Howard Schultz and the Ghost of Ross Perot
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🗓️ 30 January 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Howard Schultz's potential independent presidential candidacy has gotten off to a rough start. Why are Democrats and Republicans alike upset about the Starbucks CEO entering the 2020 fray? And will it even matter?
Guest: Steve Kornacki, National Political Correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Steve. |
| 0:06.5 | Hey, Steve. It's Mary Harris. A slate. How are you? |
| 0:09.4 | Hey, Mary. How you doing? |
| 0:10.9 | Steve Kornacki has been called the King of Lickety Split political data analysis. |
| 0:16.0 | You can usually find him swiping through a big flat screen on MSNBC. |
| 0:20.4 | So when Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz set off a social media firestorm by dipping his toes |
| 0:25.5 | in the 2020 presidential race, I thought, Steve will know what to make of it. |
| 0:30.2 | Did you watch the heckling video last night? |
| 0:32.4 | Yeah, I was on late last night, so we saw the clip of it, yeah. |
| 0:37.3 | Well, I said last night, so we saw the clip of it, yeah. |
| 0:44.6 | Well, I said last night is that I am seriously considering running for president as a centrist independent. |
| 0:50.1 | If you haven't seen this tape, it shows Howard Schultz on a stage with the journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, |
| 0:54.7 | trying to explain why he's considering running as a third-party presidential candidate. Which I view merely as a designation on the ballot. |
| 0:59.1 | And that's when a man standing at the back of the crowd just starts ripping into him. |
| 1:03.0 | Don't help elect Trump, you egotistical, billionaire. |
| 1:09.6 | You're sort of, you know, Barnes & Noble, New York City book event, you're sort of at the heart of, um, uh, we would call it resistance culture. |
| 1:18.6 | Go back to Dombo's with the other billionaire elite |
| 1:22.6 | who think they know how to run the world? |
| 1:32.3 | That's not what democracy is. |
| 1:35.3 | We're going to get to that idea and that sentiment in just a minute. |
| 1:42.3 | Because there is a lot on Twitter. |
| 1:48.2 | The 2020 presidential field is getting crowded. |
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