The former president of the National Democratic Committee, Jaime Harrison, is returning to the political arena with a new podcast while he and his party seek to lose the loss of the White House last year.
In a wide conversation with NBC News before the podcast launch, Harrison framed himself as a discouragement of the “Stricious Stry” Jacket of the sensibilities of leading the National Party and argued that a way in which Democrats can reconstruct confidence with Americans is adopting their most authentic beings.
“We need more voices that are anchored in the Democratic Party, because some of the podcasts that are outside criticize the Democratic Party more often instead of really promoting the assets and leaders we have,” he said.
The first episodes of “AT Our Table” present interviews with three acquaintances of the party: the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, the governor of Maryland, Wes Moore and the representative of South Carolina, Jim Clyburn. But the list of Harrison’s first guests also includes Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, whose businesses, drug addiction and legal problems were part of political attacks against the former president. The decision of the then president to forgive his son after being convicted of three charges for firearms also caused the conviction throughout the political spectrum.
When asked why he wanted to interview Biden, whom many Democrats saw as a political vulnerability for the then president and his party, Harrison told NBC News that he wanted to withdraw the “cartoon” of the former president’s son. The episode will come next week.
“When I look at Hunter and the conversations I have had with him in the last four years, this guy is really brilliant, he is intelligent, he is very passionate about things about the service and helping people,” Harrison said. “But you know, I only had the opportunity to see it due to my interactions with him. When you ask most people, they have no idea. All they know is what [Georgia GOP Rep.] Marjorie Taylor Green would say about Hunter or what her political allies or her political opponents would say. “
“It has probably become one of the largest cartoons in politics today,” Harrison continued. “And I thought it would be interesting for people to understand who is Hunter Biden, or what makes it work.”
While Harrison said he was proud of his work leading the National Party, he hopes it is “a post chair even better than me.”
“When President Carter died, you reflect a lot, and the only thing I learned from his years is that I think he looked at himself as a better post-president than a president,” he said.
“And as I reflect on my time as president, I hope to be an even better armchair than me, and really do the things that are passionate about, which is to see a resurgence of a new south, see the Democratic party restore its support point in the southern states,” Harrison continued.
A way in which Harrison plans to work towards that goal is through the progress of the efforts of his PAC of Dirt Road Democrats, his political group that still retains the fundraising list that promoted his 2020 Senate offer, which established fundraising records at that time.
Loyalty to Biden
The decision to receive Hunter Biden in one of his inaugural episodes of Podcast talks about the loyalty that Harrison continues to show towards the former president. In an excerpt from Hunter Biden’s interview, he tells Harrison that the Democrats “lost the [2024] Election because we are not faithful to the party leader. ”
When asked if he agreed with Biden’s son, Harrison criticized the Democrats for being so quick to kick the then president on the sidewalk after his debate of debate widely rontrediated last June, comparing them with how the Republicans continued to meet around the President Donald Trump even when he was convicted of charges for serious crimes.
“If the waters get a little choppy, some of the people of our party are the fastest to leave the ship, go down quickly and then set the damn ship when they get off,” said Harrison.
“It does not mean that it is always the right thing that Republicans have done, but sometimes the Democrats need to sit and stop and think about the long -term ramifications of that early abandonment because I can tell him that he did not sit well with the base of the party, particularly the black voters,” Harrison continued. “I remember a manifestation in Georgia just after the debate and people were angry. These are old -old black men and women who were so annoying that the game was almost dealing with Joe Biden, stabbing him on his back.”
Harrison did not say directly if I agreed with Hunter Biden that the Democrats lost “because” of the lack of loyalty to Biden. But while repeatedly praised former Vice President Kamala Harris as a candidate (comparing it with the basketball mega -stress Michael Jordan) and a faithful vice president, he also gave a passionate defense of Biden’s legacy in the middle of the decision of many Democrats of the best Democrats to call for him to do aside.
“We probably saw the best legislative president we had from LBJ, and that is just that he talked objectively,” Harrison said, adding that Biden was more focused on “rebuilding the Democratic Party” than any president in a “long time.”
He added: “There was a reason why we needed to be loyal to the president. Of course, was it old? Demons, yes, he was old, and he knew he was old as if we all knew he was old. But you don’t choose a president because they are young or look good in a suit or what you have. You are chosen to do themselves.”
The status of the party
Harrison is one of the many Democratic politicians who have begun podcasts following the 2024 elections, at a time when the image of the party has fallen to a historical minimum and when the Democrats have lamented the inability of their party to gain traction in the podcast sphere, particularly young men.
Harrison told NBC News that he believes that the party needs more voices in the new media spaces “anchored in the Democratic Party because some of the podcasts that are out there criticize the Democratic Party more often instead of really promoting the assets and leaders we have.”
But he also admitted that the Democratic Party can depend too much on “points of conversation that are not based on any emotion”, a strategy that can lead voters to feel disconnected from them.
He connected that discussion with his “frustration” with the media strategy of the Harris campaign, framing the decision not to sit for more interviews in the first weeks of his presidential candidacy as “political negligence” and regretting the decision to put “wives” in Walz after he joined the ticket.
“Sometimes we are so afraid of our shadows in our party that we lose that, we enter our own heads, we get so academic and brain,” Harrison said, arguing that the Democrats should strive to level with voters and be “real.”
“That makes you more identifiable in spaces that you may not have identified yourself, right? Because people see a side of you that normally do not have the opportunity to see. They see your passion, they see things that give you joy, see the things that frustrate you. And that is really important, that you are not just a cartoon.”
