Irrational Exuberance? (with Jon Favreau)

Hacks On Tap

David Axelrod & Mike Murphy

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.8 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Jon Favreau, “podcasting royalty” and former speechwriter for Barack Obama, joins Axe and Murphy to discuss Democratic enthusiasm around the country, the critical role suburban voters will play in this year’s midterm elections, key Senate races to watch, and insights from focus groups on the new season of Jon’s podcast, The Wilderness.

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0:00.0	Hey, pull up a chair.
0:10.4	I'm David Axel Roth, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy.
0:32.4	I'm David Axel Roth, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy.
1:01.9	I'm David Axel Roth, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy.
1:11.9	I'm David Axel Roth, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy.
1:39.3	I'm David Axel Roth, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy.
1:49.3	I'm David Axel Roth, Robert Gibbs, Robert Gibbs, Robert Gibbs, Robert Gibbs, Robert Gibbs,
2:16.8	Robert Gibbs.
2:46.8	I'm David Axel Roth, Robert Gibbs, Robert Gibbs, Robert Gibbs, Robert Gibbs, Robert Gibbs,
3:14.2	Robert Gibbs.
3:44.2	housing was an issue that came up over and over again. Obviously, this was the spring and summer
3:49.9	where the Supreme Court, the DOBS decision came down. Abortion did come up quite a few times.
3:55.3	Gun violence actually came up quite a few times in these different focus groups, but did not hear
4:00.0	a lot of love for Republicans, but not a lot of excitement about Democrats from these groups.
4:07.9	And I think it's going to be a real challenge getting some of them out to the polls in November,
4:14.4	even though this is these are groups of people who did show up for Joe Biden in 2020.
4:18.8	What Favz is saying is reinforcing what I've been feeling, which is where Democrats were
4:27.3	completely in abject to spare in the spring. There's now a kind of irrational exuberance.
4:36.1	Yeah. That, you know, somehow the headwinds can be navigated and that this will turn out to be a
4:46.0	happier story for Democrats. And I do think things have improved after the DOBS decision, after
4:51.6	Trump's re-emergence, after all these nut jobs on the right have been nominated by Trump
4:59.0	in some of these key races. But I still have this sense that the headwinds are the headwinds.
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