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Campaign HQ with David Plouffe

Fight Like a Mother

Campaign HQ with David Plouffe

Cadence13

News, Politics

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Candidates are finding they can run on gun safety and win elections. Shannon Watts is the founder of Moms Demand Action. The day after the Sandy Hook tragedy, Shannon Watts started a Facebook group with the message that all Americans can and should do more to reduce gun violence. Now Shannon is working with Everytown for Gun Safety to end gun violence and build safer communities. David and Shannon discuss the ways all of us can be actively influential in elections. 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

Hey everybody it's David Plough. Welcome to Campaign HQ. Well interesting times in our politics today. You can see by Donald

0:16.8

Trump's Twitter feed and his increasingly desperate statements that he must not be liking their internal Poland.

0:25.8

His frustration sadly doesn't come from the human toll that the pandemics had or I think even

0:31.8

the fact that our country's now going to be in a years long recovery

0:36.0

that didn't have to be as bad as it was.

0:39.2

But for him, he's just worried about his own politics and his re-election.

0:43.0

You know, to him recording this on Wednesday, May 20th, we saw him ranting and raving about Michigan,

0:50.0

just sending out absentee ballot applications requests to people to remind they can vote by

0:54.7

absentee threatening to withhold aid. So I think all this comes from the fact that in their

0:59.7

numbers they're not liking what they're seeing. And so I think we should generally ignore

1:05.0

that, those of us committed to defeating Donald Trump. One, these things can change.

1:10.5

This election we better assume could still be close.

1:13.2

Donald Trump, as I've often said, has an enviably strong base.

1:18.0

He's going to register a lot of voters.

1:20.0

His ceiling may not be very high from a vote standpoint, but I also think he's got a sturdy floor.

1:24.3

Second, we don't know what, you know, things are going to look like four or five months from now.

1:28.4

It may be that the second wave hopefully doesn't come back the economy recovers not quickly but

1:34.6

directionally and you know Trump will have an argument to me but I think at the end of

1:39.4

the day you know it's always better to work in politics and campaigns as if you're losing by 10 points

1:44.4

and that can seem like a silly expression but it's true. All of us from Joe Biden to local volunteers on the ground need to do everything we can to take advantage of this

1:54.4

moment because this may change and Trump was looking very weak right now, you know, may not

2:00.9

stay down the entire time.

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