'The Hand Off' with new hosts Amanda Litman and Faiz Shakir

Battleground with Amanda Litman and Faiz Shakir

The Recount

Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

David presides over his final episode as host of "Battleground" and hands over the reigns to our new hosts: Amanda Litman and Faiz Shakir.

Amanda is the co-founder of and executive director of Run For Something, which recruits and supports young progressives who want to run for local office. In the past four years, they've helped approximately 500 of them win elections. She's also a seasoned Democratic campaign operative who worked on President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, Charlie Crist's 2014 gubernatorial campaign, and Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.

Faiz Shakir is one of the most experienced progressive strategists in the country. He was a senior advisor to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the political director for the ACLU, and the campaign manager for Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign.

David chats with Amanda and Faiz to find out why they got into politics, what bits of conventional wisdom in progressive politics they'd like to dispel, and how they envision the new version of "Battleground." Their first episode as the hosts of this podcast will premiere on Thursday, April 8th.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Battleground, a podcast from the recount and I heart radio.
0:05.0	I'm David Plough and this will be my last episode as host of Battleground.
0:10.1	Steve Schmidt and I started this podcast back in the fall of 2020.
0:13.8	It was intended just to do seven or eight episodes.
0:17.0	Old adversaries coming together to talk about the 2020 election.
0:19.6	We had such a great time.
0:20.8	We continued into the historic aftermath of the battle to actually make sure the election
0:25.3	counted as well as the first few weeks of the Biden administration.
0:29.4	But the time is right now to hand this off to a new set of hosts.
0:34.6	And so I want to thank all of you listeners for joining us on this journey.
0:39.5	So many of you decided to spend a little bit of time with us every week.
0:42.4	I also want to thank all the amazing guests we've had on Battleground and to the team at
0:46.6	recount who've made sure we put together a great product every week.
0:51.3	So I'm excited to announce that the new hosts of Battleground are Amanda Litman and Fashikir.
0:58.2	Why don't you probably know both of them, but let me give you kind of a formal introduction
1:02.4	of their lives and their accomplishments.
1:05.0	Amanda Litman is the co-founder and executive director of Run for Something, an organization
1:10.5	that recruits and supports young, diverse progressive Democrats to run for local office.
1:15.2	She is a seasoned campaign operative and she's really just done remarkable work.
1:19.9	Run for Something's played an integral role in young progressive candidates winning elections
1:24.0	around the country.
1:25.0	And that's how we build back. And FAS is one of the most experienced progressive strategist
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