(Rerun) Lis Smith Says the Path to Trounce Ron DeSantis Is Straight Through Right-Wing Media

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🗓️ 15 March 2023

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This week, Inside the Hive cohost Joe Hagan talks to Lis Smith, Democratic campaign veteran and author of the new memoir Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story, which details her journey, the public one and the private one, through Democratic campaigns over the past 17 years, for candidates as varied as Jon Corzine, Barack Obama, Pete Buttigieg, and, most infamously, former governor Andrew Cuomo, whose lurid political demise she details down to the last moments of his time in office. A savvy political operator, Smith trains her sights on stubborn problems like Florida governor Ron DeSantis, and what to do about President Joe Biden, who, despite his abysmal poll numbers, she says is preparing to come out swinging in advance of the midterms. “If the [midterms] are a referendum on Democrats, we will be screwed in November,” says Smith, but if Biden and his surrogates can effectively target Trump-tainted election deniers and antiabortion Republicans, “that’s a terrain we can win on. And that’s a switch that we need to flip—we need to flip that switch pretty soon. And we have the opportunity to now.” Smith, who helped take Buttigieg’s star to the national level, is now working with Michigan state senator Mallory McMorrow, who went viral with a searing counterattack on anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans. Smith puts McMorrow on a short list of candidates, along with Kansas City mayor Quinton Lucas, to form the future of the party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:19.8	living have been killed by the dead. A hunting in Venice directed by Kenneth Branagh only in
0:24.8	cinemas September 15th. Book tickets now.
0:30.4	Welcome to Inside the Hives is Joe Hagen your co-host.
0:38.8	I have a very special guest today. I have Liz Smith here.
0:42.9	Political communications veteran author of a new memoir. Any given Tuesday a political love story.
0:49.6	She's here right now with me. Hello, Liz.
0:52.1	Hey, Joe. Thanks for having me.
0:54.4	This book, holy moly, I it filled me with anxiety. I'm going to be honest. I don't like you
1:00.0	You're you're going through a rollercoaster ride of all these campaigns you've been involved with
1:04.0	whether it's Terry McAuliffe, John Corazine,
1:06.9	Claire McCaskill, Barack Obama, Pete Buttigieg and it's through the
1:12.6	passing years as the political landscape kind of twists and turns and it is I mean you can
1:20.0	but you can inhale this book. You can snort it. You can just snort it right up.
1:23.8	You know, that's funny. I um, I sent a PDF of it to one of my co-workers from Pete's
1:30.3	campaign and she said that she read it in one sitting and I also sent it to um,
1:37.6	Dorothy McAuliffe, Terry McAuliffe's wife and she said that she read it in one sitting
1:42.8	because I wanted it to make it feel like less like a political science book and more sort of
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