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Campaign HQ with David Plouffe

Presidential Historian Jon Meacham on lessons from the past.

Campaign HQ with David Plouffe

Cadence13

News, Politics

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Presidential Historian Jon Meacham joins David for a look at what history tells us about the current election. Jon’s new podcast Hope Through History explores some of the most historic and trying times in American History, and how this nation dealt with these moments, the impact of these moments and how we came through these moments a unified nation. 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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0:15.1

Hey, everybody welcome to campaign HQ. So one interesting political development I wanted to talk about in the midst of the pandemic is Justin Amash, congressman from Michigan, frequent Trump critic has announced

0:21.6

his intention to run for president. A lot of immediate

0:25.5

reactions to that I think in part colored by what happened in 2016 where the

0:31.6

combination of Gary Johnson and Jill Stein votes was no doubt a contributing factor

0:37.0

to Hillary Clinton losing.

0:38.6

I think it's far too early to jump to the conclusion that this is 100% negative for Biden. We're going to need

0:45.6

some more time, some more data. Maybe at the end of the day Amush doesn't run and

0:50.1

ends up supporting Biden and that's going to

0:53.0

based on the state. Obviously, he's from Michigan,

0:55.6

so that's going to require a lot of study and attention.

0:59.4

Maybe different in Florida, different in Arizona.

1:02.1

But at the end of the day, if you're the Biden campaign,

1:04.9

you know, if you're going to win the presidency, you have to surmount every obstacle thrown in front of you. So you got to study this

1:11.4

carefully, but even if it's not a hundred percent

1:14.1

negative for Biden, maybe it's more mixed. Really having a good strategy for

1:18.2

voters who may be torn between Biden and Trump and now look at Amash as a landing place.

1:25.8

Those that might have leaned Biden, you know, you're going to have to have a strategy to speak

1:29.1

to them and reach out to them and vice versa.

1:31.8

So I wouldn't panic yet. I think there's a lot more data that we need to look at.

1:36.8

But if you're the Biden campaign, a good presidential campaign panics about everything.

1:40.8

So they're going to have to have a strategy and execute on that.

1:45.0

You know we're starting to see more and more polls not surprisingly I think there was

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