Over the course of Game Change, Steve Schmidt‘s
arc moves him from assertive and cocksure to worried and then
completely panicked and hopeless over the vice presidential candidacy —
and erratic behavior — of an untested YouTube-scouted Alaskan governor
named Sarah Palin. And while yes, it’s Woody Harrelson, not the actual Schmidt, on screen in HBO’s election drama, the real life Republican strategist and former adviser to John McCain‘s presidential campaign says that the film is true to the real life story.
“I think it was very accurate,” Schmidt told the hosts of Morning Joe on Monday.
“For all of us in the campaign, it really rang true. It gave you a
little bit of PTSD at times. It did for me .But, look, I think it’s a
story of when cynicism and idealism collide…
