Nicco Mele on Digital Campaigning, Our Political Reality, and Where We're Headed

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Joe Trippi

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🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Joe and Alex are joined by longtime friend Nicco Mele, who was the webmaster on the Dean 2004 campaign, and now is a thought leader in the digital political space. Nicco and Joe talk about how close the 2020 election truly was, and how close we came to a Trump validation and Senate/House sweep of the GOP. In reality, we were only a few thousand votes from catastrophe. They also touch on how Joe predicted Biden's ascent (much to Nicco's chagrin), the push for minority rule via voting restrictions in GOP states, why Republicans will nominate crazy candidates indefinitely, who the "mainstream media" truly is, loneliness and the power of politics as human connection, and how we regain trust with local media. Then, Joe and Nicco remember creating Dean's revolutionary internet-first messaging, and how it indirectly led to the rise of Trump and email fundraising. Nicco reminds us of the ways the Internet could bring us together the way it did in the Dean days. Subscribe to Nicco's substack here: https://nicco.substack.com/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/that-trippi-show/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody it's Joe Trippy and welcome back to that Trippy show.
0:12.3	This week I'm excited to talk to a special
0:14.8	guest, old friend Nicklemelli. He was with me on the Dean campaign. Help and vent a lot of the stuff out there today that you're seeing digitally and online and campaign tactics.
0:30.0	And I gotta tell you you I read his newsletter, Nico's thoughts, mostly about politics, he says,
0:38.7	religiously and highly recommended. We'll put it in the show notes, a link so you can sign up.
0:46.0	But anyway, it's great to be here with Nico.
0:49.0	And Alex, why don't you take us away?
0:51.0	Yeah, and I think Nico, we're on sub-stack, Nico we're on substack because you're on
0:54.2	substat's correct I'm pretty sure you're the the URL for that and we'll put the
0:59.4	show it's an Icstac. Is that right?
1:04.1	Cool. Well, honestly, the first thing I got to ask,
1:08.5	I know both of you guys were on Dean together.
1:11.0	I've heard the stories about you waking up with the keyboard imprint on your face.
1:16.4	That was really the start.
1:18.4	That was like the start of so much that we're seeing even today.
1:25.0	So really I just want your take on how things have evolved, what you see going on,
1:30.0	and then we'll just hop in from there.
1:32.0	Oh, that's a nice broad question. see going on and then we'll just hop in from there.
1:32.6	Oh, that's a nice broad question to start with.
1:38.9	Well, I really learned it all at Trippy's knee.
1:42.8	What can I say?
1:44.4	Great.
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