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Run Off Run Up (with Mo Elleithee)

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Hacks On Tap

News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

4.87.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Mo Elleithee, former communications director for the Democratic National Committee and current executive director of the Georgetown Institute of Politics, joins Axe and Murphy to discuss all things Georgia on runoff day — the final ads, Biden and Trump’s influence there, and what the results will mean for both parties. Mo also walks us through the new primary schedules and how that could reshape elections as we know them! Plus so much more!

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0:00.0

Hey, pull up a chair. It's ax on tap with David Axelrot, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy.

0:15.0

Since the last time I was here, Mr. Walker has been talking about issues that are of great importance to the people of Georgia.

0:29.0

Like whether it's better to be a vampire or a werewolf.

0:36.0

This isn't a debate that I must confess I once had myself when I was seven.

0:51.0

Well, there he is, the former president of the United States doing a tight five minutes in Atlanta on the one and only

0:59.5

Herschel Walker. By the way, Mr. President, not a tough call. Vampires by a mile just a person of grooming aspect alone.

1:06.0

It's pretty obvious. So here we are, Georgia election day.

1:12.0

Hacker Rooz get excited. We have that to talk about and high politics and high jinx at the DNC on the presidential calendar.

1:19.0

This is a big deal. We're talking about all of it. And we needed a guest who can handle the whole waterfront David. So who did we get?

1:26.0

And we got a Moa Lithy, the distinguished director of the Georgetown Institute of Politics, the former spokesperson for the Democrat National Committee.

1:37.0

And now a member of the rules and bylaws committee of the DNC, which has been in the news in the past few weeks,

1:45.0

putting the dagger in the back of the Iowa caucuses. And I see his fingerprints on the bloody knife. So Moa, welcome.

1:53.0

It's good to be here. If you didn't told me, you know, working on a number of presidential campaigns that Obama versus Clinton,

2:01.0

primary in 2008, which was historic, but that I would one day say sitting on the rules and bylaws committee was maybe the most fun I've ever had in politics.

2:10.0

I would have thought you were nuts, but this has been a really fascinating, interesting process.

2:15.0

Well, you know, as we sit here, the New Hampshire State Patrol is getting your picture in that of your colleagues, because there's going to be a war.

2:22.0

We're going to talk about all that. But I think we start with Georgia, right David? Today is the day, the big runoff.

2:27.0

It is. And it may be that by the time people listen to this, they'll have a verdict because it looks, I don't know guys.

2:34.0

It feels like they'll be. I don't think there's be a lot of mystery to this one. It feel every single pole.

2:41.0

And that's a bad way to start a sentence in American politics today. But every single pole suggests what every single politician you talk to on either side says privately,

2:54.0

that a Raphael Warnock should be reelected tonight by more than a couple of votes.

3:01.0

I now, because there's a certain bird sound I had to endure in a podcast right after the election, being of a crow, hard to make predictions.

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