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The Michael Steele Podcast

Quick Take: Is Trump Finished?

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Steve Schmidt discusses why he believes Donald Trump is finally finished and the chaos and players that defined 2022.

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0:00.0

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

0:12.5

Michael Steel Podcast.

0:14.3

Check out what's going on right now.

0:16.8

In a post-Trump error, what is the message, dim for Democrats, for sane Republicans?

0:24.4

How do you want to frame them?

0:26.3

What is the message in the kind of candidates that they're going to put in front of these

0:30.8

people who are still so pissed off at everything?

0:34.1

Because they think they've been got.

0:37.3

What is the message in the custody there?

0:39.1

Because if John F. Kennedy Redoxed in 2022 couldn't do it, what does?

0:43.6

I have, I, I, I don't think it's a dissatisfaction.

0:46.8

I'm very rarely, I very rarely disagree with you politically, but I think I, I think you

0:53.7

are off the fucking wall on this.

0:55.8

I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to tell you why.

1:00.5

You, you have a guy in Ohio, right, with no party apparatus, right, who was completely

1:08.0

abandoned, right, Republicans nationally spent $65, $70 million, right, and he got 20 plus

1:16.5

percent of the Republican vote.

1:19.4

And with the most polarized cycles when you have the top of the ticket, right, running,

1:27.0

right, 25 points ahead, you've been the down ballot guy.

1:32.0

If, if, if the guy at the top collapses, loses by 25 points, you win by five, I would

1:39.7

do you?

1:40.7

And I'm like, that guy can play ball.

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