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The Wilderness, Season 2 (coming January 13, 2020) · Pod Save America

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Pod Save America listeners, it's Jon Favreau. You may
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  Speaker 1: have heard that my show, The Wilderness, is back on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: January 13th. In season two, I look for the path
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  Speaker 1: to victory in 2020 by talking to voters, strategists, organizers,
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  Speaker 1: and candidates in the battleground states that will decide the election.
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  Speaker 1: If you're hearing this, you're about to listen to the trailer.
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  Speaker 1: Subscribe to The Wilderness at cricket.com slash the wilderness or
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  Speaker 1: wherever you listen to podcasts.
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  Speaker 2: What we did in 2016, the election, we call it
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  Speaker 2: with a capital E, It's never been done before, and
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  Speaker 2: we're going to do it, I.
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  Speaker 3: Think, again in 2020. And the numbers are going to
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  Speaker 3: be even bigger.
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump getting a second term isn't merely doubling the damage.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's compounding. If he has four years and
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  Speaker 4: he doesn't have to face the voters, I think there
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  Speaker 4: is no bottom. I think the damage there will echo
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  Speaker 4: through not just another decade or two. It could echo
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  Speaker 4: through generations. So this isn't simply another election.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this is it. 2020. A year that will end
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  Speaker 1: with what just might be the most important election of
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  Speaker 1: America's lifetime.
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  Speaker 2: The last time we talked, 2020 seemed really far in
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  Speaker 2: the future. Here we are, and I feel like all
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  Speaker 2: I see is trees everywhere. Like we are still in
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  Speaker 2: the wilderness a little bit. Not that there aren't pathways out.
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  Speaker 2: It's just that there's no obvious pathway out.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Wilderness. I'm your host, Jon Favreau.
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  Speaker 1: In this season, we'll look for the path to victory
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  Speaker 1: in 2020 by visiting some of the most important battlegrounds
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  Speaker 1: of the election and talk to the strategists, organizers, and
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  Speaker 1: voters who'll decide the outcome. From the swing states of
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  Speaker 1: the Northeast... People.
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  Speaker 2: In the collar counties of Pennsylvania really care about what
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  Speaker 2: we are for and not who we are against.
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  Speaker 1: To the suburbs of the Southwest.
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  Speaker 2: Growing up here, I do think it's much more diverse.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's changing.
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  Speaker 3: I also think, you know, there's a Trump effect where
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  Speaker 3: even people who have been lifelong Republicans here think that
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  Speaker 3: it's gone too far and that it's too extreme.
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  Speaker 1: From southeastern battlegrounds like Georgia and Florida.
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  Speaker 3: Georgia has the youngest population of a battleground state. We
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  Speaker 3: have the highest percentage of African Americans of a battleground state.
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  Speaker 3: And we've proven that both communities will turn up.
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  Speaker 1: To the heartland of the American Midwest.
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  Speaker 5: There is a group of Ohioans that might be more
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  Speaker 5: conservative than I am on guns or on choice or
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  Speaker 5: on marriage equality and gay rights generally, but they'll.
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  Speaker 3: Listen to a strong economic message.
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  Speaker 1: And while we can't make any predictions, the one thing
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  Speaker 1: we know is that nothing about this election will be easy.
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  Speaker 5: 2020 feels to me like the battle of the bulge
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  Speaker 5: between what America has been and what it is becoming.
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  Speaker 5: And I think it is pretty safe to assume that
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  Speaker 5: Trump will get every last ounce of blood. out of
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  Speaker 5: his coalition of restoration, it's a less decided question whether
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  Speaker 5: the coalition of transformation turns out in equal force.
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  Speaker 1: Somehow, if we can find a way to keep this big,
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  Speaker 1: unruly party inspired, energized, and unified, we might just be okay.
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  Speaker 3: There's nothing we can't do. But if we're divided, we
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  Speaker 3: will stand alone. And that's not who we are at
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  Speaker 3: our best. America is a young nation. We have been
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  Speaker 3: tested time and time again, and we have always overcome.
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  Speaker 3: And we've done so by coming together across lines of
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  Speaker 3: race and origin and language. And we can do that again.
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  Speaker 1: So come join us in the wilderness, where the only
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  Speaker 1: way out is together. Subscribe to The Wilderness from Crooked
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  Speaker 1: Media wherever you get your podcasts.