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🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello there. Welcome to my Thursday edition of the Chuck Todd cast. I got a great episode for you today. |
0:09.0 | If you're frustrated by the two political parties, and there's actually been some news about that, right? |
0:14.4 | The former White House press secretary for Joe Biden announced that she's leaving the Democratic Party, |
0:20.2 | Corrine Jean-Pierre, who one time we used to work for Move On, which was in itself a force that was more progressive than Democratic. |
0:29.7 | Interesting decision there. And she's got a book that's going to be coming out about her experience at the White House. |
0:34.2 | But launching her book, launching the book news was this idea that |
0:40.2 | she is unregistering as a Democrat. Well, guess who I've just interviewed and what this |
0:46.8 | episode is going to feature? It's the CEO of the Forward Party. You may remember the |
0:51.2 | forward party from the days of Andrew Yang, who was a presidential candidate in 2020, one of many. |
0:59.0 | He actually caught a little bit of fire, the Yang gang at one time. |
1:03.4 | A friend of mine reminded me he may have had the best political paraphernalia in a big shot glass. |
1:09.4 | And it was like the ultimate long shot, Andrew Yang, |
1:13.3 | for president, which was terrific. |
1:15.3 | But his experience running as a Democrat, working with the Democrats, caused him to think |
1:20.0 | that there's got to be a better way. |
1:22.0 | So he started the Forward Party. |
1:23.7 | It has since sort of combined forces with what former New Jersey Governor, Christy Whitman, |
1:29.4 | one time a Republican, now I think an independent now member of this forward party. |
1:35.6 | Carrie Healy, who was Romney's lieutenant governor when he was governor of Massachusetts, |
1:41.4 | is also active in this. And so there is a growing coalition of sort of what you |
1:47.2 | would call political refugees from the two parties. Now, I think we're going to have this |
1:54.2 | conversation with Lindsay and you'll see what they're trying to be. Are they an outpost for the |
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