Jeff Weaver on working with Bernie, the future of Medicare for All, & the 2024 race

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Andrew sits down with political guru Jeff Weaver to talk about Jeff's journey from working as a driver on Bernie's 1986 gubernatorial campaign to running Bernie's 2016 presidential campaign. Plus — Andrew and Jeff talk Biden's "blue wall" strategy, the disconnect between the Democratic Party and the working class, and why Jeff is supporting Dean Phillips in this cycle. Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hoVPy8QHFl0 Follow Jeff Weaver: https://victorycomics.com | https://dean24.com Follow Andrew Yang: https://andrewyang.com | https://twitter.com/andrewyang Get 50% off Factor at https://factormeals.com/yang50 Get an extra 3 months free at https://expressvpn.com/yang Get 20% off + 2 free pillows at https://helixsleep.com/yang code helixpartner20 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on forward.
0:03.0	But the entire rationale of Joe Biden's run is that he was able to reassemble the blue wall which was destroyed by Trump in 2016.
0:13.4	That in 2020, Joe Biden can put it together.
0:16.0	If we demonstrate how weak he really is
0:18.6	in the state and other states in the blue wall,
0:21.7	the entire rationale for his campaign evaporates. I mean I'm not
0:24.8	looking to hurt the party. We're trying to help the party here. We're trying to save the
0:28.4	party from itself at this point. Yes exactly. You know it's going to become a sort of
0:32.1	coastal bourgeois party that has no working class members in it.
0:36.0	And that's, that would be a really terrible party to be in. It is my pleasure to welcome to the podcast. Senior advisor to the Dean Phillips
0:55.7	campaign Bernie Sanders campaign manager in 2016 and advisor in 2020 former head of Our Revolution. This man has done a lot.
1:05.4	Jeff Weaver, welcome Jeff.
1:07.0	Great.
1:08.0	Hey, thanks for having me, Andrew.
1:09.0	Appreciate it.
1:10.0	So Jeff, you are a long time political professional. You were Bernie's OG independent
1:19.6	group-natorial campaign manager, I believe. You might have been as chief of staff after he was in the house and then the Senate
1:25.1	How did you react when Bernie came to you about him running for president in 2016?
1:31.3	Well, that's a great story because I had left his office in 2009. I had ran his Senate campaign in 2006. I was a Senate chief of staff for a couple years and I spent a number of years on the
1:43.0	House side as well as chief of staff and I was just one a little break from
1:46.3	politics so I left politics and opened up my comic book business and was having
1:51.1	fun with that and then 2015 Bernie called me out of the blue he's he's not one to call you much and said Jeff was would you like to have dinner I was like something's up so I went and had dinner with Bernie and he was he was a
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