A Republican's Remorse

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

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🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Veteran Republican Strategist and now supporter of Joe Biden for President Stuart Stevens joins Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." The group discuss Stevens' change of party and why he flipped from Republican to Democrat. Where the path for the creation of President Trump began. His work with The Lincoln Project and ads they run to help defeat Donald Trump. And finally, the specific element that would cost them this year's election.

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0:00.0	For years, Stuart Stevens was the go-to strategist for a generation of Republican candidates
0:07.8	running for higher office.
0:09.9	He was a top adviser to George W. Bush in both his campaigns for President in 2000 and
0:15.5	2004, and then he did the same for Mitt Romney in 2012.
0:20.1	But now Stevens has abandoned his party and is doing everything he can to elect Joe Biden
0:25.7	President.
0:26.7	He's also written a new book about his disillusionment with the Republican Party called,
0:31.2	it was all a lie how the Republican Party became Donald Trump.
0:36.1	As the Republican convention prepares for its second night of speeches, Stevens is our
0:40.2	guest on this episode of Skull Duggery.
0:44.1	Because people have got to know whether or not they're presidents of Trump, well I'm
0:53.4	not a crook.
0:54.4	For the American people, I did not trade arms for hostage.
0:57.5	My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence
1:02.3	tell me it is not.
1:03.5	I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
1:07.6	There will be no lies.
1:10.4	We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else.
1:21.7	Tom Michael Isigov, Chief Investigative correspondent for Yahoo News.
1:25.0	And I'm Dan Clydeman, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.
1:27.9	We are joined now by Stu Stevens, veteran Republican strategist, now a supporter of Joe
1:37.3	Biden for President and the author of, it was all a lie how the Republican Party became
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