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Republican Death Panels
February 26, 2024 17:48 - 26 minutes - 23.8 MBhttps://arkansasadvocate.com/2022/10/05/study-more-republicans-than-democrats-likely-died-of-covid/ Researcher Max Taves closes his analysis in David Cay Johnston’s DC Report by asking a very important question: “Republican politicians can talk all they want about how pro-life they are, but these data defy and belie their rhetoric. Facts are stubborn things. So what does it say about a political party which incessantly promotes its respect for life and yet whose states’ policies overwhe...
Democracy Awakening:
January 29, 2024 17:15 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBAs soon as Heather Cox Richardson’s new book Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America came across my algorithm I reached out and invited America’s favorite academic back onto the show. HRC’s newest book lays out how a small group of wealthy men financed and developed a right wing propaganda machine that 54+ years later, stands to topple America’s nearly 250 year old democracy. But perhaps even more importantly, Cox-Richardson lays out how marginalized Americans of the past have...
Mr. International: How Joe Biden Saved the Entire International Order by Defeating Donald Trump
January 16, 2024 22:30 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBLike all good lefties, I cut my teeth in progressive politics learning all about the horrors of America’s massive military industrial complex. In one of my very first college classes ever at the local community college, a passionate instructor who spent his spare time organizing peace marches against the Iraq War made sure each of his students left his class well-versed in America’s overinvestment in defense spending and underinvestment in well, everything else. 20 years ago I had zero ap...
BuT i ThOuGhT tHe LeFt CaN't MeMe?!
November 28, 2023 18:58 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBThroughout 2024 I plan on highlighting core grassroots organizations working on the frontlines of the Democratic Party’s messaging revolution. Now, maybe you think the word “revolution” is too strong, but trust me, moving a party away from approaching voters with wonky policy appeals and achievements to focusing on making sure regular Americans know what the modern GOP has planned for them is no small reform. It requires a revolution of thought based on the cold, hard, realities of the Ame...
The Tyranny of the Minority
October 23, 2023 17:20 - 31 minutes - 36.4 MBThe first time I posted about the harsh reality of America’s collapsing democracy, it seemed like many folks were genuinely surprised to see that America is not actually the Greatest Democracy on Earth. According to the democracy index compiled by the EIU and published annually by The Economist, America is actually a “flawed” democracy. The United States was downgraded from “full” to “flawed” democracy after half of America handed the keys to the White House to a wannabe dictator-con man...
America doesn’t have a “both sides” problem, it has a Republican Party problem.
September 25, 2023 15:21 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBWhat if I was to tell you the Republican Party’s villain-in-chief, the main protagonist in the Republican Party’s “Democrats are socialists” Big Lie, Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is an ideological moderate serving in a likewise still moderate Democratic Party? Understandably, you wouldn’t believe me, so I would have to present some pretty compelling evidence to change your mind. Enter that evidence: VoteView. What is VoteView? VoteView is a data analysis tool built by a gro...
Fear & Loathing in the 2022 Midterm Elections
July 11, 2023 17:42 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBI first learned about Way to Win when they published an analysis after the 2020 cycle empirically demonstrating the weakness of the Democratic Party’s messaging strategy against the GOP’s in the 2020 cycle. While Republican’s focused on branding Democrats as dangerous socialists intent on destroying America, Democrats were branding Republicans as good friends they just couldn’t wait to work with it! The poll-tested value of telling swing voters how great the other party is and how much y...
It's a Cult!
April 25, 2023 17:24 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBIf you want to get someone out of a cult, Dr. Steven Hassan is your man. Inspired to a career focused on cults by his own personal experience being tricked into joining one, Dr. Hassan has spent decades researching, writing, and talking about cults and is skilled at getting folks out of them. In fact, he literally wrote the manual on understanding and breaking cult allegiance, Combating Cult Mind Control (4th edition), which I strongly urge you to check out, ESPECIALLY if like me, you’ve...
Shadowboxing the Apocalypse: Episode 1
March 22, 2023 16:45 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBTwo years or so again I began an extensive research project into the totalitarian movements of the 1920s and 1930, with a heavy emphasis on Germany and Italy whose totalitarians regimes hailed from the political right. When I started this research project I knew very little about the process by which the National Socialists actually rose to power, this despite holding both a college degree and a PhD in political science. My general knowledge was limited to the major battles of WWII and wha...
Girl, You ARE Politics!
February 13, 2023 20:38 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBLeigh McGowen, of IamPoliticsGirl and The Politics Girl pod fame, intrinsically gets the purpose, the proper forms, and the distribution realties of modern messaging. That’s why I was jazzed to bring my fellow messaging (and messy bun) aficionado onto The Cycle to talk about her rise as one of the Democratic Party’s brightest and best messaging stars. Leigh has launched Politics Girl on YouTube so PLEASE SUBSCRIBE NOW. You’ll find links to all of her great messaging content in one conven...
WhY aRe ThE pOlLs AlwAys WrOnG!
January 17, 2023 17:34 - 31 minutes - 21.3 MBIf you find polling interesting or frustrating (or both!) this is the episode for you! U-Mass Amherst pollster and Associate Professor Alex Theodoridis is on the pod to talk about challenges facing modern polling and how to properly conduct and present survey results given the impacts on mass behavior of hyperpartisanship, which you should think of as partisanship, but on steroids. In addition to the above conversation I want to make damn sure you see Alex’s data drop from their latest p...
"He's Perfect."
December 26, 2022 18:53 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBWhen you have to google the spelling of “cuckold",” you know you’re about to drop a hot pod! The Liberty Way reads like some kind of modern Footloose, forcing students to adhere to a moral code so strict, you expect the punishments to include stoning. That’s why the revelation that when “America’s largest Christian university’s” President Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife Becki Falwell have a “cuckold” itch, they sneak off to South Beach to scratch, its a REALLY BIG DEAL. And because Falw...
Meet the Proud Boys: America's First Sturmabteilung (SA).
December 19, 2022 16:40 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBDid you know that in order to advance in ‘degrees’ in the Proud Boys you have to vow to stop jacking off so you can unleash your pent-up violence on your innocent victims?! That’s why you NEED a copy of Andy Campbell’s new book: We Are Proud Boys: How A Rightwing Street Gang Ushered In A New Era Of American Extremism. I haven’t had a chance yet to present the sum of my research into the collapse of democracies and the rise of totalitarians, but rest assured, I intend to spend the next ye...
Dude, Where's My Red Wave?!
December 11, 2022 23:54 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBIn this short, but spirited conversation, Tom Bonier of Target Smart and Simon Rosenberg of NDN and host of the With Democrats, Things Get Better series, joins me on the pod to laugh at the Republican Party’s red tinkle. Target Smart, it is the Democrat’s premier voter targeting firm and creator of the incredible Target Early tool, which allows users to easily and quickly access critical information such as registration and voter turnout. Get full access to The Cycle- On Substack at the...
Francesca Tripodi's The Propagandist Playbook Reveals How Republicans Dominate Social Media
September 08, 2022 21:07 - 33 minutes - 45.7 MBI’m excited to bring you this conversation with Francesca Tripodi, Assistant Professor at the School of Library Info and Library Science & senior researcher at the Center for Info, Tech, and Public Life at the venerable UNC-Chapel Hill. We discuss her new book, The Propagandists’ Playbook: How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy, which is a deep dive into how the Right dominates social media. This book and pod is a must read/listen for anyone involved in social med...
"Hate Will Only Win If People Like Me Stand By And Let It Happen."
July 16, 2022 23:11 - 31 minutes - 43 MBMichigan state senator Mallory McMorrow opened her now famous speech on the floor of the Michigan senate by calling out the reason her Republican senate colleague chose to target her in a fundraising email that is part of a party-wide effort to brand Democrats as child groomers (proof positive of QANON’s continued influence in the modern Republican Party). McMorrow knew why she was personally targeted, saying it is “because I am the biggest threat to your hollow, hateful scheme because you ...
An American Tale
May 16, 2022 16:11 - 33 minutesIf “guilt by association” also works for “coolness by association” I have officially arrived! Its not every day that I get someone who has interviewed the President of the United States to come onto the pod (though I should probably note I’ve had at least 3 on here) but STILL! She’s an academic so it counts for more! When THE HCR (as some of her fans refer to her) agreed to come onto The Cycle I was…. I was especially keen to talk to Heather about America’s current democratic crisis w...
Democrats Are From Venus, Republicans Are From Mars
May 02, 2022 15:06 - 32 minutesWelcome to Political Behavior 454! Today I am going to expose you to one of several research books that have come out in the past few years that help explain modern political behavior, which is distinct from political behavior of previous decades in several measurable and important ways. Dr. Jonathan Weiler, Director of Undergraduate Global Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and co-author of Pick Up or Prius: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain American’s Great Political Divide is on...
Laboratories of Autocracy
April 25, 2022 15:57 - 44 minutesI’ve had a lot of fascinating conversations with my Cycle guests, but this pod with David Pepper, former chair of the Ohio Democratic Party and author of what Politico Mag calls “the thriller that predicted the Russia Scandal,” is one for the record books. His new book, Laboratories of Democracy: A Wake Up Call From Behind The Lines takes you into the complex world of state politics- a strange new world with new life, and new civilizations that pass legislation via simple majorities. Whe...
Lock, Stock, & Barrel
April 15, 2022 15:40 - 30 minutesBelieve it or not, when George W. Bush ran for the Republican Party’s nomination in 2000, he was able to at least tacitly support reauthorizing the Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994, which was set to expire in 2004. Yep, you read that right. As radical as they might have seemed to you back then, as of 2000 most of the Republican Party was still quite sane, and intent on being a governing party. Their insanity didn’t really start until the mid-2000s, after Karl Rove demonstrated the power...
And the Wind Cries Mary:
April 04, 2022 19:37 - 30 minutesMary Trump has been very busy since she first emerged on the national stage after sacrificing much to share thousands of personal records documenting Trump family corruption with investigators from the New York Times. She doubled down on her gift to America by next releasing audio of Trump’s federal judge sister admitting his entire schtick is an immoral long con. In other words, Mary Trump is one bad ass motherf*cker. Two books later, and a podcast you should be sure to check out, Mary i...
Our Own Worst Enemy
March 15, 2022 16:27 - 34 minutesWhen I first spotted the title of my friend Tom Nichols’ new book I knew it needed to serve as the opening pod cast for season 2. Why? Because Tom’s excellent thesis, that 80 years of peace, prosperity, improving life conditions, and tech have led us to what I call a “decadence" issue. Put simply, Americans are so comfortable, and so far removed from past tribulations, they have done what comfortable people do: turned their angst both inward, and towards the respectively trivial. In short,...
DOOM!
September 07, 2021 16:28 - 57 minutesPolitical scientists of the future will no doubt burn a lot of digital ink trying to identify where things went off the rails in 21st century America. Like the first shot of the Civil War, the near-collapse of our democracy in 2020 and 2021 stand out as pinnacle moments in what is, at least for now, a “cold” Civil War. With the rule of law under severe strain from the full-frontal assault against it by President Trump and his Republican Party peers, the GOP is increasingly using control ...
How the GOP's "Evil Geniuses" Destroyed America
August 01, 2021 14:47 - 47 minutesFriends, I’m sorry about the hiatus for the pod so many of you have graciously endured while I launched Strike Pac, prepped my house for my exodus back out West, and dealt with my appendix trying to murder me. That so many of you suffered in silence was not lost on me, and is massively appreciated. Y’all are some really good humans! Also, before I get into the summary of the pod, I am now at a place where I can start to incorporate some of Strike Pac’s work into the paid subscriber only ...
Lions, Tigers, & Turnout, Oh My!
May 27, 2021 18:07 - 39 minutesWhen UC-San Diego political science Associate Professor Seth Hill and his co-authors dropped their latest article in the journal Science Advances, the title immediately caught my eye. That title was “Not by turnout alone: Measuring the sources of electoral change, 2012 to 2016.” Now, having spent the better part of 2 years arguing with people about the role of turnout on electoral outcomes, my immediate thought was, “why are they burying the lead here?” That’s because from my perspectiv...
Yes Virginia, All Politics is NATIONAL
May 16, 2021 17:52 - 53 minutesIn his very first podcast, Professor Emeritus at University of California, San Diego and prolific political scientist Gary Jacobson previews the 2020 updates to his longitudinal research on key voting behaviors of the American electorate. If you’re wondering what it means to say America’s politics have “nationalized” Jacobson’s research has you covered. Get full access to The Cycle- On Substack at thecycle.substack.com/subscribe
Through the Looking Glass
May 04, 2021 11:02 - 1 hourGreetings cool cats & kittens, Today I’m releasing my fascinating conversation with Chris Bail, who runs The Polarization Lab at Duke University. Chris has a new book out: Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing which presents analysis from a major study he and his colleagues in the lab conducted on polarization and social media. The study attempts to answer some of the most important questions we have about the role of social media as one of many mechan...
Through the Looking Glass: 
May 04, 2021 11:02 - 1 hourGreetings cool cats & kittens, Today I’m releasing my fascinating conversation with Chris Bail, who runs The Polarization Lab at Duke University. Chris has a new book out: Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing which presents analysis from a major study he and his colleagues in the lab conducted on polarization and social media. The study attempts to answer some of the most important questions we have about the role of social media as one of many mechani...
Are We Too Dumb For Democracy?!
April 21, 2021 10:38 - 49 minutesFriends, I hope you’ll listen to my conversation with fellow political scientist and political behavior expert David Moscrop. In addition to his impressive scholarly research, Dr. Moscrop has also written a very accessible book that explains why humans are poorly-suited for democracy. Titled Too Dumb For Democracy? Why we make bad political decisions and how we can better ones documents the limits of human decision-making, noting in particular how decision-making deficiencies are particula...
The Luck of the Irish:
April 05, 2021 13:51 - 1 hourFriends, What happens when a political scientist with specific expertise in presidential nominations and general elections joins up with two of Washington’s best sourced “stump” reporters to talk about their tell-all “What Happened” book on the 2020 cycle? Get full access to The Cycle- On Substack at thecycle.substack.com/subscribe
A Special Episode With "The Senate Whisperer" Lawrence O'Donnell
February 05, 2021 14:25 - 1 hourLike many of you, the realization that Democrats would have majority control of the Senate after the improbable victories of Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s runoff elections on January 5th was electrifying! I imagine that for one of my personal heroes, Stacey Abrams, it also came with a deeply satisfying “see! we told you this electoral strategy would work!” as we saw how modernized electioneering can pay dividends even in some of the harshest electoral environments. M...
Too Much & Never Enough: Counting Down the Last Days of the Presidency of the World's Most Dangerous Man with Mary Trump
January 12, 2021 16:08 - 42 minutesIf there is one other person out there more bullish than I am regarding Donald Trump’s capabilities for Mussolini-like behaviors, it’s his niece Mary Trump. Mary made a splash when her tell-all book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created The World’s Most Dangerous Man released. The book was unique because it combined an autobiographical account of Mary’s family history as a Trump and her various interactions with the man she simply refers to as “Donald,”with detached psychoanaly...
Dying For Trump? White Resentment Politics Drives Some to "Die for Whiteness," But Will They Die for Trump?
January 05, 2021 15:19 - 52 minutesWednesday the 6th will be Trump-driven shitshow in D.C. when Republicans in Congress will turn a mere formality with the Electoral College certification process into a clown show. Thanks to an initial “toe-in-the-water” by senator and 2024 hopeful Josh Hawley, support for the circus in the senate, the chamber supposedly for grown-ups, quickly ballooned to a dozen (now 13) Republican senators. The effort already had robust enthusiasm in the House. Nearly 70% of that chamber’s Republican caucu...
The Election Whisperer: Lethal Mass Partisanship
December 30, 2020 19:39 - 1 hourIn the premiere episode of The Election Whisperer on The Cycle- On Substack the show’s first in audio-only format, Rachel recaps (as quickly as possible!) the months that have passed since the show went on hiatus. The post election period has been marked by the whole of the Republican Party enabling Trump’s democracy-destroying multiple coup attempts. Senator Josh Hawley has gone so far as to commit to “objecting” to Biden’s win on January 6th when the Senate meets to approve the Electoral...
Election Day Rewind: Election Whisperer LIVE (9-10 pm)
November 04, 2020 10:58 - 41 minutesThe live episode aired at 9 pm ET on The Cycle on November 3rd. Rachel Bitecofer is joined by Jessica Post and Flip Pidot for a live look at the wild election results pouring in as polls finally closed across most of the country. For more, check out https://thecycle.news. All content and opinions presented herein, whether by hosts and guests, are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as investment or other advice. Get full access to The Cycle- On Substack at the...
The Election Whisperer: Turnout
October 21, 2020 17:52 - 25 minutesVideo version at electionwhisperer.com. In the electoral home stretch, one question looms large for every party and candidate on the ballot: how do we get our voters to vote? Turnout is always critical, but in this highly peculiar cycle, it stands to play an even larger role than usual. Rachel Bitecofer has assembled a panel to reveal what progressives are doing in 2020 to convert supporters into voters. Guests: - Alex Morgan, executive director of Progressive Turnout Project - Diana...
Election Whisperer LIVE at The Cycle
October 17, 2020 23:21 - 59 minutesRachel Bitecofer answers your Election 2020 questions LIVE at http://TheCycle.news. Get full access to The Cycle- On Substack at thecycle.substack.com/subscribe
Election Whisperer's Texas Spectacular (Part 4: Congressional Candidates)
October 08, 2020 17:23 - 42 minutesVideo version at electionwhisperer.com. In the final installment, Rachel Bitecofer is reunited with two-time co-host Rep. Joaquin Castro (TX-20) along with Wendy Davis (candidate in the 21st District), Mike Siegel (10th) and Julie Oliver (25th). The incumbents in these three red districts all won by single digits in 2018, so this episode may be jam packed with soon-to-be representatives-elect! Subscribe to the show and submit your questions for Rachel at ElectionWhisperer.com. For the...
Election Whisperer's Texas Spectacular (Part 3: The GSD Club)
September 28, 2020 22:52 - 26 minutesVideo version at electionwhisperer.com. In this installment, Rachel Bitecofer is joined by 3 of Texas' grassroots political leaders - the get s*** done club! Guests: - Carrie Collier-Brown, founder of Blue Action Dems. - Sherrie Matula, founderof Sisters United Alliance. - Diana Patiño, lead strategist of Sisters United Alliance. Subscribe to the show and submit your questions for Rachel at ElectionWhisperer.com. For the podcast version, check out ElectionWhisperer.com/pod. All con...
Election Whisperer's Texas Spectacular (Part 2: Flipping Texas)
September 24, 2020 19:55 - 1 hourVideo version at electionwhisperer.com. Rachel Bitecofer's Texas Spectacular rolls on, with a dazzling dozen guests vying for seats in the state house this fall. Cari Marshall from "Flip the Texas House" serves as assistant emcee, as Rachel chats with Sharon Hirsch, Lorenzo Sanchez, Lydia Bean, Alisa Simmons, Akilah Bacy, Celina Montoya, Brandy Chambers, Ann Johnson, Angela Brewer, Jennifer Skidonenko and Elizabeth Beck. PLUS: A crash course on the Texas gerrymander with the Lizard Man! ...
Election Whisperer's Texas Spectacular (Part 1: Beto O'Rourke)
September 14, 2020 11:14 - 46 minutesVideo version at electionwhisperer.com. Rachel Bitecofer's Texas Spectacular kicks off with Beto O'Rourke, revealing his plan to turn the state blue in a key redistricting year through his organization Powered By People, and how that would "forever reorder the political landscape of America." All content and opinions presented herein, whether by hosts and guests, are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as investment or other advice. Get full access to The Cycle- O...
The Election Whisperer: Go Ahead... Make My Data
August 24, 2020 20:58 - 18 minutesVideo version at electionwhisperer.com. It's the first installment of The Election Whisperer's "Go Ahead... Make My Data." These are shorter-form, number-heavy episodes where Rachel Bitecofer takes you inside the data behind the politics. Subscribe to the show and submit a question of your own at ElectionWhisperer.com. For the podcast version, check out ElectionWhisperer.com/pod. All content and opinions presented herein, whether by hosts and guests, are for informational purposes ...
The Election Whisperer: DNC Special Part 3 (Guy Cecil)
August 19, 2020 15:06 - 31 minutesVideo version at electionwhisperer.com. The thrilling conclusion to Rachel Bitecofer's DNC special is an interview with Guy Cecil, chair of Priorities USA, the largest Democratic super PAC. Subscribe to the show and submit a question of your own at ElectionWhisperer.com. For the podcast version, check out ElectionWhisperer.com/pod. All content and opinions presented herein, whether by hosts and guests, are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as investment or o...
The Election Whisperer: DNC Special Part 2 (Shannon Watts, Ezra Levin)
August 19, 2020 15:06 - 31 minutesVideo version at electionwhisperer.com. Part 2 of Rachel Bitecofer's DNC special features a conversation with Ezra Levin (Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Indivisible) and Shannon Watts (Founder of Moms Demand Action), plus a furry cameo. Subscribe to the show and submit a question of your own at ElectionWhisperer.com. For the podcast version, check out ElectionWhisperer.com/pod. All content and opinions presented herein, whether by hosts and guests, are for informational purp...
The Election Whisperer: DNC Special Part 1 (Jessica Post)
August 19, 2020 15:06 - 37 minutesVideo version at electionwhisperer.com. Rachel Bitecofer's DNC special kicks off with an interview with Jessica Post, President of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. Subscribe to the show and submit a question of your own at ElectionWhisperer.com. For the podcast version, check out ElectionWhisperer.com/pod. All content and opinions presented herein, whether by hosts and guests, are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as investment or other advice....
The Election Whisperer: DNC Special
August 17, 2020 21:41 - 1 hourVideo version at electionwhisperer.com. Rachel Bitecofer hosts an all-star lineup of campaign strategists, operatives and activists for a truly gargantuan episode as the 2020 Democratic National Convention gets underway. - First up: Jessica Post (President of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee) - At 37:45: Ezra Levin (Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Indivisible) and Shannon Watts (Founder of Moms Demand Action) - At 1:08:35: Guy Cecil (Chair of Priorities USA) - At 1:...
The Election Whisperer: Zerlina Maxwell
August 12, 2020 17:16 - 43 minutesVideo version at electionwhisperer.com. Rachel Bitecofer welcomes Zerlina Maxwell, author of "The End of White Politics" for a discussion on 2020 messaging, identity politics, and the right way to pick a running mate. Subscribe to the show and submit a question of your own at ElectionWhisperer.com. For the podcast version, check out oldbull.tv/pod. All content and opinions presented herein, whether by hosts and guests, are for informational purposes only and should not be construed a...
The Election Whisperer with Rachel Bitecofer (and special co-host Joaquin Castro)
July 22, 2020 21:06 - 1 hourVideo version at electionwhisperer.com. Rachel gets an assist with the hosting duties from Rep. Joaquin Castro (TX-20) for a conversation on Latinx voters with Chuck Rocha from Solidarity Strategies and Stephanie Valencia, co-founder of Equis Labs. Plus, Rachel reveals the winner of the Question Of the Week swag challenge (yes, somebody won this week)! Subscribe to the show and submit a question of your own at ElectionWhisperer.com. For the podcast version, check out election...
The Election Whisperer: The Doc Is In (July 12, 2020)
July 13, 2020 00:32 - 43 minutesVideo version here. Welcome to the first-ever Election Whisperer mailbag special. Nothing but Rachel Bitecofer answering your questions. Subscribe to the show and submit a question of your own at ElectionWhisperer.com. All content and opinions presented herein, whether by hosts and guests, are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as investment or other advice. Get full access to The Cycle- On Substack at thecycle.substack.com/subscribe
The Election Whisperer with Rachel Bitecofer ("How the Midwest Was Won" with Ben Wikler)
July 08, 2020 15:27 - 1 hourVideo version here. Rachel Bitecofer welcomes Wisconsin Democratic state chair Ben Wikler, for an (uninterrupted!) discussion of the state's pivotal role in the 2020 presidential election and the stunning upset they pulled off this spring. Plus, Rachel answers your questions and reveals who (if anyone) won the inaugural Question Of the Week swag challenge. Subscribe to the show and submit a question of your own at ElectionWhisperer.com. All content and opinions presented herein, whet...