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Dan Pfeiffer

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11205 total appearances

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

Yes.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

Let's pivot to domestic politics for a second.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

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.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

You've worked on a lot of campaigns in your life.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

Sort of in the initial –

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

This is even before – like Democrats were probably favored to take the House before the war.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

Depending on how this goes or how long it stands, that's obviously going to probably not be great for Trump and the Republicans.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

But right now, as we look at the – the main conversation about the midterms has been

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

about the primaries, Democratic primaries, right?

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

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,

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

Honestly, we have spent so much time talking about the Maine primary.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

There's a fascinating Michigan primary coming up in a couple months.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

There's another primary in Massachusetts, another one in Minnesota.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

As you sort of look at – Democrats currently are a party a little bit adrift in terms of what we stand for.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

These primaries are supposed to be, I think, a way of trying to figure that out.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

What do you see sort of as the major dividing lines in the party that's sort of manifesting itself in the primaries here?

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

And it could be that the primaries are each individually different, but curious your take on it.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

Yeah.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

So I think it's that the focus on Texas was interesting because I think it's the least relevant of all of the divides because I sort of see that I see there are sort of three divides that are sort of dominating the party.

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Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki)

One is.