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The Playbook Podcast

October 24, 2024: Knives out in Trump world

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Politics, Government

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The internal machinations of Donald Trump’s campaign have dominated headlines this past week, although not in a way they might want. There are accounts of infighting, power struggles and chaos. And there's usually one of two reasons for those kind of stories: finger-pointing when things aren’t going well, or maneuvering because things are going so well that rivals want to elbow each other out of the way. So which is it? Playbook co-authors Eugene Daniels and Rachael Bade discuss.

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0:00.0

Presented by BP.

0:05.4

Hey, good morning.

0:06.6

I'm playbook co-author Eugene Daniels.

0:08.4

It is Thursday, October 24th.

0:11.3

We're less than two weeks away.

0:13.6

Two weeks away.

0:15.0

How we got here?

0:15.7

I don't know.

0:16.8

We're all limping toward the finish line from Election Day, less than two weeks. And the vibes

0:22.2

inside the Trump campaign are, oh, not that great today as we're waking up. They're feeling

0:28.2

okay about the election, maybe not great about the internal politics. Yesterday on the pod,

0:33.3

we talked about a brewing controversy around Howard Lutnik. He's the leader of Trump's transition team and the leading financier.

0:41.2

But the Trump world drama doesn't end there.

0:44.3

Here to chat with me about what we're seeing and hearing and how it could impact the final vote count is, of course, my girl, co-author, Rachel Bade.

0:52.7

Hello, Rachel.

0:56.6

Good morning, Eugene. Good morning.

1:03.5

You look fabulous as always. As always, right? As always. We never look bad on those Zoom meetings at all.

1:10.6

We are close and getting closer, but it seems like knives are out in Trump world just a little bit, right? We're seeing stories

1:11.7

with legs about key members of his team and potential officials in a second Trump administration,

1:18.0

and they're usually one of two reasons for these kinds of stories, especially this close

1:22.8

to the election. Either it's finger pointing because things are going terribly or things are going so

1:28.3

well so some folks are maneuvering and trying to get their rivals out of the way. How would you

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