They Want To Pitch Grand Plans — Instead They're Talking Trump

They Want To Pitch Grand Plans — Instead They're Talking Trump

The big issues in the Republican presidential primary swirl around the fate of one man: Donald Trump. His primary opponents would love to sell voters on how they'd improve on President Biden's leadership — instead they have to answer whether they'd pardon the former leader of the free world.

This episode: voting correspondent Miles Parks, political correspondent Susan Davis, and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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