The Incumbent Advantage

Campaign HQ with David Plouffe

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News, Politics

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🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Longtime Democratic strategist Jim Messina, who served as the campaign manager during Barack Obamas re-election bid in 2012, discusses the advantages of incumbency in presidential re-elects, what Biden needs to do to catch up and how the Covid-19 crisis may affect the contest. 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 it's David Plough. Welcome to Campaign HQ. Bernie Sanders has suspended his presidential campaign. campaign particularly young people did exceedingly well back in 16 and started off very
0:26.0	strongly in 2020 looking like the clear Democratic front runner as we got
0:31.6	close to Super Tuesday, but Joe
0:33.8	Biden was able to consolidate support and build a delegate lead that was insurmountable.
0:39.2	I think Bernie Sanders saw that reality and he suspended his campaign.
0:42.9	Says he's going to stay in, wants to get some delegates.
0:45.5	I wouldn't get overly exercised about that
0:47.2	in terms of party unity, that's his right.
0:49.2	But the general election started.
0:50.4	It actually started some time ago, but now we can more officially move on
0:53.9	to unifying the party be a lot of hard work ahead for Joe Biden personally for
0:58.8	Bernie Sanders personally for other party leaders including the Obama's
1:02.4	Nancy Pelosi the other for other
1:04.4	the party leaders including the Obama's, Nancy Pelosi, the other candidates who ran in 2020,
1:06.5	but it's also on all of you out there.
1:08.1	So I write about this in my book,
1:10.5	not knowing exactly who the two final contenders would be but how important it is for
1:13.9	those of you that were on the winning side of this and some of you might have
1:17.3	been with Joe Biden the whole time others you might have been pretty recent converts
1:21.1	to him after your first choice candidate dropped out.
1:23.4	But it's incumbent on you to let the Sanders people know that you need them.
1:27.8	We want them. We welcome them. We have to be Trump. Understand for some of those folks,
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