Pennsylvania, Texas, and the Suburban Backlash

Battleground with Amanda Litman and Faiz Shakir

The Recount

Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In 2016, Pennsylvania was considered part of Hillary Clinton’s “blue wall.” The thought was that, together, the Keystone State, Wisconsin and Michigan would vote Democrat and prevent Trump from winning the White House. Four years later, David and Steve talk to Democratic strategist Bill Hyers about why Pennsylvania crumbled and how 45’s chances look this time around. Hyers was named “Campaign Manager of the Year” by the American Association of Political Consultants after he engineered Bill de Blasio's come from behind victory in 2013. He ran Michael Nutter’s successful 2007 campaign for Mayor of Philadelphia, was the Pennsylvania State Director for Obama’s 2012 campaign, and worked on Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman’s very first campaign in 2018-19. Today, as a partner at The WIN Company, he’s working on campaigns across the country, including state races in Pennsylvania and Texas. In this episode of Battleground, he breaks down the Dems' chances in Pennsylvania and Texas, and explains why he's so bullish on Biden.

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0:00.0	February the 24th 2022, a date none of us will ever forget.
0:09.0	How did this happen? How did we get here?
0:13.0	I'm Arthur Snow, and in the new series of my podcast, Doomsday Watch,
0:18.0	we're going to tell the story of the Ukraine War.
0:23.0	Out now with new episodes every Wednesday,
0:26.0	listen wherever you get your podcasts.
0:33.0	I'm David Plough, and I'm Steve Shred.
0:35.0	And this is Battleground, a podcast from the recount and I heart radio.
0:39.0	In a few minutes, we're going to talk to Bill Hires,
0:42.0	a Democratic strategist I've worked with closely, who knows Pennsylvania,
0:46.0	inside and out. We're also going to talk to him about Texas, where he's doing a lot of work.
0:50.0	But first, Steve, let's talk about the last week.
0:53.0	I guess starting with a shit show that was Donald Trump's NBC Town Hall.
0:57.0	Well, that was quite a town hall we saw with Savannah Guthrie.
1:01.0	And one of the rules of this day, if it is, you know,
1:04.0	you generally don't want to put your candidate in the room with someone who's got 150 IQ points on them.
1:12.0	But they're like, wow, I mean, this guy has really, really lost it.
1:17.0	And man, he looked terrible.
1:19.0	Yeah, he really did.
1:20.0	Right, just a small skin color, his just wow, terrible.
1:27.0	And even when he's saying the craziest shit possible, he's always looks strong, right?
1:31.0	He's, oh, I think he enjoys politics, but that looked like a defeated president on that stage.
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