Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gaelin. Today I'm joined by

Lincoln Project Senior Advisor and co-host of the breakdown, Tara Setmeyer. Tara, thanks for

joining us. Always a pleasure, Reed. I'm also joined by Lincoln Project Senior Advisor

and longtime political strategist Stuart Stevens. Stu, thanks for coming on board.

Great to be here, man. Thanks. So we're going to go through a few things today. We'll be talking

about the Voting Rights Act case heard by the Supreme Court and Governor Greg Abbott of Texas

reopening the state. But first, I want to talk about the latest memo from the Congressional

Leadership Fund, which is Kevin McCarthy's Super PAC, and the CLF is basically where Kevin

McCarthy warehouses all of his big money. The individual contributors who give five,

six, seven figure contributions, every 18 to 24 months to try and either keep or retake

the House of Representatives for the Republican Party. And this is what he said on Tuesday.

He said that they have a plan to take back the House next year and the document noted that

all 15 House seats that Republicans flipped in 2020 were won by a woman, a minority, or

a veteran. And these are the types of candidates that should be recruited. The memo goes on

to say that Republicans will benefit from the Democrats' quote, increasingly out of

touch policies like keeping schools closed and attaching a progressive wish list to

COVID relief. However, the memo warned the biggest threat to this plan was insufficient

Republican candidate fundraising. Tara, it seems to me that with this memo, they're

outlining things that could be beneficial to them, but they're so craven in nature that

it's basically like tokenism on paper. It really doesn't matter who these people are

so long as they check some box demographically or geographically or biographically rather

than whether or not it matters who these people are, what ideas they may have for governance.

...