Dave Weigel
speaker
617 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 1 Apr
Dave Weigel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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is very good.
They think it lost to Trump.
They're correct.
It lost to Trump.
But they have not been looking for the most progressive candidate.
They have been looking for the candidate who they see as most convincing as a fighter.
And this is the challenge that all of us reporters have had is asking voters, what does that mean to you?
There were people who –
we're convinced that James Tallarico would fight more effectively than Jasmine Crockett, even though her entire persona and career has been just being a prosecutor, aggressively going after Republicans.
In Texas, so not to give the whole story of the primary, but basically, Rajakrishna Murthy, the congressman from northwest suburbs of Chicago, he got in very early.
He was running ads last summer, and he never stopped running ads that portrayed him
both anti-Trump and as a reasonable Democrat, she did not start running ads until January.
This only ran a little bit.
It was mostly online, something you'd see on a YouTube scroll.
And she came out much more aggressively.
I will fight Trump, and I'll abolish ICE.
Raja had a line that said, I'll abolish Trump's ICE.
And in that, you could tell from Illinois Democrats, just in that penumbra between getting rid of the thing, getting rid of Trump's thing, Raja was explaining in the debates, well, we need reform.
It's not like Democratic voters said, I want the most left-wing response on ICE.
They say, I want something clearly that says, I'm going to take Trump's power away without pussyfooting.
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