David Axelrod Previews the Midterms, 2024

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🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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David Axelrod, chief strategist for former President Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns and host of The Axe Files and co-host of Hacks on Tap podcasts, joins Steve to tackle the complex questions about the midterm primary elections this week. What’s up with the Democrat Party’s tactic of funding extremist Republican candidates? And what is the outlook for the upcoming general elections? Plus: Axelrod gives listeners the big picture of what’s happening in Kansas as well as what the abortion rights issue means to both sides of the political aisle. Show Notes: -The Axe Files with David Axelrod -TMD: Another Blockbuster Primaries Tuesday -The Dispatch: Peter Meijer Falls to Trump-Endorsed John Gibbs in Michigan -The Dispatch: Eric Schmitt Wins the Missouri GOP Senate Primary -The Sweep: What We Learned Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dispatch podcast.
0:02.0	I'm Steve Hayes, joined today by David Axelrod,
0:05.6	the chief political strategist for Barack Obama in 2008
0:11.5	and counselor during his presidency.
0:14.4	Axelrod today is host of the Axfiles podcast,
0:19.5	very good, very popular podcast
0:22.0	and also co-host of Haxon Tap,
0:23.8	which he does with Republican political consultant,
0:26.5	Mike Murphy and Democrat Robert Gibbs.
0:30.1	Axelrod also runs the University of Chicago's Institute
0:34.2	of Politics and we have a great discussion
0:39.1	about the primaries that this first week of August,
0:44.3	the two political parties,
0:45.8	the challenges internally for Republicans and for Democrats
0:49.9	and the possibility of a major disruption in our politics.
0:53.7	Could we see a third party in 2024?
1:11.0	David, thanks for joining us.
1:12.8	Hey, it's good to be with you Steve.
1:14.8	After a long night for both of us.
1:17.8	Yeah, a long night indeed.
1:20.8	Well, I thought you would be the perfect person
1:22.8	to have on to talk about some of that
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