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THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

Breaking!!! The GOP is Finally Dumping Trump + A Conversation with Reed Galen

THE OFFICIAL MEA CULPA WITH MICHAEL COHEN ARCHIVE

Audio Up Media

Politics, News

4.88.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Mea Culpa welcomes back to our show, Reed Galen, co-founder of The Lincoln Project and an independent political strategist. Galen is a veteran public affairs and political analyst with more than 20 years of experience, Reed has been involved in politics, government, and business at the highest levels. He’s spent more than a decade advising Fortune 50, 100, and 1000 companies in need of high-level counsel in the fields of strategic communications, procurement, and legislation. In addition to his private sector work, Reed has managed several high-profile ballot measure campaigns in California, Texas, and Colorado before moving to the private sector, Reed served as Deputy Campaign Manager for John McCain’s presidential campaign and Deputy Campaign Manager for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s successful 2006 re-election campaign. Galen also worked on both of President George W. Bush's campaigns and served the Bush Administration at both the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Department of Homeland Security. Micheal and Reed dissect the results of the midterms.

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0:00.0

This is Michael Cohen and you're listening to the Mayor Culpa podcast.

0:26.3

The five races still to call it's unclear who will control the Senate.

0:30.4

Control of the House is leaning Republican, but only barely Democrats overall are doing

0:35.2

much better than expected.

0:36.8

That predicted red wave only appears to be a splash, if you will.

0:42.0

The word wave has no application yet to what we're saying.

0:45.9

This might feel more like the edge of a lake.

0:47.9

This really looks much more like a red whisper if that.

0:51.7

This wasn't even a red wave.

0:53.2

It's not even a red little ripple in a pond.

0:55.7

If I've heard it called, you know, the red sprinkler, I've heard it called the red splash,

0:59.7

the red puddle.

1:00.7

I'm betting that Joe Biden is feeling pretty good today.

1:04.0

Election night in America was a nail-biter, but he didn't get his ass handed to him.

1:08.9

In fact, Biden's party hung together and gave the White House a badly needed win by

1:14.3

not totally losing.

1:16.3

I'm betting the president is hoping that Trump is finally in the rear view and that for

1:20.8

now democracy is safe.

1:23.4

But you can't count Trump out, you can never count Trump out.

1:26.8

He's like a fucking zombie and until you cut off his head, he'll keep coming back to

1:31.5

bite you.

1:32.5

I'm going to be making a very big announcement on Tuesday, November 15th at Mar-a-Lago

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