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The Wilderness

The Wilderness, Season 2 (coming January 13, 2020)

The Wilderness

The Wilderness

News, Politics

4.812.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Jon Favreau looks for the path to victory in 2020 by talking to voters, strategists, organizers, and candidates in the battleground states that will decide the election.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What we did in 2016, the election we call it with a capital E, it's never been done before,

0:09.6

and we're going to do it, I think, again in 2020, and the numbers are going to be even bigger.

0:15.3

Donald Trump getting a second term isn't merely doubling the damage, I think it's compounding.

0:25.1

If he has four years and he doesn't have to face the voters, I think there is no bottom.

0:30.6

I think the damage there will echo through not just another decade or two, it could echo through generations.

0:37.7

So this isn't simply another election.

0:42.1

Well, this is it, 2020, a year that will end with what just might be the most important

0:48.2

election of America's lifetime.

0:50.8

The last time we talked, 2020 seemed really far in the future.

0:55.6

Here we are, and I feel like all I see is trees everywhere, like we are still in the wilderness a little bit.

1:03.4

Not that there aren't pathways out, it's just that there's no obvious pathway out.

1:10.5

Welcome back to the wilderness. I'm your host, John Favreau.

1:14.4

In this season, we'll look for the path to victory in 2020 by visiting some of the most important

1:19.4

battlegrounds of the election and talk to the strategists, organizers, and voters who'll decide the outcome.

1:25.6

From the swing states of the Northeast, people in the Collar counties of Pennsylvania really care about

1:30.8

what we are for and not who we are against.

1:33.6

To the suburbs of the Southwest.

1:35.4

Growing up here, I do think it's much more diverse.

1:38.7

I think it's changing, I also think there's a Trump effect where even people who have been lifelong

1:44.6

Republicans here think that it's gone too far and that's too extreme.

1:49.2

From southeastern battlegrounds like Georgia and Florida,

1:52.2

Georgia has the youngest population of a battleground state.

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