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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

ICYMI - Stuart Stevens on The Lincoln Project and "It Was All a Lie"

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

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4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Former GOP strategist Stuart Stevens discusses The Lincoln Project, which is led by Republicans fighting Trump from a conservative viewpoint, and his book "It Was All a Lie." Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:02.6

Stuart Stevens, welcome to the Daily Social Distance Show.

0:07.9

Thanks, Frank.

0:08.9

It's great to be here.

0:09.9

Thank you.

0:11.4

You are part of the Lincoln Project, which is a group of Republican never-Trumpers who

0:16.4

have gained a lot of notoriety online for putting out slick memes and anti-Trump pictures

0:23.7

or gifts or whatever it may be that have really targeted the president from a Republican

0:28.8

point of view.

0:30.9

Tell me what that means from your perspective, because I mean, for some people they might

0:34.4

think that's a paradox.

0:35.4

How can you be a Republican who is never-Trump?

0:37.6

It's a group of us who worked in a lot of Republican campaigns.

0:42.0

And we really feel that Donald Trump is not only a threat to the Republican party, it's

0:46.7

a threat to the country and democracy itself.

0:50.6

He represents everything that we thought we were working against.

0:54.5

We thought we had joined up a party where character counts, personal responsibility mattered.

0:59.2

Strong on Russia, that debt was important, free trade.

1:03.0

Donald Trump is against all those things.

1:05.4

So we kind of have three choices.

1:06.8

We need a B for Trump.

1:07.8

That one's going to happen, or we'd sit it out, we'd sort of suck, or use the skills that

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