In emergency situations, leaders forget responsiveness to donors for combination of reasons: they care about people dealing with immediate crisis and are out of campaign mode when big donors aren't prominent in their mind.

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Zephyr Teachout

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What happens in those emergency situations, I believe, is that uh the leaders forget all their responsiveness to their donors... One is they really care about people who are dealing with the flood

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Three Visions of Where Democrats Went Wrong | The Ezra Klein ShowThe Ezra Klein Show
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:54:06 AM

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