A peek into a Trumpless election, or just a mirage? With Kristen Soltis Anderson

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🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Kristen Soltis Anderson is a GOP pollster, messaging strategist, and Founding Partner of Echelon Insights, an opinion research and analytics firm that serves brands, trade associations, nonprofits, and political clients. Through her work at Echelon, she regularly advises corporate and government leaders. Kristen also leads focus groups for The New York Times’ opinion section “America in Focus” series. Items discussed in this episode: “Republican Voters Aren’t Looking to Be Rescued From Trump” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/28/opinion/donald-trump-presidential-campaign.html [nytimes.com] “These 11 Republican Voters Can’t Say Who Will Win in 2024, but They Know Who Will Lose” https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/22/opinion/republican-debate-focus-group.html [nytimes.com] Codebook by Kristen Soltis Anderson: https://kristensoltisanderson.substack.com/p/i-was-wrong-high-school-debate-might

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0:00.0	Did that debate happen in an alternate dimension on like Earth 3 where Donald Trump never comes down the escalator,
0:07.4	but it actually doesn't have a lot of impact or resonance in Earth 1, the timeline that we're all in, or does it actually have an impact?
0:15.2	Is there like a, you know, the Empire Strikes Back kind of moment where when Republicans
0:21.8	get to see these other options, maybe what felt stale eight years ago feels
0:26.9	new again.
0:27.9	I don't know. 2016 the conventional wisdom was that there was no way Donald Trump could win the Republican nomination
0:45.6	And then it was there was no way that Donald Trump could become president both
0:49.6	predictions were wrong
0:51.7	Seems that in 2024 the conventional wisdom is there's no way
0:55.4	that Donald Trump will not be the Republican nominee for president. Will the
1:00.0	conventional wisdom be wrong again? I tend to think that it is more fluid
1:04.3	than the conventional wisdom would lead us to believe and that is why today we are
1:08.9	turning to a pollster now why are we turning to a pollster? One, polling, as we've discussed on this podcast
1:15.0	before, is not really predictive,
1:17.5	it doesn't tell you really where things are going.
1:20.0	But it is a snapshot in time,
1:21.6	and this is a pretty important snapshot because we just
1:24.4	had the first Republican debate and we have a whole slew of news on the Trump candidacy and
1:31.0	Donald Trump and its various indictments and so we wanted to bring on an expert to unpack all of this and try to analyze this moment we're in.
1:39.0	We did go to a pollster but not any pollster.
1:41.0	We're going to Chris Soltis Anderson, who is a pollster and a commentator
1:44.9	and author of a terrific book called The Selfy Vote, where millennials are leading America and
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