David Plouffe

We are given the opportunity to refresh ourselves, for voters to take a fresh look at us, because the Republicans can't.

And if we squander that...

We're not going to like where we are.

By the way, let's talk about the Supreme Court.

Let's say we have a Democratic president from 28 to 36.

From your lips to God's ears, that'd be amazing.

But let's say we don't have the Senate.

Do you think we'll be able to confirm a Supreme Court justice?

I don't think so.

So I think we have to hold the Senate and we've got to have the White House.

And again, I think right now, you know, the degree of difficulty there is much too high, given the necessity of that point.

And obviously, 2008, you know, Twitter wasn't really a thing yet.

And Facebook was just on college campuses.

So you didn't have the dynamic.

Now, you mentioned like there's 30 percent of the country that probably supports what Trump and ICE are doing in Minnesota, but they drive Republican politics.

My suspicion is the most active voices on social media who are active Democrats, you know, some of them think the Democratic Party needs to fundamentally change to be fair.

But I think a lot of them don't like the criticism.

Right.

But I think the people who will decide our presidential nomination, real voters in states, whatever the calendar ends up being, they'll be open to that message.

They're not going to be on social media criticizing a candidate necessarily for saying it, but they'll give the vote to somebody who does it.