This episode is a little different from the normal Axe Files. David sat down at Arizona State University with two legendary political strategists: Karl Rove, the architect of George W. Bush’s campaigns, and David Plouffe, David’s old partner and the brilliant manager behind the 2008 Barack Obama campaign. You can find their personal stories in past episodes of The Axe Files (Karl Rove episode #80, and David Plouffe episodes #43 and #418), but in this conversation, they talked about the Biden-Trump rematch, which they all agreed is the most unusual campaign of their lifetimes.
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Ep. 420 — Sen. Mitt Romney
Ep. 419 — Gov. Andrew Cuomo
Ep. 418 — David Plouffe
Ep. 417 — Jon Meacham
Ep. 416 — Mandy Patinkin
Ep. 415 — Nina Totenberg
Ep. 414 — Susan Page
Ep. 413 — Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
Ep. 412 — Amb. John Bolton
Ep. 411 — Bob Costas
Ep. 410 — Sen. Sherrod Brown
Ep. 409 — Nicolle Wallace
Ep. 408 — Tim O'Brien
Ep. 407 — Sen. Bernie Sanders
Ep. 406 — Jeff Daniels
Best of the Axe Files: Michael Phelps
Ep. 405 — Nikole Hannah-Jones
Best of the Axe Files: Vladimir Kara-Murza
Ep. 404 — Brian Stelter
Ep. 403 — Chasten Buttigieg
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