Joe Trippi on the Race for the Democratic Nomination in 2020

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🗓️ 21 March 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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What is the state of the race for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2020? In this Conversation, veteran political consultant and commentator Joe Trippi draws on his extensive experience in Democratic campaigns to assess. Will the ideological energy of the Democratic Party grassroots determine the nominee? Or will a “safe choice” prevail? Trippi highlights party regulars’ attention to electability, as well as the desire of many voters for a candidate who presents a strong contrast to President Trump in terms of character and style. According to Trippi, such a focus on electability could play a pivotal role in the candidacy of Joe Biden, who has the big advantage of having served as vice president to a president still popular in his party.

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0:00.0	And the Hi, I'm Bill Crystal.
0:15.0	Welcome to Conversations.
0:17.0	I'm joined today by Joe Trippy, veteran Democratic operative and strategist,
0:22.0	famous for the, I guess the Howard Dean campaign,
0:25.0	taking Dean from 1% to leading the field.
0:28.0	Well, yeah, both, to leading the field by the end of 2003 and then what second I go,
0:34.1	third in Iowa and that was the beginning of the end there in 2004 but and then
0:38.6	Jerry Brown's excellent campaign for governor in 2010 when people forget how you know had people thought that
0:45.7	couldn't happen to come back for a guy who was a tough one but been governor what 25
0:49.5	years before Doug Jones campaign in Alabama in the recent special election.
0:55.0	So anyway, won some campaigns, lost some campaigns,
0:58.0	but really for our purposes, a very shrewd analyst of the Democratic Party and of American politics and always enjoyed
1:05.1	always enjoyed being with you on TV and speeches and now we're here.
1:08.9	So you're a Democrat, we're speaking just mid-March, March 15th, I think it is,
1:13.0	what's going to happen, you know?
1:15.0	Everyone wants to know who's, what's the,
1:17.5	who's the nominee going to be,
1:18.8	or what's the dynamic?
1:21.0	What's the dynamic?
1:22.0	How should one think about this next 12 months in the Democratic Party?
1:26.1	I think the whole race changes if Joe Biden gets into the race. It's still kind of a question mark at least today in mid-March it is and if he does I think it totally changes the dynamics in the race right now you see a lot of these candidates trying to sort of maneuver and
1:44.2	position against each other, you know, who's the most progressive or who's the
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