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Skullduggery

The Plouffe Strategy

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

42K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

David Plouffe, Former Barack Obama Campaign Manager and Author of A Citizen’s Guide To Beating Donald Trump joins Michael Isikoff and Danial Klaidman on "Skullduggery." The group talk about the road to success for the Biden campaign and the new hurdles that will need to be overcome in the midst of a crisis to win the presidency.

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0:00.0

I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.

0:03.0

And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News.

0:05.3

And a quick reminder that you can follow us at SkullDuggeryPod.

0:09.9

And by the way, if you've got any questions, thoughts, ideas you want to share,

0:14.1

tweet right at us. Now let's get on with the show.

0:20.9

David Plough was a young, up-and-coming Democratic strategist, who achieved

0:25.0

instant stardom eight years ago when he served as campaign manager for Barack Obama.

0:30.0

Shaping the strategy that allowed the then Illinois Senator to defeat Hillary Clinton

0:34.3

for the Democratic nomination and become the first African-American to be elected president

0:38.9

of the United States. Today, Plough is focused on a different task, advising his fellow Democrats

0:45.2

how to defeat Donald Trump. He thought he had it all figured out, writing a just released

0:50.0

book entitled A Citizens Guide to Beating Donald Trump. But the coronavirus crisis has

0:55.6

upended everybody's political calculations and introduced new wild cards into the race.

1:01.2

We'll talk to Plough about how the virus pandemic is changing the 2020 election.

1:06.0

And what kind of campaign he thinks Joe Biden ought to be running on this episode of SkullDuggery.

1:18.5

Because people have got to know whether or not they're presidents of crop,

1:21.6

well, I'm not a crop.

1:22.4

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage. My heart and my best intentions

1:27.8

still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. I did not have

1:34.2

sexual relations with that woman. There will be no lies. We will honor the American people

1:41.9

with the truth and nothing else.

1:44.9

I'm Michael Isogoff, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News.

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