Stuart Stevens: How GOP Got Here, Red Mirage, Wisconsin

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🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Today Joe and Alex are joined by Stuart Stevens, author of It Was All A Lie: How The Republican Party Became Donald Trump. He was the lead strategist for Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign for President, and is currently a member of the Lincoln Project. Joe and Stuart met during simpler times (summer '16), and they start by trying to figure out how we got here from there. First, they talk about the state of the GOP, which Stevens calls a collapse unparalleled in American history. He has some very strong words for those in the party who continue to enable Donald Trump, and some insight into what Republicans close to the President say behind the scenes, including those at The Lincoln Project. Next, Stevens wrote a Washington Post op-ed this week arguing Biden will win Wisconsin despite the President pushing for it in recent weeks. Are we buying Republican enthusiasm about the Midwest? Then, we all saw the speculation of a "Red Mirage" where Trump claims victory on Election Night before all of the mail-in ballots are counted. Stuart thinks that scenario is, well, quaint. How the hell do we stop it?Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/that-trippi-show/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.7	Joining me today is the author of It Was All All All Why, how the Republican Party became Donald Trump.
0:55.8	Stuart Stevens, it's great to have him with us.
0:58.7	He was also the lead strategist for the Romney campaign in 2012 and works with the Lincoln Project as well now.
1:07.0	Hi Stuart, thanks for being with.
1:09.0	Hey Joe.
1:10.0	Stuart, I just want to start with back in January 2016, you and I are fellows at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics with David Axelrod brought us in to do that. the of the students and you were leading with what you were thinking I found myself
1:34.9	hanging on every word like a sponge to try to pick up some insights that I
1:40.4	found amazing really interesting but I also remember back then how early you had
1:45.5	come out against Trump how hard he was coming at you on Twitter in other in other ways
1:52.2	it was tacking you back and I just wonder back then did you see this but I mean did you think did you see it getting to where it is today?
1:59.6	No, look, I mean a lot of people were wrong in 2016 but it's hard to find anybody who was more
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