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Why Vulnerability Backfires
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| So, just out of curiosity, if it's not her ideas that are sinking her, what is? | |
| Ironically, I think she did it to herself, and this is what I mean. | |
| I think I have this little theory I've developed recently in politics that a really bad thing you go through may very well be... | |
| What solidifies your political future. | |
| I think that Jeremiah Wright helped Barack Obama for the simple reason that he survived it. | |
| Access Hollywood ended up helping Trump. | |
| He survived it. | |
| The Indian Native American nonsense from Elizabeth Warren, where she was caught in such an embarrassing lie, well, back in October when I wrote the book, it seemed to me she had survived that escapade and therefore had really become a strengthened and more robust candidate. | |
| But she refused to tell the American people what Bernie was willing to tell them, which is that she was going to have to raise taxes to pay for the $15 trillion public spending program. | |
| And ironically, of all people, it was Mayor Pete who called her out on it, and she has not recovered from that moment. | |
| Oh, that's fascinating. | |
| That's what did it. | |
| If people sense you're not leveling with them, you're doomed in politics. | |
| Exactly. | |
| I agree. | |
| I think that there's a sense that Trump has been a really interesting learning experience for a lot of people at what brute honesty at times in terms of just saying hard things, whether people like hearing it or not. | |
| It doesn't necessarily turn people off. | |
| And I think that with Elizabeth Warren... | |
| She particularly was vulnerable here, Dennis. | |
| Yeah, all right, hold on there, and I want to hear why. | |
| That's the point we'll leave. | |
| Why was she particularly vulnerable? | |