Today on the Playbook podcast, 25 weeks till the midterms, and Dash had just interviewed Trump's

top strategist James Blair. Last night in Nebraska, the Dems got the result they wanted.

We'll talk about the fight for the Senate, and Donald Trump is in China. He will meet with President

Xi Jinping tonight. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Wednesday,

May 13th. Is that a dog barking I can hear, Dasha? Yeah, yeah, Helly needs to make his voice heard.

He will not let anyone forget and appreciates all the well-wishes and how kind everyone was about his terrible haircut.

I'm not going to let that dog dominate this morning's podcast. No, it's your time. It's your time now, Jack.

Thank you. Thank you. It's my time. It's actually your time because you got the scoop last night. Dasher spent some time with James Blair, who I'm sure you guys listen to this generally will know. He's been the Deputy Chief of Staff for Donald Trump in the White House for the second term. He is on his way out of the White House at the end of this month, but not out in disgrace. He's going to go and work on the political campaign for the midterms are going to be the main point man for the White House for the next six months in the run up to those all important elections.

Dashette, I mean, I've read through your conversation with him.

The thing that comes across so overwhelmingly is just how full of confidence he and so I guess by extension, people in the White House are feeling now.

Yeah, I had mentioned James Blair on this podcast this week, and I figured, you know what,

let's just go straight to the source and see if we can hear directly from him about where

their heads are at now. And you're right. He is extremely confident. He was confident in our

conversation. He's been out there on social media touting the success of their strategy. And really the focus of our interview was on the stuff that he feels like he can control, which is not Donald Trump. And he knows that he's been working with the president for a while now, so he knows he can't control Trump. He was one of the architects of Trump's successful

2024 campaign, so he knows how to sort of work around what Trump presents, both positive and

negative. And, you know, right now they are extremely bullish on redistricting. I mean, he told me

that what happened in Indiana, you know, speaks for

itself. Now, of course, they're looking at these other states that we've been talking about.

And he said that the president has been pretty clear about this, that people should take him

seriously saying, quote, that was perhaps the mistake that Indiana senators made. I asked, you know,

what is the dream world in terms of gains? And he just said,

you know, what I know is the overall efforts of our strategy will net a substantial swing of

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