James Carville & David Hogg duke it out on “The Tara Palmeri Show”
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Welcome back to The Red Letter.
My voice is back, and the first episode of my newly relaunched podcast “The Tara Palmeri Show” is live with David Hogg, the 25-year-old renegade inside of the Democratic National Committee. Hogg has been driving his elders crazy, particularly James Carville, for his $20 million plan to back primary challengers who will take on older incumbents. Carville called him a “contemptible little twerp” and suggested that DNC party members sue him. They have taken so many shots at each other from afar that I figured why not invite them both on my show to duke it out face-to-face. And they agreed.
It’s what President Donald Trump calls “good television,” and like all good TV, it has a surprising ending.
That episode drops tomorrow, so please follow my new podcast on Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music and iHeart to be the first to get it straight to your device. The YouTube show will drop as usual at 5pm ET.
In this episode, Hogg goes into greater detail on his controversial $20 million plan, his criteria for Democrats to target, why he’s ignoring the party elders, and his strategy for lifting the party up from its dismal 27-percent approval rating.
He also makes a shocking admission about what he should have told President Joe Biden in their Oval Office meeting; something that most elders in the party still don’t have the guts to admit.
"One of my biggest regrets of the time that I worked in politics was the time that I met with President Biden, and I talked to him and he said 'How do I win young voters' and we were in the Oval Office together,” he said. “What I wish I had told him
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