Lis Smith Says the Path to Trouncing Ron DeSantis Is Straight Through Right-Wing Media

[Celerity]

The veteran political adviser and memoirist on how she’d kneecap Ron DeSantis, and how Dems can deploy the Trump taint in the midterms. Plus: Smith name-checks her party’s next superstars.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/07/hive-podcast-lis-smith-ron-desantis



This week, Inside the Hive cohost Joe Hagan talks to Lis Smith, Democratic campaign veteran and author of the new memoir Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story, which details her journey, the public one and the private one, through Democratic campaigns over the past 17 years, for candidates as varied as Jon Corzine, Barack Obama, Pete Buttigieg, and, most infamously, former governor Andrew Cuomo, whose lurid political demise she details down to the last moments of his time in office. A savvy political operator, Smith trains her sights on stubborn problems like Florida governor Ron DeSantis, and what to do about President Joe Biden, who, despite his abysmal poll numbers, she says is preparing to come out swinging in advance of the midterms.



“If the [midterms] are a referendum on Democrats, we will be screwed in November,” says Smith, but if Biden and his surrogates can effectively target Trump-tainted election deniers and antiabortion Republicans, “that’s a terrain we can win on. And that’s a switch that we need to flip—we need to flip that switch pretty soon. And we have the opportunity to now.” Smith, who helped take Buttigieg’s star to the national level, is now working with Michigan state senator Mallory McMorrow, who went viral with a searing counterattack on anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans. Smith puts McMorrow on a short list of candidates, along with Kansas City mayor Quinton Lucas, to form the future of the party.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lis-smith-says-the-path-to-trounce-ron-desantis-is/id1232383877?i=1000570606045



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[uponit7771]

1. K&R,

[malaise]

2. She is correct

Expose him and them

[tanyev]

3. Would any right-wing media look at a negative DeSantis story that came from a Democratic source?

This strategy would happen organically if a Trump v. DeSantis battle ensues, but if just one of those men is in the primary he will automatically be the frontrunner and right-wing media will be in full propaganda mode.