What happens when Trump or Biden die before Election Day? RNC professionalization (with Tom LoBianco)
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Justin Robert Young
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🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Justin discusses the ghoulish possibility that Joe Biden or Donald Trump might die on the campaign trail and the potential scenarios that could unfold. He analyzes historical cases of mid-presidential election deaths and the impact they had on the nation.
He is then joined by Tom LoBianco to cover topics such as Trump's teleprompter riffing, the reuniting of the Republican Party, fundraising challenges, and the frustration within the RNC. They explore the need modern political parties to list build and the burnout of small-dollar donors. The conversation concludes with a preview of the next episode.
00:00 Introduction
03:10 Speculation on Death of Candidates
03:24 Current Delegate Counts
04:22 Historical Cases of Presidential Deaths
08:14 Potential Scenarios if Biden Dies
10:06 Potential Scenarios if Trump Dies
28:59 C-SPAN's Uncertain Future
29:21 New RNC Staff and Backlash
36:47 Trump's Teleprompter Riffing
37:19 Radical Left Democrats
37:47 Teleprompter Mishaps
38:13 Reuniting the Republican Party
39:05 Discipline in the Republican Party
39:34 Republican Coalition Fractures
40:04 Nikki Haley and Mike Pence
40:32 Principled Conservatism
41:31 Establishment Republicans Returning
42:00 Republican Party Fundraising
42:30 Creating a Republican Act Blue
43:27 ActBlue and Republican Alternatives
44:49 Creating a Republican Fundraising Platform
45:18 Patriot Pass and WinRed
46:43 Coalition Building and Money Ties
48:07 Trump's Enthusiasm Gap
49:34 Trump's Ability to Win Elections
50:30 Frustration with the RNC
51:00 Scandal within the RNC
52:25 Investing in List Building
53:55 Discretionary Budget Problem
54:48 Leaner Campaign for Trump
55:43 Political Infighting
57:10 Political Infighting in Maryland
58:06 Getting Invested in Politics
59:27 Burnout of Small-Dollar Donors
01:00:23 Investing in List Prospecting
01:02:45 Trump's Activation and Conversion Rates
01:04:09 Trump's Financial Challenges
01:07:01 Trump's Need for Money
01:08:59 Overheated Political Fundraising
01:10:11 Investing in List Building
01:11:06 Taking Care of Audiences
01:14:10 Trump's Financial Challenges
01:15:29 Expansion of 24Site
01:19:02 Upcoming Episode Preview
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| 0:00.0 | On this edition of the program, Tom Will Bianco joins the show to talk about the |
| 0:04.9 | professionalizing Republican Party and the people that are mad about it. |
| 0:10.1 | And we ask the very, very dark and macabre question for the first and only time, all election. |
| 0:20.0 | What happens if Trump or Biden die? |
| 0:25.0 | It's all coming up. |
| 0:27.0 | This is made possible by Oh Them Bones, |
| 0:30.0 | Daily Tech News Show, V, politics. Hello and welcome everybody to the politics politics |
| 0:59.8 | program for March 20th, 2024, |
| 1:03.8 | your old pal Justin Robert Young coming to you |
| 1:06.5 | and we're gonna post this a little bit early |
| 1:09.8 | because we will not have the results |
| 1:12.1 | of the Republican primary in Ohio |
| 1:15.4 | Dolan Moreno, LaRose all that will be covered later in the week. |
| 1:23.0 | But we're gonna begin in a weird place. |
| 1:28.8 | Because I don't like to talk about death. |
| 1:38.1 | It's a speculation. |
| 1:41.3 | It's a constant in all of our lives and to be totally honest with you I hope that modern |
| 1:47.2 | medicine and science can conquer it before my bill comes due. |
| 2:04.0 | But there is a lot of speculation on the fact that the candidates who are running for president in this election are well old. Donald Trump is 77. |
| 2:05.8 | Joe Biden is 81. |
| 2:08.0 | They will be 78 and 82 by the time that they were sworn in for their second and final terms. |
| 2:17.0 | That is for both of them, over the 77 years of age that an average American is expected to live. |
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