Has Twitter warped politics?
The Conversation with Dasha Burns
POLITICO
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🗓️ 10 December 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here's a fun story. |
| 0:02.2 | I got off a flight. |
| 0:03.4 | You know, you have a flight where you're hoping the Y-File work |
| 0:06.2 | and it just doesn't, you know, I got a gosh. |
| 0:07.9 | And like, on campaigns, that's horrible. |
| 0:09.6 | And especially in like a role like a campaign manager, |
| 0:12.1 | like, oh my gosh, what am I going to miss? |
| 0:14.0 | And I landed and I've got the Daily Beast texting me |
| 0:17.3 | and being like, why is Andrew texting about circumcision? |
| 0:20.9 | The year is 2019. |
| 0:23.2 | Zach Garmin is Andrew Yang's campaign manager |
| 0:26.0 | and he just got off a flight to find out his candidate, |
| 0:29.2 | Andrew Yang, is going viral. |
| 0:31.8 | But not the way his strategist had hoped. |
| 0:34.6 | And I was like, why am I getting this text message right now? |
| 0:37.4 | Like, same time, like, this is hilarious. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm writing a piece on it and I was like, oh, man. |
| 0:41.0 | I guess we're going with circumcision now. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm Eugene Daniels and this is Playbook Deep Dive. |
| 0:49.2 | Sometimes I think of something that is too good |
| 0:52.0 | not to show the world, like how great my nails are |
| 0:55.5 | or I guess might take on a policy or something. |
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