About this episode

Ali Velshi discusses Trump's candidate choices for the upcoming election, while Dave Weigel analyzes primary trends.

MSNOW’s Ali Velshi stops by to talk about Trump heading into another election year of picking bad candidates. Semafor’s Dave Weigel joins us to discuss the trends he’s seeing as the primaries shake out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Host: Molly Jong-Fast

Guests: Ali Velshi, Dave Weigel

Topics covered

• Trump
• elections
• primaries
• political trends
• candidates

Keywords

• Trump
• election year
• bad candidates
• primaries
• political trends

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Organizations: MSNOW, Semafor

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