The Incredible Failure of Get-Out-the-Vote

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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🗓️ 18 November 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Hillary Clinton was supposed to have the most sophisticated digital ground game ever, while all Trump had was a ramshackle data bunker in San Antonio. We all know how that turned out. Sasha Issenberg is a Bloomberg contributor and author of The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns. He says there are many explanations for what happened, including the Clinton campaign's inadvertent encouragement of Donald Trump voters in states like Florida. In the Spiel, it's a Lobstar week. Oh yes, it's a Lobstar week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.8	It's Friday, November 18th, 2016, from Slate,
0:10.7	it's the gist I might pass,
0:12.2	it looks like it's time to kickstart a Donald Trump defense fund.
0:16.0	New York Attorney General Eric Schneidermann announced today
0:18.9	that Trump would settle the Trump U-Case for $25 million.
0:24.3	These resuits brought against him by former students,
0:28.4	customers, student-like customers,
0:30.8	petemkin students to get all Russian on Trump.
0:34.3	So my idea for the Trump U-Defense Fund has one rule,
0:37.6	the lawyer cannot have graduated from Trump U.
0:40.3	During the campaign, Trump said he would not settle
0:42.3	out of principle,
0:43.9	then everyone comes after you,
0:45.9	you're known as a settler.
0:48.1	Well, now it seems as if the settlers will be the problem
0:50.5	of Mike Huckabee because he's reportedly being tapped
0:53.1	to be Trump's ambassador to Israel
0:55.4	to quell the disquiet over Steve Bannon's ties
0:58.1	to anti-Semitism.
0:59.5	Trump made the obvious move of sending to Israel
1:03.0	a Southern Baptist preacher.
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