Democratic, Republican strategists react to Haley Stevens' bombshell endorsement, Alaska race ordeal
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[0:00] We are now joined by Terry Sullivan and
[0:02] Joel Payne here in Studio 57 today.
[0:04] Terry is a CBS News political
[0:05] contributor who ran Marco Rubio's 2016
[0:09] campaign. And Joel is a CBS News
[0:11] political contributor and the
[0:12] communications chief uh communications
[0:15] officer for Move On. Good Monday
[0:17] morning, gentlemen. Nothing in the news
[0:19] to talk about, so I'm not sure what
[0:20] we're going to get to. Let's start in
[0:21] Michigan. um this big upset on Sunday,
[0:24] Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens
[0:26] changing parties effectively in that
[0:28] race for who she wants to support. I
[0:30] want to play you both some sound of how
[0:32] she explains that
[0:34] >> when we see all these great Democrats
[0:36] across this country come in to check
[0:39] Trump and they are going to, you know,
[0:42] affordability agenda.
[0:45] >> I absolutely do.
[0:49] I just I'm just casting my vote this one
[0:51] way. Michigan, there's a lot of people
[0:53] out there voting.
[0:55] >> Joel, if you are a Democrat in Michigan,
[0:58] how are you supposed to interpret what
[1:00] happened on Sunday?
[1:01] >> Well, I think a couple things. One,
[1:02] there was a very bruising primary and
[1:04] obviously all the feelings from that
[1:06] primary were not smoothed over,
[1:08] certainly in time