Dire, Not Catastrophic (with Amy Walter)

Hacks On Tap

David Axelrod & Mike Murphy

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.8 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week the Hacks were joined by a super esteemed Hackeroo, the formidable Amy Walter, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter. Together they put on their beer goggles to look back on past elections for context on today’s polarization; discuss upcoming debates, viral moments, and narrative benders; and talk all things midterms and gut instincts. Plus David’s dog, Mac, gets a shoutout! Woof!

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0:00.0	Hey, pull up a chair.
0:10.4	It's axon tap with David Axelroth, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy.
0:22.0	The selection is a referendum.
0:24.9	It's not a referendum, I should say, it's a choice.
0:27.9	It only wants to make it a referendum, but it's a choice between two vastly different
0:32.8	visions for America, significantly different.
0:36.2	Democrats are building a better America for everyone, with economy of the growth from
0:39.8	the bottom up in the middle out, where everyone does well.
0:43.2	Republicans are doubling down on their mega-maggot trickle-down economics.
0:47.0	That benefits the very wealthy, fail the country before, and we'll fail it again if they
0:51.7	would.
0:52.7	Well, Earth to our president, it is a referendum.
0:55.6	That was a nice try, but we're all seeing the numbers.
0:58.7	It is turning into a little...
0:59.7	Yes, right in slip was showing there.
1:02.6	Yeah, a little bit.
1:05.1	It is a referendum.
1:06.1	It's one on him, as these midterms always are.
1:09.8	Here we are, it's tightening up.
1:11.2	That is the question.
1:12.3	That is the question.
1:14.6	We have the brilliant, the savant, Amy Walter of the cook report with Amy Walter here with
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