Handicapping the Speaker Race. Why Campaigns Die. (with Evan Scrimshaw and Michael Cohen)
Politics Politics Politics
Justin Robert Young
4.6 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Evan Scrimshaw (The Lines) gives his handicap on the various potential Speaker of the House candidates.
Michael Cohen, the man who wrote the book on campaigns, joins the show to explore why and how campaigns die.
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| 0:00.0 | on this episode of the program we have Evan Scrimshaw to help us handicap who the next speaker of the house is going to be and |
| 0:07.2 | we bring on Michael Cohen to talk about how and why campaigns die. |
| 0:15.0 | Because with October, the funky stench of death is hanging around this GOP primary. |
| 0:22.0 | We're going to see some very soon. |
| 0:25.2 | Let's go ahead and get on with it. |
| 0:27.6 | This is made possible by Oh Them Bones, |
| 0:30.5 | Daily Tech News Show, Andy Beach, and Craig. Politics politics! politics! politics! Hello and welcome everybody to the politics politics |
| 1:04.4 | program for Friday, October 6th. |
| 1:10.8 | 2023 year old pal Justin Robert Young joining you from HQ here in Austin |
| 1:17.3 | Texas. Obviously the vacation of Kevin McCarthy from the Speaker of the House is the big news. |
| 1:26.0 | And while the Republicans are fumbling behind the scenes to see who will be the new speaker, the |
| 1:33.4 | new speaker, |
| 1:34.4 | which doesn't seem like the coolest job in the world right now. |
| 1:38.8 | We are gonna give you a few names to look at |
| 1:41.9 | and we're gonna handicap the odds. |
| 1:44.0 | Thanks to our political betting expert, our friend, |
| 1:48.0 | Evan Scrimshaw from the Lines.com. |
| 1:52.0 | Welcome back to the show Evan |
| 1:53.4 | thanks for having man always love hopping on |
| 1:56.0 | well I mean and jeez if there's ever a time |
| 1:59.7 | to have a political odds maker in the quiver this is the time because we have quite |
| 2:06.4 | possibly in a world politics is not really a world where there's a ton of |
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