S4 Ep6: 'Orange Man Bad' is Not Enough (with Ruy Teixeira)
The Focus Group Podcast
The Bulwark
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Forthcoming book by Ruy and John Judis:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250877499/wherehaveallthedemocratsgone#:~:text=In%20Where%20Have%20All%20the,and%20partnership%20of%20the%20working
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the focus group podcast I'm Sarah Longwell |
| 0:11.2 | publisher of the Bullwork and this week we are checking in with yet another group of voters that could decide the 2024 election, Hispanic voters. |
| 0:21.0 | After Trump spent his term pushing for a border wall and separating |
| 0:24.8 | children from families to say nothing of his comments during the 2016 campaign, |
| 0:29.6 | it seemed inconceivable that Trump would do better with Hispanics in 2020 than he did in 2016. |
| 0:36.7 | But against all odds, he did do better. |
| 0:39.7 | If you only count the majority party candidates, Trump got 36% of the Hispanic vote in 2020, |
| 0:46.3 | up from 29% in 2016, according to catalyst data. |
| 0:50.5 | A lot of that was due to the fact that 30% more Hispanics voted in 2020 than 2016, something |
| 0:56.1 | that is certainly reflected in our focus groups. |
| 0:59.8 | Behind all these shifts are real voters, and today you're going to hear from some of them. |
| 1:04.0 | You're also going to hear from some Biden voters who are considering abandoning the Democrats |
| 1:08.1 | in 2024. |
| 1:09.9 | My guest today is my friend, Rui Tishera, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, |
| 1:15.4 | co-founder and politics editor of the Liberal Patriot, and co-author with John Judas of the forthcoming |
| 1:20.8 | book, Where have all the Democrats gone? The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes. |
| 1:25.7 | Rui, thanks for being here. |
| 1:27.7 | Hey, thanks for having me, Sarah. |
| 1:29.6 | Okay, so your book's coming out November 7th. |
| 1:32.1 | It's about the Democratic Party's decline and support among working class voters. |
| 1:36.0 | You lay out a blueprint for the Democrats to be more of a working class friendly party than they are now. |
| 1:41.0 | So what lessons does history leave for Democrats right here in this |
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