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Friend,
I get asked a lot why I'm willing to have conversations in places like Fox
News.
The simple answer is because I know how many viewers haven’t heard what I
have to say. And if someone has never actually heard what we have to say –
not a clip or a caricature, but the actual argument – I can't blame them
for not agreeing with us.
That's not on them. It’s on us.
Risk aversion has taken root in my party, at great cost. There is such
fear of saying something wrong – such worry about a clip getting taken out
of context or a line getting twisted – that we are pressured stop saying
much of anything at all.
All that’s left is safe formats, predictable answers, carefully managed
appearances.
Meanwhile, people form their views elsewhere. Podcasts. YouTube. A Jubilee
“Surrounded” format with undecided voters asking every hard question
they've got. Platforms that a lot of political strategists have downplayed
or avoided.
If we're not showing up there, someone else is filling that space.
So, I decided that I'd rather take the risk.
It’s not just Fox News. It’s so many media spaces that don’t see enough of
our views. And there’s a geographic equivalent to this. A barn in rural
North Carolina. A town hall in Tulsa. A congressional district Trump won
by double digits. Wherever the conversation is happening, we need to be in
it – making the real argument, not the safe one.
That's how we expand the map. That's how we earn back voters we've written
off for too long.
It’s work that I’m committed to carrying out between now and November, but
it doesn't happen without resources behind it.
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Thank you,
Pete
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