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The Bulwark Podcast

Jim Messina and Michael Weiss: Midwestern Nice

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

4.611.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Harris campaign clearly opted not to send out an attack dog in last night's debate. While JD Vance helped the reputation of the Yale debate club, the coverage today is about abortion and Jan 6—Tim Walz's best lines. Meanwhile, the race remains a coin toss, and the legal drama over the election is already becoming a nightmare. Plus, Iran's ballistic missile attack and Israel's coming retaliation.

Jim Messina and Michael Weiss join Tim Miller.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Bullard Podcast I'm your host Tim Miller. We've got a double-headed today up in segment two. It's

0:15.2

Michael Weiss talking about the flare up in the Middle East. Also remember it's

0:18.9

Wednesday, so I'm over on the next level podcast where Sarah and J. V.L and I are

0:23.4

renting our garments about the state of affairs but not here on today's daily

0:26.7

podcast we've got Jim Messina campaign manager for Barack Obama's 2012

0:30.9

re-election he's a chair of a new pack democracy defenders and

0:34.7

democracy is going to need defending the last month. How you doing, Jim? Thanks for

0:38.2

coming on the pot. My pleasure, a big fan. First time caller, a long time

0:42.3

listener. First time, first-time caller, a long-time listener.

0:43.7

First-time, it's a first-time week.

0:45.8

I think we've got all first times coming up

0:47.3

the rest of this week.

0:48.2

We've got some folks that I really respect,

0:51.6

like yourself, who I'm hoping will calm me down and calm the

0:55.7

listeners down. We'll see if that actually happens. I want to start with last

0:59.5

night on the positive side. I want to talk a little bit about what you thought

1:04.1

Wall's did well, what was the objective, and what, you know, is the campaign, if you were

1:09.9

back in your campaign manager chair, What do you guys pushing today?

1:13.4

Well, what would I be pushing today

1:15.5

is the last five minutes of that debate,

1:17.6

where he refused to acknowledge that Trump had lost the election.

1:21.7

He went right back to the election denier thing, and I think there's already an ad from Team Harris out there on this, and it's exactly right.

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