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Robby Mook on how to sell Hillary

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🗓️ 28 July 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook sits down with Glenn Thrush in Philadelphia to discuss how they came together with the Sanders camp, why voters may not trust Clinton until after she's elected and the Russians hacking DNC emails. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, it's Glenn Thrush with Florida Coast Off Message Podcasts. Here we are in Philly.

0:12.2

We got what, like a day and a half to go. We're doing this on Wednesday night.

0:19.7

Look, the story of this convention, from my view, has already kind of been written.

0:26.2

Hillary Clinton is going to give a speech tomorrow night.

0:29.8

It's going to be the focal point of the convention.

0:32.1

David Pluff, you know, Barack Obama's former campaign manager and current sort of Hillary

0:36.4

Clinton advisor has said

0:37.8

the only speech that really matters during a campaign, during a convention is the candidate's

0:42.6

speech.

0:43.7

But I got to tell you, I think we saw a historic moment unexpectedly on the second night in

0:50.7

Michelle Obama's speech.

0:52.0

It was one of the best political speeches I have ever seen.

0:55.8

And let me tell you, she is supposedly a non-politician, but this woman has delivered two

1:00.9

of the best addresses I have ever seen at a convention. Her one in 2012 was almost as good.

1:06.2

But the reason why this thing really worked is, and and I wrote this Michelle Obama delivered the best

1:12.5

speech of Hillary Clinton's career she made a better more concise more emotional more

1:17.4

passionate case for Hillary Clinton's candidacy than the candidate herself has ever given

1:20.9

our guest this week just kind of dovetails with this is Robbie Mook

1:26.7

Hillary Clinton's campaign

1:28.4

manager. I've known him for a while. By the way, whenever you do a podcast with somebody that

1:33.5

you know, it's always a little bit tougher, you kind of have to kind of burn off the familiarity

1:37.1

and get down to brass tacks. But Robbie is a good sport. He's a lot of fun. But he told me

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