{"id":9040,"date":"2017-11-29T11:41:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T16:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9040"},"modified":"2017-11-30T17:25:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T22:25:56","slug":"not-exactly-the-ideal-rollout-for-turnbull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9040","title":{"rendered":"Not Exactly the Ideal Rollout for Turnbull"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 474px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-9040-1\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Turnbull-Intro.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Turnbull-Intro.mp4\">https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Turnbull-Intro.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Gubernatorial Candidate Ben Jealous Introduces Susan Turnbull as his Running Mate for Lieutenant Governor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, it&#8217;s worth doing a third take.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, a car accident outside interrupted Ben Jealous&#8217;s effort to do his introduction of Susie Turnbull as his running mate for Lieutenant Governor. After investigating, they came back and did this second take.<\/p>\n<p>It contains some real clunkers. Ben Jealous speaks of removing Gov. Larry Hogan &#8220;from the White House.&#8221; This Freudian slip only reinforces the perception that Jealous is a lot more knowledgeable and comfortable speaking about national issues and his real interests lie outside the State.<\/p>\n<p>Incredibly, Turnbull then makes the same gaffe by referring to when she &#8220;moved to Washington&#8221; even though she quickly realizes her mistake and attempts to correct mid-course. She ends up saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the last 40 years, I&#8217;ve been engaged in politics. Since I moved to Wash &lt;pause&gt; to Washington and Maryland, especially to Maryland, in the last . . . years ago, what I have done is build coalitions and work in my community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Leading with her political chops without also highlighting any specific accomplishments doesn&#8217;t help sell the message. The takeaway for many may not be their message of &#8220;change&#8221; and &#8220;doing big things&#8221; but that Jealous has chosen yet another longtime well-off political insider, much of whose work in her community consists of serving in elite party positions.<\/p>\n<p>Many in the DC area think of themselves as Washingtonians and identify heavily with the metro area. Saying you&#8217;re from more well-known Washington rather than Bethesda is natural for Turnbull. Yet Washington insider is not normally the image cultivated by a Sanders candidate. Describing herself as being from &#8220;Washington&#8221; will surely play poorly elsewhere in the State.<\/p>\n<p>The jiggling camera puts a Maryland spin on it by reminding people of <em>The Wire<\/em>. I suppose the low production values can be sold as a form of authenticity but I would&#8217;ve thought a campaign intending to do a roll out would&#8217;ve been prepared to film it.<\/p>\n<p>Jealous has gained a running mate who will reassure the political establishment and may help him raise money &#8211; two excellent reasons for Turnbull&#8217;s selection. Many people think highly of her and we&#8217;ll have future opportunities to hear from them. But this video utterly fails to sell why the broader public should think that she is a great choice for Lieutenant Governor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gubernatorial Candidate Ben Jealous Introduces Susan Turnbull as his Running Mate for Lieutenant Governor Sometimes, it&#8217;s worth doing a third take. Apparently, a car accident outside interrupted Ben Jealous&#8217;s effort to do his introduction of Susie Turnbull as his running mate for Lieutenant Governor. After investigating, they came back and did this second take. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=9040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not Exactly the Ideal Rollout for Turnbull<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2020],"tags":[1977,2086],"class_list":["post-9040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-governors-race","tag-ben-jealous","tag-susan-turnbull"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2lO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9040"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9061,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040\/revisions\/9061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}