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Republican Strategist Reacts to Good and Bad 2022 Midterm Ads (Sarah Longwell)

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🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Former Barack Obama Communications Director and Pod Save America host Dan Pfeiffer is joined by Sarah Longwell, Publisher of The Bulwark and Founder of The Republican Accountability Project. They break down 2022 midterm ads from Republicans and Democrats. Featuring: the Senate Leadership Fund’s attack ad against John Fetterman in Pennsylvania, Liz Cheney from the Republican Accountability Project, “Crazy Sh*t” about Doug Mastriano, and a bonus ad from viral Republican candidate Linda Paulson.

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There's not much you can say about that, because that ad is...

0:03.0

Perfect.

0:04.0

When it comes to the certification of elections, when it comes to democracy, 2022 is 2024.

0:09.0

Welcome to Political Extrude React, where we break down political ads and media,

0:12.0

explain with people behind them or trying to accomplish and decide whether or not they did a good job.

0:15.0

I'm Dan Feiffer, former Communication Director for Barack Obama.

0:18.0

And joining me today is Sarah Longwell, publisher of the Bullwork and host of the Focus Group podcast.

0:22.0

Sarah Longwell, welcome back to Political Extrude React.

0:25.0

It's great to see you again.

0:26.0

Thanks for having me. Great to be here.

0:28.0

The last time you were on the show was the end of March.

0:31.0

And the world has changed a lot since then.

0:33.0

So I just want to get your quick take on how the DOBS decision, the January 6 hearings, the Mar-a-Lago stuff,

0:40.0

has changed the political environment since we last spoke.

0:43.0

Yeah, I mean, I think that abortion more than anything else has scrambled things.

0:48.0

And it's not just abortion, though.

0:49.0

It's the combination of abortion with the fact that now that the primaries are over and people are having to basically go ahead and look at these candidates,

0:55.0

the Republicans have nominated some truly terrible candidates this cycle.

0:59.0

Because they're just sort of extreme overall, they're ended up being this like Venn diagram,

1:03.0

but they're also super extreme on abortion, which is now hurting them in big ways with these swing voters.

1:08.0

So the first ad we're going to watch is from the Senate Leadership Fund.

1:12.0

And I think it is probably a response to that shift in the political environment that you just referenced.

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