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Donna Brazile

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  1. “No signs as nothing. And David, I had to raise that money because Brooklyn kept telling me, don't worry, Madam Chair, it's okay. They were going to win and at five o'clock that afternoon on november eighth, I am still raising my voice. I am still saying the Brooklyn, the turnout is not as good as we think it should be. Detroit's not turning out. And they criticize me, David, for sending money to Chicago, but they didn't look to see what I sent money to Chicago for. But Barack Obama had agreed to do robocalls. And Tammy Duffworth wanted one of those robocalls. Where's the job of the party to provide those robocalls? He's the president of the United States. Kamala Harris wanted robocalls for her race. And everyone that wanted robocalls is the chair of the party. I provide robocalls. Guilty is charged”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “I'm like, don't rely on your data because if our data was hacked, your data was hacked, the DCCC data was hacked. We need to find something other than computer models. And my theory of the case, as we used to say, is that we need to go down ballot. I don't trust this top down strategy. They had a top-down strategy. And just a handful of states. And I said, we need to go bottom up. So in Las Vegas, which is Clark County, I said, let's go and find the highest vote getters, the people who get their votes out every two years or every four years. And Harry was not on the ballot. So this time I went to all of those politicians in Las Vegas, and I did the same in every battleground state. And I could tell you state by state, the number of people would tell me up front. There's no activity. Gwen Moore from Milwaukee. No activity. Elsie Hastings down there in Broward, no activity. Ed Rindell calling me, I need three hundred thousand because there's no activity.”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “David, I've been involved in enough campaigns to know when something has happened and something has not happened. I came up to Chicago twice in 2008, twenty twelve on both occasions. The people were, I mean, it was humming. Was volunteers, it was activity. Yes, there were volunteers, there were activity. But in terms of the day-to-day people, they were sitting there, everybody was looking at their computers. I'm like, who's talking? Who's talking to voters? And we were hacked, and so I kept trying to tell Brooklyn, I call them Brooklyn.”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “I was concerned that this group of staffers, and remember I've hired so many staff people in my life, I tell people I have 300 children, different daddies, of course. And a few mamas, too. But I wanted a full accountant of what happened. And like before, when I would go to them after I would come back from a state, I just got blown off. Like, okay, Madam Chair, might know we need a full account of what happened.”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Well, first of all, I wish they would have written a postmortem when the party when the election was over, I heard from Barack Obama right away on eleven fourteen, he got on a phone call with all of the members of the DNC, the donors, the volunteers, and he said, you know, thank you. I'm sorry we fell short, but thank you. I heard from everybody but the Clinton campaign, who had in effect run the DNC, at least the financial partner. And I said, we need a full account of what happened. I don't know what the Poland said. I don't know what the data said. I was not on any of those strategic calls. They made a conscious decision not to utilize the staff and the resources at the DNC. I made a conscious decision because I had Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and Joe Biden and others. I made a conscious decision to make the DNC part of the operations of the Clinton campaign. And so...”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Well, that is a question that the Clinton campaign needs to, and so far they've all said they didn't know. Someone had to know”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Because this money was being spent back in April, April of 2016, I was not chair until july twenty ninth, twenty sixteen. So Debbie was chair. But again, this is why I picked on that agreement. That agreement gave them the right to spend money on. Fusion GPS, all these other things that we should not have been spending money on unless the party approved it and the party did not approve it.”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “A lot of money flowing, but because I'm a stickler for details, I knew exactly how much money we were paying Perkins Kui. It was not under my authority to know that amount because that was the account that the Hillary campaign. Under the agreement that was”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “And for HFA, Hillary America, and I said, is MI six on our payroll need to know? That is my exact text. And he called me. And he said, You don't need to know. So I found out, like everyone else, a few weeks ago that clearly they were on the out payroll, but they were on through legal, meaning that the legal, we paid Perkins cooey forty grand a month to DNC. Plus, we gave them additional money for our remediation efforts from our cyber attacks, and we had offensive what I call litigation to keep polls open or the consent decree.”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “You know, one of the things I did as chair when I first became chair, I wanted a list of all of the staff, their salaries, all the consultants, and their monthly fees because I knew we were broke. I was a volunteer, I wasn't getting a salary, I was traveling on my own nickel and dime, and I wanted to see the list. I did not see them on the list. When I received a call from someone in the media toward the end of October, and as always, whenever there was a quote-unquote expenditure that I could not see on. Because Loy is a lawyer's. Okay, I'm not making any disparaging commentary. Lawyers aren't.”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Go about calling Barack Obama. Go about calling Nancy Pelosi. Go about calling Chuck Shume, etc., etc. I wanted to know from Charlie if everything was okay he said yes, but Don followed Sr, the former chair of the party, had told political that the party had to get ready. Elaine Kmart was calling me. It's all in the book hacked. Elaine Kmart started calling me What are we going to do? I had an enormous pressure when I finally got the call that she was up and that she was diagnosed with pneumonia I say I can handle I'll take it from here. I had to tamp down all of the rumors. But yes, I put in a book that I did. I had to spend one evening of my life thinking. How would I handle this”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “When she stumbled in the street. Yeah. And I kept calling back and forth to Brooklyn. And I kept telling Brooklyn, I said, Ladies and gentlemen, I am the chair of the party. Just please, what is wrong? What's happening? Because I will go out there and defend her. I mean, and when I saw the quote unquote when it went viral. My god. I had to unplug. I still have a landline, David. I'm a little old. I had to unplug my landline, turn off my phone, and I'm like, oh my God, oh my God, because at that time we didn't know. None of us knew. And Charlie Baker came down the DC the next day to help me put out all of the fires. Sure. Chile Baker was a top lieutenant to the Clinton campaign. The reason why it became a firestorm and I had to consider what the national chair would recommend if I had to”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “Yeah, well, you know, Section 7G and the Charter, Section 3 and the Rules of the Convention says the national chair in the case of deaf resignation. Disability that the national chair. That day I started off that morning in Washington, DC and I started getting phone calls. And they kept saying, what's wrong with Hillary? I'm like, nothing. I just saw it two days ago. And then I got another phone.”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “You know, David, the most interesting criticism I've had over the last week was that everyone is explaining to me the rules.”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “And I couldn't find my emails. I couldn't find the ones that I sent to Senator Sanders. And so I apologize. But that night, that night, I'll never forget as long as I live. By the time I got home, I had a suspicious package on my door. And then I started getting death threats. And I called CNN and I said, I had begged him. I said, don't do this because I know what's going to happen. And I said, give me time to get home. I was in Atlanta. I was, you know, Atlanta was supposed to be one of the, Georgia was supposed to be one of those expansion states. I said, give me time to get home. I changed my flag, took a nine o'clock flight. By the time I got into my house at midnight, I had a package on my step. And just my phone was ringing off the hook and the rest is history. But no, WikiLeaks sought to divide us. They took active measures to divide the party and discredit Hillary Clinton.”

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  16. “So I gave everybody a heads up. Unfortunately, WikiLeaks only put out the information. It was John's emails, and I didn't have access to John's emails. And so I tried to get John. I say, well, John, tell me if that's my email. Because I didn't trust, at this point, I didn't trust nothing.”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “Yeah, that's a good one. I gave Sean hands up. Because you always do that. In our business, you want to know what. You don't want your candidate to go in there and get blindsided. I wanted them to know that I wanted them to know two things. One, that we were going to have a dialogue about issues that people of color cared about. And two, I wanted to make it very clear that we have diverse voices. So Roland Martin, TV1, had agreed to also co-moderate this discussion. And I worked with Roland Martin on those questions. I mean, think about it. I mean, you know me. I got to work with somebody. I needed to work with somebody who understood. Van Jones and I had discussed when are we going to talk about these issues? Because the people in the black community and others wanted us to talk about these issues.”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “That's right. Ted and Mark, Simone Sanders, all of the Sanders people vouch for me saying, we know Donna because Donna gave everybody heads up. You know, Reddy, in my book, I also said I used to give Sean Spicer before he became, you know, the other Sean Spicer.”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “Absolutely, the difference is that WikiLeaks, which Wicked Leagues only put out emails that had Bernie's name in it or that could so discard. I mean, I knew there was something wrong when I came home and I said to CNN, I said, give me a chance to go home. I knew I can find all my emails because I have all my emails. The only emails I could not find were my DNC emails because the DNC server was wiped out with all of our emails because all of our phone, everything was just corroded. And corrupt”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  20. “Because I gave, because if I was on the pressure, like the entire DNC, to make sure that we expanded a number of debates. I was also under pressure Issues concerning people of color, the death penalty, this thing about the super predator, the crime bill, and also they wanted to talk about Flint. So my job was to give I gave both candidates heads up that we were going to expand and also, because I'm a player, I also said that we were going to talk about some issues. I gave him heads up.”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  21. “If I went on some nights and if Hillary didn't have Paul Bagala was not there or Van Jones was not in attendance, then I often, if Bill Press was there, I would take up for the Hillary side or I would take up for the burning side because My job was just to call the plays. I didn't really get involved, but this question.”

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  22. “Because I was hired as a TV commentator. Because ponders are, we are hired because we have a point of view, and CNN understood that I was an officer. CNN also understood that.”

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  23. “And if you recall, we used to say the adulto are over there and you sat with the adults. And we were the unruly teenagers”

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  24. “Well, you know, here's what I did. I worked behind the scenes as As the vice chair, I mean, I was concerned that we were being attacked, a Democratic National Committee was being attacked not just by Bernie, but the other candidates for hosting only six debates. You recall the Republicans seemed like they were having a debate every other night. And we were under a lot of pressure to increase the number of debates, town halls, and other forums to give both candidates at that point an opportunity to get their message out. So when I work very closely with my colleagues at CNN, because I wore a couple hats, David, let's be honest. Up until that point, I wore a couple hats.”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  25. “I don't think that would change one vote because she received more than 4 million votes. She won three out of the first four contests. She won the majority of pledge delegates. She won the majority of states. No, she won 9 out of 10 African Americans. And if you know anything about Super Tuesdays, many of those states were in the South. I mean, she clearly understood the electorate and I believe that's why she won 4 million more votes in Bernie Sanders. But Bernie ran a very energetic campaign. He brought a lot of new people into the process. He ran against not just the Democratic Party establishment, but the establishment overall. And I think I wanted the supporters of Sanders campaign just like I wanted the Clinton supporters to understand what was happening and what we did with their resources.”

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  26. “But it did impact my ability to do my job as chair of the party. And the arrangements that Debbie's, I assume that Debbie knew what she was signing up to, this arrangement gave the Clinton campaign an unfair advantage of controlling the DNC money before she assumed the nomination. And that you should never do.”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  27. “The DNC should be independent of any campaign during an election cycle. I'll never forget when I was elevated to become the campaign manager, Bill Bradley requested and I agreed to step aside as being the co-chair of the Rules and Bylaws Committee. I was Al Gore's campaign manager. I mean, the last thing you want to do is have the campaign manager tip the scales or at least, you know, even if I wasn't going to arrange.”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  28. “and to come to communications. And once again I didn't see any evidence, but then I began to look beyond just the press releases and I became very alarmed. And so while I have said that I did not find any rigging of the primary, meaning the scheduling of the primary dates or the vote count, what I did find concerned me a lot, and I call it unethical. It's unethical for campaigns.”

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  29. “Some goes to the candidate, but most of it goes to state parties and helping to Managed the, you know, whether it's Edbine or Staffin in various states. This was not the standard joint fundraising agreement whereby a candidate would in exchange for raising money would begin to open up offices in the so-called battleground states. The memorandum went beyond just simply giving the DNC resources in exchange for bailing the DNC out, which was broke. The Clinton campaign would assume control over three divisions of the party. One was research. I found no evidence in the research department that they were doing anything but research in Donald Trump and the Republicans. So I came away convinced that the research department was okay. Then I looked at technology and given the fact that we were being hacked and our data and emails and everything else was stolen, I found no evidence again of any nefarious activity that could have impacted the primaries. But then I went.”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  30. “To cause Sina Sandus and report back on what I learned and also try to address it. What I learned was that in addition to the standard joint fundraising agreement that we've had in place since the 2004 when John Kerry became the nominee, there was a memorandum.”

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  31. “From the Russians. And so when I became chaired that afternoon, I began to look into what was happening at the DNC, and I promised Bernie Sanders that I would figure out if anything had if the campaign, if the primary was rigged. It took me a few weeks to do a real forensic examination of what was going on at the party. Although I was an officer during those years, I was not a quote-unquote DNC staffer. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is the chair of the party, the chair has the fiduciary responsibility to carrying out all of the quote unquote programs and implementing the day-to-day operations of the party. What I learn within a few weeks as chair disturbed me so badly that I felt compelled.”

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  32. “Well, first of all, I became chair of the Democratic National Committee for the second time the second time as a result of the hacking that took place. On July 24th, when I was on national television talking about what was going on with the emails that had been leaked through Gucifer 2.0, I had no idea at the time that the DNA”

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  33. “Yeah, I was proud. I mean, we now have a black female who's Lieutenant Governor of the State of New Jersey. It was a good night for not just Democrats, it was a good night for democracy because we didn't have a lot of problems at the ballot box.”

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  34. “North Carolina. The first black female mayor now of Vaikausen and the great city of Charlotte. We also saw a tremendous amount of voter turnout in places like Maine, where in offseason elections turnout drops 20, 30.”

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  35. “The first African American statewide since nineteen eighty nine when Doug Wilder. So it was a big knife for African Americans, especially if you look at the results”

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  36. “He was one of my hires in the Gore campaign. He worked for Tipag. He was one of her briefers, meaning he wrote the talking point. Good guy. He's going to be a great lieutenant governor.”

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  37. “All right. Well, okay, just by And I get to Northern Virginia. First of all, I have to put my GPS on because I don't know what this place is. And I get there and I looked at this Lord's crowd of canvases and I said, this is the place to be. I mean, a lot of young people, a lot of energy, and Kathy Trayan, who worked in the Obama administration, she was under secretary at Labor, she ran and she won. She flipped that seat. I'm so proud that I got up and went out there and camped paying for her. I raised money for Justin Fairfax. I raised money for the Virginia Democratic Party. I mean, I felt good about how it facts.”

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  38. “Virginia, yeah, you know, David at my age, I have to ask myself, what the hell am I doing? I get up early in the morning. I flew down from Boston where I'm at Harvard.”

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  39. “There are three seats that are still being as we speaked. One of the seats by 12 votes Twelve votes. So every vote matters. Every election matter, and we proved that this past week when you saw Democrats for the first time compete in all one hundred districts. And in the last two cycles, we've only had less than fifty Democrats. I mean, Democrats had given up on Louton County. Democrats had given up on Southwest Virginia. And this past election cycle, Democrats were running all across the state of Virginia. I'm so proud of them.”

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  40. “Every vote matters. I mean, you look at some of these racism. And just this past week there still recounts in Virginia some of the military ballots people are questioning and challenging whether all of the overseas ballots, you know, they come in a little late, some of them.”

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  41. “I think if you go back to the 2000 election and you see ultimately how the Supreme Court ruled in favor of George W. Bush that we did not have a thorough recount of the entire electorate in the state of Florida, I think that deepened some of the polarization that was already out there. Look, the impeachment process was another flashpoint. And this waten divide between the two political parties. And clearly 2016 will be another chapter of this quote-unquote hyperpartisanship at its worst.”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  42. “But my body was tired, my mind was tired, and then when I read the Supreme Court decision, I don't think I ever got rid of the anger in my heart. I mean, they use old civil rights statutes to essentially shut down the right to vote. In essence, Justice Kalia, former justice, the late Justice Calia, said, we have no right to vote. It's not enshrined in our Constitution. And when you read that and know what we went through to try to get Al Gore elected by talking to people, by getting them out to vote, by ensuring that they had, you know, all of the proper credentials. When you read that, you just sit back and say, my God, there's no right to vote?”

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  43. “And you might recall right as we got to december tenth that there was the Florida Supreme Court said that we would count that all the counties would be, you know, finally repolled and then the next day, as you remember, the Supreme Court.”

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  44. “He was a governor of Florida, Catherine Harris was the Secretary of State. And we spent the rest of that evening debating internally should we go for a statewide account of four counties. I argued as one of the non lawyers in the room for a statewide account because I'd heard throughout the day from people in Duval, Valucia, Leon County. I mean, I had enough counties in my head that I said it needs to be statewide, but there were people, and I would say the legal team, they wanted four counties. And I'm like, that's a mistake.”

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  45. “We were in a motorcade and we had already told George Bush, well, the vice president told then Governor Bush that he had conceded, we were at the War Memorial where we were hosting our victory party and the vice president had to call again. I'll never forget that call because Vice President in essence said, I don't care what your brother said. And I'm like, yeah, there you go. Just, you know Tell him you're not going to throw in the towel tonight. So in the middle of the night”

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  46. “And red wine and popcorn are my favorite meal. And I got out the shower. I was so happy. And then within an hour, I was up in the vice president's suite. We were looking at the TV and I'm like, what the hell just happened One hour ago we won Florida and now we were losing Florida. And as you can imagine, up until midnight with Bill Daly in the room, the vice president around 9.45 called George Bush. I was angry with him. I said, don't call, don't concede, don't concede because if this falls within a thousand votes, there's going to be an automatic recount. And we went over to the war memorial, and Michael Hooley got a call and that we got it up to Al Gore.”

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  47. “Kept that entire day I called up to the Justice Department, mister Lee and I said something is going on in this country because I'm hearing from a lot of states that people's names have been removed from the roster and they're standing in long lines. I heard later that day from Leon Conner, which is Tallahassee, that there were a problem. So by the end of the day, we went back to Nashville, Tennessee, and I started receiving more phone calls once we got to Nashville, but the polls were closing across the country starting in Virginia gone all the way through. And as you know, David, the first hour, the news media reported that we won. I went up and took a shower. I'm like, game over. We want Florida. Game over Came out of shower. I was about to go and grab some popcorn. That is my celebration snack.”

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  48. “Well, I mean I had my that morning we were in Florida the night before in Dade County we left Broward went to Dade and we were going to campaign all night you remember those all night as we used to pull God I can't do those anymore and we ended up in St. Pete Tampa St. Pete Hillsborough County And I started getting phone calls. And I'm like, wow, it's too early to get phone calls that the polls are not open up. People have not. Their name had been removed from the ballot.”

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  49. “That was my strate And Bradley dropped out the second week of March. And Al Gore came over to me and I'll never forget when he said, well, how did we win in Washington State? How did we win in Delaware? I said, because while the consultants were telling me don't fund those races, I knew what to do. I knew how to do grassroot organizing, and we want all of the delegates.”

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  50. “And my dad. And so I had to take the staff down to Tennessee. I had to refill the coffers. We were, you know, bleeding money. I had to take a lot of the consultants off the payroll, which had the same thing I did at DNC, so we can come on the budget. And then I had to shift the focus to win an hour in New Hampshire because I felt like if we won our New Hampshire, then the rest the rest of the states at least those super Tuesday states, I thought that Al Gore would be in a better position or one of those states because many of them were in the South.”

    2017-11-20 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 192 - Donna Brazile · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source