129: The 2022 Midterm Elections: The Stakes, the Strategies, and the States - Part 1

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🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Host Reed Galen is joined by Lincoln Project Senior Advisors Trygve Olson and Jeff Timmer for an in-depth conversation about the 2022 midterm elections. In “Part 1” of a two-part conversation, the panel discusses “the game we know vs. the game we are forced to play” and how it relates to the present state of our nation’s democracy, the impacts of the 2022 political environment on 2024, and how we at the Lincoln Project uniquely view the different midterm races as interconnected and the strategies we plan to and are already deploying as a result. Stay tuned for “Part 2”.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Reed. Before we get started today, I'd love you to go to LincolnProject.us-action-center.
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0:15.5	make sure that pro-democracy candidates are victorious this November and get us into 2023 with a safe and healthy democracy.
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0:28.5	And now on with the show.
0:38.5	Welcome back to the LincolnProject. I'm your host, Reed Gaelin.
0:42.5	Today, I'm joined by Trickviels, Senior Advisor to the LincolnProject,
0:46.5	and President of Viking Strategies, LLC, a Washington DC-based public affairs and political consulting firm.
0:53.5	Trickv, welcome back.
0:54.5	Thanks Reed, good to be back.
0:56.5	I'm also rejoined once again by Senior Advisor to the LincolnProject and former Executive Director of the Michigan Republican Party, Jeff Timmer.
1:04.5	Jeff, great to have you back.
1:06.5	I'm glad to be here, Reed.
1:08.5	So guys, today I want to talk about some of the incredible work you all have been doing about really diving into the details of what the 2022 midterms look like.
1:18.5	What the stakes are, what our strategy is going to be, and the states and races we're taking a close look at.
1:23.5	So let's get going right away. So, Trickv, this is something that you and I have talked about.
1:28.5	I think not only on the podcast, but you've also been on many of our streaming shows and have a long history in places like Eastern Europe that are battling authoritarianism, building democratic coalitions.
1:39.5	So let's talk about the game we know, or we did know, versus the game we're forced to play today in an America that is increasingly unlike anything politically, any of us in living memory can remember.
1:52.5	You know, when people are thinking about elections, typically here in the United States, and we would do this, we would think about who's going to control the House, who's going to control the Senate, who's going to get elected governor in states.
2:07.5	We might think about state legislatures, and the entire system is set up on that.
2:12.5	You know, if you look at both of the major political parties, you know, they have the DGA or the RGA that are about governor's races, they have the Senate committees that are about Senate races, House committees.
2:23.5	The reality is in the game that we're playing, and in the game that Trump's playing, it isn't about any of those things.
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