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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

So You Want to Run for Office with Luke Hayes

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

MS NOW, Chris Hayes

Msnbc, The Chris Hayes Podcast, Government, Politics, Chris Hayes, Why Is This Happening?, Withpod, Versant, Ms Now, News, Society & Culture, Versant Media

4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

How do you unseat a 16-term member of Congress? Ask Luke Hayes who is fresh off his role as campaign manager for Jamaal Bowman, a middle school principal poised to defeat New York Congressman Eliot Engel. Now, Luke’s here to talk about the nuts and bolts of campaigning and it absolutely doesn’t come up at all that Luke is also Chris’s younger brother. Let’s say you want to run for office – what happens next? Luke starts on day one and walks us through what your campaign needs, what your day-to-day looks like, and why Chris once punched out Luke’s front tooth.

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0:00.0

We didn't talk any NBA basketball. We didn't talk we didn't talk about our childhood

0:04.6

What an amazing brother I was but we just kept this

0:08.8

I'm not telling people when you punch out my front tooth is that a story?

0:12.6

That was an accident just for the record

0:19.4

Hello and welcome to wise is happening with me your host Chris Hayes

0:22.8

Well, you know, we don't do cheeky musical drops on this show, but if we did I would be playing it's a family affair

0:37.2

Right now

0:38.8

For this very very very special quarantine episode wise is happening you

0:44.2

You may have seen the New York primary was a few weeks ago and one of the biggest

0:49.5

Sort of headlines one of the biggest upsets and it's not an upset yet because

0:53.6

The absentee ballots haven't been counted and I want to make sure to not get out ahead of them being counted because in this era

0:59.0

It's very important, but at least for where things stand now

1:03.2

There's a candidate named Jamal Bowman who ran in a New York congressional district that's represented by Ellie and Angle

1:09.4

Ellie and Angle who is represented that district for decades and who is chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the house

1:15.6

That district actually happens to be the district that I grew up in in the Bronx

1:19.4

It's still my parents house in the Bronx is still in Ellie and Angle's district and

1:25.0

Jamal Bowman was a really remarkable guy who like

1:28.7

He he had a good announcement video as a principal who started a middle school in the Bronx

1:34.1

African-American man in his 40s and like I saw his video announcing that he was gonna challenge Ellie at Angle at some point

1:41.7

There's a certain logic to it because like Congressman Crowley Joe Crowley who represented the district that

1:47.2

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ended up defeating him for

1:50.6

Ellie and Angle is a white Democrat in a safe democratic seat

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