Chris Christie's Last Stand (Live from San Diego!)
And then there were four. The gloves are off at the fourth GOP debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Chris Christie, current last place candidate (and future Pod Save America co-host) is the only one throwing punches at Donald Trump, while Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy set their sights on Nikki Haley. Meanwhile, Trump is planning to use his presidential powers to punish his political enemies and Joe Biden suggests another candidate could also beat Trump. Later, Mayor Todd Gloria joins to talk about his administration’s approach to housing affordability and public safety. And finally, we play Gays vs. Straights: holiday edition. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.
- Duration
- 1h 19m
- Broadcast on
- 08 Dec 2023
- Audio Format
- other
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(upbeat music) - Welcome to Pilate Save America, I'm John Fabro. (crowd cheering) - I'm Sam Sanders. (crowd cheering) - I'm John Lovett. (crowd cheering) - I'm Tommy Bizor. - I'm Dan Pfeiffer. (crowd cheering) - We have an outstanding show for you tonight, the mayor of San Diego, Todd Gloria is here. (crowd cheering) We are so happy to have Sam Sanders with us, co-host of the excellent podcast, Vibe Jack. - I'm so happy to be here. I love San Diego. - All right, let's get to the news. So we had another Republican primary debate this week, while we're all hoping it would be the last, they just announced today there will be three more in January. And after watching Wednesday nights debates in Alabama between Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswami, and Chris Christie, it's hard to see why. - The debates will continue until morale improves. (crowd laughing) - I'm just mad I had to go to newsnation.com to like this. - I know, it offended me. - It offended me. - It was on the CW on my television, when they were airing it there. - That still exists. - Yeah. So despite promises from the moderators that the debate would focus on Trump, the only person who took that seriously was last place candidate Chris Christie, let's listen. - I look at my watch now. We're 17 minutes into this debate and except for your little speech in the beginning. We've had these three acting as if the racist between the four of us. The fifth guy who doesn't have the guts to show up and stand here, he's the one who has, you just put it his way ahead in the polls. And yet I've got these three guys who are all seemingly to compete with Voldemort. He or shall not be named. They don't wanna talk about it. The fact is that when you go and you say the truth about somebody who is a dictator, a bully,
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And then there were four. The gloves are off at the fourth GOP debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Chris Christie, current last place candidate (and future Pod Save America co-host) is the only one throwing punches at Donald Trump, while Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy set their sights on Nikki Haley. Meanwhile, Trump is planning to use his presidential powers to punish his political enemies and Joe Biden suggests another candidate could also beat Trump. Later, Mayor Todd Gloria joins to talk about his administration’s approach to housing affordability and public safety. And finally, we play Gays vs. Straights: holiday edition. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.