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The Michael Steele Podcast

Quick Take: A Republican's Advice for Democrats

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

This is an excerpt from the full episode "Inside the Voter's Mind: With Sarah Longwell."

Michael Steele is joined by Sarah Longwell, President of Longwell Partners & Republican Accountability PAC, publisher of The Bulwark and host of The Focus Group Podcast. The pair discuss the mindset of the current voter and Sarah gives her advice to Democrats, including how they should be campaigning and changing their narrative.

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0:00.0

Hey, Michael Steele Podcast listeners, Michael Steele here with another quick take from the Michael

0:12.9

Steele Podcast. Check out what's going on right now. Welcome back everybody to Michael

0:17.9

Steele Podcast. This has been so much fun and it's so nerdy and so so full with thinking

0:25.4

in so many ways. I love it. Sarah always brings the A game in the conversation around really

0:31.8

how voters are thinking and feeling about a lot of stuff out there. Oftentimes the media

0:37.3

disclosses over or just pejoratively kind of puts in all in one bucket. Sarah takes it

0:42.5

out the bucket lays it out very plain like your mama laying out your clothes in the morning

0:46.8

here. You're underwear, your socks here. Here's your pants, here's your shirt, there's

0:51.8

your jacket. So now you put it them all in order and you understand what you're going

0:55.6

to look like when you're fully dressed. That's what Sarah does with politics. I love it.

1:00.8

So you had to sum up on the dems. What from what you've seen out there and how are you

1:08.7

looking at the landscape? What would be some of the advice you would give them to navigate

1:16.7

these voters to begin to pull their attention towards the success of the economy, the success

1:23.9

in foreign policy, the success in infrastructure, the success in abating inflation and high interest

1:34.5

rates as best that they can. How would you advise them at this point to take their head

1:42.9

out of their ass, look at what America is telling them they're concerned about in addressing

1:47.4

that. Yeah. So here's, this has been my advice all along. So one of the things that I keep

1:52.8

trying to explain to Democrats because Democrats are like, but here's the good news and we

1:56.6

passed the infrastructure bill and here's what was in it. And let me tell you why this is so great.

1:59.7

And I'm like, let me tell you your voters on your side don't know any about this swing voters

2:04.4

don't know like nobody knows about any of this. And they're like, but we're running ads.

2:07.7

And so my big frustration with the Democrats, communications capabilities is like, look,

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