As Texas Goes, So Goes the Nation: Lone Star Candidate Matthew Dowd on How Democrats Can Win in 2022 The veteran political adviser and analyst talks about now running for office himself on Inside the Hive.

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Matthew Dowd, former Bush campaign adviser turned analyst, has spent his career behind the scenes. But now he’s running as a Democrat for lieutenant governor of Texas in 2022—with eyes locked on hard-right incumbent Dan Patrick, the man responsible for pushing through the infamous voter-suppression and antiabortion bills that have galvanized Republicans and alarmed Democrats. On this week’s Inside the Hive, Dowd analyzes the state of the Democratic Party and makes the case that if Texas can be turned blue (finally), the spread of Trumpism can be stopped nationally too. And even if the Biden administration can’t pull out of its current slump, he argues, Democrats can still beat Republicans at the state level. Dowd weighs in on Biden, congressional Democrats, Beto O’Rourke—and his favorite Matthew McConaughey film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.2	Welcome back to Inside the Hive.
0:40.1	This is your co-host, Joe Hagen.
0:42.6	You will recall, last week, I was discussing with Emily Jane Fox, my co-host.
0:48.7	We started to talk about the state of the Democratic Party and the Biden administration.
0:52.5	It's kind of all anybody's talking about right now.
0:54.7	I mean, every column you read in the New York Times is about the hand-ringing
0:58.4	of the Democrats and the split in the party and what's going to happen is Biden up to
1:02.6	the job.
1:05.0	I think back a year ago, where we were, we were in the middle of a presidential campaign.
1:10.8	Everybody was freaking out about Trump and the news cycle seemed to be about four seconds
1:14.0	long.
1:15.0	Do you remember?
1:16.0	It was just like, news piece after news piece.
1:18.4	Now the news cycle seems to have slowed down mercifully, but it's sort of festering on
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