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Of his party and himself
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0:43.8 | Stuart Stevens, one of the founders of the Lincoln Project ad maker for a ton of Republicans over the years |
0:51.2 | Including for George W. Bush's presidential campaigns where I met him in a spin room after a Bush Gore debate |
1:00.0 | The spin room is where advocates for the two candidates spin for the media after the debate and he was spinning of course for Bush |
1:08.6 | and I was spinning for Gore. I |
1:11.5 | Clearly did a better job |
1:13.5 | Obviously because Gore won the popular vote. Gore got more votes than |
1:21.2 | Bush |
1:23.2 | Anyway, I believe Stuart and I became friends and now he's become a bitterly |
1:30.0 | Disaffected Republican and I mean bitterly to the point of some borderline self-loathing |
1:36.1 | I had him on the podcast a couple years ago when he wrote a book about the Republican party entitled it was all a lie |
1:44.2 | And I wanted to pick up on that conversation and talk about his old party today and going forward |
1:52.4 | Of course back in that |
1:54.7 | 2000 Bush Gore race it was all I and that's what I was saying in the spin room that night |
2:02.4 | Bush had been saying over and over again that quote by far the vast majority of my tax cut is |
2:09.1 | going to those at the bottom and of course the opposite was true the vast majority of his tax cut was going to those at the top and |
2:19.2 | It exploded the debt which had been nothing |
2:23.6 | Clinton handed Bush a balanced budget |
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