95. DNC Special: An alternative view from a Trump supporter (David Urban)

Leading

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Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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What did a Trump supporter make of the Democratic National Convention? Does Donald Trump have any friends? What message did the DNC send to those who don't support Kamala Harris? Alastair is joined by CNN correspondent and Trump supporter, David Urban, to answer all these questions and more. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive our exclusive newsletter, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestispolitics. TRIP TOUR: To buy tickets for our October Tour, just head to www.therestispolitics.com Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: [email protected] Podcast Editor: Nathan Copelin Video Editor: Teo Ayodeji-Ansell Social Producer: Jess Kidson Assistant Producer: Fiona Douglas Producer: Nicole Maslen Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:13.0	Welcome to the rest is politics.
0:19.0	Welcome to the rest of politics from me, Alisto Campbell.
0:21.0	Sadly on my own today, not with Rory Stewart, but I do have a very, very interesting guest. Because here at the Democratic National Convention, you can tell by the word Democrat, most here are Democrats I found not just a rare
0:34.9	Republican but a rare Republican who is a close friend confident advisor including in the 2016 election campaign to won Donald Trump.
0:47.0	Listen to this podcast will know Donald Trump is not one of my favorite people.
0:51.0	So David Urban, you're apparently a very good football in your youth, then military.
0:56.2	Yeah, and I'm charming Alice.
0:57.7	You forgot that.
0:58.7	So are here.
0:59.7	But you kind of background is business and politics and now the reason you're here, you're in the kind of
1:03.9	business and politics and now the reason you're the kind of resident Trump supporter on
1:05.6	CNN. So first of all I want to say a lot of people like me in Britain
1:09.6	find it incredible that Donald Trump became president, find it incredible that he's not politically
1:15.2	dead after all the things that he said and done.
1:18.7	So I want to ask you, you seem like a reasonably good guy, why is he still in the race? Why is he still there? This is what befuddles of like you
1:26.4	know liberal elites in London and New York because you don't understand the rest of the
1:30.2	country right I wish like Alice I wish you could take you in a car, take you to my hometown,
1:34.7	Aliquip, Pennsylvania, right? They call her, you know, once great mill town, a factory town.
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