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🗓️ 20 February 2024
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0:00.0 | The very same people who are saying that Donald Trump can't win are the very same people who said he couldn't win in 2016. |
0:11.3 | This is the warning. Welcome to another Ask Me Anything session. This is our second one. And if you continue to enjoy them, we'll keep them going. We've gotten hundreds of |
0:22.6 | questions, and I'm going to answer some of them right now. The question is, what needs to be done |
0:28.6 | to get Biden elected? Well, the simplest answer to that question is, President Biden must secure |
0:36.9 | 270 electoral votes in order |
0:41.1 | to be re-elected President of the United States. |
0:44.1 | The last election, he won by 44,000 votes across three states. |
0:52.2 | This election will likely feature more than two candidates that are capable of getting |
0:58.4 | over 30% of the vote. So functionally, this will be a three-way race. And that's why it's so important |
1:05.8 | for the Biden team to understand the situation that was faced by Harry Truman in 1948. |
1:12.6 | Harry Truman was faced with the position where there were, in effect, three Democrats running for president against one Republican, Thomas Dewey. |
1:23.6 | And so there's a famous newspaper headline that says, |
1:28.3 | Dewey defeats Truman. |
1:30.3 | And later there's a picture of Harry Truman holding that Chicago newspaper from the back |
1:36.3 | of the Ferdinand Magellan railcar number one, gloating, happy, having been re-elected. Harry Truman had a candidate, Henry Wallace, |
1:48.1 | a former vice president under FDR, running to his left, and he had Strom Thurmond, the South |
1:54.4 | Carolina segregationist, running to his right. This was all part of the mosaic of the Democratic Party. And in the end, |
2:03.9 | Harry Truman won the game playing with the deck as it was dealt. Now, specifically, what Joe Biden |
2:13.5 | has to do is he has to bring the fight to Donald Trump. He has to push the MAGA movement |
2:22.7 | outside the mainstream of Americanism. Corporate media in America has covered the MAGA |
2:31.9 | movement and has covered the rise of Donald Trump for the last seven years |
2:37.5 | through a couple of different prisms. The first was a profit opportunity. The chairman of CBS News |
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