Democrats bleak Senate map. Trump and Biden's massive fundraising (with Dave Levinthal).
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Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Justin discusses the Senate map, safe Democratic seats, lean Democratic seats, likely Republican seats, and the Democrats' challenge. We then delve into the races that will define the Senate, including Montana, Arizona, Ohio, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Also, the importance of a coherent abortion strategy for the Democrats.
Dave Levinthal (Raw Story) joins to discuss fundraising in the 2024 election, the reliance on Super PACs, the fundraising of Donald Trump and Joe Biden, key down-ballot races to watch, Ted Cruz as a star maker, and the Presidential Election Campaign Fund.
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| 0:00.0 | on this edition of the program we take a look at the Senate map and get an update on all the money flowing into our political system with the money man Dave Leventhal from Ross Story. It's all coming up. |
| 0:15.0 | This is made possible by |
| 0:18.0 | Oh them Bones |
| 0:19.0 | Daily Tech News Show, V |
| 0:22.0 | and Craig. politics. Hello and welcome everybody to the politics politics |
| 0:47.0 | program for Wednesday January 31st, 2024. |
| 0:54.4 | Your old pal Justin Robert Young, joining you. |
| 0:58.2 | We are one-twelfth of the way through this year, obviously a big big year and we've spent almost |
| 1:08.5 | exclusively our time on this show talking about the presidential primary, talking about the presidential election. |
| 1:18.0 | And we're going to do our best to move off it. So I got a little bit here and then we're gonna talk a little bit about presidential fundraising in our interview with Dave Leventhal, but Trump's pollster Tony Fabrizium, he is working with one of the MAGA Super PACs. |
| 1:38.4 | He has released their polling in South Carolina. It shows an essentially unchanged race. |
| 1:45.0 | Their last poll on January 18th was Donald Trump up 68% of Nicki Haley's 28 on January 29th. It is 66% to 31% and when you dig into the cross tabs as it's dark. |
| 2:05.0 | not only is there a majority of people who approved of |
| 2:08.0 | is there a majority of people who approved of Nicky Haley's job as governor voting against her or |
| 2:17.0 | indicating their preference against her but also the line of attack that she's |
| 2:21.6 | using that Donald Trump is too old is falling on deaf ears. |
| 2:27.0 | It is my belief that Nicki Haley is not going to make it to South Carolina. |
| 2:42.2 | Like I always say, the one thing that we never really wrap our head around with this kind of stuff is exactly how brutal the pressure is when it comes to |
| 2:48.8 | this stuff. When it comes to the time in between every day is a week, every week is a year. And sure you can |
| 3:01.4 | strip down a campaign and go really really really bare bones but for the stuff that |
| 3:05.6 | Nicki Haley wants to do we're talking about millions of dollars, thousands of man hours in dozens of states. That's stuff that |
| 3:18.2 | needs to happen now. And if you don't have a path forward that's hard to do. |
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