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The Michael Steele Podcast

Letting Go of the Republican Party (Quick Take)

The Michael Steele Podcast

Two Squared Media

Politics, News, History, Government

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

This is an excerpt from the full episode, "Can We Please Return to Common Sense Politics? (with Leigh McGowan, AKA PoliticsGirl)"

Michael Steele speaks with Leigh McGowan (PoliticsGirl) about letting go of the current version of the Republican party and the Republicans like Liz Cheney casting their ballots for Kamala Harris this November.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

It's not even so much what happens if Donald Trump wins or loses. It's what they are,

0:06.8

have already set in motion. Yeah. That is going to be the game going forward, which is why I say

0:13.5

to a lot of folks who, you know, hold on dearly to the party, we've got to let it go as it is,

0:22.8

but in the process of letting it go,

0:24.6

we just beat the shit out of it.

0:26.0

We create the faction within it

0:29.6

to have that fight just as the Republicans did with the Whigs

0:33.7

to emerge to become the Republican Party,

0:37.4

this fight will occur and something better will emerge

0:41.1

out of this Republican Party.

0:43.6

And so that's the set up play.

0:46.5

And the lines are being drawn, the players are being leveled up.

0:49.2

So it's been importantly when you see someone like Liz Cheney coming out and endorsing Kamala Harris,

0:59.4

what does that say to you when you're looking at the political landscape and then begin to

1:04.9

see some of these movements by Republicans like her now? You know, I'm already, everybody knows where I am. I was there

1:12.6

four years ago. I figured this stuff out a long time ago and said, okay, y'all need to stand

1:16.8

over here because this is where democracy is. Yeah. Not there. It's here. But now people are coming on

1:23.7

and we've worked behind the scenes to create the permission structure for, in fact, the

1:31.3

Liz Cheney's and others to sort of get, you know, stand in that space, but then more importantly,

1:36.5

for rank and file everyday Americans, center right, conservative, moderate Republicans who are fed up with watching the party deteriorate

1:46.6

but feel they have no place to go, maybe you do.

1:51.3

Yeah.

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