INTERVIEW: Isaac talks with Evan Roth-Smith
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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On today’s episode, Isaac talks with Evan Roth-Smith. Evan Roth Smith is a campaign consultant and pollster whose work includes federal, state, and local races, international opinion research, and independent expenditures and nonprofit advisory. He is a founding partner of Slingshot Strategies, a New York City-based political consulting firm providing communications, polling, and advisory expertise.
He is also the coauthor of Putin's Master Plan (2016), a book on Russian foreign policy ambitions.
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| 0:44.8 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of Isaac's take. |
| 1:01.5 | I am John Wall, and today we're going to be presenting to you an interview conducted by our very own founder, Isaac Saul. |
| 1:09.9 | Isaac got to talk with Evan Roth Smith. Evan is a campaign |
| 1:13.6 | consultant and pollster, whose work includes federal, state, and local races, international opinion |
| 1:19.3 | research, and independent expenditures and nonprofit advisory. He is the founding partner of |
| 1:25.0 | Slinghot Strategies, a New York City-based political consulting firm |
| 1:28.8 | providing communications, polling, and advisory expertise. He is also the co-author of Putin's |
| 1:34.7 | master plan, a book on Russian foreign policy ambitions. Without further ado, here's the interview. |
| 1:42.3 | Evan Roth, Smith, thank you so much for coming on the show. I appreciate it. |
| 1:46.2 | Glad to be here. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:48.1 | So before we jump in, I mean, I have so many questions for you. This polling, some of this stuff |
| 1:53.3 | you've just released, it's super interesting. I think you guys are over the target on some |
| 1:59.2 | really fascinating narrative threads that I'm seeing a lot in the media |
| 2:03.9 | space right now. But I'd love to start if you can just tell me a little bit about your background |
| 2:08.2 | and how you got into some of this work. Sure. Well, like many people in politics, I've never |
| 2:13.6 | done anything else. You know, had the had the bug from day one and just, you know, made my way in the political world. |
| 2:22.5 | Wound up with my own firm, which I'm very grateful for and excited to be able to do great projects like Blueprint, |
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