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Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Gailan. Today, I'm joined by legendary

Democratic strategist, senior advisor to the Lincoln Project, and host of that trippy show,

available wherever fine podcaster found. Joe Trippie. Joe, welcome back.

Man, great to be with you, Reed. I'm also joined once again by Trig Veals,

senior advisor to the Lincoln Project, and president of Viking Strategies,

a Washington DC-based public affairs and political consulting firm. Trig V, welcome back.

Thanks, Reed. It's good to be here. Oh, geez, guys. Okay. So as we're recording this, it's the

Friday before election day, 2022. We were all commiserating right before we turned the mic

on that it's this point in the cycle, right, where, you know, we've been at it for two years since the last one.

You're a little bit sort of like it's all over, but the crying, right? For most campaigns,

the last money spent, all the switches are flipped. The political team is now like in charge, right?

You've got people on the campaign who have never called a voter in their life. We're like,

congratulations. You're a fundraiser. You're now calling voters and they're like,

ah, and so Joe, before we get into the specifics, just give the audience a little bit of with this

last few days. And as folks here, this will be the last 24 hours feels like when you sort of like,

it's on autopilot. When I was running campaigns, I always felt like these were the hardest days,

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