American Insight with Bruce Wolpe
Nightlife

American Insight with Bruce Wolpe

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 5, 202617 min
  • Interview
  • Politics

Nightlife takes a deeper perspective than just the news on what is happening in America with Philip Clark joined by Bruce Wolpe, Senior fellow at the US Studies Centre, formerly with the Democratic staff in the US Congress in President Obama's first term.

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ABC Listen. Podcasts, radio, news, music and more. Well, the US midterm elections are just four weeks away, and US President Donald Trump has began a month-long political campaign run-up and while his hardcore Faithful Margar supporters are lapping up the rhetoric, polls are indicating that a lot

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of voters are maybe having some doubts about continued support for the Republicans but the president although does not hold back with his language these days to wit. Just get out and vote if you do that we're gonna win and we're gonna win big and we're gonna shove it up their ass okay

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Yeah, I know. He claims the numbers are good and his report card is, well, A+. very very soon. Oil is coming down as soon as Iran is finished and they're finished pretty much right now. Well, are they finished really much, pretty much right now. The President held his first political rally of the campaign in Oklahoma last Thursday. To tell us more about

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