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The "Let Trump Be Trump" Strategy

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News, Politics

4.587.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Jon and guest host David Axelrod discuss Donald Trump's struggles to define Kamala Harris, his rambling interview with Elon Musk, and why the Trump campaign keeps letting their candidate run his mouth so much. Then, they look at Trump and Harris's competing economic messages, how Tim Walz is faring out on the trail, and what the Harris team needs to accomplish at next week's Democratic National Convention.

 

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0:00.0

The Welcome to Pod Save America, I'm John Favreau and hosting with me today.

0:23.8

My friend, mentor, the man I miss working with every day, the brilliant David Axelrod is here.

0:29.3

Oh brother, good to see you.

0:30.7

I guess the stars are on vacation left you to man the

0:35.0

ship here huh? Those boys are off doing something they're doing something I got all three

0:40.9

PSAs this week. So on today's show, we're going to talk about Kamala Harris's plans to define her economic

0:48.0

agenda this week.

0:49.0

Tim Wall's stepping out on his own with a big union speech.

0:52.0

We're also less than a week away from the Democratic National Convention, so we'll talk about the opportunity there for the Harris team and what we're hoping to hear. But first, Donald Trump just keeps reaching voters where they are with his hallmark message

1:04.4

discipline which is why I guess he appeared on a glitchy Twitter spaces feed

1:09.6

with red-pilled billionaire Elon Musk that took about 40 minutes to get started because of all the tech issues.

1:15.8

Once they finally got going, it was two hours of this.

1:20.0

Our country is becoming a very dangerous place,

1:23.0

and she is a radical left, San Francisco, liberal,

1:26.8

and now she's trying to protect.

1:28.6

Now she's looking like she's,

1:30.2

she wants to be more Trump than Trump, if that's possible. I don't think it's possible.

1:35.0

If she's going to be our president, very quickly you're not going to have a country anymore.

1:40.0

And she'll go back to all of the things that she believes in.

1:43.0

But he's getting a free writer.

1:45.0

I do a picture of her on Time magazine today.

1:48.0

She looks like the most beautiful actress ever to live.

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