The ‘Successful’ Political Candidate Template For 2020

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🗓️ 8 January 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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On his first show as Trumpcast co-host, Yascha Mounk talks to Sam Koppelman, speechwriter for the Jon Favreau-run communications firm Fenway Strategies, about what traits successful political candidates share, what strategies candidates like Beto O’Rourke are employing, and a speechwriter’s power in a candidate’s world. This episode is brought to you by Omax Health. Go to tryomax.com/trumpcast today to get 60 percent off a one-month supply, plus free shipping and a 60-day money-back Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everybody's playing games, but I can say this.
0:03.7	I think that the Democrats want to make it deal.
0:05.8	I really do. I feel that.
0:07.2	What is it deal?
0:08.5	Will you come down from tomorrow?
0:09.6	We'll call it something different.
0:11.4	I don't think I have to.
0:12.8	Spats for this year.
0:13.8	The President of the United States, who is a billionaire,
0:19.2	says the 800,000 people who aren't getting paid
0:21.9	because of the government shutdown are okay with that.
0:24.8	Just ask them, he says.
0:26.4	Look, if Harry Truman couldn't nationalize the steel industry
0:29.4	during wartime, this President doesn't have the power
0:32.1	to declare an emergency and build a multi-billion dollar wall
0:35.5	on the border.
0:36.6	So that's a non-starter.
0:41.4	Hello, welcome to Trumpcast.
0:43.0	I'm Yasha Monk.
0:44.8	I have listened to this show since the very beginning
0:47.6	since, oh my god, it's been so long,
0:50.5	that Donald Trump has dominated our every waking nightmare.
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