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Welcome everybody. Subsack. I'm on a substack. Don't limit here with Mike Nellis.

Mike is the former senior advisor to Kamala Harris, the founder and chief strategy officer

at Authentic.org.

Mike, how does you raise over $1 billion for Democratic candidates, including Adam Schiff,

Gretchen Whitmer, and Pat Ryan?

That's a lot of money.

And how you do you do that?

It is a lot of money.

A lot of time, a lot of time and effort and fundraising emails, better for, better for worse. But I got my start. I dropped out of college to work for Barack Obama 20 years ago and got to be one of the first people to do online fundraising for candidates and found myself pretty good at it. So I got to work for Kamala Harris. Adam Schiff is my oldest client. Gretcher Wimmer is one of my current clients,

along with a whole bunch of others. Corey Booker. We raised a ton of money for him around the

filibuster and all the other great things that he's doing. So I have a really great team of people

around me and my company, authentic. So then how are you doing after the election? A lot of people

are not doing well still. There's still some people who are wounded and they're, you know, sad and depressed

or whatever. Seriously, I'm not kidding. Yeah, no. I mean, I don't blame anybody for being

sad or depressed. I sort of, I take, I think there's something sadder than a political

consultant licking their wounds post-election. So I'm choosing to be a joyful warrior and

trying to find the good in it. So I've got a little six-year-old boy at home,

and it's summertime in Chicago. So I'm doing fine. I think a lot of other people aren't doing

fine, but I'm okay. So then how do Democrats move forward now? You said, because you do, you lick your

wounds and you move on, right? Yeah. You've got to. So the question is a lot, there's been a lot of consternation. Everybody's doing a post-mortem.

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