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The Al Franken Podcast

152: Michael Steele

The Al Franken Podcast

The Al Franken Podcast

Government, Progressive, Politics, Senate, Liberal, Senator, Minnesota, Franken, News, Saturday Night Live, Comedy, Snl

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, we got a great one today, you know, for a change. And this time, this time I mean it. I really do, because my guest is Michael Steele, former Republican lieutenant governor of Maryland and former chair of the Republican National Committee.

0:22.3

But if you know Michael from MSNBC, you'll know he is one of those Republicans,

0:28.0

the fairly small but not insignificant minority of Republicans who are just as scared to death of Trump

0:34.8

as we Democrats and independents.

0:38.2

The independence who understand who this guy is.

0:42.7

Michael and I discuss what's happened to his party,

0:45.8

and I repeat, we are both very, very scared that our nightmare might actually come true.

0:54.0

But if you listen to Trump's victory speech on Tuesday night,

0:58.3

one of the craziest victory speeches of all time,

1:02.0

spending 90% of his time complaining about his opponent,

1:06.2

Nikki Haley, who he had beaten.

1:09.1

So let's play that.

1:10.6

You got that, Peter? And today, I have to tell you, who he had beaten. So let's play that. You got that, Peter?

1:11.9

And today, I have to tell you, it was very interesting

1:15.1

because I said, wow, what a great victory.

1:17.8

But then somebody ran up to the stage,

1:19.8

all dressed up nicely when it was at seven.

1:23.9

But now I just walked up, and it's at 14.

1:32.7

But she ran up when it was seven, and, you know,

1:37.7

we have to do what's good for our party. And she was up and I said, wow, she's doing,

1:49.2

like a speech like she won. She didn't win. She lost. Now, she had congratulated Trump and said he earned his victory, but then painted a favorable view of how she did herself.

1:51.3

But that's what you do.

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