PREVIEW - The Friday Edition: If I were running for president in 2028…
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Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
My 10-point platform.
If I were running for president (I never would, but thank you to those so confident in me you’ve suggested it), I would go after the middle band of American politics.
I would do this not because I think centrist policies always produce the best outcomes (though they often do) or because all my political views always land in the center (they don’t). Instead, I would try to appeal to the middle band because I think they are underrepresented in today’s politics, and the right candidate with the right framing of moderate politics could win in a landslide. But most importantly, I think their priorities are often sensible and fair.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:12.5 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, I'm putting something out there. |
| 0:35.1 | I am going to share with you what I would do if I were running for president in |
| 0:40.2 | 28. Okay, first of all, I'm not running for president. I never would. Mostly because I'm not |
| 0:47.2 | delusional, not sick in the head, which I think you have to be to run for president respectfully. |
| 0:53.3 | But, you know, I have gotten this push from |
| 0:56.7 | readers before. Sometimes when I write a really good piece or take a middle ground on something, I get all |
| 1:01.3 | these emails like, you got to run for president. And I'm like, no, never. I won't ever do that. |
| 1:07.8 | But I love you guys. So thank you for the confidence. I'm also not qualified. |
| 1:11.7 | I'm just some idiot with a keyboard. So please don't vote for people like me to be president. |
| 1:17.5 | Now, if I were running for president, I would do something a little different than the last few |
| 1:23.0 | presidential candidates I think have done. I would go after the middle band of the American populace. |
| 1:29.4 | I would do this not because I think centrist policies always produce the best outcomes, |
| 1:33.8 | though they do sometimes, or because all my political views always land in the center. |
| 1:39.3 | They don't. And as many of you know who've been listening for a while, I have political views that are sometimes |
| 1:45.7 | radical depending on the issue. Instead, I would try to appeal to the middle band because I think they |
| 1:51.8 | are, A, really underrepresented in today's politics, and B, I think the right candidate with the right |
| 1:58.1 | framing of moderate middle-of-the-road politics could win in a |
| 2:02.1 | landslide. Most importantly, I think the priorities of the middle band of the American voter |
| 2:08.3 | are often sensible and fair. This might not seem like a hot take, but this viewpoint today is |
| 2:14.8 | surprisingly uncommon. In many elections, and especially in primaries, |
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