You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rashique Sherway. And I'm Joshua Molina.

And today we're talking about In God We Trust. It's episode 20 from season 6.

It was written by LOD, Laurence O'Donnell. It was directed by CM. Christopher Missiano.

And the first aired on MTF March 23rd 2005. I think I got that right.

Forget about all that nonsense because we've got a special guest coming up later on.

We're going to be talking to Alan Alda.

A.A. We will. It'll be a 12-step interview.

Hazaa.

In this episode, Senator Vinic has clinched the Republican nomination. And then we see what happens next.

His campaign has to figure out who's going to be the vice presidential nominee.

And the White House has to figure out how to slow down the momentum and make it seem like the Democratic party isn't in shambles.

And one thing that I really like about this episode is that it really kind of unifies around one single story.

I mean, we see different characters in different viewpoints, but as opposed to sort of A story, B story, C story,

kind of fragmented nature that we sometimes see in West Wing episodes, this really feels like

all of the characters are in the same storyline.

Yeah, I agree. I liked the sort of singular focus of the episode.

Yeah. In fact, the episode begins in a way that really ties everyone together

because there is a news report announcing the results of both the Republican nomination win for Vinic

and the lack of result in the Democratic primary for New Jersey,

which is at that point too close to call between Santos and Russell.

And we learned that no matter who wins,

neither is going to have enough delegates going into the convention to clinch the nomination.

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