Trump cuts into Biden's lead among young people, poll finds

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89. Dan Pfeiffer has a story about trying to avoid mixing and mingling with donors:

"Politics is one of those endeavors where everyone thinks they are qualified to have an opinion. And the people successful enough to write checks big enough to attend these events are not the sort of people who experience self-doubt. ... Eventually, as I stood in a corner hoping the server with the pigs in a blanket would come by, someone would invariably wander over to me and ask, 'Are you on the White House staff?' 'I am.' 'What do you do?' 'I'm President Obama's communications director.' 'Oh good. I was hoping to run into you. I have some thoughts.' And we're off to the races.

"The subtext of most of these conversations was that great slogans make great presidents. Much of Progressive Twitter is filled with lamentations about some failure or missed messaging opportunity. There was a running joke in the Obama White House that you needed a master's in economic policy to discuss economic policy and a doctorate in public health to offer health care ideas, but everyone believed that reading the newspapers made them qualified to opine on messaging strategy."