Samuel --

>From the runaway success of Donald Trump to unambiguously weak performances by ... pretty much everyone else in the field, you couldn't script a more interesting story than this year's Republican primary. And there isn't a writers' room in Hollywood who could come up with a scene like last night's GOP debate -- or an audience who would believe it was real.

But here we are after the second debate of 2015 -- Jeb Bush defended the failed foreign policy of his brother (George W. Bush -- you might remember him!) and GOP candidates fought with each other over the Supreme Court's decision on marriage equality and whether elected officials should have to obey the law. Meanwhile, Donald Trump got the biggest applause of the evening for his outrageous positions on immigration, including claiming that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution is unconstitutional. I can't wait to see those post-debate poll numbers, although I can probably guess what they're going to tell us: This is great news for Democrats.

But if we don't have our heads in the game from day one, we cannot capitalize on our advantage.

Every candidate on that stage last night showed serious flaws and weaknesses. I mean, threatening to shut down the government over defunding the vital women's health services that Planned Parenthood provides is a brilliant electoral strategy -- if your goal is to help elect Democrats.

But last night showed us something else, as well. Republican voters are enthusiastic about this primary. They're fired up by the ideas from their candidates -- which is why we heard all 11 double down on such truly terrible policies -- and they cannot wait to vote in 2016.

So if we want to keep the White House in the hands of Democrats, our work starts now. It's on us to show that we're just as committed and enthusiastic as the other side.

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Thanks for everything you've done to help get us to this point, Samuel -- we can't do it without you.

Dan Pfeiffer


 

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