Jon Favreau

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The Ezra Klein Show · Jon Favreau on Where the Democrats Went Right · 11 Oct 2025 podcast

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You know, I could see someone saying, Okay, uh, you know, there's just a poll out of Pennsylvania. matched

Josh Shapiro, more popular than he's ever been in Pennsylvania, would beat JD Vance in that state by I think double digits, according to that poll. matched

And so maybe Josh Shapiro was right to stay out of this. matched

And he could just sit there as a figure who is quite popular in one of the most important swing states in the country, if not the most important. matched

So I get that, but I also matched

Think that the information environment, the attention economy, requires you to be communicating all the time if you want to build a following, not just in your party, but in the country, at this moment in politics. matched

People expect their leaders to be communicating constantly about what's happening, especially people who decide primaries. matched

to win in two of those. matched

First of all, you need a national environment that is much better for Democrats. matched

So I think you need the generic number up much more than three or four points. matched

So you need a national environment that is quite poor for Republicans and quite good for Democrats. matched

And then you need candidates in those states that I think are well known. matched

Which is why you've got you know the Roy Coopers of the world running and people excited about that, who are well funded, and I think who have. matched

Strong communication skills, maybe maybe most importantly. matched

Well, even that, I think in in Nebraska, like if you have Dan Osborne running again, he at least ran statewide before. matched

So he has the name ID. matched

Colin Allred in Texas has name ID. matched

James Tallerico in that primary is, you know, getting some national notoriety. matched

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