Josh Dawsey
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208 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Josh Dawsey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Most presidents in their second term in office are not fundraising nonstop like this.
It just hasn't been done before.
The presidents put together this unprecedented apparatus to raise money for all sorts of causes and was really relying on corporate America for much of this money.
I mean, the cri de coeur was drain the swamp.
And there were these forceful chants at rallies and all of the things that the president said in his insurgent 2016 campaign.
Few of them drew the excitement and the palpable enthusiasm from the crowd than this drain the swamp.
This outsider message that we're coming into Washington, we're taking on the entrenched interests, we're taking on the lobbyists, we're taking on all the big donors.
No longer are you going to have these kinds of creatures controlling America.
I mean, his aides, even in the 2020 campaign, sometimes had to cajole and beg to get him to attend some of these events.
And he would be complaining, like, why do I have to take photos with all of these people?
And then he would give a speech and we, then he would be, he would be miserable.
And I had several of his aides describe to me him being on Air Force One,
and just complaining relentlessly about having to do all of these fundraisers.
Susie convinced him to do call time.
And call time is hours that politicians spend every week on the phone, calling people, asking them for money, right?
Just calling them, sitting there on a computer, ring, ring, ring.
Can you give me this?
Can you give me this?
And so Susie convinced the president to start doing call time.
every week, a few hours.
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