Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Ray Gale. Today I'm joined by Lincoln

Project co-founder and co-host of LPTV's The Breakdown. Rick Wilson, Rick good to have

you here. Hey, Reid. And also joining us is Lincoln Project Senior Advisor and long

time political strategist Stuart Stevens. Stu, thanks for coming.

Hey, Reid. Great to be here, man. Today we're going to talk a little bit about President

Biden's speech commemorating the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdown. And Donald Trump's

further undercutting of the Republican Party and its fundraising efforts. But first, I want

to take a moment and acknowledge that one year ago, all of our worlds changed with the

start of the COVID pandemic. And just wanted to get, you know, a little reflection from

you guys of where you were, how you felt, and, you know, what you were seeing. I mean,

I'll tell you just to start, you know, my wife is much smarter than me, not surprisingly.

But she'd been to Costco like the week before and, you know, bought however much stuff she

could and stuffed it down into the little crawl space area we had, you know, dried goods,

canned goods, bottles of water, mac and cheese for days, everything because, you know, we

just didn't know what it was going to be. You know, but then suddenly the kids were home.

But no school was prepared for distance learning, you know, in those first few days. Nobody

left their house. If you did, it was one of those things where, you know, you wore gloves,

you wore a mask, you wore a hat, you covered up every last piece of sort of visible skin.

And then when you got home, you took it all off, washed it all immediately, rub down your

groceries with any bacterial wipes and everything else. It was such a surreal time. And the only

thing I can really think of is watching the Tiger King and sleeping in a little bit.

Now obviously Rick, you and I had just met a couple of weeks before in right city at

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