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Kaitlan Collins

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first: 2023-06-08
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“Yeah, because I think if you had seen that with any other politician, I mean, that's what that is the greatest mystery around Trump is that if any other politician had a third of what he's faced and the investigations and the impeachments, it would be perceived so differently. One of those would be devastating for anyone else.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and I think they see that, and I think part of that is why they're more forgiving of. When they see the chaos around him and the investigations and the impeachment, it just hits them differently than I think it is. Well, doesn't he?”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“From a small town, doesn't have a college degree, you know, and it was interesting to see that, but they liked, I think they liked, which is I think this has obviously been well covered and documented now. They felt like he would tell it like it was, and that, you know, he would shove it to the establishment. And they channeled that in a real way.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because it's not typically someone who would, if you just looked at it on paper, who would be able to relate to someone in Alabama who, you know,”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was very much the same appeal that you saw at his rallies because I would talk to people about this when I went home. And also, you know, when I would go home and I was covering the Trump White House, people were always fascinated and asked me, what's he really like? You know, is it really that crazy? It's not that they didn't understand that it was chaotic. I think everyone saw that from the White House, but they also just wanted to know what he was like. And they had so many questions for someone who had an upfront view, a close-up view of that. So you did see it change really just in how political people became, I think. And I would hear people who weren't very political before talking about it. Much more frequently than they had previously.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, because it was this family and friends that were largely non-political. We didn't talk a lot about who was in office and what was happening on Capitol Hill. And that totally changed. I think that's true for a lot of people, that the way Trump altered politics and the way so many more people consider themselves political or pay attention to what's happening has obviously shifted in a real way.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It helped me, but not because of that. It helped me because I think, and I'll explain how I got to the Daily Caller, but I think it helped me because I was in a newsroom that was very conservative leaning as Trump was making his way from being just a candidate in the 2016 contest to the frontrunner. And I watched, I got to see up close how conservatives saw this because there were a lot of people there who were more conservative leaning. I have always been very, I'm not a political person. I've always been very unbiased. But I got to watch it in real time how we saw the Republican Party go from distancing themselves from Donald Trump and saying he'd never be the nominee because they did also say that once, to then embracing him and to see that, I think helped him form how I covered the White House because I watched that transformation happen up close.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, which is always funny how it gets attention for certain things. You know, whenever I was covering Trump, for a lot of people, they felt like it gave me credibility. And then, you know, I think sometimes it's criticized.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Huge. I think I was only allowed to listen to country music for like the first 14 years of my life till I got my own car.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, seeing Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard was epic, and it was a different, I'd been to concerts at this venue before, but it was a different kind of, like front rows were all seated because of course it was an older, older generation that was there for the concert. So I was a fan. I grew up listening to them. And country country.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And your observations You have the power to structure the story For people who weren't at the concert or who weren't there that day, the tornadoes, they see it's just a really”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I remember they told me to leave when there were three songs left in the concert. I ran up the hill and you went in the back door of the newsroom. My face is like flushed. I'm typing up this story. And then I just send it in. And they were like, okay, you're good. So I leave. I go home. Or I actually met my friends at the bars or something. But the next day I went to get a sandwich and I'm in the sandwich shop. And they would always hang up that day's copy of the Tuscaloosa News. And I look over with my friends. And my friend Ligos, that's your name. And it was my story. Isn't that a great feeling?”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Willie's green room before. I didn't get close to his green room. They didn't let the toast glose in. No contact ties there. Sadly. I would have loved to have hung out with him. It was the first time that I'd ever been on a real deadline because, you know, I was doing the calendar before. It wasn't that big of a deal.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is actually epic. I was an interning at the Tuscaloosa News. I was doing entertainment for them, which basically meant I created a calendar with all the events that were happening in Tuscaloosa. Tuscaloosa is a very creative community, and they have a lot of people who stay there long after that aren't affiliated with the school. But one night, on a Thursday night, which is a big night for going out in college, I should note it's basically Friday junior. So all my friends are going out. They asked me to cover the Willie Nelson Emeral Haggard concert. And the Tuscaloosa News, their newsroom is on this great hill, and right down the hills where the amphitheater is. So I say, sure. So I go to the concert. I'm hanging out with Willie Nelson's daughter beforehand. She was the opening act. And I covered the concert.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It makes such a difference. I truly didn't feel like I was going to class. I looked forward to it. I never missed class. I still talked to some of my teachers from then to this day. It completely changed how I viewed college.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I just try to impart that. And I tell that story willingly to people, even though I don't like to admit that I came close to failing chemistry because I think it's important for people to realize sometimes it takes a minute to figure out what you're supposed to do. And you have to try things to see if you like them. I truly just tried journalism and I enjoyed class for the first time.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Correct. That wasn't going to happen again. And so I looked through the course catalog. Like I physically flipped through the book. And I was thinking, what could I major in? And I saw journalism, and I've always been a big reader and a pretty good writer, and I was like, I'm going to try that. So I think when people think there's like this divine intervention and people always know what they want when they go to college, I always, and when I talk to young students all the time because there's such a level of stress and pressure to know exactly who you're going to be at 18. And I don't think you should always just wing it. I think it's good to be thoughtful and deliberative, but I think also you have to learn and get to know yourself and your 20s are so formative for that.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No. And I remember I hated it. It made me dislike college strongly because I'd never had difficulty in school and I had a lot of difficulty in my freshman year of college because of my chemistry classes. It just didn't click for me. It wasn't there. I would study for hours and work my homework for hours. And it just didn't work. And I came close to failing my second semester, my chemistry class, which you had to complete. I was incredibly stressed about it and a tornado hit Tuscaloosa, actually, a really devastating tornado that April, and they canceled all of our finals. And because they canceled my final in chemistry, it was the only reason I passed the class. And because of that, I took a very hard look at the next semester and I was like, I can't come back and do this again because I don't know if I'd make it.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, yeah, I mean, the family group text. My dad threatens to leave it regularly because it gets so obnoxious. But yeah, my sister is a brilliant scientist. She's a chemist now. She works in a drug development company. And for some reason, I thought that I too would be a chemist.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My sister who has two kids, and they're going through eggs like crazy you just you see things like that in a way when you go home that sometimes I think people miss. None of my friends in DC are talking about how expensive eggs are”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, because I think I grew up in a very normal way and, you know. Yeah, those were big things to us. Changes like that in the community, we saw what an impact that made in certain places. I also went to public school my whole life. We were never the students who were doing all these extracurriculars or anything like that. We were very normal kids. Went to public school, applied to a bunch of colleges, chose the University of Alabama, which was about a little less than two hours from where I grew up and graduated from there. But I do think growing up in that way helped me and it still helps me to this day because when I go home, I truly get a sense of what people are worried about and care about. When I went home at Christmas, everyone at one point was complaining about the price of eggs. And we had just started talking about it on the morning show on a regular basis, but it was to see the impact that it has on, you know.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, not even a little bit. But I think that's true for more people than we think that it just isn't top of mind for so many families. And it wasn't top of mind. For my parents, they had so many other things growing up that we were not some political household. I don't ever remember my parents going to vote or anything of that nature or talking about, you know, big elections. But obviously that has changed now. I think everyone is politics has seeped into everything. For better.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's what my mom used to say I was when I was in the third grade because I always got in trouble in class for talking. Because I just talk a lot. I mean, clearly it has benefited me in this role.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Getting their education later in life and changing career paths and pursuing certain things. And it's also fun now as I get older because we talk more like peers about work and life and struggles and everything that comes with being an adult. And it's been interesting to watch.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think she was always, I always say my parents got so lucky with my older sister, with me. We have all my siblings are wonderful, but my sister and I, we always just did our homework. We always studied. No one had to really tell us to study. I don't know. My mom went to school. She actually got her degree when we were growing up. So we watched her getting her degree. She wasn't a teacher. I mean, I can remember as a child when she was not a teacher. She went to school, got her degree in education, and became a teacher. And it's funny, and now she's gotten her master's and gone back. And since then, but it's cool to see your parents.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a suburb of Montgomery for sure. I mean, Montgomery is a military base, Maxwell Air Force Base, and so a lot of those families live in Prattville. A lot of people live in Prattville but work in Montgomery. But the city has grown a lot. I mean, I can remember when we got, it was never like a two light. Kind of town, but I can remember when the Walmart opened when I was growing up. We went to the grand opening as a family. And it has changed so much. It's like they've done a really good job as it's grown. And every time I go home, there's something new. So it's fun to see it, how it's developed and progressed.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Outside Montgomery I tell people who aren't familiar with the state that I'm from Montgomery because they don't know what Prattville is. But if you tell someone in Alabama that you're from Montgomery and then they find out you're from Pravel, they're like, no, you're not. Because it's just totally different in people's minds.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My mom's side of the family is from Memphis. They moved to Alabama when she was a child, but my dad's family has always been in Alabama. So we don't fully know no one's done a deep dive. I think maybe people are too scared to look into it. I'm kidding. But I have hosted a few Irish events. So I am.”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, anytime someone asks my heritage, I'm like from Alabama because no one in my family has done like a genealogy test. We always talk about that. Well”
2023-06-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 537 — Kaitlan Collins · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source