Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way

The Lincoln Project

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Politics

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🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Host Reed Galen is joined by Lincoln Project Senior Advisors Trygve Olson and Jeff Timmer. They discuss the current state of the Republican party (especially the House GOP who’s going on 3 weeks without a Speaker), the national security and foreign policy strength/leadership of President Joe Biden, and how to counter MAGA messaging targeted at Bannon-line voters. Plus, what recent news out of Michigan says about the GOP as a whole. If you’d like to hear more from Jeff Timmer, check out “A Republic, If You Can Keep It” and if you’d like to hear more from Trygve OIson, check out his weekly segment on “The Todd Allbaugh Show”. For more from Reed Galen, be sure to subscribe to “The Home Front”. If you’d like to ask a question or share a comment with The Lincoln Project, send an email to [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone it's Reed before we get started I think we need to understand a lot of times in life there's
0:05.4	nuance but sometimes in a fight like this guys there isn't there is a good side and there is a bad side
0:14.3	this is a black and white decision.
0:21.7	Reelecting Joe Biden in 2024 means the continuation of American democracy and the re-election of Donald Trump means the end of it.
0:25.0	It is that simple everybody and I know we don't like binary choices but here we are.
0:31.0	And I need you to do everything you can to keep that in mind and to let your friends
0:35.7	and your family and your colleagues and everybody in America know what the stakes are.
0:40.9	It's not just you and me, it's our kids. It's our grandkids. It's the future of what we want America to be.
0:47.0	I'll tell you this guys. I don't know what happens when Joe Biden gets reelected, but it gives us opportunities.
0:55.7	It gives us choices to decide how America continues.
0:59.4	If Donald Trump gets reelected, that's taken away from all of us and we will enter a period none of us even
1:05.1	want to imagine.
1:06.5	And so I want to say thank you to you not only for all you've done and all you're doing,
1:11.9	but all we will do together in the next 12 months.
1:15.0	And now, on Gailen. Today I'm joined by Trigg
1:31.2	Vilsen, Senior Advisor to the Lincoln Project, and President of Viking Strategies LLC, a Washington, D.C. based public affairs and political consulting firm.
1:40.0	Triggi, welcome back.
1:42.0	Thanks, Reed.
1:43.0	Once again, I'm also joined by Jeff Timmer,
1:45.0	also a senior advisor to the Lincoln Project,
1:47.0	former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party,
1:50.0	and host of a republic if you can keep it available wherever your favorite
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