Trump's big trap and who ought to wrap

Hacks On Tap

David Axelrod & Mike Murphy

Politics, Government, News, News Commentary

4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Axe and Murphy talk Trump’s strategy behind attacking the progressive freshmen House members, how the latest poll numbers spell potential for Kamala Harris, and whether Pete Buttigieg's coolheaded approach will help or hurt him in the race. Howard Wolfson, former deputy mayor of New York City, joins the show to talk about Michael Bloomberg's decision not to run and what role a third party candidate might play in a general election. Axe and Murphy dive to the mailbag to answer questions about Andrew Yang, Biden's staff, and the art of the post-primary pivot. During "Last Call," both hacks name the candidate they think should drop out of the race sooner rather than later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A pole-up of chair attacks on tap with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy.
0:17.0	Murphy, let's start by stipulating what everybody in the world is stipulating, which is that
0:29.8	some of the tweets that Donald Trump sent out over the weekend and into Monday about this
0:36.7	group of young democratic legislators, the squad, were racist, blatantly, and unmistakingly racist.
0:49.4	And I don't want to dwell on that. It's outrageous. And really, in a minute, I want to ask you why more people
0:58.4	on the Republican side aren't saying anything about it. But what I want to talk to you about is strategy,
1:04.7	because as much as I hate to say it, the guy has a strategy. He's got a plan. He wants to elevate
1:12.6	these four young women of color on the left, make them emblematic of the Democratic Party,
1:21.2	wants to, and by being as outrageous and offensive as he was, drive everyone to embrace them.
1:28.1	The thing about Donald Trump that I think all Democrats ought to be aware of is,
1:37.2	he knows what he's doing, and he has no boundaries. And that is going to be a problem. He leaped
1:47.9	right into this debate between Nancy Pelosi and Akasio Cortez and the others over the immigration
1:59.5	bill. And on Friday, he started what is now a full-blown fire. Let's listen to that tape.
2:08.2	I think Cortez, who kept Amazon out of New York, and they don't like her for that, thousands and
2:14.3	thousands of jobs, I think Cortez is being very disrespectful to somebody that's been there a
2:20.6	long time. I deal with Nancy Pelosi a lot, and we go back and forth that is fun. But I think that
2:29.7	a group of people is being very disrespectful to her. And you know what? I don't think that
2:37.8	Nancy can let that go on. A group of people that came from, I don't know where they came from,
2:44.6	I'm looking at this Omar from Minnesota. And if one half of the things they're saying about her
2:52.6	are true, she shouldn't even be in office. But Cortez should treat Nancy Pelosi with respect.
3:00.7	She should not be doing what she's doing. And I'll tell you something about Nancy Pelosi,
3:05.5	that you know better than I do. She is not a racist. Okay. She is not a racist. For them to call
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