Now that we are on the other side of Labor Day and summer is subsiding, this is — as tradition goes — when focus on political campaigns really begins to heat up. The off-year elections this November will get some attention, but the main attraction is still the 2024 Republican presidential primary.
In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, we ask a question we will undoubtedly return to in the four months until the Iowa caucuses: Is Donald Trump’s nomination inevitable? And if not inevitable, how can we place the likelihood he wins the GOP primary in historical context?
We also have partial results from two special primary elections and we debate “good or bad use of polling” for a classic and controversial topic: internal polls.
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Galen Druke is FiveThirtyEight’s podcast producer and reporter. @galendruke
Leah Askarinam is a politics reporter at FiveThirtyEight and contributing analyst at the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter. @leahaskarinam
G. Elliott Morris is the editorial director of data analytics at ABC News. @gelliottmorris
Nathaniel Rakich is a senior editor and senior elections analyst at FiveThirtyEight. @baseballot
