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Reed Galen

Resolute Square Partner, veteran political strategist and co-founder of The Lincoln Project

About Reed Galen

Reed Galen is an independent political strategist and co-founder of The Lincoln Project. A veteran public affairs and political professional with more than 20 years’ experience, Galen has spent more than a decade advising Fortune 50, 100, and 1000 companies in need of high-level counsel in the fields of strategic communications, procurement, and legislation.

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Trump's "Final Battle" and the Long Road to '24
Strategy Session

Strategy Session

Where will Trump's "Final Battle" lead America and the GOP primary? Is DeSantis about to launch his campaign or self-destruct? Rick, Reed, Joe, and Stuart debate whether there's a path forward for anyone not named Trump and to what lengths Trump will go to make sure that doesn't happen.
Donald Trump Ron DeSantisThe Ultra MAGA Movement
March 28, 2023
Waco
Remembering WACO
There are no accidents when it comes to the locations Trump chooses for his rallies. Playing the victim, exploiting the Branch Davidian tragedy in Waco, TX, and using it to enrage and incite his MAGA horde is exactly what we should have come to expect.
Donald Trump WacoFar Right Extremism
March 24, 2023
The GOP's Epidemic Of Unseriousness
You don't play games with Putin. Full stop. It shouldn't even need to be said of a man directing his country to commit genocide against its peaceful neighbor. But, Reed Galen writes, the GOP 2024 presidential primary contenders are a collection of unserious people basing everything on pleasing MAGA and nothing in fact, policy, or ethics.
MAGA’s hold on the GOPRon DeSantisDonald Trump
March 16, 2023
Strategy Session: The Perfect Campaign
Everybody Has A Plan Until They Get Punched In The Mouth
Strategy Session

Strategy Session

The philosopher Mike Tyson was right -- how you react to the punch in the mouth is everything in boxing - and presidential primaries. Who do Rick, Reed, and Stuart think can take a proverbial punch? Will anyone step into the Trump haymaker of lies? And just how colossal a miscalculation was DeSantis' bid for the Putin endorsement?
Donald Trump Ron DeSantisVladimir Putin
March 14, 2023
Trump Thumbs Up
The Groundhog Campaign of 2024
They've learned nothing. The GOP is repeating the 2016 strategic mess that got Trump elected the first time. Reed and Rick write that Republicans are acting out the definition of insanity: doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
Donald Trump Republican PartyMike Pence
March 9, 2023
CPAC & The Night of Long Knives
Strategy Session

Strategy Session

With CPAC in the rearview mirror, it's clear that the GOP is pushing purity onto the party. We know where this leads because we've seen it happen before. The threat is existential. Reed Galen, Joe Trippi, Trygve Olson, and Stuart Stevens discuss why the absurdity of CPAC isn't all that funny. Tuesday, March 7, 7p ET.
AuthoritarianismDonald Trump MAGA’s hold on the GOP
March 8, 2023
CPAC Is Coming To Tell Us America Sucks
Strategy Session

Strategy Session

Rick and Stuart discuss the cowardice of Ron DeSantis, MAGA as the America Sucks Party, and how CPAC has gone from fringe to frightening.
MAGA’s hold on the GOPDonald Trump Ron DeSantis
March 2, 2023
Ukrainian Soldiers in car
Fight Like A Ukrainian
Ukrainians fight and die – with guns, bullets, and missiles. We fight with words and political campaigns. If they lose their fight, we’ll lose ours. If we lose our battle, we’ll end up fighting as they do.
UkraineVladimir PutinMAGA’s hold on the GOP
February 24, 2023
Ukraine: A Year of Blood
Strategy Session

Strategy Session

Reed Galen, Rick Wilson, Stuart Stevens, and Joe Trippi take a look back - and ahead - at Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine in the latest Strategy Session.
UkraineVladimir PutinJoe Biden
February 22, 2023
Third Party Fever Dreams
Strategy Session

Strategy Session

In 121 years, third-party candidates have won 186 Electoral Votes. Total. That's it. And 88 of those went to Roosevelt, who had already been president. Stuart Stevens, Rick Wilson, and Joe Trippi looked into the past, present, and future catastrophes of the third party. It's not pretty.
Donald Trump Threats to DemocracyRon DeSantis
February 14, 2023
And Like That,They’re Gone; Larry Hogan, Chris Sununu, and the Myth of the “Good Republican”
The two dozen or so ‘moderate’ House Republicans raced to line up behind McCarthy as he sold the House to MAGA. There is nothing moderate or brave about sitting in the majority playing blind, deaf, and dumb while your party shreds the Republic.
MAGA’s hold on the GOPKevin McCarthyMarjorie Taylor Greene
February 10, 2023
What Don Will Do To Ron
Strategy Session

Strategy Session

ICYMI: Tonight's show was FIRE!! The guys talk about the food and freak fight of the Republican primary and it doesn't end well for Ron.
Ron DeSantisDonald Trump Mike Pence
January 31, 2023
Rick Wilson
Calling Out Crazy
"That's not conservative. That's bleeping crazy."
Blake Masters
January 25, 2023

Topics

Donald Trump
Donald Trump
Twice-impeached 45th POTUS and wannabe authoritarian dictator who orchestrated a violent insurrection to overthrow the US Government in order to remain president despite losing re-election to Joseph R. Biden by 7,059,547 votes.
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
The 2nd term Governor of Florida and reason that the state has one of the highest death rates per capita from COVID-19. When Ron isn't convincing people to congregate unmasked during a pandemic, he's practicing his mini-me Trump impersonations both legislatively and physically by arresting Black voters his administration approved to vote and tormenting the LGBTQ community in hopes of one day being America's favorite authoritarian. Never. Going. To. Happen.
Republican Party
Republican Party
MAGA’s hold on the GOP
MAGA’s hold on the GOP
The Ultra MAGA Movement
The Ultra MAGA Movement
President Biden coined the term “Ultra-MAGA” to describe the current extremist contingent within the Republican Party that has become the driving force for the GOP’s increasingly radical agenda. Of course, they embraced the description.
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
Rick Scott, United States Senator from Florida, elected senate for Florida Class 1 senate seat
Florida
Florida
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