

And I'm Susan Davis. I cover Congress. And it's primary day again. Today, New York, Kentucky,

and Virginia are all holding primaries. Sue, let's start with New York. So there's a bunch of

really interesting Democratic primaries in New York today. But I think the one that's getting

the most attention is for Elliot Angles seat. He is a prominent Democrat here in Washington. He's

the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. And in the weeks leading up to this primary,

he has just had nothing, nothing but bad news and stumbles. He was first criticized because

he basically never went back to his district during the pandemic. His district in particular was

one of the epicenters of the pandemic. And he kind of admitted that he didn't feel safe going

back to New York. Yeah, not a great, not a great news cycle for him. And then when he finally

ultimately did go back up to New York, he had maybe what would I think will be one of the most

memorable gaps, no matter winner lose today of the 2020 Democratic primary cycle when he was at

a press event and said this. I didn't have a primary or what he can't. Sit out again.

I didn't have a primary or what he can't. And it's a little hard to hear, but he says essentially

if I didn't have a primary, I wouldn't care. It didn't mean he didn't care about the issue.

He meant I wouldn't care about speaking at this event, but it was also an event about racial justice.

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