John Ralston

I think what he would first say, Rachel, and believe me, I'm not obsequious at all, but he would have listened to what you said at the beginning of this, in the introduction of this, and he would have agreed with every word that you said, and he would have believed that this is an existential threat that this country is facing. He would have feared that there's going to be military in the cities, not just doing what they're doing now, but to intimidate people from voting. He would be speaking out about this every day,

He would use every minute that he had on the Senate floor to be telling people to wake up. There's no room for being nice to Trump. And he would have been speaking out in the most unvarnished terms about this. And he would be, while he's doing that, behind the scenes, going to people in Nevada and across all of the other states and sending the message,

We need to organize, we need to get people registered, we need to make sure that people understand what is at stake here. And I think that it's easy for people on the outside. I have friends who are like this, because I say some of the same things that you said in your introduction relatively frequently. Oh, you're just being hysterical, oh, you're being melodramatic, it's not that bad, this is just another cycle.

Se on niin vaikea. Harry Reid olisi tunnustanut sitä, Rachel, ja hän olisi sanonut, että tämä ei ole aikaa moderatiivista. Tämä on aika, jossa kaikki on tehty, mennäkseen taustalle tästä republikaan. Hän ei huolehdu siitä, mitä ihmiset sanoivat hänelle. Yksi hänen työntekijänsä sanoi, että

in the book in the town where uh everyone cares what people think about them harry reid did not care when anybody thought about and he truly did not care uh rachel uh outside of his family i think and so um he would be speaking out he would be vehement in saying there is too much at stake for anyone not to every day be speaking out about this uh i i would guess that he would have said so many things that would have been considered gaffes by some and that others would be

Yeah, and we think so much in terms of the...

You know, where various democratic leaders are on the ideological number line, you know, and for Harry Reid, that was just never the most important thing about him. The most important thing about him was what you just said in terms of knowing when moderation, not ideological moderation, but tactical moderation.

was inappropriate, and it was actually time to go for broke. He could not only name those times, he could do it in a way that I think, well, that I'm missing now. Harry Reid was raised in the tiny town of Searchlight, Nevada, with no running water, no indoor plumbing. His mother did laundry for brothels. He was

Born essentially off the edge of civilization, he rose to become one of the most important Democratic Party politicians and power brokers ever in the history of this country. And the new book about him is written by the man who knew him better than any other. The dean of Nevada political reporters, John Ralston. The book is called The Game Changer, How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and Showed Democrats How to Fight. It comes out on January 20th.

Minun täytyy sanoa, John, että tämä oli täysin parempi aikaa ja kiitos teidän tehtävänne. Olen pahoillani, että Harry teki sinut valmiiksi ja olen iloinen, että hän auttoi sinulle saada kirjan tehtyä. Kiitos, nämä ovat molemmat. All right, John Ralston, kiitos. Nähdään pian, kaverini. All right, thank you.

If you pull out this race, and Democrats broadly pull out this race, and Democrats maintain control and you're still majority leader, undoubtedly there are going to be more Republicans in the Senate in the next Congress than there are now. If 60 votes has been the problem in terms of getting important legislation passed, what's the strategy for getting stuff passed with even fewer Democrats than you have now? I really believe that the efforts to stall everything

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