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The Axe Files with David Axelrod

Ep. 273 — Gov. Steve Bullock

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Montana Governor Steve Bullock joins the show to discuss the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, how Democrats can win back voters in rural states, his work on the opiod epidemic, money in politics, and more. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your

0:12.5

host, David Axelrod.

0:13.8

You know, the election in November is huge and everyone's focused on it, but as soon

0:20.8

as it's over, you better believe we're going to start hearing from a parade of Democratic

0:25.0

candidates running for president in 2020.

0:29.6

So no rest for the weary voter, particularly in places like Iowa and New Hampshire.

0:35.5

And one person who's visited both those places recently is Steve Bullock, the two-term governor

0:41.9

of Montana, a Democratic governor of a state that Donald Trump carried by 20 points, a

0:48.6

Western state, not a coastal state.

0:51.7

And that has people asking, could he have the special secret sauce that can help Democrats

0:57.0

win back some of the voters that they lost in 2016?

1:02.2

Governor Bullock came by the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago last week,

1:07.3

where I sat down with him to ask him about his life, his career, and his plan.

1:16.0

Governor Steve Bullock, great to be with you.

1:19.4

Sure great to be with you two days.

1:20.6

There on the campus of the University of Chicago just spoke to a mob of kids of young people,

1:27.4

I shouldn't call them kids because they're not of young people from the Institute of Politics

1:32.3

around the Institute of Politics.

1:34.0

So happy to have you there.

1:37.6

Let me talk about you as a kid, from first from Missoula, but really from Helena, Montana,

1:46.7

how long ago did your family come to Montana, how they get there?

1:53.0

So my parents met at college in Colorado at the time as Colorado State Teachers College,

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