Dan Pfeiffer's Unsolicited Advice for the Nominee (UN-TRUMPING AMERICA, available February 18, 2020)

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🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In this excerpt from UN-TRUMPING AMERICA (on sale February 18, 2020), Dan Pfeiffer speaks candidly to our (forthcoming) Democratic nominee about the realities of winning, the fate of American democracy, and how to defeat Trump at the ballot box in November. Pre-order now wherever books are sold: https://amzn.to/372l5k2

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0:00.0	Operation 2020.
0:03.4	To the Democratic nominee, from me, RE Unsolicited Advice.
0:09.2	Congratulations on your hard fought victory.
0:11.8	You came out on top of the largest, most talented field in Democratic primary history.
0:15.5	It's quite an achievement.
0:16.9	You should be proud.
0:18.2	Great.
0:19.2	Now get to work.
0:20.9	During the seemingly endless 2008 primary campaign, someone told me that winning a nomination
0:25.3	in a presidential campaign was like winning a pie eating contest and being rewarded with
0:29.0	more pie.
0:30.0	You think you're tired now, way too much.
0:33.6	The only people who get to sleep on presidential campaigns are the people who lose presidential
0:36.7	campaigns.
0:37.7	First, the bad news.
0:40.2	This campaign is going to be really hard.
0:42.6	In comment presidents really lose.
0:44.2	It's happened three times since 1972 and there were somewhat extenuating circumstances
0:48.2	in all those cases.
0:50.2	Trump is a massive head start.
0:51.6	While you were eating pork tenderloins in Iowa and ice cream codes in New Hampshire, the
0:55.4	Trump campaign spent enough money on Facebook ads to buy Mark Zuckerberg several seats on
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