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Bob Mulholland

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  1. “Yeah, I mean, basically, I tell new candidates, there's three things you do when you first announce. You say where you came from, you say what you've done in life, and you say what I'm going to do in this office for you. So for me, if I was running for office, I would start out, not that I would. I was born 3.1 miles north of Independence Hall. Because most Americans would say, they wouldn't necessarily know it was in Pennsylvania, but at least they say, oh, that guy was close to Pennsylvania Independence Hall. I wonder if he knew any of the founders.”

    2024-08-23 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 92. DNC Special: The Attack Dog (Bob Mulholland) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “You know, I didn't know the guy was doing it. Here's an example Obama wins in 08 in 2012, three million fewer white people voted for him. And he had saved the American economy, saved the U.S. auto industry. But what happened in 08 was September 15th, the Lehman Brothers. Once that happened, McCain and Palin, they were always behind. And some of the Barack people think, oh, it's because of his great campaigning. No, no, no. It was get even time for the recession And people losing half their stock value in their home values and everything else.”

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  3. “Oh, I love the guy. I love the fact that when the street riots happen, within a week, somebody's announcing that people have pledged and they're sentenced. And I'm thinking, that's what the American people would like to hear for sometimes. I think Kirsteimer is the perfect contrast to the Tories as well as to Corbyn. And I think most British voters are comfortable with him. But the future is the future, and the voters will soon forget who the Tories were, and then they'll start, hey, you better fix my problems. LBJ got elected in 64. Huge landslide. He told his staff the next day, we better move my agenda in Congress because every day I'm going to be losing support. Because a smart politician knows that they're swept in not because or all because of their manifesto, but because of the conditions, the time, and the contrast. But the day after, all of a sudden the same voters who just swept in say, hey,”

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  4. “A little bit about what makes him attractive. I don't know him. And I was surprised about her selection, but I quickly realized, even though she didn't really know him that well, I quickly realized Tim Waltz is a great guy because he's from the Midwest, but he was Army veteran 24 years. He was a coach, and we're seeing a lot of good comments from his former players and stuff. And he was a congressman in a district that Trump won by 15 points. And that told me that guy has the ability to be the Walmart greeter to somebody, oh, this is a nice guy. And then he becomes a governor. Well, that tells you a lot. And even Kamala, who didn't know him that well, thinks you know him that well, that told her a lot. This guy connects to people. And so I think he's going to be a great. And he's a little bit older, but he's much younger than Trump. So I think it's a great ticket.”

    2024-08-23 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 92. DNC Special: The Attack Dog (Bob Mulholland) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Oh, God, he's got fangs. And he's got the orange skin. He says stupid things. And, you know, Roger Ailes used to tell candidates, show me a candidate with a cause, and I'll show you a candate hard to beat. And a cause could be, I will go to Korea. He didn't have to fill it in. Oh, that guy won World War II. So he knows how to do things. So a teacher running for school board in America. She just puts, I'm a teacher. People automatically, oh, she's better qualified than the guy that says business owner.”

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  6. “Just because things are okay, you don't necessarily run on that because voters are, we're not in a graduate class at Yale. We're in an American political system and people aren't reading the pages of your biography or your platform or your manifesto. They just get a sense of who you are by hearing something on the radio, newspapers, and then seeing you on TV. And if you look like you got fangs on TV, they're against you. If you look like a nice person, they're for you.”

    2024-08-23 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 92. DNC Special: The Attack Dog (Bob Mulholland) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Because the way our system works, three pre-branches of government, and I tell this, the new candidates, campaigning is about getting a date. In office is trying to keep the marriage together. And most people, especially in America, don't even remember what your promises were unless it was like, I'm going to cut taxes by 20%. But most voters just need to feel good about you. Your intentions are good. And it doesn't mean you're going to follow through all the promises. And maybe there's some you can't, but you make a reference if you're running for re-election. In our case, we got a brand new candidate. And unlike Britain or Germany had a recession, we never had a recession. But I always remind people what Bill Clinton said years ago is”

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  8. “I'm a big believer. And a little bit what Kamala Harris did. I'm a big believer. The guy says I'm putting a stoplight on this corner. I'm for putting up a stoplight on that corner. He said something about Tips and Waiter. She says, I'm for that.”

    2024-08-23 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 92. DNC Special: The Attack Dog (Bob Mulholland) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Yeah, obviously President Biden had made some moves the last month which slowed that up. And that's our keyless heel. I guaranteed. That's a problem. Me, if I was in charge, I'd shut it down completely and say no more asylum, particularly on Ukrainian men. I don't know why they're coming here for asylum.”

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  10. “Because, you know, if you're Eisenhower in 52, Supreme Allied Commander, and you run and you get the nomination, and you know what he said for his cause? The Korean War was going on. Ike says, I will go to Korea. That's all he had to say. He swept in even before he sworn in, he went to Korea and the war was over soon. You know, MacArthur screwed that up by keeping it going up to China for some stupid reason. And then the Chinese, a million people. But simple cause is Bill Clinton was on a new kind of Democrat, and that allowed a lot of Middle Americans like Tony Blair did in the UK. Oh, he's not one of the radical guys. And that makes a big, big impact when Jesse Jackson, he ran and then that appears to be too radical for most American people. So a guy like Tom Bradley was the mayor of LA, LA, Southern California. A lot of white people saw him.”

    2024-08-23 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 92. DNC Special: The Attack Dog (Bob Mulholland) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Yeah, as former Senator Rockefeller of West Virginia said, you know, when I was 18, my dad took me aside, and I think it was four kids. Son, you want a $218 million inheritance, or do you want to try to work for a living? And Jay Rockefeller, he'd always speak to us groups and he'd paused for 10 seconds. I'll take the inheritance, Dad. But most of us have to work our way up. And Jay spent $12 million. He was a vista volunteer in West Virginia. He's not from West Virginia. And he got credential there. And then he ran for governor or senator. He spent $12 million of his own money. I guess out of that $218 million, easy comb, easy go.”

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  12. “Eventually, sent it us. Absolutely. A lot of people who are high up will tell you if you talk to them. I first campaigned for a candidate theory. I first campaigned for Bill Clinton and then they hired me. And then they this. Yes”

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  13. “Yeah, in every convention has been a good recruiting tool. About 17,000 people signed up to be volunteers here. They all thought they'd be on the stage meeting the presidents and stuff like that. Some of them were at the airport, meeting people coming off their baggage. But that's a way to get in. And some of them will grab a sleepman bag and go somewhere.”

    2024-08-23 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 92. DNC Special: The Attack Dog (Bob Mulholland) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Yeah, I won in my recent election in my congressional district. I got the most votes. And some young guy says, hey, Mahalan, you know, you've been at this for a long time. When are you going to move out of the way for us young guys? I said, when you get more votes than me? You don't get moved out if you get more less votes, you got to organize in this business. So a lot of organizing is going on here. A lot of deals are being made. A lot of people saying, hey, you're in a safe state. Can you thinking of coming over to our state for a month? We'll provide housing at a friend's house, all that other kind of stuff.”

    2024-08-23 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 92. DNC Special: The Attack Dog (Bob Mulholland) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “There might be well over a thousand delegates here in this Hyatt region, and many of them now are at McCormick Place, at caucuses, environment, economic, and other stuff. And you notice I'm not there. But I'll be going to the veteran one tomorrow. No, some people like pizzas. You know, if we had a governor over there, it'd be interesting. So some might be down here talking about policy. Some might be talking, how can I get my spouse into the convention tonight? How can I get my dog in? You're not getting your dog in. Well, it's a service dog. You're still not getting your service dog in. And Georgia is also here. And tonight, the Georgia State Party is having their party. California is having their party on Wednesday nights. Every state has a different party.”

    2024-08-23 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 92. DNC Special: The Attack Dog (Bob Mulholland) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “Oh, Harris's speech on Thursday night. Yeah. Usually that's our biggest audience. It'll be her first Camel Harris' first conversation with millions of American voters. And I think most Americans who aren't hardcore left or hardcore right will find it, oh, she seems to be reasonable. She seems to be somebody I could have over for dinner and she's a cook. So you really could get her early to do the cooking. Why, as I always say about Trump, if you had him over for dinner for an hour, that guy would not shut up to tell you how he's the greatest this, greatest that, greatest baseball player, greatest president ever. Nice cook. Yeah, he'd be saying he's the greatest cook, not that he could cook.”

    2024-08-23 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 92. DNC Special: The Attack Dog (Bob Mulholland) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “Yeah, and I told some reporters, you know, presidential historians 50 years from now may find out that Joe Biden had a political trap for Trump, spend the first six months Trump spending money, tens of millions attacking him as the old guy. It turns out the old guy is Trump. And you can tell by Trump's event, he is really angry. Like, hey, who set me up in this trap? Now I'm against this good-looking young woman who's the vice president. I was supposed to run with the guy with the walker. And he's not. Some reporter, oh, I don't think Biden did it. I said, well, I don't know. But this worked out perfect for us.”

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  18. “Yeah, I do, but I also respect the voters. And I know the voters, they're not listening and reading every New York Times report. We no longer are around with Walter Cronkite. You know, today the anchors on TV, after their 10 minutes of news, eight minutes of ads, they themselves are at a table selling irons new microwaves. What the hell happened to water cronite?”

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  19. “And what was strange about it is Bill Clinton is a very good politician. In fact, Tony Blair interviewed by The Times of London in 1997, the editor said, why do you like Bill Clinton so much? Tony said, well, he got himself re-elected. And that's the bottom line. And Hillary and Bill have been around, but yet they didn't have a campaign manager. And they took Turry McAllister, the governor. Oh, Robbie Mook, but that was a huge mistake. And I don't know why Bill Clinton didn't step in because he was smarter than that. I think Bill Clinton was saying, well, Hillary's campaign. We would have been in the office. She would have been in eight years and we wouldn't have those three judges.”

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  20. “That was a simple one. She should have never hired Robbie Mook as the campaign manager. That guy, along with Jim Messina, comes up with a so-called software program that tells them everything they know, and the day after Labor Day, first Monday of September, Robbie Mook in 2016 stopped polling. Stop polling because he knew everything he needed to know. Barack Obama, even when he was running re-election, he polled 6,000 people a night, six nights a week in seven key states. So if there was a problem in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, different message. If there was a problem in Milwaukee, different message. So Trump didn't win that. We lost that.”

    2024-08-23 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 92. DNC Special: The Attack Dog (Bob Mulholland) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  21. “She is a woman more likely, more has to be more positive. It's very tough for a woman to be angry on TV in America. Very tough. Well, we are prepositioned. Oh, I don't like that and fill in the gap. Why a man looks like, oh, he's responding to something that somebody wronged him or something. So we got the best of all worlds. We have a two front war here. We have President Biden announcing things in the White House doing things. And then we have the candidate who's not burdened by everyday government. You know, a president has got the Secretary of this, Secretary of that, hey, we got a problem in the minis. We got a problem over in Asia, Taiwan. She doesn't have to do any of that. And she's young. So this is the best of all world. Now, Trump doesn't have a job, but you do notice he's not doing as many events as he used to.”

    2024-08-23 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 92. DNC Special: The Attack Dog (Bob Mulholland) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  22. “Yeah, but women are the difference. And I think I've said this about Trump. A lot of women in America in 2020, especially if that teenage daughter's, they thought, you know, I don't want Trump on my TV for the next four years. I don't want my daughters seeing this is what a man is. And that works to Trump's detriment. In fact, you can read a lot of articles that Trump's staff are trying to say, hey, you know. They already got your name. Let's talk about things that's going to help us because a woman in Pennsylvania, my home state, a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, if she's not a hardcore Democrat or a hardcore Republican, she just wants the country to function. She's going to see Kamala Harris as a more friendly face on TV.”

    2024-08-23 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 92. DNC Special: The Attack Dog (Bob Mulholland) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  23. “Yeah, yeah. I think your laws are different. Some of your guys over there, they read some of the things I said, God, Bob, you'd be sued over here for saying that. I go, really? Some things I've said about politicians.”

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  24. “You got it. Yeah. But my attitude is never give a Republican politician a break. Never. Only say a good word about them at their funeral”

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  25. “Yeah, I've used helium balloons above Republican candidates. I've used big banners. Like, for instance, when the Rodney King riots happened, President Bush, he came to LA and I had two guys, two staff people, Hola banner up. It's not 12 jurors. It's 12 years of Bush. And that got on page 8 of the New York Times the next day. And the Bush people were just livid because they come in to help.”

    2024-08-23 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 92. DNC Special: The Attack Dog (Bob Mulholland) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  26. “Well, like last night, the Trump hotels down the street I wasn't involved, but it was at nighttime somebody had a big, like a Superman thing. It said Project 2025 headquarters. And then it had Harris Waltz right on the wall. So somebody living there in the condo's thinking, what the heck's going on out here? Big truck on the street. I would do things like that.”

    2024-08-23 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 92. DNC Special: The Attack Dog (Bob Mulholland) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  27. “I wouldn't talk much about the 34 convictions of felon. I would focus on he's a man who was convicted for sexually assaulting a woman. And that's why 30 women over the years have said he has groped them or sexually assault them. In fact, he brags about it. And also, I would use a lot of diversionary tactics. I'd pop up a $20,000 cable ad Mara Lago, Palm Beats there about him taking the fifth hundred and some times in one of his divorces. And I'd pop up another one in Wisconsin. You need to have diversion”

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  28. “Campaigns. I remember I was up in New Hampshire at the same hotel as him in 2016. And he's coming through the lobby with 17 candidates. Nine of them were governors or foreigners. There was no way he wasn't going to. I said to him, hey, Barnell, hey, Donald, you're going to win. Hey, thanks a lot. But he's become kind of a nickname poop. You can attack somebody and the voters would say, yeah, yeah, I didn't know that about that guy. But in his case, I think Trump is just way over. We're like over the weekend saying, oh, I'm prettier or whatever is working. Yeah, better looking. I thought God, nobody in America, even his wife's going to believe that. Yeah, especially his wife. Who doesn't live with him? He doesn't live with him in years.”

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  29. “Despite the fact he describes He's 5'9 and three quarters. And I was quoting the paper, and boy, did it piss him off. I said he wears the same inserts as North Korean leader Kim does. Oh God. And he actually had different sizes. So depending on who he was going to meet with, if he was going to meet with like the Mexican president at the time, who's a tall guy? Whoop, those lifts were much, much higher.”

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  30. “Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, he was on Meet the Press and Arnold Schwarzenegger had two or three propositions on the ballot of special election and we beat him Labor and Democrats beat him. And I was quoted in a paper that he's been reduced to a 14-year-old French poodle. And Meet the Press, he's deceased now, but he asked Arnold, hey, Bamahollin said this. And Arnold said this, trust me, I don't pay attention to Bob Mohalan.”

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  31. “What was Bum Mohan thinking? I'm glad you mentioned that because President Clinton said one day, oh, Democrats need to stay above the fray or something like that. And then within a few days, I'm in the media attacking the hell out of some Republicans and some reporter says, hey, President Clinton said, you said he was talking about the people on deck, not about those of us below deck. And I'm a big believer. A lot of Republicans over the years, after they retired, will say to me, God, I just regret it every time you're in the paper attacking me and stuff. But, you know, voters are voters. They don't pay much attention to all the positive news. They really are all ears to anything negative about somebody else.”

    2024-08-23 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 92. DNC Special: The Attack Dog (Bob Mulholland) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  32. “Attack, attack, and attack. You know, Mitt Romney run against Barack Obama, President Obama in 2012. He said, if you're explaining something in a campaign, you're losing. And it's very hard, particularly for these type of delegates. You know, these are activists. They think a president should go out every day and talk long time about an issue. Well, the American voter gives you about 30 seconds a day. In the last two weeks, they give you a couple minutes. And you better not occupy their time explaining the economic programs of the Democratic Party platform. That is way beyond what they're interested in. It's really like in the UK, people felt good about Tony Blair. People felt good recently about Kier Steimer. And life is about a contrast. And Jimmy Carter was a victim of all kinds of crisis, so there was no way Reagan was not going to win. So I'm a big believer in spending, even a reporter asked you a question to explain something.”

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  33. “But from a voter's point of view, watching that, they go, oh, okay. And of course, in that last year, Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Oil embargo. The Iran hostages. It was just one problem after another where no president could have anticipated all that happening on his watch.”

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  34. “Jimmy Carter, he was the president and he was elected in 76. No one expected him to be elected, but he was a smart guy, knew how to work the caucuses and a delegate process. And it became so messy and the press loved it. In the end, when Carter was officially nominated, Ted Kennedy didn't even shake his hands.”

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  35. “I was a Ted Kennedy delegate. John Kennedy came through my neighbor when I was 13 and was taken away from us three years later. So I was a big Kennedy fan. And that was a disaster.”

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  36. “Well, under the national rules of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party and recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court, each of the national parties creates their own process, comes up with a number of delegates, in our case Democrats, over 4,000 Republicans over 2,000, and they have a national convention, and they have votes. Now, in the past, there may be dozens and dozens of votes. Some conventions, they shut down and move to another city, but we're a little more organized now. And without the delegates on a Thursday night after have voting, a majority goes to one candidate, in our case, this particular convention, which is very unusual. She gets up there, and at some point in her speech, Kamala Harris says, I officially accept the nomination. That's when under the federal party rules, the federal law, she is the official nominee of the party. And from that day on, her”

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  37. “Well, ultimately they got called the best and brightest. They're McNamara crowd, LBJ, and they misunderstood that, yes, we won World War II, but the wars after World War II were not World War II. We were not getting to some capital where the enemy would surrender. Jerry Brown said once, and I told him this years ago, and he couldn't remember saying it, but when the boat people were happening out of Vietnam, Jerry Brown, he was governor at the time, he said someday there will be boat people from around the world. And I thought, brilliant, brilliant.”

    2024-08-23 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 92. DNC Special: The Attack Dog (Bob Mulholland) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  38. “Jury, not so much, but Jerry, and I keep in touch with him, he's 85 now, he, to me, represented the first politician post World War II that understood the changes. Like Tony Blair saw the changes in the UK. And so eventually I volunteered for Jerry Brown”

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  39. “Yes, well, I got out of Vietnam in 68 and traveled around the world, including in Scotland, London, Ireland, etc., etc. And I kind of wandered for a while, like many of my colleagues in that war, we became so disillusioned. But I got attracted to Tom Hayden, Jane Fond, and Jerry Brown.”

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