Can Anyone Save the Democrats? | Interview: Mitch Landrieu

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🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu joins Jamie Weinstein to discuss his experience advising former President Joe Biden, the challenges facing the Democratic Party, and where political messaging fails. The Agenda:—How bad was Joe Biden’s mental decline?—Strategy for the Democratic Party—The immigration debate and its impact on voters—Reaching out to the working class Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.7	Welcome to the Dispatch podcast. I'm Jamie Weinstein. My guest today is Mayor Mitch Landrieu. He was, for a time, the mayor of New Orleans. He also
0:40.5	most recently served as the senior advisor to President Biden on transportation issues. And we get
0:47.5	into a lot of issues on this podcast. First and foremost, whether he saw President Biden's
0:52.6	decline, the decline described in Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's
0:56.9	news book. He pushes back on the extent of what they describe in the book. But we also get
1:02.8	into a topic that he is working on extensively right now, which is what Democrats need to do to
1:08.9	win the white working class male vote and win back Congress
1:13.0	and the White House in the coming elections?
1:15.7	So I think you're going to find this podcast interesting.
1:18.1	So without further ado, I give you Mayor to the dispatch podcast.
1:38.3	I want to get into a lot of things you've been working on since the election, but I think we need to begin with this new book out by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. I'm sure you've seen it. They accuse the Biden White House of, I guess, what amounts to a cover-up of President Biden's mental acuity. In one case, Dick Tapper says he thinks the cover-up could be worse than Watergate in some ways.
2:02.7	Of course. Why wouldn't you, if you wanted to sell a book? Why wouldn't you say it was worse than Watergate?
2:07.4	You addressed us a little bit when he was still in the race. You said about the questions circulating
2:12.9	then about President Biden's mental state. You said it was a bucket of BS that's so deep, your boots will get stuck in it.
2:21.0	Do you still believe that these allegations are false?
2:23.8	Well, I think the book is weak, and I think it's below Jake.
2:27.0	He's a good journalist, not so sure about Alex.
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