Jim Messina

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218 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 10 Sep

Jim Messina’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And in fact, he's bragging about it.

And so these candidates are starting to fight for their lives here and separate themselves on this issue.

But again, in a non presidential election, I think that is really hard.

Voters are going to start to say, I want to put a check on Donald Trump because he's scaring me.

He no longer cares about the issues I care about.

And I'm certainly not going to vote for his party.

That's the threat for Donald Trump.

And

His candidates.

Yeah, and whoever that person is, it's a dumb strategy.

And to exactly your point, Jen, they have a cabinet they can't put out there.

I mean, you just think about the HHS secretary, Dr.

Oz.

You're you're not gonna put that guy on the stump to justify his one trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts.

The fact that he just pet uh proposed a new rule for another half a trillion dollar in cuts, you're gonna really put him on there.

Pete Hegseth, who scares children.

Children on TV, like you're not gonna put him on there.

A bunch of these people are just not qualified to do their normal jobs, much less put them on the stump.

So this is the bind you're in in the White House.

You can't put the president on in these purple states because none of them none of the candidates want him.

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