Politicianing (with Sarah Longwell)

Hacks On Tap

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.8 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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This week, Axe and Gibbs had the pleasure of welcoming the illustrious Superstar Hackeroo and cherished friend of the pod, Sarah Longwell, who is the host of The Focus Group Podcast and publisher of The Bulwark. Together, the Hacks embark on a riveting exploration of the convoluted narratives surrounding the South Carolina primary, the tumultuous state of the GOP, the enigmatic campaign landscape in Michigan, Biden's political quagmires, Trumped-up allegations, and so much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, pull up a chair. It's hacks on tap with David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy.
0:15.0	I have never seen the Republican Party so unified as it is right now. Never been like that.
0:29.0	They can say Donald Trump won. I give him that, but he as a Republican incumbent didn't
0:35.8	get 40% of the vote of the primary.
0:39.3	All right there Robert Gibbs we have two it seems like somewhat conflicting views of what the
0:45.2	meaning of the South Carolina primary was over the weekend and I think we ought to discuss the state of the Republican Party with a decidedly
1:01.1	ununified guest.
1:05.0	Our buddy, Sarah Longwell is back
1:08.0	from the focus group, one of the great podcasts of our time publisher of the bulwark what's the
1:17.1	name of your apostate Republican group defending democracy together but we also
1:21.6	run Republican voters against Trump.
1:24.0	Yeah, you got a lot of things going on man.
1:28.6	Well, there's a lot of disunity in the Republican Party.
1:30.9	So you got a lot of ground to cover. To
1:33.0	Nicky Haley says Nicky Haley right? Yeah so Sarah what does that 40%
1:39.3	actually mean and is Trump an incumbent?
1:43.0	So should we think of it that way?
1:45.0	I think so.
1:46.0	Look, I think there's two ways to read it.
1:48.0	There's a glass half full case and there's a glass half empty case.
1:51.0	I like to take the glass half empty case. I like to take the glass half bowl case which is
1:55.2	Nicki's I will say though just for accuracy's sake just for thinking about how
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