I trust Sarah Longwell's political instincts:

“Now, I am doing some things, whether it's out of self-preservation to maintain my nervous system, but in some ways, it's actually just a very calculated, what do we need to do? ... I'm just gonna tell you what we need. What we need.

We need Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin and Nebraska, too.

I feel good about Michigan and Wisconsin, where the margins were considerably better in 2020. And where in Wisconsin, we've got a couple of things that we've seen since the 2020 election. In Michigan, we saw Gretchen Whitmer win by double digits there and get the MAGA candidate rejected.... I feel like in both of those, and the polling has been the best in those states. You guys, there's a reason we came here...because Pennsylvania is the ballgame.

And so, I think that late-breaking independents, these right-leaning independents, soft GOP voters, it's who we talk to all the time, I think they break for her, ultimately.

That's one data point. The second is the boys versus girls thing, men versus women. And the question that I've been asking myself all the time is that if I was running a campaign, which would I want?

Would I want to rely on women to turn out? Women who show up to vote, who are a majority of the population and make up a majority of the actual voters in every election? Or would I want to put it on Joe Rogan listeners?

Which would it be? I'll take the women every day, all right?”

From The Next Level: Live from Pittsburgh!, Oct 20, 2024
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/live-from-pittsburgh/id1647085571?i=1000673754719&r=3340

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