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Campaign HQ with David Plouffe

Battleground Bonanza

Campaign HQ with David Plouffe

Cadence13

News, Politics

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Dan Wagner, CEO of Civis and Analytics and Chief Analytics Officer on Barack Obama's 2012 election campaign joins David to discuss his take on the pathway to victory for Joe Biden in core battleground states and how the pandemic alters the tactics to achieve those vote goals. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Everybody, welcome to Campaign HQ. We are going to go deep into battleground states today, so I'm not going to have much

0:15.6

of an opener because I want to get right to that, the states that will determine the presidential

0:18.9

election. Obviously we continue to most importantly from a health and economic standpoint to live through this historic pandemic.

0:28.0

I do think from a political standpoint you really Donald Trump's nervousness is obvious.

0:33.4

He is spending every moment he can trying to blame China, trying to lie about how well he's dealt

0:39.4

with this crisis and most importantly encourage opening up the government, even if that's premature,

0:46.0

even if it's not a well thought out plan.

0:48.0

So he always thinks about himself first, so I think he's beginning to understand the political

0:52.6

toll this is already going to take in May take. Obviously the economic and health

0:56.5

toll being most important, but he views everything through his own narrow political

1:01.0

self-interest. The other thing I think that's going to be really, again, most

1:03.8

importantly is the lives it affects and the economic impacts of this, but it also is going

1:08.8

to have political ramifications is, you know, there's a lot of small businesses out there

1:12.4

who aren't able to get the help they need.

1:14.6

Instead, it's going to big chains, big hedge funds.

1:17.8

You see now that Trump's properties themselves are applying for aid, which I think will be politically super damaging to him.

1:25.5

And it's very, very difficult for just the average worker, particularly in states like Florida,

1:29.8

where they make it deliberately hard to apply for and receive unemployment benefits.

1:34.0

So I think you're going to increasingly see small business owners, workers,

1:39.4

frustrated that the people they think are getting the most help, The help that seems to come with the most ease and the most speed

1:46.8

are those at the very top, you know, connected folks, folks with a lot of

1:50.3

business, big businesses, folks with political relationships.

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