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This is Michael Cohen, and you're listening to the Mayor Culper podcast.

Mayor Culper is still on vacation, folks, but instead of being totally lazy and running a best of episode, we have a brand new interview for you with the Lincoln Project's Reed Galen.

So without further ado, the main event.

Reed Galen is an independent political strategist and co-founder of the Lincoln Project.

A veteran public affairs and political professional with more than 20 years experience,

Gailen has spent more than a decade advising Fortune 500, 100,000 companies in need of high-level

counsel in the fields of strategic communications, procurement, and legislation.

Reid has also managed several high-profile ballot measure campaigns in California, Texas, and Colorado.

Before moving to the private sector, he served as deputy campaign manager for John McCain's

presidential campaign and deputy campaign manager for Arnold Schwarzenegger's successful

2006 re-election campaign.

Galen also worked on both the 2000 and 2004 campaigns of President George W. Bush.

Between campaigns, Galen spent a year at the White House and served the Bush administration at both the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Department of Homeland Security.

Galen joined me on Mayor Culper as the GOP continues its cultural bombardment of the Democrats in their quest to turn out the more extreme end of the Republican base this

November. Galen and I discuss what the Lincoln Project calls the GOP's autocracy playbook

in light of a series of shocking decisions that we'll discuss over the next hour. So let's go now

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