175: Never-Trumpers Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller on the Presidential Debate

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🗓️ 23 June 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Bulwark Founder Sarah Longwell and former Republican operative and host of the Bulwark podcast Tim Miller are worried about a dangerous potential second term of Donald Trump. The first step for Joe Biden defeating Trump? Have a good showing in this week's coming debate. Tim has prepped Presidential candidates to face Trump and shares his insight. And what messages should President Biden hit on during the debate? Sarah hosts The Focus Group podcast and shares what voters are looking for this November. Joe Biden has a LOT of policies that poll extremely well. So how does he take that message to the American people?

Listen to Tim and Sarah's podcast and read their great work at www.TheBulwark.com

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. We got a great one today. You know, for a change. Tim Miller joins me for his
0:11.2	fourth time. He's host of the Bullwork podcast. And Sarah Longwell, her first time with us,
0:17.9	is a longtime Republican strategist and publisher of the bulwark website.
0:24.1	So they're both never Trumpers.
0:26.7	We're discussing this week's debate, how you would prepare Biden for it.
0:31.4	The more we got into discussion, the more issues we found that really our winners for Biden.
0:37.2	Just I suggested that we bring up climate change.
0:40.3	I mean, Trump has said that climate change is a hoax.
0:43.9	It's been very hot in the United States this week, incredibly record, record highs.
0:50.8	And the Supreme Court, infrastructure, the fact that Biden passed the biggest infrastructure bill since
0:57.6	Eisenhower. Or how about the fact that Trump wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act?
1:03.7	Anyway, there are several issues that we hit on that are winners for Biden. So as I say, we got a great one today.
1:13.7	You know, for a change,
1:15.6	Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller.
1:30.1	Sarah Longwell is a longtime public and political strategist and publisher of the Bullwork website and host of the Focus Group podcast that I've been listening to to to prepare for this and it's great, Sarah.
1:34.5	Tim Miller joins me for the fourth time.
1:38.0	Thank you, Tim.
1:39.7	I only remember two, so the third one mustn't have been very good.
1:43.3	It wasn't.
1:44.6	No, it was actually quite good.
1:48.6	It was the second one that suck.
1:51.3	He is host of the Bullwork podcast, which never sucks, a very, very fine podcast.
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