America Wanted Trump to Win (with Rick Wilson)

The Michael Steele Podcast

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Politics, News, History, Government

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🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Michael Steele speaks with Rick Wilson (Republican strategist and co-founder of the Lincoln Project) about Trump's re-election. The pair discuss the factors that led to Trump winning and Kamala losing, Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s influence on Trump's next term and what Trump in charge of all three branches of government would mean for the country.

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0:00.0	Would you were there ways to win this? I don't know. I think I going back to the very beginning, Michael, the the the fact that she's an African-American woman weighed a lot heavier
0:11.0	than I think we that I think we we had assessed. I think the the or that we're honest about right. I think and i think look the country has moved right
0:22.9	okay well that just happened. Hello, America.
0:39.3	I guess you had a whole different plan for the next four years.
0:44.1	Welcome to the Michael Steel podcast.
0:46.0	I'm Michael Steel trying to figure out what happened about 12, 15, 18 hours ago when the country decided to go to the ballot box,
0:57.7	which, yay, thank you. But I want to talk about your decision. I really want to talk about your
1:06.6	decision. Not to second guess. Oh, no, I'm second to guess the hell out of this one.
1:14.3	And to help me do that is my friend.
1:17.7	He's outspoken.
1:19.3	He is smart.
1:21.1	He is a strategist.
1:23.4	He's been a leading conservative voice and critic of the shenanigans, foibles, and illegalities,
1:31.9	and quite frankly, the unfitness of Donald Trump to serve.
1:36.9	And yet, here we are again.
1:38.3	So I thought it would be a good idea to bring him back.
1:40.5	Rick Wilson, co-founder of the Lincoln Project and host of the Enemies List podcast,
1:46.3	will come and help me understand what the hell y'all just did. So we are currently, you know,
1:54.8	got two couches ready for this conversation because I have a feeling we may need them.
1:59.9	Get ready, folks, right here on the Michael
2:01.4	Steel podcast as we digest election 2024, the decision of the American people to send Donald
2:08.0	Trump back to the White House. Hmm. I am absolutely delighted to be with you from an undisclosed
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