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Offline with Jon Favreau

Democrats Need to Care About Getting Attention

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

News, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Chris Hayes, MSNBC host and author of The Siren’s Call, returns to Offline to talk about Democrats’ posting problem…they’re too afraid of controversy, too stingey with their appearences, and too focused on fundraising. Have the content firehoses diluted cancel culture? What’s the secret to Zohran Mamdani’s press strategy? Is John Fetterman the Democrats’ John McCain—and is there a lesson to learn in that?Also: 

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When they're recruiting candidates, they are looking for, number one thing, can they raise the money?

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Which is, are they personally rich? Do they have rich friends number two is bio resume basically you know high name recognition because you know

1:20.5

they're a sitting elected statewide person or they were a marine and a road scholar and they

1:26.1

you know now they're a neurosurgeon,

1:27.7

whatever. Are they good at talking to people? Are they good at getting attention? Do they

1:34.5

have Riz? That actually doesn't rate that high in the candidate recruitment playbook. And so part of

1:41.7

this, too, is about thinking about candidates in a little bit of a

1:44.6

different way because those staffers are probably correct that some of the people that have

1:48.7

been recruited, you don't want going two hours unscripted in a podcast.

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I'm John Favreau, and you just heard from Friend of the Pod Chris Hayes, the host of MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes and the author of many books, including his latest, The Sirens Call, which he talked about last time he was here.

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