Tim Miller
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Should, can everybody be aligned on something like people in the
There are people in the center left.
They're like, how could I get some of Zoran's magic, even if my policies aren't exactly the same, right?
And it's like, that's a challenge, you know, and figuring out what issues can kind of unite folks and, you know, how to do that.
I'm wondering, like, how you think, like, he navigated that compared to what we're seeing from other Dems.
Look, I think that there's too much conversation going on in the Democratic Party that we're having amongst ourselves and not enough conversation out on the streets, on the porches, in community groups, in the VFW halls.
There's not enough of that going on.
There are too many people who are spending all their time spinning out their white papers and who are getting into fights on social media with one another, and not a single one of them is going and knocking on a door in West Virginia, which is the only way you're going to actually figure out what the sweet spot is in aligning with where people are at and figuring out how to communicate better.
Zoran impressed me really early on in this contest because...
Immediately after Kamala Harris loses to Donald Trump, he's not out there doing scrolling.
He's not sending out, you know, a thousand social media posts with his hot take of the moment over intellectualizing anything.
Instead, he immediately went on the ground with a microphone to have conversations with people in communities that in the past in New York had voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic ticket.
who leaned towards Donald Trump this time.
So he went into communities where Trump overperformed his previous baseline.
He said, who'd you vote for?
And he had a lot of voters of color on camera telling him, I voted for Donald Trump, and here's why I voted for Donald Trump.
The other side isn't listening.
They can't hear us.
Here's what I'm going through in my life.
Here's what we're experiencing with college tuition.