"You have to defeat them again and again and again." With Stuart Stevens
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In the first Bill Press Pod of 2024, Bill and Stuart Stevens discuss the current state of the Republican party and the potential for a Trump re-election. Stevens, a legendary Republican campaign manager, warns that a Trump re-election could lead to the end of democracy in America. He discusses his new book, "The Conspiracy to End America Five Ways: My Old Party is Driving Our Democracy to Autocracy," and highlights the dangers of sliding into autocracy. Stevens believes that the Republican party has lost its way and needs to be defeated repeatedly in order to change. He also expresses concern about the potential for a third-party candidate to disrupt the 2024 election.
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| 1:08.7 | Hello there. What do you know? It's 2024. Happy New Year and welcome to the very first bill press pod of 2024, which very appropriately is all about |
| 1:14.5 | politics because politics is going to dominate the news in 2024. We know that. And today is also |
| 1:22.2 | very appropriately about Republican Party politics because the first big question in 2024 is whether Republicans |
| 1:30.0 | will finally come to their senses and break with a big orange loser called Donald Trump. |
| 1:36.6 | Will they, in other words, heed the advice of a brave gaggle of Republicans like Liz Cheney, |
| 1:43.1 | Adam Kinsinger, Charlie Sykes, Bill Crystal, and |
| 1:46.7 | Stuart Stevens, who are warning their fellow Republicans, if you stick with Trump, you're going to |
| 1:53.0 | lose big time. Stuart Stevens, in fact, goes further, warning that a Trump reelect would mean |
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