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The Dispatch Podcast

Bipartisan Food Truck Conversation

The Dispatch Podcast

The Dispatch

News, Politics

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Mo Elleithee, a longtime Democratic operative and executive director of the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service, joins Sarah and Chris Stirewalt to break down the results of the latest GU Battleground Poll. They talk about the implications of voters’ concerns about division, the nuanced differences between attitudinal and issue polling, and how the parties’ messaging on issues they respectively “own” are shaping political dynamics heading into the midterms. Show Notes: -GU Battleground Poll -Chris’ column on junk poling -This week’s Sweep on polling and primaries Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dispatch podcast.

0:02.2

I'm your host Sarah Isger joined this week by Chris Steyerwalt

0:05.7

and we are talking to Moe Alaythi.

0:08.8

He is the founding executive director of Georgetown

0:12.0

University's Institute of Politics and Public Service,

0:15.8

the first institute of its kind in the nation's capital,

0:18.8

they boast.

0:19.9

Before that, he worked at the top levels of communications

0:24.0

for the Democratic Party,

0:25.6

communications director and chief spokesman

0:28.0

for the Democratic National Committee,

0:29.8

which is where I met Moe when we would meet up

0:33.3

at the food trucks that are halfway in between the RNC

0:36.8

and the DNC and Moe and I forged a friendship

0:40.4

based largely on french fries, I would say.

0:43.9

K so french fries.

0:44.8

I'm just those fries.

0:45.8

I'm just those fries.

0:47.0

Yeah, those were the good days.

0:48.4

The good days of a food trucks

0:50.1

and the good days of bipartisan food truck conversation.

0:53.9

Let's dive in.

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