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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

The Gettable Voter with Jon Favreau

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

MS NOW, Chris Hayes

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

4.68.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Democrats can beat Donald Trump in the 2020 election. Another four years of a Trump White House is not a foregone conclusion. With nine months to go before the general election, there’s a tremendous amount of fear and uncertainty hanging over many of us about the future of the American republic. Amidst this fear, Democratic voters are deciding which candidate is best suited to run against the President. But a lot of the fights over who that person could be are actually fights over how to build a coalition of voters big enough to beat Donald Trump in the electoral college. In envisioning how to build that coalition, you have to look at the margins. If the solid-blue, never-Trump contingency make up the reliable core of the voting bloc, then the folks on the margins are key to solving the puzzle of 2020. Former Obama speechwriter and Crooked Media co-founder Jon Favreau spent time talking with members of this crucial group in four battleground states for the second season of his podcast, "The Wilderness". He joins to discuss what a winning coalition could look like. RELATED LINKS: The Wilderness Politics is for Power YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: Organizing in Trump Country with George Goehl Building a Progressive Majority Dorian Warren

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0:00.0

So you know, I ask, who's definitely voting for Donald Trump?

0:02.8

And I only got one or two hands per focus group.

0:06.0

And then I would say, who's definitely voting for the Democratic nominee?

0:09.5

And I only got a couple more hands.

0:11.5

So that's a bunch of people who are either waiting to see who the Democratic nominee is

0:15.5

or in the case of the Florida group might not vote.

0:20.5

Hello and welcome to Wise is happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.

0:26.0

Well, if you are downloading this podcast on the day that we uploaded,

0:29.5

it's Tuesday of the New Hampshire primary.

0:32.5

And if you're like a lot of people I know, you have like a weird pit in your stomach.

0:37.5

You're stressed out and you're anxious.

0:39.5

You feel this kind of ever present, but difficult to precisely articulate

0:45.5

sense of dread and fear.

0:47.5

And that's because it's an election season.

0:50.5

And there's a tremendous uncertainty that hangs over all of us

0:54.5

about the future of the American Republic and our political project,

0:58.5

the vibrancy of our democracy, the possibility of a more just equitable,

1:03.5

sustainable future.

1:05.5

And it's really hard, I think, for people that are particularly tuned into politics,

1:09.5

and that might not be all of you listening to my voice right now,

1:12.5

but a big chunk of you to think about the election all the time,

1:16.5

to think about Donald Trump, to run through catastrophizing daydreams

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