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Words Matter

The Professionals Pilot

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week Katie and Joe preview Joe's new series "The Professionals" where we give you the inside story of what really drives a presidential campaign. We'll break down what makes a campaign successful and why some candidates come up short. Our experts meet two important criteria - they're not actively working on a campaign now (so they can be unbiased) AND they've been involved at a senior level for multiple presidential campaigns. In the pilot episode Jen Psaki, Paul Begala and Ron Klain take you behind the scenes of presidential debate prep. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.

0:12.0

Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.

0:15.7

Our goal is to promote objective reality.

0:18.8

As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.

0:25.1

Have power and words have consequences.

0:33.5

Joe, at some point, the impeachment and the drama will be over and everyone will

0:40.4

shift focus to the 2020 election.

0:43.3

So, tell us about the professionals.

0:45.7

I serve as a political commentator on CNN and talk a lot about Donald Trump and impeachment,

0:50.9

but also about the democratic field.

0:53.3

And I walk out of each one of these appearances thinking, there's so much more we could explain

1:01.1

if there was more time about how this really works.

1:04.6

And I'll say, I think CNN is really good at covering campaigns, but they have to cover

1:09.7

other news and they can't spend 24 hours a day on it.

1:13.8

So I had this idea that we ought to bring people together who've done multiple campaigns,

1:20.1

who can look at what's happening and sort of take you behind the scenes, pull the curtain

1:23.7

back and say, when Buddha Judge went after Warren this week, this is why?

1:29.0

Why do people talk about on the ground field organizers?

1:32.5

Well, what the hell do they do?

1:34.1

Who are they?

1:35.1

Why are they important?

1:36.3

How do you raise money?

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