Danielle Butterfield
President of the Democratic super PAC Priorities USA
Danielle Butterfield (President of the Democratic super PAC Priorities USA) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include Political advertising, Campaign finance in the United States, 2026 United States midterm elections.
In their words
Positions and remarks grouped by topic, each with the exact quote and where it was said.
Political advertising
Butterfield says Democrats spend under 2% of paid media budgets on search advertising, far less than corporate advertisers.
“Democrats invest less than 2% of their paid media budgets on search advertising”
Pod Save America: Lessons From 2026 (Live From Crooked Con) (Nov 11, 2026) · Listen from 57:32
Butterfield argues that attention cannot be bought with money and must be earned even through paid media.
“We can't buy attention. We have to earn it. And so even when we're running paid media programs”
Pod Save America: Lessons From 2026 (Live From Crooked Con) (Nov 11, 2026) · Listen from 16:29
Butterfield says campaigns must grapple with the fact that half of voters do not follow news or politics.
“just really grappling with the notion that 50% of voters don't pay attention to news or politics”
Pod Save America: Lessons From 2026 (Live From Crooked Con) (Nov 11, 2026) · Listen from 8:33
Butterfield argues Democrats are wrongly congratulating themselves for spending about half their budgets on digital when voters spend most of their time online.
“we're giving ourselves a pat on the back for spending half of our budget on digital in a world where voters are spending more than 80% of their day online”
Pod Save America: Lessons From 2026 (Live From Crooked Con) (Nov 11, 2026) · Listen from 9:06
Other remarks
Butterfield argues the Democratic consulting class has its own oligarchy problem and is overpaid.
“in politics, should not afford you the ability to buy a lake house”
Pod Save America: Lessons From 2026 (Live From Crooked Con) (Nov 11, 2026) · Listen from 1:03:11
Campaign finance in the United States
Butterfield argues Republicans are far ahead in using outside money to build lasting infrastructure while Democrats fund individual candidates.
“Republicans, they're a decade ahead of us on using outside money to actually build things”
Pod Save America: Lessons From 2026 (Live From Crooked Con) (Nov 11, 2026) · Listen from 54:53
2026 United States midterm elections
Butterfield argues Democratic labels like moderate or progressive are vague compared with MAGA, which contains a clear verb.
“the thing that's different about the MAGA label with the labels that we use on our side is that MAGA has a verb in it”
Pod Save America: Lessons From 2026 (Live From Crooked Con) (Nov 11, 2026) · Listen from 31:09
Appearances
Lessons From 2026 (Live From Crooked Con)Pod Save America · Nov 11, 2026 · 1 h 37 min
Live from Crooked Con, Jon Lovett and Democratic strategists dissect the 2026 midterm wins, then Alex Wagner interviews Senator Chris Van Hollen on Senate leadership and accountability.
Often appears with
- Jon Lovett · 1 shared episode
- Lis Smith · 1 shared episode
- Morris Katz · 1 shared episode
- Alex Wagner · 1 shared episode
- Chris Van Hollen · 1 shared episode
- Jon Favreau · 1 shared episode