Tim Reacts: Two Ads That Actually WORK for Democrats!
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🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Building a coffee business? |
| 0:01.9 | Serving the best Americano in town is up to you. But winning back time and growing your business, leave that to sum up. Take orders and payments anywhere with the new SumUp terminal. Turn occasional customers into regulars with a free loyalty program. And with the SumUp point of sale system, you'll always know when you're running low on your best selling blends. Visit sumup.com.com.com to learn more. Hey,, Tim Miller from the bulwark here. I am back with another ad review, |
| 0:24.0 | another positive ad review, a double, actually. You guys really liked the review of |
| 0:28.9 | Page Cognetti, the mayor of Scranton's launch video. She's running for Congress there |
| 0:35.4 | in Northeast Pennsylvania. Folks miss that. |
| 0:37.9 | We'll put a link in the notes here, and you guys can go check it out. |
| 0:40.6 | But folks loved it. |
| 0:41.9 | So here we're back with other ad reviews. |
| 0:45.5 | Today I'm lumping two together because I think it is interesting how two Democrats |
| 0:50.5 | who come from very different wings of the party are both going at this question |
| 0:55.8 | of how do they, how do Democrats position themselves against the plutocrats, against the |
| 1:03.5 | billionaires, against corporate America, against the elites in a way that, you know, |
| 1:08.5 | demonstrates to working people that care about the same concerns they have and that they're not going to be in the pocket of, you know, demonstrates to working people that care about the same concerns they have |
| 1:11.9 | and that they're not going to be in the pocket of these entrenched interests, right? I've said |
| 1:17.8 | this over and over again. I think, you know, I'm not really a class war type guy that's not, |
| 1:22.7 | you know, it's not my go-to instinct as a former Republican, but objectively, just as a campaign strategist, you have to look at this and say, |
| 1:30.1 | the Democrats have a challenge. |
| 1:31.1 | They've been too easily painted as the establishment as, you know, the defenders of |
| 1:37.6 | the status quo, as representatives of the powerful, as corporate elites or whatever. |
| 1:42.3 | They've been painted that way, in part by kind of the far left |
| 1:45.7 | that attacks their own party, but also by Donald Trump and by the MAGA movement that has positioned |
| 1:50.0 | themselves as the outsiders, right? And in this political moment, voters don't like the status quo. |
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