2020: John Hickenlooper on brewing beer and winning purple states

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🗓️ 3 May 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper talks with Jon Favreau about his life as a brewpub owner, his strategy for winning over Republicans, his plans to combat climate change and deal with automation, and what it’s like to govern in times of tragedy and crisis.

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:20.1	Welcome to PODSEV America. I'm John Fabro.
0:23.1	The next candidate in our series of presidential candidate interviews is John Hickenlooper.
0:29.9	He came to Quick Headquarters this week. He and I sat down. He's the former two-term
0:36.5	governor of Colorado. Before that, he was the mayor of Denver. And we had a great
0:42.2	conversation about how he thinks we can get stuff done in Washington. We talked
0:48.5	about immigration. We talked about the Green New Deal. We talked about some of
0:53.3	the gun safety measures he enacted while he was governor of Colorado. It's a
0:57.8	great interview. So check it out. This is Governor John Hickenlooper.
1:03.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
1:08.5	All right. I'm here with former Governor John Hickenlooper, a candidate for the
1:13.0	Democratic nomination for president. Governor, welcome to PODSEV America.
1:16.8	Glad to be on. Thanks so much for having me back. I want to start with a question
1:20.8	that we, some version of which we ask all the different candidates. So you are a
1:26.8	moderate former governor, mayor, small business owner from a Western state. You
1:33.3	look out at this gigantic field of Democratic candidates and there are
1:37.4	actually other moderates, other former governors, former mayor's former small
1:43.3	business owners, people from Western states. What was it when you were looking at
1:48.1	the field and thinking about running that made you think something is missing in
1:53.3	this field, I should run for president. This is my time to run. Well if you
1:58.1	look at, there's only one other mayor. That's true. And he certainly wasn't a
2:02.1	governor. Right. And there's only one. My worker was a former mayor. Former mayor.
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