A White House Held Hostage (with Dave Wasserman)

Hacks On Tap

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.8 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This week, Axe and Murphy are joined by Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report. It’s been two weeks since Election Day and the Hacks continue their postmortem with a deep dive into what happened in congressional districts across the country. They also look ahead to the Georgia special election and discuss what the 2020 race tells us about the future of both parties.

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0:00.0	Hey, pull up a chair.
0:10.4	It's axon tap with David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy.
0:30.0	You know what that means?
0:38.6	Mike Murphy, that?
0:40.6	I do.
0:41.6	It's time for me to ask my sister to get married.
0:43.6	That is Lexington Bell, and it can only mean two things.
0:49.4	One is Mitch McConnell is happy these days, and our guest is Dave Wasserman, part-time
0:57.5	Fiddler, full-time Fiddling with electoral data from Cook, our buddy.
1:04.9	Well, David, you want to know the backstory with that song?
1:07.7	Yes.
1:08.7	Yeah.
1:09.7	When people think of the Bell of Lexington, they think of, you know, a debutante ball.
1:14.7	When in fact, that song was written about an infamous Lexington Kentucky madam who ran
1:19.8	a brothel in the early 20th century.
1:22.6	So it's befitting of, yes.
1:27.3	Yeah.
1:28.3	Well, Murphy, welcome to, and Dave, welcome to Dave 14 of America, Held Hostage, Presidents
1:37.1	in Scots in the White House, pondering war on the one hand, pulling troops back from
1:45.0	Afghanistan and Iraq and the other, ignoring COVID and holding up a transition.
1:52.3	So other than that, everything's peachy.
1:55.0	Yeah.
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