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. 473 — Barton Gellman
Ep. 472 — Rep. Jamie Raskin
Best of The Axe Files: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Best of The Axe Files: Jen Psaki
Ep. 471 — Rep. Elissa Slotkin
Ep. 470 — Gen. Stanley McChrystal
Ep. 469 — Marc Short
Ep. 468 — Chris Christie
Ep. 467 — Rep. Pramila Jayapal
Ep. 466 — Fiona Hill
Presenting Margins of Error
Ep. 465 — Russell Moore
Ep. 464—Anderson Cooper
Ep. 463—Evan Osnos
Ep. 462 — Robert Costa
Ep. 461 — Monica Lewinsky
Presenting Total Recall: California's Political Circus
Ep. 460 — Ken Burns
Ep. 459 — Clarissa Ward
Ep. 458 — Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman
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