Hello and welcome to How to win 2024. It's Thursday morning on August 15th. I'm

Claire McCaskill and I'm here with a very special co-pilot today. My dearest

bestest buddy, Heidi Haidkamp, she is the former senator from North Dakota.

She is also the co-founder and chair of the One Country Project, co-hosts the Hot Dish

podcast with her brother Joel, and has a very big and important

job running the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago.

If you're not familiar with the Institute of Politics, go look it up.

They do amazing work getting kids engaged that are attending the University of Chicago,

and Heidi is doing great work there.

All right, Heidi, what do you think?

I'm going to give a plug because we are bringing

almost 300 students to the Democratic Convention.

It's a nonpartisan event to talk about getting out the youth vote and to do training on

getting out the youth vote and so I'm very excited we did it at the RNC and we're

doing it at the DNC. We think it's so important at the Institute of

politics and important for our democracy to get people at a minimum young people in the habit of voting and then building out opportunities to run for office. So we're very excited. And I'm sure I'll see you in Chicago next week so yeah we're

counting on it we'll have a chance to hug okay there's 82 days to go and Heidi and I know how

intense the coming sprint can be for any candidate.

You know who's having a real hard time keeping focus and laying out his policy vision?

Yep, that would be Donald J. Trump.

We'll assess how badly he's flailing as everyone in his party is urging him to pivot to the

issues and quit talking about Hannibal Lecter. And now that the polls have had a

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