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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The Briefing with Jen Psaki · Sexting accusations, scandalous behavior not disqualifying for Republicans in the Trump era · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

That's the damage they are doing to democracy.

Democracies only work when people believe in the system, and they are inherently trying to subvert the system to win elections.

You know, in the short term, it's great for us in Arizona, right?

They're about to nominate the worst possible candidate they could have for governor of Arizona in a state where we must control the Arizona governor's seat to stop Republicans from trying to do this deal in 2028.

So it's great they're going to nominate a bad person.

But you have the right thing, which is now across the country.

is becoming a litmus test for Republicans to say out loud over and over the election was stolen when they know, A, there's no proof of that, B, it didn't happen.

But what they are trying to do is convince people that the system is rigged against them so they won't vote.

Well, look, you and I know I love my math and I love my models.

You cannot model a Democratic United States Senate without Maine.

Democrats have got to win Maine.

And the way you win Maine is two ways.

You win women voters.

Susan Collins continues to overperform in a state where Kamala Harris won by seven points in a Democratic wave year because she can hold on to those women voters.

So the suburbs of Portland are the most important place to go.

And you've already seen in the very first thing he did, Jackson is out there going straight at this.

The second thing are these swing voters, these voters who, as Chuck was saying earlier, don't care about politics.

They are cost of living voters and they are sick of the corruption.

Corruption, Jen, nationally has gone from a top 10 issue to the number two issue in these races.

It's now cost of living and corruption.

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