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Hacks On Tap

Introduction to Hacks on Tap with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy

Hacks On Tap

David Axelrod & Mike Murphy

Politics, News Commentary, Government, News

4.78K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Throughout the 2020 presidential campaign, battle-tested operatives will be sitting on bar stools along the trail, sharing war stories and unique, sometimes uproarious cuts on the latest developments. Hacks on Tap is your invitation to join two of the best. Campaign veterans Axelrod and Murphy will take listeners deep inside the top level of American politics. These seasoned pros have seen it all: the peaks and valleys, the pressure-cooker moments, the huge breaks and the horrible calamities no one saw coming. Who better to narrate this momentous race? So pull up a stool and join us every Tuesday afternoon starting on June 11th! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello campaign junkies. This is Mike Murphy. Imagine you're out on the campaign trail and you're

0:04.5

walking to a bar stuffed with the traveling show of American politics reporters candidate staff.

0:10.4

You pull up an empty bar stool. You turn and see sitting next to you and ready to talk politics.

0:15.9

Is David Axelrod, president Obama's fame political advisor and longtime political consultant.

0:21.2

And Mike Murphy, the brains behind John McCain's brilliant 2000 straight talk express campaign

0:27.6

and a veteran of what is it about a million campaigns of the campaign too many campaigns but all

0:32.9

fun including some campaigns one and lost against the great David Axelrod we've been friends for

0:37.7

a long time and we talk politics between ourselves about what's really going on on the telephone

0:44.1

or when we see each other then we thought maybe other people would like to hear these conversations

0:48.4

and so we got the idea for hacks on tap and the reason we're going to be watching the early

0:53.4

campaign and beyond so carefully is the process defines the candidates.

0:58.3

Yeah you know Mike I always thought that presidential campaigns were a little like NASA

1:03.8

in that you could be in the simulator you can write about it you can talk about it but unless

1:08.0

you've been up in orbit you don't really understand what a presidential campaign is the the G forces

1:14.2

and all the different challenges that you face and what you should take seriously and what you

1:19.2

should not we're going to talk about what's really going on what you don't really hear in the media

1:23.6

from people who've been there and seen it and know all the inside dope is going to be funny interesting

1:28.4

a reverent and once in a while we're even going to have a great guest a real hack who might even

1:32.8

have been elected to something so if you want to get the real inside ride on the campaign trail

1:39.2

give us a try on all your podcast platforms hacks on tap subscribe today

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