Is it all looking good for Trump?

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🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The president sort of won the Iowa Democratic caucus. This week was supposed to be when the race to be the candidate to take on Donald Trump in November’s presidential election really got going. But the Iowa Democratic caucus was a mess: a tech failure meant a delay in getting results, and a lot of red faces in the party hoping to unseat the current Commander in Chief. Nearly all the results are in, and it looks like Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders have come out on top. But, in a week that also saw him acquitted in his impeachment trial, did the chaos mean Donald Trump is the real winner? Beyond Today producer Harriet Noble takes us through the Democratic candidates, and Senior North America reporter Anthony Zurcher looks at what it all means for the incumbent president. Presenter: Matthew Price Producer: Harriet Noble Mixed by Emma Crowe Editor: Philly Beaumont

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:07.0	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.0	Every day we ask one big question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today is it all looking good for President Trump.
0:25.0	There was this extraordinary moment this week in the United States. Every year the
0:36.5	president, whoever it is, delivers what they call a State of the Union speech and
0:41.6	this year Donald Trump walks in and we know that there is so much division in America at the moment.
0:50.0	You're either a ardent Trump supporter or you hate the guy.
0:53.8	Anyway, he walks in to deliver his speech
0:56.3	and the leader of the opposition party, the Democrats,
1:00.8	a woman called Nancy Pelosi, appears to offer her hand for him to
1:04.5	shake it and he appears to turn away and ignore her which is big enough in itself.
1:11.4	And then he gives his speech. God's grace is still shining,
1:15.0	and my fellow Americans,
1:18.0	the best is yet to come.
1:21.0	Thank you, God bless you. And at the end of that he hands the script to
1:26.4	Nancy Pelosi and she rips it up right behind him. She just tears up his speech on camera. It was an astonishing
1:37.3	display of the hatred between the two sides. The Democrats really, really, really want to beat President Trump in the presidential
1:47.2	election which comes this November. But the run-up to that election has already started and it started in a US state called Iowa
1:57.6	And what happened there really wasn't part of the Democrats plan
2:11.1	So Harriet Harriet Noble is producing today and she is also a, well you love everything to do with American politics. I really do, I'm obsessed. And so this is the moment when it all
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