119. Tommy Vietor: How Democrats can fight Trump

Leading

Goalhanger Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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How did Barack Obama become President? What was Hillary Clinton's huge mistake in 2016? How corrupt really is American politics today? Pod Save America host and former Barack Obama speechwriter, Tommy Veitor, joins Rory and Alastair to answer all these questions and more. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive our exclusive newsletter, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestispolitics. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: [email protected] Assistant Producers: Alice Horrell Video Editor: Josh Smith Social Producer: Jess Kidson Producers: Nicole Maslen Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor, Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:50.2	Welcome to the rest of this politics leading with me, Rory Stewart.
0:53.3	And with me, Alistair Campbell,
0:55.1	and really delighted to be with Tommy Vita, who looks 18, but is in his mid-40s, and goes all the way
1:04.0	back to the start of the rise of one of the most remarkable political phenomena of recent times, which is Barack Obama.
1:12.9	A trailblazer, Rory, in our world of podcasts, Tommy was one of the founders of Pod Save America,
1:18.9	Pod Save the World, still really deeply involved in American politics, American Democrat
1:23.8	politics in particular. So lots and lots to unpick. Couldn't be better time to
1:29.3	talk to you, Tommy, because I know how you're feeling, and we're feeling a British version of
1:34.1	what you're feeling about just the stuff that's going on in your country right now. And we'll
1:39.2	get on to that. But first of all, just give us a brief kind of, you know, early years of Tommy Vita
1:43.1	and how Tommy Vita became one of the youngest kind of campaign spokesman and then one of the youngest
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