20: The Original Sin of the Modern Republican Party
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 13 April 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Host Reed Galen is joined by Michael Steele (Former Chairman of the Republican National Committee & Former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland) and Stuart Stevens (Senior Advisor, The Lincoln Project) to discuss the GOP’s spring retreat this past weekend as well as the latest developments in corporate accountability. Plus, we reflect on “Trump’s Big Lie” and the storming of the U.S Capitol as we approach 100 days since January 6th. To hear more from Michael Steele, listen to “The Michael Steele Podcast” available on Apple Podcasts and be sure to check out michaelsteelenetwork.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Ray Galen. Today I'm joined by |
| 0:12.8 | Senior Advisor to the Lincoln Project in author of It Was All In Lie, Stuart Stevens. Stuart, |
| 0:17.9 | welcome back. Thanks buddy, great to be here. And flattered, honored, and humbled to be joined |
| 0:23.5 | by the former chairman of the Republican National Committee and friend of the Lincoln Project. |
| 0:28.4 | Michael Steele, he was Lieutenant Governor of the state of Maryland and has his own podcast, |
| 0:33.1 | as well, called the Michael Steele podcast. Michael, welcome back. Hey man, it's great to be back in |
| 0:37.7 | the neighborhood hanging out with the bros. Love it. Well, we are certainly happy to have you back. |
| 0:43.2 | So, Jen, today I want to talk a little bit about what's going on with what we see vis-a-vis |
| 0:48.4 | corporate America and how they're starting to move, not necessarily in unison, but certainly |
| 0:53.6 | in packs towards a different position than maybe any of us thought they would vis-a-vis voting rights. |
| 0:59.2 | And also want to talk about on Friday, it'll be the 100-day mark after the January 6th |
| 1:05.1 | insurrection and sacking of the U.S. Capitol. But before that, I want to get to what happened |
| 1:10.5 | this past weekend. And down in Palm Beach at the four seasons, the Republican Party had a retreat. |
| 1:17.8 | And Michael, you've probably been both the head of many of these, the organizers speaker, etc., etc, |
| 1:23.2 | where attendance were shuttled about 10 miles up the road to a dinner hosted by Donald Trump |
| 1:28.6 | at Mar-a-Lago. And he was the evening's keynote. And during the speech, he continued to pion the |
| 1:33.8 | false narrative of a stolen election and also went on to criticize woke corporations for opposing |
| 1:39.4 | Georgia's new voting law. However, during the speech, not surprisingly, he went off script. |
| 1:44.1 | You could always tell when he was reading off a teleprompter, he was sort of like this automaton. |
| 1:48.4 | And then when he wandered off the written word, he certainly got more animated. But among other |
| 1:54.0 | things, in a time when they were trying to unify the party, he called Senate Minority Leader Mitch |
| 1:58.8 | McConnell of Kentucky, a dumb son of a bitch, and mocked McConnell's wife, which he's never been |
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