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Campaign HQ with David Plouffe

John Heilemann on how Trump hasn’t thought things through

Campaign HQ with David Plouffe

Cadence13

News, Politics

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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John Heilemann is the Executive Editor of The Recount and host of Showtime’s The Circus. John and David discuss how Trump’s inclination to be divisive does not help his chances and how Trump’s team will not be able to successfully position Joe Biden as some scary version of The Other. 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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today. Hey everybody it's David Plough. Welcome to Campaign HQ. Well we're in mid-July. A lot happening in the presidential campaign. I'll focus on that.

0:45.8

There's obviously more importantly a lot happening around us with the pandemic and the economy and

0:50.9

protests. But a couple things worth pointing out.

0:53.7

One, some of you probably saw this,

0:55.4

but Joe Biden's campaign has gone on the air

0:58.3

with advertising in Texas.

1:00.4

You know, is also intensifying their efforts you know in places like Georgia

1:04.0

Ohio and Iowa as are some independent groups and so A you like to see that of

1:08.7

course because in a presidential campaign if you are faced of the prospect of just having to win all the

1:15.6

battleground states you're targeting you're probably gonna lose. You have to

1:18.6

pull an inside straight almost a black swan event. So you know Joe Biden's increasingly getting in the position where he's

1:24.8

going to have, we thought maybe it would only be five or six, but he may have 10 or 12 states

1:29.5

that conceivably could tip in his column. Very important point, you know, which I've mentioned before,

1:34.4

but I really will underline here is, you know,

1:36.3

if Joe Biden wins Texas, it's almost certainly going to be

1:39.5

after he's already won, you know, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Florida.

1:43.4

So it's not a tipping point state.

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