Lincoln Project Co-Founder Steve Schmidt: “The Pro-Democracy Side Of This Argument Cannot Be Gentle”

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

When Steve Schmidt was a senior advisor on John McCain’s campaign in 2008, Twitter was a curiosity. Now, he and a number of former Republican establishment members are using social media deftly to make the case against President Trump with the Lincoln Project. Their anti-Trump ads seem to go viral at least once a week, and may indeed influence the outcome of the election. Schmidt, a Lincoln Project cofounder, joins the Big Technology Podcast to discuss the evolution of the Republican Party since the McCain days, and how social media is changing politics.

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0:36.4	Hello and welcome to the Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation
0:40.9	of the tech world and beyond. And today we have an amazing guest joining us all the way from
0:46.3	Utah, I believe, is Steve Schmidt, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, which I think many of
0:51.7	you have heard a lot about. And I can't wait to get into a discussion of what's going on with the project, a little bit about the election and talk a bit about Steve's work and the evolution of the Republican Party.
1:03.5	Steve, welcome to the show.
1:05.2	Good to be with you, Alex.
1:06.6	So are you in Utah right now?
1:08.7	Park City, Utah.
1:10.0	And you guys have just created like a little bubble where the entire Lincoln project is working out of?
1:15.8	We have about 40 people out here in total.
1:19.5	And we had another 50 that are in different places across the country.
1:24.8	But the plurality of the Lincoln projects out here and is in a bubble.
1:29.7	Yeah, it must be nice to be around some other people these days. It's rare, so I feel like,
1:34.9	especially with the work that you're doing, having some social interaction is probably nice.
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