Chaos is a Ladder for the GOP with Liam Ker

The Lincoln Project

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Politics

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🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Host Reed Galen is joined by Liam Kerr, the Co-Founder of Welcome PAC, a Democratic-aligned PAC that applies insurgent tactics to support pro-democracy/center-left candidates in swing districts and also build a “big tent” Democratic party. They discuss the latest in the House Speaker race and the dysfunction around the GOP, why the labels of “moderate” and “centrist” often go hand-in-hand with “spineless” (and how to overcome this), and what possibly unconventional strategies can be deployed to better flip swing districts blue. Plus, Welcome PAC’s “Flip Five” Campaign. For more from Welcome PAC be sure to check out their newsletter, Welcome Stack. For more from Reed, be sure to subscribe to his brand new Substack, The Home Front. If you’d like to ask a question or share a comment with The Lincoln Project, send an email to [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.0	There is a good side and there is a bad side.
0:43.0	This is a black and white decision.
0:45.0	Re-electing Joe Biden in 2024 means the continuation of American democracy.
0:51.0	And the re-election of Donald Trump means the end of it.
0:55.0	It is that simple everybody.
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1:11.0	It's not just you and me, it's our kids, it's our grandkids, it's the future of what we want America to be.
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