258: The GOP’s Bet Against the American People
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🗓️ 12 July 2023
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Host Reed Galen answers questions asked by the members of the Lincoln Project community about what to expect in the upcoming road to the 2024 presidential election, the state of the Biden administration, the long con of the GOP, and so much more. Plus…cocaine! If you’d like to ask a question or share a comment with The Lincoln Project, send an email to podcast@lincolnproject.us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, it's Reed. Before we get started, I just want to say thank you for listening, |
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| 0:14.4 | be interested. As always, all I could say is thank you. Keep on listening to. And now, on with the |
| 0:20.3 | show. |
| 0:34.2 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gailen. Today, I'm once again coming to y'all solo for another Q&A episode where we'll be answering questions asked by you, the listeners and members of the Lincoln Project community. |
| 0:42.5 | Me, Rick, Stu, Joe, and everyone at the Lincoln Project love hearing from you. |
| 0:47.3 | And as always, if you have questions, please do not hesitate to ask. |
| 0:51.2 | Send them to podcast at lincolnproject.us and with that let's get to your questions okay first topic |
| 0:59.8 | twenty twenty four at david s lewis on instagram asks why do gop candidates primary donald trump |
| 1:08.6 | they have to know it's a waste of money. So, David, this is a good |
| 1:11.9 | question. I think it's a part of it, which is this whole idea of, if I don't run now, I'll never |
| 1:19.2 | have a chance to run. That really takes place when you have, you know, for a political party, |
| 1:25.8 | what's called an open primary, right? You don't have a |
| 1:28.3 | sitting president. When you have a sitting president, unless they're very unpopular, you're not really |
| 1:33.0 | going to have a serious primary campaign. In this case, I think you could see that Ron DeSantis had told |
| 1:39.8 | himself he could beat Donald Trump. You have a Mike Pence who says, you know, the guy tried to kill me. |
| 1:46.1 | Maybe I don't want to just sit this one out and show that, you know, maybe I want to show some backbone. |
| 1:51.8 | I think Nikki Haley and Tim Scott might want to be vice president. Chris Christie, I think, is on a |
| 1:58.5 | revenge tour and a reputation rebuild effort. He knows this is a one-way trip |
| 2:05.7 | politically for him. He's okay with that. You know, Vivek, Asa Hutchison, you know, Will Hurd, |
| 2:12.2 | some of these folks, it's like they feel like they have to do it. Remember that it used to be that |
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