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Amy Walter

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first: 2021-08-05
most recent: 2021-08-05
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Where you are on that? Are we on this which side of the tipping point are we? And are we going to look back 20 years from now and say, ooh, well, that was rough, but it was pretty clear all along where this was headed because I don't know where it is headed right now. I think it is very dangerous to live in a time where we are living in two Americas who have two very different sets of beliefs and priorities and where the inequities about the economy and where the growth is are so stark that Those, right?”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The thought 20 years ago of me getting into a car driven by a stranger, the level of faith that goes into that is kind of remarkable. Putting my credit card on the internet, I wouldn't have thought 30 years ago that that would be a possible. So the trust is there. It's at the institutions are going to look different. I do think that it is not about one person. It's about having, again, having the sort of public incentive is for people who are willing to do the work instead of just getting the glory. And until that changes, that's going to be difficult. Do I think we're on the cusp of something? I don't know. I feel like this is the thing about tipping points, right, in history. You just, you never know.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Would be invited into a lot of those rooms only because we've sort of blown up that system do we have New people and new voices and new energy in this process. So that's a good thing, but with it comes all of the destabilizing. I'm also reading this book, I'm only starting it, but it is sort of fascinating where we talk about the lack of faith in our sort of traditional institutions at the same time. We are now putting our faith still into people and to things that are just different.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Most prolific fundraisers are the ones who get themselves on every sort of social and other media. And look, I feel like, again, if we sort of go all the way back to where we started this conversation, back when we had in the olden days before Twitter and you had three networks telling you what the news was and you had party leaders in Congress who had a tremendous amount of power in determining who was going to make it and who wasn't. If you were a team player, you got rewarded with great committee assignments. Those committee assignments got you money. That money got you, you know, your incumbency protection. All of those have broken away, which leaves us feeling like we are sort of swimming in a sea of dysfunction. At the same time, I don't think that's somebody like me who, being female, being gay.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“David, like you, I think about this a lot. And also, it's why I like you so much because you can be critical without being cynical. You can be analytical without being, well, I can't use the word I would use, but without being a jerk to other people, right? Like you can't very approachable because and I think that's why you get all kinds of people to come and sit down and talk with you because again, you're not in this to score points. And unfortunately, this is sort of what our politics has devolved into. I think about two things. One, the incentive structure is part of a big part of the problem, that you are rewarded. For blowing things up, not for building things.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly, you have to do it right. So this is not like she took this upon herself to give herself an opportunity to do it. Know when this primary, but it is a, look, I don't think that this has broader implications, say, for midterms or for the Democratic Party. Democrats have been across the board. The entire delegation, the president, all calling on Cuomoto to resign. So this is not one of those. Oh, it puts. The party in a pickle to have to defend Cuomo at this time. I just think the bigger question is for New York politics, which is its own share of brutal, who's next after Cuomo in terms of who's next in terms of the hierarchy. Who would become a governor? And if you are the lieutenant governor, Kathy Hokel, you know, she becomes the governor if indeed he is impeached.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“American politics. I mean, I think he's daring the assembly to impeach him was what it feels like to me. And unless they do, he's not going anywhere. And then that begs the next question, David, which is who runs against him in a primary? And the one name that has been out there for the longest is the state.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, this is obviously a guy who is not particularly interested in being out of office. He's not going to be shamed into resigning.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Making a basically a protest and getting the Biden administration to move her way. So you could argue that, yes, the Biden wing is alive and well, and at the same time, the influence that Sanders AOC and those members have on policy and the direction of the party is still significant.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's so smart. And I think to say this is the Joe Biden party, the split screen, though, that was fascinating, David, was at the same time, this is a quote-unquote win for the establishment, for the Biden wing of the party coming on the heels of Eric Adams in New York, who Said, I'm basically, I'm a Biden Democrat, the not progressive candidate in the New York mayor race. Terry McAuliffe in Virginia, not exactly a liberal firebrand. Obviously, part of the establishment. More centrist wing of the party. At the same time, this is happening, though, in Ohio last night. Progressives get a big win on the eviction moratorium by one of those members of the so-called squad.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“First, going back to the most important thing, candidates and campaigns matter. So I do think that the fact that what this election really, it wasn't simply about the fact that Nina Turner was an outspoken progressive. She had been outspoken in her attacks, I guess, you would say, on Joe Biden and on Hillary Clinton. The two people who actually did very well in the primaries in this district. This is a Biden district. This was a Hillary district. Again, if you're going to be an outspoken opponent, that is fine, but this is not the district headings. Exactly. They are not resident at that.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's such a great point because again, I know we throw this word empathy around and I think sometimes we misidentify empathy as being soft, right? It's like a soft art of being, oh, they're there. Really, what empathy is it's an ability to be curious. It's really curiosity And to be curious about somebody's point of view, so instead of going into an interview with three million people have been killed under your watch, why are you so terrible? Can you tell me how you're thinking about this? Tell me why you're doing X, Y, and Z. Bringing people in in a way that is, it's, again, it's not that you're not critical. It's not that you're not pressing people, but it's the way in which you ask the question, which says, I am curious, I am truly honestly curious to hear your perspective.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The prodigal daughter is what I've seen the other side and here's what I really liked to do. But it really was that, which is. Seeing politics from all these different vantage points and recognizing that, look what I really love to be able to do is to stand sort of outside of it. And really look critically at both what is happening, sort of the national trends and the bigger story, political story, as well as the individual campaigns and races and what we're getting from that. And it's hard to do that. It's hard to find places that do that, that aren't sensationalizing, that aren't all about chasing the shiniest object or trying to make the pithiest point on Twitter. which is also why I love working with PDS and the news hour and because we have time to do that, I get.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Get on the Romney, yeah, and get on the Romney plane, be on the, right? So it really was, I think, you know, again, all of these different jobs have given me an opportunity to see politics, campaigns, elections from these different vantage points, which I think is so important. And as you pointed out, starting off working on campaigns, obviously a lot has changed in 1993. I mean, our biggest breakthrough technology we had. I remember this so well on the campaign in 94 was you could blast facts. That was a big deal. You could send out one fax to hundreds of people. same time that was that was it so obviously a lot has changed but the basics remain”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Out. But it also gave me the opportunity. I mean, this is where the networks still have so much opportunity to do stuff that, you know, I could never do at a smaller publication or even at a print publication, which is the debates being able to have a”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And to come so quickly on the heels of the 2000, this is what I meant about things being so stable. We went from 1954 to 2006. The house changed twice. From 2006 to now, right? So obviously a much shorter time window, it's already flipped three times with a good chance of it flipping again. So to go from 2008 and the Democrats success and then gets flipped in 2010, and then to go to a race where David, you know quite well, the 2012 campaign was so different from 2008, right? And I think, right, you go from historic and the long battle between Hillary and Obama and the primary and Sarah Palin and all of this. And then it ends up a pretty kind of boring re-election campaign. I know from your part it wasn't boring, but it certainly did not have the drama and interest of 2008. And obviously, ever since then.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like that, we're really talking 20 or so minutes. Why should it make it into this? Why should what you're obsessing about, you were little insular political world, why does that matter? So that was a really important experience to be able to talk beyond just a niche audience, to try to figure out ways in which what we do, what politics is at its core, right? It's impact on regular people. And I got there for two really interesting moments. One was the 2010 election where, right.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it was more obviously both Cook and Hotline are more insidery, right? I mean, that is a very niche audience, right? So I had been writing for and speaking to a very niche political audience. And then I had to go at ABC. And now you got to talk to, you know, 300 million people about politics. And most normal people don't care about politics the way we do, David. And so how do you make it in a way that it's not just appealing to people, but makes it approachable? And you had to think every day about, well, why should we with a very narrow amount of time that broadcast news has, right? You've got half an hour, which really, once you get commercials and everything.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know what, David? I look back at that time now, the period between 98 and Let's call it 2008. It was really stable, right? I mean, what you had was a very narrow Republican majority in the House that they were able to hold on to. through from 95 through 2006. And you just didn't see these big changes. Maybe that's not the right word, but it was much more stable.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Most of these people, they are just like your normal people, right? You're the local dentist or the city council person that all of us know and they wake up one day and they're like, you know what? I can make a difference, right? I'm going to go to Congress. And they have flawed, you know, things about their life that are flawed and they have goofy family members and you have the crazy kitchen cabinet that, you know, calls you at three in the morning, giving you ideas for a campaign ad. It is not. What it's made out to be in the movies or in our popular culture, that these are all craven people who are here just to promote their own diabolical agenda.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, so yeah, can I riff on that for a minute? Because I agree with that. Now, I get the whole you don't want to have. If you're going to come in and present yourself as nonpartisan, to come in where you've had years of time spent with just one party makes it difficult to say that you're truly nonpartisan. But I will say this. I, you know, again, 25 years old, spent two years working there. And what it helped me understand wasn't the ideological piece of this or the partisan piece of this. I have now an empathy for what it takes to be a candidate and to be on a campaign. And I think that's what's missing from so much of the political journalism, right? Of the cynicism is so deep. And this is also why I love house candidates. And I covered the house and I love the house because”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That kind of battle, you're going to know each other and be with each other forever. But I also appreciated the consultants we worked with and just getting to see that side of it. I was really intrigued by and I really enjoyed it. But it was also like. All right It's November. I don't have a job. Oh gosh. What r”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that's a great question. So, you know, I came away from that thinking. I don't think I want to run another one of these again. I know some people come away from doing that experience and there's the adrenaline and the, you know, even though you lost, this was a whole lot of fun. It was, you know what I really came away from it. I really enjoyed the people that I got to work with. And, you know, obviously the people on the ground I worked with, with whom David, you know this, right? You now have a friendship for life, right? Once you're...”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's stressful. I think God was pre Twitter. It was pre internet. It was all right. So the nationalization was not as intense as it is now, right? It really was a big deal when a CNN reporter comes up. National news is still focused on it, but it wasn't in the way it could be now. Yeah, that was a year of my life that I won't get back, but it was good. And like they say, you know, it was a good experience. Glad I had it, but it was. Totally enjoyable, mostly because you are just, you're swimming again. You've been in these races, Dave, but where you just feel like you're swimming up against a tide that, and it was beyond just that district”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“All eyes on this versus there are plenty of 25 year old campaign managers out there, right? And they're running congressional races. But when it's this is now taking on more than just, are you going to win this race? It's what does this say about?”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was like walking into a, it was like a Roman amphitheater, like with the screaming and the lions and it was just, and she and I remember it was Pat Williams back when Montana had two members of Congress who walked together and cast those votes and the campaign, of course, then became not just a referendum on tax cut, but that she said she was going to do one thing, right? I'm going to vote against it.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, you know, there were a lot of things that you could do as a Democrat in Montgomery County, especially on social issues, but do not pass the tax increase in this county. She said she wasn't going to vote for it. She had voted for the first round. It came back after conference. She still said she was going to vote against it, went on the news at six o'clock that night. Philadelphia saying she was voting against it. She gets a phone call from President Clinton saying, I need you on this. She says, only if I'm the 218th vote, which you probably shouldn't do because then the White House says, great, we got her. Like, we just fine. We'll have you as 218.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But you're exactly right, and there were record number of women that won in the Senate as well. And so I went and worked for her on the Hill for a year and then went up to manage the campaign. And she became famous or infamous, however you would want to describe it in 1993, then President Clinton trying to pass feels all familiar doesn't budget reconciliation, right? We're kind of going full circle, which includes.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Who had just graduated from college as well, and his father was the physician to the Mazvinsky family. So that was the connection there. So yeah, it was this remarkable win on her part. It was the year of the woman in 1992, this Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, which now is overwhelmingly Democratic, but at the time was old line Republican machine area. She wins by a couple thousand votes”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She married congressmen from Iowa, who, by the way, was one of the Republicans who voted to impeach Best get mix in right. And he and she had kids of their own, but also had multiple children through his first marriage. And then she had adopted children. So she has this sort of fascinating story. And I was just really drawn to her. I went up when I was working at the Women's Campaign Fund and helped out on the campaign and met her press secretary there, this guy named Jake Tapper.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And what if The other little known facts about that campaign. So, this was 1992, 1993 at the Women's Campaign Fund, the Women Runs for Congress in suburban Philadelphia, Marjorie Morgolis-Mazvinsky, wins in former news reporter for local news in Washington.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And segregated. And so, you know, you sort of built up friendships and relationships that were so different from the world you were working in or your professional life, right? Now they're much more integrated, but that was the different part.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What's important to you and what matters to you. And I think that gives me, it was a really good experience, again, especially being in your 20s when you're so unsure of everything. Who am I? What am I doing? Why am I here? And to have to go through this process really forces you to take stock of the things that matter, but also to say, okay, I just went really deep into myself. I know who I am, what matters to me. And I'm going to fight for that, right? I'm not going to give up on it. I think that was, again, everybody's has their own struggles, but it's through those things that you find out really what matters and who you are. So in that sense, I think doing it at that age was a really, it was fortuitous. And it was a time too in DC, you know, where there was a, I would say there was a vibrant gay community, but it was still pretty quiet.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Super important. This is me. This is important. And I'm getting all these outside pressures telling me to. Not do this or to not think this or to not be this. I'm going to trust myself and not be myself. But I have got to do this. I've just got to trust this. And to take this really deep dive into yourself and into”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Today, it's an entirely different place. And it is true that the church is very important to her. And I think that tension was there, right? Of what's to do with that, and that people didn't talk about their gay kids back then, right? If you did have a gay kid, you were just, you just sort of moved on and talked about something else. Now everybody, right? Oh, going to the wedding. We have a baby. We have, so it has been, let's just say it's been a process, but I think that for me, the process was also really important. And I think this is true for a lot of gay folks, again, especially those who were doing this at a time when there weren't like gay pride floats. sponsored by a big corporation where everybody now has a friendly day which is you were really forced to trust yourself right like there is something that I'm just going to take as”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it was fine. I would say it wasn't like awful. It wasn't the, you know, and it's funny to think about too, like how different it feels just even having these conversations like this in the early 90s versus, right?”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And write all the coming out. And so it was really, again, I think, boy, what would that process have looked like had my father not died at that point? Because I really had only started coming out to myself at the end of college. And so I graduated in 91 and he died at the beginning of 93. talked to anybody in my family about this, right? This was still a, I'm figuring this out for me. And at some point, it was going to be, let's have a family discussion or, you know, bringing the family into this, but now here it was. We're in this period of grief. And this was not the time for me to Make my story a prominent one for the family, right? It was I need to do whatever I need to do, but I'm not going to make that a thing right now.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know she is now, I think, in a really good place. She's retired. She moved to South Carolina, and it has been a long process. And I think she has found really good community of people who in this place where she's retired who have been incredibly supportive who didn't know him, right? So they've known just her. I think that's also sort of a fascinating way to think about this something about when you lose someone, you do want to be around people who knew that person, who can constantly remind you of that person. And at the same time going somewhere where people just know you as you, as this person that you are now, not what your life was before. So I think I haven't really talked to her about that, but I do find that I wonder how that balance has been for her.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right. So that was, and then to have my brother. Sort of navigate that by themselves was also such a difficult thing, right, of I think for the three kids, we were at such different phases in our lives and such Prominent or whatever, I don't know if prominent is not the right word, but just as at such critical stages of development and junctures, right? So I think how we each have surfaced that and how it has impacted us is probably going to be different, but we were all in a younger phase of our lives.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's really one of those things that again I know that you think about a 50 year old man is right, a heart attack would seem not out of the question, but because this doesn't pose any of the same symptoms, nobody would, right?”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He had, it's called an aortic aneurysm. And I don't know if you know about those, but the problem with them is that they appear more like a flu symptoms. Because what's happening is your aorta, right? You have a leak. Your heart, and it's the blood that is slowly pooling, and so you feel weak and you feel achy. So it's not like you have a sign of, oh, this is a heart attack, right? It feels like, oh, I just feel terrible. And he did to his credit, he went into the hospital to say, this doesn't feel right. And they didn't diagnose it. And so he came home. And it is a very challenging thing to that aortic because you have to catch it pretty early on. And I think, in fact, Abdul might have. Had it caught early”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You have, do you still have that memory in your head? Like, I still have that picture in my head. I remember I ran in the door, the door, the phone was ringing, I ran through the door, and I didn't even close it because what I expected to do was pick up the phone, say, can you wait a second? I need to close the door, right? But then to be sitting on the floor with the door open and just collapsing is like still such a powerful memory.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And running to pick up the phone, and you know, right, David, when you get those calls where you know instantly something has happened, right? They just say one word and you're like, I know something bad is going to come next. And so that feeling of like, right, the disbelief of this can't be possibly happening. I'm not supposed to deal with it now, right?”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know, I was living in Washington, I had felt like, okay, here we go, taking these steps to figure my way in the world and then to lose a parent and feel like you're lost again, right? You're kind of swimming in this.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was in a destabilizing way, and you can appreciate this too, David. You know, at the time, I do. I remember people kept saying to me, oh, he's so young. And when you just graduated from college, right, 50 seems like so old. What do you mean he was young? He's 50, right? But just that you can't really process all of that for what it means for somebody who really is at the, you know, at 50 or in a prime of your life when you're a kid, you don't appreciate what that means. And then also being at that time of your life as I was, which blends into your question, you know, you're leaving school, you're trying to build your own life and identity.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My father died pretty young. He was 50, and I had just graduated from, yeah, I just graduated from college. And my brother was in high school. My sister was in college.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do, yep, I'm the oldest of three. So I have a younger brother who is now in Baltimore and sister who is in Colorado. So we're quite the, as I said, because we didn't really have the roots in the Chicago area, we have now all sort of gone our separate ways.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Political family, nobody was really engaged at a level beyond that. But I think when I really became interested in politics was going off to college and to meeting folks who were doing this business. And I was like, huh. Never really thought about this before campaigns, elections seem interesting. Let's try this.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As did a lot of people at it, that was very Republican up there. I'll tell you a story about that. But so my mom likes to take credit for what I do saying, well, you know, you grew up in a mixed marriage. And so, of course, you understood very well what it was like to have to navigate between these sort of two warring factions. They didn't really war about it as much as my mom would just take Gali in going to the polling place after my dad had, you know, left for work and she would go later in the afternoon and cancel out his vote, right? That's what she would come in and she loved being the one person in Barrington who would pick up the Democratic ballot in primaries, right? Because, you know, nobody was picking up that ballot back then. So they had that sort of their own political differences. But it wasn't like we were.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As I said, my mom's attachment to that sort of working class identity and to really, she's Catholic, a real Kennedy East Coast Democrat. That's really, if you want to give her politics. Meanwhile, my dad was a Reagan Republican, loved Reagan.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source