Diagnosing the Democratic Condition

Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri

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🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Tara begins the pod with an update on Donald Trump’s cabinet selections as his transition team prepares for Inauguration Day. She’s then joined by pollster and founding partner of Slingshot Strategies, Evan Roth Smith, to go through the numbers and break down how Kamala Harris lost the presidential election. They examine which of the gettable voter bases leaned to the right on election day, shine a light on some of Kamala’s political missteps during her campaign, and Evan offers some sobering advice to his Democratic colleagues on how to move forward as a party after this historic loss. For more of Tara’s reporting, please sign up for her newsletter, 'The Best and the Brightest,' at puck.news/tarapalmeri and use the discount code TARA20. Host: Tara Palmeri Guest: Evan Roth Smith Producer: Chris Sutton Production Supervision: Conor Nevins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In the fall of 2014, a group of hackers pulled off the biggest Hollywood heist of all time.
0:05.8	They broke into computer servers belonging to Sony Pictures and released hundreds of thousands of top secret documents.
0:12.0	The attack would cause an international incident, upend thousands of lives, and change the movie industry forever.
0:18.8	From Spotify and the Ringer podcast network, I'm Brian Raftery,
0:22.7	and this is the Hollywood hack. Listen on the big picture feed. Hi, I'm Tara Palmary.
0:45.0	I'm Tuck Senior Political Correspondent, and this is Somebody's Got to Win.
0:49.1	As I promise you, there will be more Trump Transition News coming from this show.
0:53.1	It's moving very quickly light years compared to 2016 when it was being led by Jared Kushner and Chris Christie.
0:59.9	And frankly, they didn't expect to win.
1:01.6	So they didn't exactly have binders full of vetted people who were known loyalists to Trump.
1:08.0	There were fights between Jared and Steve Bannon and Ranked Prebis as they tried to build up
1:13.6	their small army of allies within the administration to fill out their silos. They were concerned
1:19.2	about their titles and they wanted to make sure that they had the most influence with Donald Trump.
1:23.9	It doesn't seem like that's happening this time. There are new power vectors around Donald
1:27.8	Trump. There's Elon Musk. He is obviously the world's richest man and he donated a ton of money to
1:32.8	Donald Trump and crucially delivered a ground game to him. So Elon is a major gatekeeper when trying
1:38.7	to get to Trump. Don Jr. also delivered him a running mate who helped close the deal. So Don Jr. has a lot of weight,
1:46.0	especially when translating what the grassroots wants to his father. And of course, Susie Wiles,
1:51.1	his chief of staff, and they're making moves very quickly. It's been reported that Trump wants
1:56.3	to confirm his cabinet during the lame duck congressional session. He knows he only has four years and really
2:03.7	only two years before he becomes lame duck himself. So he's got to move very quickly on this
2:08.3	aggressive agenda that he's promised during his campaign. So far, he picked his chief of staff,
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