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Political Candidate Recruitment
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She argues that candidate recruitment should focus on opening doors for new, organic voices rather than acting as a puppet master to create specific, predetermined candidate profiles.
“What they did wrong is you cannot play kingmaker and you really cannot play mad libs with candidate recruitment. You cannot look at a state like Maine or any district and say, you know what, we need X kind of occupation, Y demographic, Z type of politics.”
Pod Save America · Jul 2026 · 1 episode · 71K views on this topic
He suggests that candidates must genuinely want to run for office because the process is inherently difficult and demanding.
“And I think it's I just I think it's really important to say that running for office sucks. Like it is miserable. It is hard. You are your life is going to be under a microscope. You need to want to do it anyway.”
Pod Save America · Jul 2026 · 1 episode · 71K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
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