Amanda Litman
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
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Thanks for having me, Dan.
What did they do right?
They looked for someone new.
I think that's good.
I think we should open the door to as many new voices as possible.
We should expand our idea of what a good candidate looks like.
That's the end of the list of things they did right.
What they did wrong is you cannot play Kingmaker, and you really cannot play Mad Libs with candidate recruitment.
You cannot look at a state like Maine or any district and say, you know what, we need X kind of occupation, Y demographic, Z type of politics,
We're going to make this person into a candidate.
One, we have no idea who the fuck can win.
We have no idea.
But two, it leaves open so much space for it to feel like a puppet master is creating the candidate as opposed to the candidate coming up organically.
It is possible that he...
Like, notwithstanding all of his other personal stuff that he might have come up through and, you know, seen an ad from Run for Something or gone to a main Democratic Party event and said, you know what, maybe I maybe I do see myself here and then gone through the kind of rigorous, thoughtful process you need before you actually get on the ballot.
That maybe could have been so, but they did not do that.
They said, we're going to make this man into a senator, and they tried to puppet master it into being.
That will backfire any number of ways.
Yes.
And I think it's really important to say that.
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