Will Trump help Ohio's Vance Advance? (w/ Tom LoBianco and Kyle Kondik)
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
JD Vance spoke recently at a Donald Trump rally in Delaware County Ohio last weekend. He was publicly boasting about the endorsement he had just gotten from "the big man," touting his newfound benefactor as the future 47th President of the United States. Trump's backing of Vance, author of the best-selling Hillbilly Elegy, was a head-spinning moment in the wild and woolly Ohio Republican primary. Just six years ago, when Trump was first running for President, Vance excoriated him, writing in one recently revealed text message to his former college roommate, "I go back and forth thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad and might even prove useful or that he's America's Hitler." But that was then, and whatever Vance thought of Trump's politics at the time, he's abandoned those views of yesteryear seeing in a full embrace of Donald Trump the key to victory in the Senate race. Next month starts a wave of primaries in Ohio, Georgia, and Pennsylvania that will provide the strongest clues yet on just how much of a hold on Republican voters that Trump still has. Yahoo News' Tom LoBianco joins to discuss the recent Trump rally. Then Kyle Kondik, the Managing Editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball Newsletter that tracks congressional elections.
GUEST:
- Kyle Kondik (@kkondik), American elections commentator & analyst; Managing Editor, Sabato's Crystal Ball at UVA Center for Politics
- Tom LoBianco (@tomlobianco), Politics reporter @yahoonews, Mike Pence biographer: “Piety & Power”
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Daniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
- Victoria Bassetti (@VBass), fellow, Brennan Center for Justice (contributing co-host)
RESOURCES:
- LoBianco's latest piece on the primaries in Ohio - Here.
- Trump holds rally in Ohio in support of Vance - Here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Michael Isgoff here. I want to let our listeners in the Washington area know we'll be doing a special in-person live taping of the pod Thursday, April 28th at 4pm at Politics and Pro's Bookstore. |
| 0:13.0 | The title is the Trump Investigations. Where are they headed? And we've got a great panel for the show, Bob Woodward and Carol Lennon, of the Washington Post, and George Conway, at the main Politics and Pro's store on Connecticut Avenue in Washington, DC. |
| 0:28.7 | If you can, please swing by. |
| 0:59.7 | That was JD Vance, speaking at a Dow Trump rally in Delaware County, Ohio last weekend. |
| 1:06.7 | Publicly boasting of the endorsement he had just gotten from the big man, touting his newfound benefactor as the future 47th President of the United States. |
| 1:17.7 | Trump's backing of Vance, author of the best-selling Hillbilly Elegy, was a headspinning moment in the Wild and Wollio-Hio Republican primary. |
| 1:26.7 | Just six years ago, when Trump was first running for President, Vance had scurried at him, writing in one recently revealed text message to his former college roommate, quote, |
| 1:37.7 | quote, I could go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon, who wouldn't be that bad and might even prove useful, or that he's America's Hitler. But that was then, and whatever Vance thought of Trump's politics at the time, he's abandoned those views of yesterday, seeing in a full embrace of Donald Trump the key to victory in the Senate race. |
| 2:01.7 | Next month starts a wave of primaries in Ohio, in Georgia, and Pennsylvania that will provide the strongest clues yet on just how much of a hold on Republican voters that Trump still has. |
| 2:12.7 | We'll check in first with Yachton News' Tom Moby-Anko, who covered the Trump rally, and then we'll talk to Kyle Conn, the editor of the Crystal Ball, a newsletter that tracks congressional elections on this episode of Skull Duggery. |
| 2:26.7 | Hi, Lou Salimley, swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States. |
| 2:34.7 | I will to the best of my building. |
| 2:36.7 | Reserve, protect and defend. Constitution of the United States. So help me God. |
| 2:41.7 | So help me God. |
| 2:44.7 | So help me God. |
| 2:47.7 | I'm Michael Isgoff, Chief Investigator of Correspondent for Yahoo News. |
| 2:51.7 | I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News. |
| 2:53.7 | And I'm Victoria Bissetti, a Senior Counsel at States United. |
| 2:56.7 | And we are joined by our friend and colleague, Tom Moby-Anko, who was out there at the Trump rally. |
| 3:03.7 | Tom, welcome back to Skull Duggery. |
| 3:06.7 | Hey guys, thanks for having me. |
| 3:08.7 | So as I said in the cold open there, the Trump endorsement of Vance was pretty headspinning for a lot of people, given how publicly critical Vance had been. |
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