Episode 33: Impeachment endgame, Iowa blame game, Pete's big problem
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
- Who is going to blame their presidential failures on impeachment?
- Despite the Bolton Bomb, why the trail might still be on track to end Friday
- Mayor Pete's big problem...
- Interview with Matt Grossman about the history of trends in political parties
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| 0:00.0 | The Iowa weather was 13 below. Someone's going to do it. |
| 0:15.0 | gonna do it. |
| 0:17.0 | Someone's gonna do it, and I think I know who. I'm almost positive I know who's going to do it. Someone is gonna blame impeachment for why they failed in Iowa. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm telling you, it's going to happen. |
| 0:40.0 | Sometimes you just can see these things coming down the pike. There is the phrase |
| 0:48.7 | that success has a million fathers and failure is an orphan, but I don't think that that's true in politics. |
| 0:57.0 | Because in politics, explaining away defeat is almost as important as doling out victory credit. |
| 1:09.2 | In fact, you very rarely see doling out victory credit. That's far more disputed. |
| 1:14.1 | Who exactly did what? |
| 1:16.3 | But you always see a rationale |
| 1:19.2 | as to why you lost. |
| 1:21.4 | And some people are a little bit more truthful. |
| 1:23.8 | I backed a issue that wound up being a loser, |
| 1:27.3 | or sometimes there are calamities. |
| 1:31.4 | Events that happen and just seem to eclipse where you're going with things. |
| 1:37.0 | But just as often there are reasons that maybe are in always driving with the facts. And so it is my belief that after months, if not a year plus of planning. |
| 1:58.6 | All of the wages for your staff, |
| 2:00.7 | all of the travel hours, the millions of dollars that were spent on these primary |
| 2:08.1 | campaigns that are about to see their first test that somebody's going to come up on the short side of the stick and at that point |
| 2:22.0 | they're going to point to impeachment. |
| 2:25.0 | Well, there's only a few that could have such an excuse, right? |
| 2:32.0 | Bennett. would have such an excuse, right? Bennett, Klobuchar, Warren Sanders. |
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