Former Obama advisers who host the "Pod Save America" podcast spoke Friday about the purported reasons some major Democratic donors are holding back money as the party sees encouraging signs ahead in November's midterm elections.At the Texas Tribune Festival last week, the podcast hosts shared their optimism over Texas turning blue because of Republican struggles in purple states.Dan Pfeiffer spoke about numerous factors working against Republicans, even in rural areas, but still warned that Democrats have far less money to work with, compared to the GOP.Tommy Vietor replied, "I think those spending restraints compared to the opportunity are why you're starting to hear some, you know, sort of operatives and candidates like voicing concern and frustration that some of the traditional like big, big donors of the Democratic Party, are not viewing this as the generational opportunity that it could be."THE SOROS POLITICAL MACHINE IS PUTTING MILLIONS TO WORK BEFORE ELECTION DAY — AND ZEROING IN ON KEY RACESJon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer and Tommy Vietor spoke at the Texas Tribune Festival on Sept.
25.(Photo by FilmMagic/FilmMagic for HBO)"Because I was talking to someone today who was like, ‘Let me paint for you the like extreme optimistic picture,’ which is Democrats are not only winning on the generic ballot, but if you look at the top like most salient issues, we are crushing in those areas as well, which was not the case in 2024, right?," he continued.Vietor proposed that if the results of this midterm election resemble recent special elections where Democrats overperformed, "it is like truly a historic opportunity to win statewide races, congressional races, down-ballot, up and down.
And it just feels like a moment when all the biggest donors in the party should be pushing all their chips in the table as aggressively as possible and not holding back for — I don't know what reason — Trump bothering them?""Yeah, I think there has been a huge shift in...