Tommy Vietor from Pod Save America

Campaign HQ with David Plouffe

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News, Politics

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🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Tommy Vietor, host of Pod Save America was President Obama’s Iowa Press Secretary during the 2008 campaign. Tommy is back from recently being on the ground in Iowa - in preparation for Pod Save America’s “On The Ground In Iowa” miniseries - where he spent time with the undecided voters who will determine who wins the Iowa caucuses. David and Tommy take a look at the fortunes of the top polling candidates as Iowa approaches, and what it will take for the nominee to beat Trump in the general election. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On BBC A
0:02.0	I am doing life a few more years means nothing to me
0:06.0	I'm pregnant
0:08.0	judges go easy I'm pregnant women
0:10.0	I've been all my electricity that's all don't think I should even be in here.
0:14.0	A new series of the Baffa Award winning time.
0:18.0	You tell anyone and I mean anyone about me I will kill you. Starring Jody Whitaker tomorrow Lawrence and
0:26.0	Bella Ramsey. Time. Watch on BBC I Player Hey it's David Plough, Tuesday, Thanksgiving week. Real treat this week. We're going to be joined by Tommy Vittor. Now he's a worldwide
0:45.5	podcast celebrity, one of the leaders of Crooked Media and hosts on Pod Save America.
0:51.2	He has a new podcast series on Iowa. It's going to be a six-part
0:56.4	series that's now in the Pod Save America feed and I highly encourage you to
1:00.6	listen to it because the most important thing happening right now in the
1:03.3	world in my view not just in the primary is Iowa and what's going to happen there and
1:08.1	Tommy's going to go deep there with experts with folks who are on the ground now he's walking around the organizers it's
1:14.1	great so Tommy is someone who before his podcasting renowned started with
1:19.0	Barack Obama he worked when he was a United States senator so back in the very early days after Obama got elected to dissent in Illinois,
1:26.8	left the Senate office to go to Iowa.
1:28.2	He became our spokesperson in the Iowa caucuses
1:30.5	and spent a year out there working indescribably hard doing great work.
1:35.4	Then moved on and different posts through the campaign and ended up in the White House as a
1:39.2	spokesperson for the National Security Council and was just an integral part of our National Security
1:45.6	and Foreign Policy team.
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