Dan Pfeiffer
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in terms of what that would mean for people being radicalized against the US, how we were combating the recruiting efforts from Al-Qaeda and ISIS and the rest and thinking about those things.
And they're thinking about none of those things as far as I can tell.
Like,
It's just sort of wild to take it so unseriously.
And every single day.
Yes.
Let's pivot to domestic politics for a second.
Another reason why you're an excellent guest for the show is even before you went to work for Barack Obama, you were at the DCCC when the Democrats took the House in 2006.
You've worked on a lot of campaigns in your life.
Sort of in the initial –
This is even before – like Democrats were probably favored to take the House before the war.
Depending on how this goes or how long it stands, that's obviously going to probably not be great for Trump and the Republicans.
But right now, as we look at the – the main conversation about the midterms has been
about the primaries, Democratic primaries, right?
With the amount of attention that was spent on both in Texas and nationally, I'm sure on your network and our network as well, on the Texas primary between James Tallarico and Jasmine Crockett,
Honestly, we have spent so much time talking about the Maine primary.
There's a fascinating Michigan primary coming up in a couple months.
There's another primary in Massachusetts, another one in Minnesota.
As you sort of look at – Democrats currently are a party a little bit adrift in terms of what we stand for.
These primaries are supposed to be, I think, a way of trying to figure that out.