Matt Gaetz: Venmo Money, Venmo Problems

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🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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The problems dogging attorney general pick Matt Gaetz don't seem to be going away, as new leaks expose a history of thousands of dollars in Venmo payments to two women at the center of the complaints against him. Meanwhile, newly unearthed video of RFK Jr., Trump's choice for health secretary, shows him speculating about whether the Covid pandemic was planned by the government. Tommy is joined by Democratic strategist and media expert Lis Smith to unpack all the chaos, plus what the Dems are missing, what needs to shift in their media strategy, and the big questions driving the race for DNC Chair. Then, Dan sits down with Sen. Jon Tester to reflect on his re-election battle in Montana, how Democrats can win in the heartland again, and the best way to connect with voters in red states.

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0:00.0	Welcome to POTA of America. I'm Tommy Vitor and guest hosting with me today is my friend, Liz Smith,
0:25.8	one of the smartest democratic strategists in politics. She spent most of this cycle at the DNC
0:31.7	heading up their efforts to deal with third party candidates like our buddy RFK Jr. Liz, welcome. Thank you. Thank you for having
0:40.0	me, Tommy. I wish if we're under better circumstances, but look forward to talking about the
0:45.3	dumpster fire in Washington, D.C. with you. Yeah, it's really, it's bleak. It's bleak. Speaking of
0:51.4	Bleak on today's show, we're going to talk about the latest in the Matt
0:54.3	Gates for Attorney General Saga, how the race for DNC chair is shaken out and Liz's thoughts
0:58.7	on how Democrats can shake things up to win again, especially when it comes to media strategy.
1:04.2	Then Senator John Tester stops by to talk with Dan about his tough race in Montana, how he
1:09.3	outperformed the national ticket and how Democrats can
1:12.1	win again in the heartland states. But first, we have a flurry of new cabinet picks that are a
1:18.2	continuation of the theme of Donald Trump picking his unqualified friends to run huge,
1:23.0	important agencies. Wonderful. We talked on the Tuesday pod about the race for Treasury Secretary.
1:29.1	Apparently, the transition co-chair, Howard Lutnik, eventually lost that race because he's now been
1:33.8	named to be Commerce Secretary. Well, here we'll still have a big role in implementing
1:37.6	Trump's tariffs. Trump also picked Linda McMahon, his other transition co-chair, to run the
1:43.2	Department of Education. McMahon is a
1:45.3	longtime ally and donor of Trump's. She served as SBA administrator during Trump's first term,
1:51.3	alongside her husband, Vince McMahon. She's the co-founder of WWE. She is apparently,
1:57.6	doesn't have a lot of qualifications to be in the job, but we'll get to'll get to that. Uh, but the biggest cabinet head scratcher headline to dates, or at least
2:04.7	in the last couple days, is that Trump nominated Dr. Oz to be the head of CMS, the centers for
2:11.4	Medicare and Medicaid services. Uh, it's worth just spending a second to unpack what CMS does,
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