I think I would work that I just worked on a lot of smaller petitions is that

Huh, Kirsten's cinema worked on that campaign as well. Yeah, she's my boss. Was she

good boss to you? Let's say you actually, I would say overall she's a good boss

She fired me eventually, but

That's representative Ruben Gallego, a four-term congressman from Arizona. We're

Buck and Ryder, an upscale seafood restaurant in Phoenix. It was empty and quiet

when just the two of us met here in the daylight at 4.30 and it was packed and

raucous when our party which had ballooned to five by then stumbled out into

the darkness after 10 p.m. It was that kind of interview. Oh no, no, no, that's a

not cool. These guys have known me forever. That's not cool. This is Playbook Deep

Dive. I'm Ryan Liza. It's been showed up. Told old campaign stories and gossiped

about Arizona politics. Gallego talked about what it was like to think he was

going to die in Iraq and then again on January 6th. He was brutally honest about

what he really thinks about Senator Kirsten's cinema. We drank a lot.

Basil Hayden double on the rocks, please. And I'll have a a Rhyman hadn't up. And

there's a there's a double for the basil. Wow, these really worried about this

interview, huh? Yeah, and they oak. What do you have for shrimp? Back to Gallego in a moment.

The reason I'm in Arizona is because the state is rife with political intrigue

these days. There are a few big plotlines here. The first is about Donald Trump. In

2020, Trump lost the state by just 10,000 votes. Georgia was the only state with a

slumber margin. Arizona quickly became a hotbed of election fraud conspiracy

theories stoked by Trump, who not surprisingly chose the state for his first post

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