Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman.

My guest today is Galen Drook.

Galen is the founder and host of the G.D. Politics Podcast.

He previously hosted and produced the 538 Politics Podcast, where he covered American elections

for nearly a decade. His reporting and analysis have also regularly appeared on ABC News and the BBC, as well as

NPR, C-SPAN, and more.

In this episode, we talk about the science of political polling, we talk about the crisis of

leadership facing the Democratic Party, and we talk about Galen's recent op-ed in the New York

Times, where he argues that Democrats need their own Trump,

though he doesn't mean what you probably think he means by that.

So without further ado, Gailen Droke.

Gailen Droke, thanks so much for coming on my show.

Thanks so much for having me.

And congratulations on the new digs of the free press.

Thank you.

So we've been bumping into each other for years,

mostly at the Olive Tree Cafe,

really for the past five, six years.

But give my listeners a sense of who you are,

how you got into political analysis and polling and what you're up to now.

Who are you and what on earth are you doing here?

Yes.

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