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🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | What is keeping you up at night the most when you think about 2020? |
0:09.1 | What keeps me up at night is that Trump has a massive structural media advantage. |
0:17.2 | He has a massive state adjacent propaganda machine that pumps his message out to his voters |
0:27.6 | with tremendous discipline and Democrats have not yet figured out a counter that. |
0:35.1 | This primary season is not lending itself to our party getting out a clear alternative |
0:42.5 | to Donald Trump. |
0:45.1 | He's an uncanny message person. |
0:49.1 | And every time I think he's really off on something, then we go and test it and we find |
0:54.2 | out how strong it is. |
0:56.6 | I wish we had some place that was able to get out a consistent message against him. |
1:06.1 | Two of the most important things that Democrats can control in this campaign are what to say |
1:10.8 | and how to say it. |
1:12.2 | In other words, our message and the strategies we use to communicate that message. |
1:17.6 | As Dan Fyfe and Selinda Lake just mentioned, the party starts 2020 at a disadvantage in both |
1:22.8 | of these areas. |
1:24.3 | A long crowded primary hasn't allowed us to coalesce around a single message about |
1:29.3 | what we stand for or how we govern. |
1:32.0 | And aside from your friends at Crooked Media and a few other outlets like us, there's |
1:35.7 | just no progressive equivalent to Fox News and the massive propaganda machine that Donald |
1:40.9 | Trump and the Republicans rely on to deliver their message. |
1:44.7 | Overcoming this challenge might be the most critical step on the path to victory in November. |
1:50.2 | Because as we've now learned from the organizers on the ground and the voters and our focus groups, |
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