Douglas Schoen

So Epstein was posted up in the jail, as we all know, for a month or so, a little more than a month, and waiting for, you know, things to fall into place.

Had talked to Doug Schoen a little bit before this, had a new strategy in place right before his alleged suicide, and according to his lawyers, was upbeat and ready to rock.

On August 12th, two days after Epstein was found dead, Barr gave comments to the press in which he seemed to question the claims of suicide, saying the Department of Justice was now learning of serious irregularities at the facility that are deeply concerning and demand a thorough investigation.

See, what Barr was doing there was a little misdirection, right? Oh, I see your concerns.

So it comes down to who do you trust? Michael Bodden or the examiner, the medical examiner, and Bill Barr.

Epstein's lawyers reported that he was in good spirits the day before he was found dead and that he exhibited no signs of depression or suicidal behavior and was looking forward to working on his legal defense.

And that's what we talked about as well with Doug Schoen, right? We read that article.

Doug Schoen was adamant that Jeffrey Epstein had a legal defense in place and that he was ready to rock.

This is the No Spin News Weekend Edition.

And joining us now from, uh, Florida, Democratic strategist Doug Schoen.

All right, make any mistakes, uh, Doug?

I don't think you made mistakes.

But I still don't think that it's going to, especially because most of the, uh, uh, polls and data that I've heard from right now are all i- even if there are more than 25 or 30 toss-up ra- or races that will determine this, all of those polls are still within the margin of error, which means literally it could go one way or the other.

Um, but, but as we move forward, I think we need to define our terms, because I spoke with an old hand today, Doug Schoen.

Doug Schoen's a pretty smart guy when it comes to political analysis, wouldn't you say?

That's-

Worked for Bill Clinton, worked for Mike Bloomberg

But in New York, Blakeman could win.

Joining us now from, uh, Florida, Democratic strategist Doug Schoen.

All right, make any mistakes, uh, Doug?

I don't think you made mistakes.

So, yeah, I think he's sad that he has memories of the Democratic Party during the Clinton era.

And that's not uncommon when you look at the Clinton main advisors or people who were Doug Schoen, who was Jewish, Mark Pinn, who was Jewish, Mark Halpern, the really brilliant commentator who was on fairly Me Too during the Me Too, but he's a democratic political writer.

and Carville, who's not Jewish, but they understood where the Democratic Party could win.

If you look at the 92 and 96 Clinton manifestos in that convention written by Mark Penn and Doug Schoen, they were things like close the border, balance the budget.

They were pretty indistinguishable.

And that's how Clinton skated by with the help of Ross Perot's third party candidacy.

When you think about stuff like that, you just think, who could vote for them? I can't imagine anybody voting for them.

Doug Schoen is probably the only honest Democrat in the history of the country, at least in this day and age, and he's a Democrat strategist.

He worked for the Clinton campaign, not Hillary, but Bill Clinton, and he knows that Democrats should be very worried about El Sid.

Yes, they should worry.

And remember this healthcare crisis.

Again, we talked about it at the top of the show because Jordan Krugman is your answer to all healthcare issues.

But even Doug Schoen, the strategist for the Democrats, who's the only honest one alive, knows that this Medicare for all nonsense, absolute nonsense, should hurt Democrats in the midterms because people see through it.

We don't know what's gonna happen with healthcare.

And it's not just me admitting today's Democrats have no plan and no clear direction.

Clinton-era Democrat and Fox contributor Doug Schoen is asking a good question this week.

If the Democrats take control of Congress, can they actually govern? This is a great question.

Doug Schoen is believing all these polls that show Democrats are gonna have a strong election.

I sort of doubt that.

But he writes at The Hill, "If the Democrats win, what will they do to best position themselves for twenty twenty-eight? Because if the Democrats do win, it will be from collecting protest votes, not from offering solutions." He says, "The data bears this out.

According to NBC, forty-six percent of independents say that their midterm vote is going to be a signal of z-- opposition to the president, not because of something they see that they like in the Democrat platform." He says, "That same survey also found that the Democrat Party's favorability is noticeably worse than the Republicans'.

The Democrats have a negative twenty-one-point approval rating.

And then the other poll is buys internal.

Doug Schoen, a very famous Democrat pollster, did it.

Shows buy up six.

Are you buying either of these polls?