Meet the Press: Former Rep. Stephanie Murphy
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You know, I think that he embodied exactly what the -- Harvard University calls him the section guy. Josh Barro wrote about this. He's the guy who speaks in class incessantly but doesn't say anything of merit or of substance. And everybody can't stand him, but they kind of have to still be on his good side because one day, he's going to be running for public office. And here he is, running for president.
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Well, you know, 1) I think that was, like, a -- a mistake. I mean, you never engage with your voters that way on camera or not. I mean, that's just like a rookie mistake in -- in -- in engaging with voters. But in a swing district, you know, I think they are really wondering why we're faced with these two options. Like -- and this debate was sort of separate from what the presumptive nominations are going to be for both parties. And, you know, we're a country of 300 million people, and we don't have better alternatives?
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And we just had the summer of Barbie and Taylor Swift tour. I mean, women are having a moment in this country where they have an economic impact. They are having a voice. And they are -- they're going to want to go to polls and -- and reflect that.
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Well, I think I agree that when I have conversations with people in the swing part of what used to be a swing state, they say, you know, both presumptive nominees are running on a, "I'm better than the alternative," campaign, right? Biden said in the last campaign, "Don't judge me against the Almighty. Judge me against the alternative." That's not going to be enough because people are saying to themselves, "Why are these our only alternatives?" Biden has to give people a reason to vote for him, not just voting against Trump --
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-- if he wants to win.
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I actually would say that there's not competition because a lot of these people are younger. The bench is younger, and they're preserving their ability to run in the future, and they don't want to go up against a sitting president. That's why we don't have options.
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