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Nikki Haley’s campaign exit sets up a Biden-Trump rematch · Apple News Today

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  [MUSIC FADES IN]
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  Yasmeen Khan, Narrating: Good morning.
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  It's Wednesday March 6th. I'm Yasmeen Khan in for Shumita Basu.
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  This is "Apple News Today."
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  Coming up, the U.S. airdrops another round of aid into Gaza,
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  a historic first in college sports, and how to cast a ballot from outer space.
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  [MUSIC FADES OUT]
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  But first, let's take a quick look at some major stories in the news.
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  Republican Nikki Haley is now out of the presidential race.
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  She suspended her campaign this morning.
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  That effectively gives former president Trump the G.O.P. nomination
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  and sets up a rematch with President Biden.
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  Last night, Haley won only Vermont.
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  Trump spoke to supporters gathered at Mar-a-Lago
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  after his victories in 14 other states.
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  [START BBC NEWS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  [CROWD CHANTING]
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  Donald Trump: Well, thank you very much.
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  They, uh, call it Super Tuesday for a reason. This is a big one.
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  [CROWD CHEERING]
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  [END BBC NEWS ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: President Biden said in a statement
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  that voters showed they're ready to fight to keep Trump from getting another term.
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  Biden won big last night, as expected,
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  though he did have a surprise loss in American Samoa
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  to a political novice, entrepreneur Jason Palmer.
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  Also, more democratic voters chose the option "uncommitted"
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  as a protest vote of Biden's backing for Israel in the Gaza War.
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  Further down the ballot, the race to succeed
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  the late California Senator Dianne Feinstein is set.
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  Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey,
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  a former Major League Baseball star, advanced to the general election.
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  And in Texas, congressman Colin Allred, a former NFL linebacker,
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  won the Democratic Senate primary.
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  The party sees him as someone who could be strong enough
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  to unseat Republican Senator Ted Cruz.
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  Speaking of the Senate, Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema is leaving.
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  She says she won't run for re-election.
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  She left the Democratic Party in 2022, and would have faced a difficult campaign
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  against republican and democratic opponents.
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  Sinema gained a reputation as a dealmaker who bridged gaps between parties
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  in a closely divided Senate. She also made enemies on the left,
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  [ENERGETIC MUSIC]
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  who felt she was too sympathetic to conservatives.
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  You can get more political analysis, including all the Super Tuesday races,
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  on the Apple News app.
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  The U.S. has airdropped another round of humanitarian aid into Gaza
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  [MUSIC FADES]
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  where at least a quarter of the population is on the brink of famine.
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  The drop was coordinated with Jordan's air force
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  and included close to 40,000 meals,
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  just a sliver of the amount desperately needed
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  for more than two million Palestinians.
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  For the U.S., the airdrops are a new attempt
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  to address the humanitarian crisis, but not for Jordan.
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  Since November, the country's air force has dropped aid into Gaza by air
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  more than a dozen times.
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  "Washington Post" reporter Sarah Dadouch recently flew with them
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  in one of these drops, which was aiming for a hospital.
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  Sarah Dadouch: And from the sky, you can see the destruction.
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  You can see what looks like stable, what looks like normal structures,
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  and then around it you just see the kind of fainted gray of rubble,
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  and it's quite massive in scale, even from the sky.
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  Khan, Narrating: The crates dropped by Jordan typically contain supplies like food,
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  medicine, diapers, and other necessities.
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  Israel approves the airdrops, and the timing.
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  Gazans are not told when they're coming.
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  Dadouch says witnessing the devastation in Gaza
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  has been especially difficult for many Jordanians.
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  Dadouch: The Palestinian issue is a very emotional, evocative issue
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  for many Arab countries, but specifically Jordan
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  who has a large number of its citizens and residents are of Palestinian origin.
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  Khan, Narrating: One member of the air force who was on the plane with Dadouch
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  shared that he'd been sleeping at their base for weeks
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  so he could keep working.
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  Dadouch: He just couldn't imagine going home
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  when they finally had a chance to help what they see as their brothers.
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  Khan, Narrating: Before the war, the amount of aid entering Gaza
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  did not come close to meeting the humanitarian needs of civilians
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  according to aid agencies.
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  That was when roughly 500 trucks per day entered Gaza.
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  The number has steadily dropped since.
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  By January, it was 170 trucks of aid on average. By February, just 98.
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  With so few aid trucks getting in, countries like France, Egypt,
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  and the United Arab Emirates have joined efforts to airdrop aid,
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  but Dadouch says it won't be a long term solution.
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  Dadouch: The issues with delivering aid via airdrops
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  is that they're exorbitantly expensive.
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  They are best when trying to serve a specific area with specific needs,
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  and there's no alternative route,
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  [PENSIVE MUSIC]
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  but because of the expense, aid is not going to go in as quickly
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  and in as large amounts as it needs to go into Gaza.
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  Trucking is the main solution
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  Khan, Narrating: Now to a landmark development in the world of college sports
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  and organized labor in America.
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  Yesterday, players on Dartmouth's men's basketball team
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  voted to form a union.
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  That puts them in position to make history as the first unionized players
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  in American college sports.
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  Forming a union would allow players to collectively bargain with the school
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  over pay and working conditions.
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  This is a big deal that could dramatically change the sports landscape.
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  For years, college athletes have argued that they deserve to be paid
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  and treated like employees,
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  especially as certain sports, like basketball and football,
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  have become mega money-makers for a lot of schools,
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  bringing in billions of dollars.
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  Here's Kevin Blackistone, a frequent panelist on "ESPN,"
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  and a guest on a recent episode of "Apple News In Conversation."
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  [START APPLE NEWS IN CONVERSATION CLIP]
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  Kevin Blackistone: They've made so much money recently that in the past year
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  they've been able to pay their head football coaches,
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  on average, $6.2 million a year.
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  [END APPLE NEWS IN CONVERSATION CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: Players have said they should be paid too,
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  and not just money, but also better health care.
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  Blackistone told us about an event he attended at the University of Maryland.
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  A student said she resented athletes
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  already getting a lot of preferential treatment,
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  and an athlete had a strong response.
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  [START APPLE NEWS IN CONVERSATION CLIP]
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  Blackistone: He said, "Well, I understand your point of view,
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  but I just want you to know that I've been on a gurney four times
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  for playing football.
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  You may have to sacrifice time or you may have to figure out
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  a way to piece together enough money to continue your education
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  here at the University of Maryland."
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  He said, "But I'm giving my body."
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  "I have to persevere in a different sort of way."
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  [END APPLE NEWS IN CONVERSATION CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: As for the Dartmouth players, their battle to unionize isn't over.
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  The school is appealing to federal labor officials.
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  Dartmouth argues that students can't be classified as employees
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  simply because they play basketball, and the NCAA has opposed union efforts.
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  Let's end the show on one more Super Tuesday related story.
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  For a small group of American voters,
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  their Super Tuesday polling place was 250 miles above Earth,
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  aboard the International Space Station.
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  Astronauts have been voting from space for almost 20 years now.
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  The Texas state legislature passed a bill allowing it in 1997.
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  "USA Today" explains the voting process for astronauts
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  starts roughly a year before they leave for a mission on the space station.
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  Those missions typically last around six months.
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  The actual voting is not so different from what it's like here on Earth.
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  NASA astronaut Kate Rubins voted in two presidential elections from space
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  from a very small voting booth that the crew assembled
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  in their living quarters.
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  Here she is explaining the process from orbit in a Q&A.
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  [START ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Kate Rubins: And so we fill out, it's called a federal postcard application
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  for voting overseas, and I don't know that I'm technically overseas.
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  We are far away from the United States at times, depending on our orbit.
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  So we fill out this application.
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  We actually get… the ballot is encrypted to us.
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  We send it back down to our county clerk and they record the vote
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  [END ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: A few years back, "NPR" spoke with a Texas clerk, Mary Anne Daigle,
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  about receiving ballots from orbit.
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  [START NPR ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Mary Ann Daigle: It's kind of exciting when you open up your computer in the morning,
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  and you got a message from outer space or something like that.
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  [END NPR ARCHIVAL CLIP]
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  Khan, Narrating: And there's one extra cool perk of voting this way:
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  the ability to list their home address as "low-Earth orbit."
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  You can find all these stories and more in the Apple News app.
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  And if you're already listening in the News app right now, stick around.
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  We've got a Narrated Article coming up next from "The New Yorker."
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  It has an extensive interview with President Biden
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  on his final presidential campaign,
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  and why he and the White House are so confident,
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  even while many democrats worry he could lose.
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  If you're listening on the Podcasts app,
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  follow Apple News+ Narrated to find that story.
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  And I'll be back with the news tomorrow.
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