38: Fighting Season: Summer 2021
The Lincoln Project
The Lincoln Project
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🗓️ 15 June 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by fellow Lincoln Project Co-Founder Rick Wilson and Lincoln Project Senior Advisor Stuart Stevens to discuss where the Lincoln Project stands both politically and operationally as the summer of 2021 begins, the biggest hurdles in need of overcoming, and which targets the Lincoln Project will be pursuing. Plus, how can members of the Lincoln Project community join the fight and get involved?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gailan. Today I'm joined by |
| 0:12.4 | co-founder of the Lincoln Project, host of LP TVs, The Breakdown, author of everything |
| 0:17.4 | Trump touches dies. Rick Wilson. Rick, thanks for joining. |
| 0:21.5 | And Bon Vivon to Man About Town at Boulevard EA. I should be with you, Reed. |
| 0:26.5 | Thanks for being here. You always improved my Monday. The Scorch of Tallahassee. Fear my wrath. |
| 0:33.3 | In what will be an infamous portrait of Lincoln Project, Grandees, he will be known as the |
| 0:38.5 | Scorch of Tallahassee. Yes. Also on board today is Senior Advisor to the Lincoln Project, |
| 0:43.6 | an author of It Was All I, Stuart Stevens. Stuart, good to have you back. |
| 0:47.7 | Great to be here. Thanks for asking me. So, oftentimes in history, summer has been the fighting |
| 0:52.8 | season. And the summer of 2021 will be no different for the Lincoln Project. Of course, |
| 0:58.2 | our battlefield will be the American political scene and how we see it as we go not only |
| 1:03.8 | later into this year, but also as we head into the 2022 midterm elections. And I wish |
| 1:09.6 | we could find a time when we could say that, you know, the next election is not the one |
| 1:14.7 | that's, if not existential, then really, you know, the most important one we've seen |
| 1:19.0 | in our lifetimes. And so as we start to think about how this year is going to affect next |
| 1:24.2 | year, I just want to spend some time for everybody in radio land out there talking about how |
| 1:28.9 | we see the world. And so, Rick, I want to start with you. So obviously, not to anybody's |
| 1:33.4 | surprise that, you know, the first six months of this year have been a little bit chaotic. |
| 1:38.5 | First for American politics, as we saw January 6th, there's a sort of a sheen of normality |
| 1:43.5 | as Stuart has discussed, but a lot of things are anything but normal. And obviously, you |
| 1:47.6 | know, we should not shy away from the fact that we've had our own issues in the first few |
| 1:51.2 | months of this year, but that we are now coming out of those and staring back into harm's |
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