Jeff Weaver
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
Jeff Weaver is a political strategist known for his role as Bernie Sanders' campaign manager during the 2016 presidential race. This interview highlights his ability to engage with various voter demographics and his focus on ideas and policy as the foundation for political success.
“We're holding forth screaming in the, you know, those days there was no cell phone. So when you wanted to call somebody, you had to find a telephone. So we went to my father's pet store and he had this giant, very beautiful cockatoo. And it was screaming in the background.”
“Not as she ended up supporting Hillary Clinton. So there, you know, and I've seen other research. And what you have to understand about Iowa and how Bernie Sanders, I think probably won the popular vote in Iowa, but as you know, they don't report the popular vote. They will now.”
“Well, you know, I had been quote unquote radicalized at undergraduate school, and I came back home again to this sort of sleepy place. And I was looking for, you know, what am I going to do now? I'm kicked out of college, right? I don't have a job. And he was running. And I called down to his office to see if I could help out.”
“I was a Russian area studies major at the time, and I had met there were a number of Jewish students at BU, and I became involved. I was convinced to go down to an annual lobby they had in DC at that time to lobby members of Congress on behalf of Soviet Jewry.”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 279 — Jeff Weaver
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