Ep. 290 — Amanda Carpenter

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Amanda Carpenter is a conservative commentator, author, and former senior communications advisor and speechwriter to Senator Ted Cruz. She sits down with David to discuss the challenges of being raised by a single mother, the sports injury that fatefully led her to journalism, Trump’s rebranding of the Republican Party, her take on Beto O’Rourke’s unlikely campaign against Sen. Cruz, and more. Her book, Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us, draws on her experience as a top aide to Sen. Cruz to deconstruct Trump’s manipulative “fake narrative” strategies and prescribes ways in which to withstand it. 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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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your
0:12.5	host, David Axelrod.
0:14.5	I first met Amanda Carpenter in 2015 when we both began as commentators at CNN at the beginning
0:24.7	of the 2015 presidential race.
0:28.0	She was a journalist who had taken a break from it to work on Capitol Hill for, among others,
0:34.4	Ted Cruz.
0:35.8	And now was commenting on the evolving presidential landscape, which became a lot more challenging
0:43.0	from a conservative standpoint and a liberal standpoint when Donald Trump became the nominee
0:47.6	of the Republican Party.
0:49.5	She recently wrote a book called Gaslighting America, Why We Love It when Trump Lies To Us
0:54.8	We sat down this week at the Institute of Politics where Amanda has been a visiting fellow
0:59.8	to talk about her book, the president, the Republican Party, and her journey as a conservative.
1:09.1	Amanda Carpenter, welcome.
1:10.3	Hey, thank you.
1:11.3	Good to see you.
1:12.3	And well, thank you for being at the Institute of Politics.
1:15.1	You've been a splendid visiting fellow here and a great presence.
1:22.3	Montrose Michigan.
1:23.9	Yes, that's my hometown.
1:26.1	Population 1,657.
1:30.9	Do you research for these interviews?
1:32.3	Yeah.
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