The 2022 Midterm Elections: Democracy Is On the Ballot - Part 2
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🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by fellow Lincoln Project Co-Founder Rick Wilson and Lincoln Project Senior Advisors Stuart Stevens and Joe Trippi for the conclusion to their conversation of how the political landscape is unfolding less than 2 months out from election day. The panel discusses how it’s in the nation’s best interest for Democrats to value pro-democracy coalition over ideological purity, the need for a media outlet with a pro-democracy bias, and the GOP’s desire for pure power instead of policy positions that benefit the American people. If you’d like to connect with The Lincoln Project, send an email to [email protected].
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, it's read before we get started, I just want to ask you to go to join the union.us |
| 0:06.2 | heed our words heed the words of President Biden get involved in saving American democracy |
| 0:12.2 | this fall by getting involved in your states and your communities to ensure that pro-democracy candidates |
| 0:17.9 | win go to join the union dot us and join the fight and now on with the show |
| 0:31.8 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project I'm your host, Reed Galen. This is part two of our latest |
| 0:37.2 | conversation with Rick Wilson, Joe Trippi and Stuart Stevens about the 2022 midterms at Beyond. |
| 0:43.4 | If you didn't catch part one of our conversation we welcome you to give it a listen. Now let's resume |
| 0:48.8 | our talk with Rick, Joe and Stuart. So Joe in 2016 Hillary Clinton lost, well we all know, |
| 0:59.2 | but she lost not so much because Donald Trump got more votes although he did but because a lot of |
| 1:06.4 | key democratic constituencies i.e. African-American voters in places like Detroit and Philadelphia |
| 1:11.6 | state home. A similar thing happened to Trump in 20 which was 17,000 voters in Wisconsin, you know |
| 1:19.6 | 30,000 voters in Pennsylvania, 50,000 voters in Georgia that should have voted for him as the |
| 1:26.2 | Republican nominee left his name blank left the presidential line blank. And so how do we make |
| 1:32.0 | sure that pro-democracy voters don't allow for an under vote in a lot of these key races whether |
| 1:38.2 | not that's Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania because that's what scares me is not |
| 1:44.1 | that there aren't enough pro-democracy voters is that they either don't believe it or don't care |
| 1:50.4 | enough to show up. Well the first thing I went out is that 2016 and 2020 were presidential years |
| 1:58.0 | and Donald Trump was on the ballot and he's not on the ballot in 2022 and by the way neither is Joe Biden. |
| 2:04.8 | And so if you start looking at 2018 where Democrats did really well in response to Trump and |
| 2:14.3 | Trump voters were more likely to stay home and did but what we've seen now is the last five special |
| 2:21.3 | congressional elections that have occurred this year Democrats have way over-performed outperform |
| 2:27.3 | what Joe Biden got and respected the Biden Trump vote and you know we talked about Ryan and |
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