I don't just want to win in 2024 I want to crush these criminal monsters who are taking our rights

and backing Putin and targeting trans kids and minimizing black people down to their sneakers because we need to beat

these people like we need such a huge coalition not just the base but left-leaning

independence never trumpers any sane homeless Republican, we need everyone.

And I just think with the Electoral College working against us in the presidential election,

the gerrymandering work against us in the House election, the gerrymandering work against us in the House races,

the voter suppression working against us everywhere. The Republicans are very good at

winning the election. They are absolutely garbage at governing, so we need to be getting good at winning elections

so we can actually do the thing we're good at, which is governing. Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Leymah Gowin. Let's get into it. Why do

Democrats often fail to win voters to their side even when they have the better

ideas and the better candidates? And how do we make sure we don't do that when the very fate of democracy hangs in the balance?

These are the types of questions political scientists and strategist Rachel Bitikofer asked herself

when she sat down to write, hit him where it hurts,

how to save democracy by beating Republicans at their own game.

Rachel is a political scientist and election

forecaster turned political strategist, whose interviews and analysis

have been featured everywhere from the New York Times

to the Washington Post to real-time with Bill Maher. Rachel now works directly with the Democratic Party candidates,

and her book is the penultimate handbook for anyone who wants to counter GOP messaging in

2024 and beyond.

According to Rachel, the Democrats carefully constructed rational arguments about

positions and policy have often been crushed at the polls

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