Primary Results, An Abortion Win in Kansas, and Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip

Pivot

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🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Kara is joined by co-host Lis Smith! They discuss this week’s primary results and Kansas voting to uphold the right to abortion. Also, Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, and Twitter subpoenas Musk allies. And, though it is indeed Scott-Free August….some dick jokes. You can find Lis’s book, “Any Given Tuesday,” here. Send us your questions by calling us at 855-51-PIVOT, or via Yappa, at nymag.com/pivot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. This is Pivot from New York Magazine in the Vox Media podcast network. I'm
0:07.9	Cara Swisher and Scott Free August continues. So today, my co-host is political strategist,
0:14.2	author of any given Tuesday and Democratic Insider Liz Smith. Welcome, Liz.
0:19.8	Well, thank you so much for having me and for your regular listeners. I want to assure
0:25.8	them that even though it's Scott Free August, it is not Dick joke free August. Oh, because I
0:32.1	am a big connoisseur. Oh, okay. And a big user of Dick jokes. Okay. And sort of Dick joke. I got
0:38.1	it in the repertoire. All right. You've got them. You've got them ready. There's so many
0:41.5	dicks around this week. So that's this perfect. We're going to get to know you a little bit in
0:44.8	everything that you've done. Today, the votes are in and on the ballot. The future of the
0:49.0	Republican Party and the right to an abortion. Also, we'll hear from a listener with a question
0:53.2	about the Supreme Court. We're going to do heavy politics today because Liz has a long history
0:57.5	and politics. She's been a, what would you, how would you describe yourself Liz? What is, what is
1:01.4	your way would you would say this is me? I would just say I'm a political operative that has worked
1:08.5	at every level of the game, every level of the business in right states in blue, first state
1:14.9	senate candidates up to presidential candidates. Right. And I like the use of term operative because
1:19.0	a lot of people try to get away from that idea. Like they say strategist or I just call do a strategist.
1:24.2	But I like the idea of your political operative. So you're sort of the behind the scenes people that
1:28.2	run campaigns and things like that. Yeah. And you know, I think one thing I tried my, tried to do
1:33.8	in my book as well. I don't try to sugarcoat things or glamorize things or sanitize things.
1:39.8	I'm a straight up political operative. Right. Right. And you, you're most famous client,
1:43.6	of course. Today has been Pete Buttigieg, who is now the Secretary of Transportation, but Mayor
1:48.6	Pete ran for president and got, did pretty well. You really put them on the map in lots of ways.
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