Fight Quotes

“Lloyd Doggett, an iconoclastic liberal seventy-seven-year-old in his fifteenth term representing Austin, Texas, was fit to be tied.”
― Jonathan Allen, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House

“You have my vote,” Whitmer”
― Jonathan Allen, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House

“suspect”
― Jonathan Allen, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House

“In at least one state, the frame changed so that the target support score ranged from a floor of 20 percent to a ceiling of 80 percent, meaning that nearly all of the voter contact was aimed at persuading the middle 60 percent of the electorate and none of it at mobilizing the 20 percent who leaned most heavily toward Harris. The scores, of course, were imperfect predictors of actual human behavior at an individual level.”
― Jonathan Allen, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House

“If I was Lady McBiden, I’d put on my big-girl pants, play the long game, and think about my husband’s legacy,” Alexandra Pelosi, one of the former speaker’s daughters, told Politico. “There aren’t that many people left in America who have something nice to say about Joe Biden. And Nancy Pelosi is one of them.”
― Jonathan Allen, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House

“former high-ranking government official who is close to both Biden and Obama said the president damned his party by committing “the original sin” of running for a second term.”
― Jonathan Allen, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House

“You can’t gaslight the American people about Afghanistan, gaslight them about inflation, gaslight them about the president’s decline and think none of that’s going to add up to a political problem,” said one veteran Democratic strategist who worked on past presidential campaigns.”
― Jonathan Allen, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House

“The last threat, the ace in the hole, was Kamala Harris. Even if Biden did drop out and you got your dreamed-up open convention, you would only succeed in nominating the vice president. Is that what you want? You want her? Look at her polling. No one wants her. Forget it. It’s never gonna happen.”
― Jonathan Allen, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House

“party rules dictated that if a nomination was vacated, the chairman of the party—Biden ally Jaime Harrison—had sole authority to name a successor.”
― Jonathan Allen, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House

“The selection process left a bad taste in Whitmer’s mouth. She felt burned by what she saw as a racially charged behind-the-scenes campaign by Harris’s allies to portray her in a bad light.”
― Jonathan Allen, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House

“In particular, Biden leaned on Hunter, whom he saw as a savvy adviser in the way that only his doting father could.”
― Jonathan Allen, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House

“the New York Times editorial board, the self-appointed conscience of the center-left,”
― Jonathan Allen, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House