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MSNBC�s Jen Psaki told Rahm Emanuel that some Democrats drive her �insane�
with the way they talk about issues � �like we�re in a PhD thesis� � and
said, �That�s not how you win elections.�

Psaki � a former Biden White House press secretary and current host of
MSNBC�s Inside With Jen Psaki � launched a podcast called The Blueprint
with Jen Psaki last week on �the lessons learned from the 2024 election
and how Democrats will navigate a changing information environment
especially under a second Trump term.�

On this week�s episode, Psaki spoke to Emanuel about how Democrats can
sound more authentic and less like �adjunct professors at a small liberal
arts college of the Midwest�:

JEN PSAKI: So one of the things, and this is� I always laugh when people
call me a Washington insider, which I maybe I am, but because I feel like
I grew up in politics, like working on political campaigns.

And what�s drives me crazy is the way sometimes Democrats talk. It drives
me insane!

It�s like we�re in a PhD thesis on political academia, which is not how
you win elections!

I you�ve talked about, you said� it�s so funny because I wrote it down.

�Democrats talk like we are adjunct professors at a small liberal arts
college of the Midwest,� which I�m sure I would love, a small liberal arts college of the Midwest.

But like, that�s not how most people talk.

And I�ve noticed this since even hosting a show like I�ll have people on
and you�re like, �Are you reading from a sheet of talking point? I�m
asking you about the threat to our country of this and you�re talking
about something else.�.

How do you untangle candidates and people running for office from that?

RAHM EMANUEL: Well, first of all, I�m not sure it�s some part of it�s
trained, but some part of it�s authentic.

JEN PSAKI: Uh-huh.

RAHM EMANUEL: And you got to I mean, now again, I�m a product of an
understudy of Bill Clinton. I mean, he was a master of just trying to you
know, he always said, �Well, that issue is gonna, that�s going to cut like
a hot knife through butter.�.

I mean, he just knew how to he knew how to talk, how people could
understand without talking down to them.

And I think that you can train people on certain things, but it�s more how
do you do an analogy? How do you make sure that what you�re trying to say,
you compare it to what you pick to compare it to. So people get a sense of
what you�re trying to explain.

And there�s a way of using terminology. But you�re right a lot. I mean, Democrats, we love people to know that we�re smart and that we go our PhD. We�re gonna to show you our thesis.

And it comes across not only that, as a self and close conversation. It is tremendously dismissive of them. The audience.

We�re actually talking to ourselves about how important, how smart we are rather than how to make sure that they understand. We�re more interested
in the sound of our own voice.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/jen-psaki-roasts-democrats-who-drive-me- insane-with-the-way-they-talk-thats-not-how-you-win-elections/

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