Morris Katz

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531 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 24 Jul

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The Ezra Klein Show · Platner’s Top Campaign Strategist on What Went Wrong · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

I think you need a candidate and a campaign that is telling a story that can bring people who have every reason to be out back in.

John Fetterman was a story about Braddock as much as it was a story about him.

A forgotten steel town that believed its best days were generations ago that still deserves to be fought for, that doesn't deserve to be left behind.

A bio isn't just bullet points, but a story to tell.

And I think people talk about hope as kind of a

political tool or like an abstract thing and not a tangible thing in and of itself.

And I believe that there's a power and hope even just as a thing that people are feeling like everyone's having such a hard time.

I also think there is an X factor in our politics, right?

Someone could run for president and have the exact same policy positions as Barack Obama.

But Barack Obama had an X factor that made him unique.

So did Bill Clinton.

So does Donald Trump.

So did George Bush.

The people who kind of rise to the highest ranks of political power in this country do have an X factor.

And we can't ignore that.

And I think you uniquely can't ignore that in the modern media environment where you can't just run a campaign on 30 second television ads.

I mean, I think there is a deep lack of updating in the strategy to kind of break down the way that this traditionally works is there's a district or a state where there's a competitive election.

And the institutional approach to recruitment there is who can raise the most money in the first 48 hours.

And that is literally the driving determining factor in who the democratic establishment wants to recruit.

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