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How Left is the Left as Chi Osse' prepares for Dem Prim vs. Hakeem Jeffries · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Democrats are experiencing a falling out in the aftermath of
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Speaker 1: the government shut down. It's now turning into what is
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Speaker 1: an essence, a civil war.
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Speaker 2: How bad is it?
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Speaker 1: Well, here's one headline from the Hill, is this the
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Speaker 1: end of Chuck Schumer. Democrats have generally been unable to
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Speaker 1: agree on much over the past year, but now they
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Speaker 1: seemingly agree on one thing. That is, it's time to
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Speaker 1: get rid of the old guard and they must go
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Speaker 1: with the socialist, Communists and Marxist leaders of their future.
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Speaker 1: That is exactly what is happening. Is the fight is
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Speaker 1: continuing on Capitol Hill. Schumer's leadership position is increasingly unattainable
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Speaker 1: as he comes under fire from both moderates and his
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Speaker 1: left crazies that have been allowed to exist in the
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Speaker 1: Democratic Party and now in essence, they've taken over the Hill.
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Speaker 1: Putting it this way, as they described exactly how bad
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Speaker 1: it's gotten for Chuck Schumer, who is one of the
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Speaker 1: most liberal members in the Senate's history, but he's not
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Speaker 1: liberal enough anymore for the Marxists, the socialists in the Communists.
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Speaker 3: Well, AOC challenge the most powerful Senate Democrat. It's become
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Speaker 3: a favorite topic of Washington political chatter as Senemateorder leader
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Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer faces an onslaught of attacks over his handling
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Speaker 3: of the government shutdown. It comes as the profile of
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Speaker 3: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez continues to rise, and that's leading to
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Speaker 3: speculation that the two New Yorkers could.
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Speaker 4: Be heading for a showdown in twenty twenty eight.
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Speaker 3: That's when Schumer is up for reelection, and there are
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Speaker 3: growing signs the five term senator could be vulnerable in
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Speaker 3: a Democratic primary in the Empire State. Schumer will be
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Speaker 3: seventy seven years old on election day twenty twenty eight,
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Speaker 3: and eighty four by the time the term ends. This
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Speaker 3: at a time when many Democrats are pressing for new
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Speaker 3: blood in the party, and Schumer has been the target
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Speaker 3: of rage from many Democrats after eight members of his
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Speaker 3: Senate caucus broke ranks this week to end government shut
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Speaker 3: down without securing concessions the party sought aoc is a
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Speaker 3: darling of the progressive left.
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Speaker 4: Her reach on social media is.
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Speaker 3: Vast, Her rallies draw large crowds, and she secured a
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Speaker 3: big victory last week when her allies or Hanmomdani, was
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Speaker 3: elected mayor of New York City. Notably, Schumer did not
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Speaker 3: endorse in the race. For his part, Schumer has not
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Speaker 3: announced his.
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Speaker 4: Intentions for twenty twenty eight.
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Speaker 3: Many Democrats believe he will eventually bow out. Others say
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Speaker 3: he remains a well like figure among New York Democrats
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Speaker 3: and his seniority in the party will play a role
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Speaker 3: in the calculus heading into twenty twenty eight. There's also
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Speaker 3: this some believe AOC star has grown so bright that
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Speaker 3: she could brush aside a Senate run and instead seek
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Speaker 3: the presidency.
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Speaker 2: I want you to think about what you just heard.
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Speaker 1: AOC could just move past a Senate run goes straight
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Speaker 1: to the presidency. Is that crazy talk? The answer is no.
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Speaker 1: When you have a Democrat that is a five term
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Speaker 1: Senate right, six times five is what do the math
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Speaker 1: on that? And a nine term representative is underscoring just
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Speaker 1: how precarious Schumer's position actually is. You have these eight
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Speaker 1: Democrats that broke with their party to reopen the government.
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Speaker 1: By the way, Schumer voted to keep the government closed,
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Speaker 1: and yet they're still angry at Schumer, and now they
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Speaker 1: have a simple demand, you must resign. He was also
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Speaker 1: accused of try to quote screw over the party I'm
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Speaker 1: not joking. Schumer was also held up as another example
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Speaker 1: of why we need quote new leadership. And that's just
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Speaker 1: what Democrats in Congress had to say. None of what
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Speaker 1: I just quoted you from there was from outside of
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Speaker 1: elected members of Congress. Now, the Wall Street Journal is
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Speaker 1: now reporting that at least eleven House Democrats, eleven progressive nonprofits,
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Speaker 1: and six Democratic Senate candidates have called on mister Schumer
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Speaker 1: to step away officially as the minority leader. In other words,
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Speaker 1: Schumer has literally managed to alienate virtually everyone in his
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Speaker 1: own party. Progressives are blaming him for not being quote
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Speaker 1: strong enough to rein in the defectors, while moderates are
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Speaker 1: angry with Schumer and saying he engineered the longest shutdown
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Speaker 1: ever for literally nothing because Democrats got nothing in return.
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Speaker 2: So this is where Schumer is.
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Speaker 1: He's literally caught between the extreme radical left, the Marxist,
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Speaker 1: the socialists, and the communists, and then the moderates of
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Speaker 1: his party. You are saying, what the hell were you doing? Man,
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Speaker 1: like you put us in a bad spot going into
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Speaker 1: reelection and you had to shut down. And we have
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Speaker 1: nothing to show for anything here with this shutdown. So
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Speaker 1: they're angry too. How do you get out of that?
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Speaker 1: I don't know now courting by the way to see
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Speaker 1: an end with He now has a minus four point
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Speaker 1: favorability among Democratic voters. Schumer is the least popular Democratic
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Speaker 1: Senate leader since the polling began asking the question all
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Speaker 1: the way back in nineteen eighty five. Just to put
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Speaker 1: in perspective for you now, the same poll also suggests
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Speaker 1: that if Schumer were up for election today, and this
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Speaker 1: is obviously where Nancy Pelosi and AOC and all these
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Speaker 1: are fighting over this, the same poll suggests that if
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Speaker 1: Schumer were up for election today, he would likely suffer
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Speaker 1: a quote historic defeat in a primary against AOC, who
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Speaker 1: is clearly preparing a Senate run. All right, that's what
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Speaker 1: everyone is talking about right now the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 2: Here's the other thing that's interesting. Among New York Democrats.
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Speaker 1: AOC's net favorability is significantly higher. In fact, it is
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Speaker 1: thirty points higher than Schumer. It is a US forty
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Speaker 1: six points versus plus sixteen. So that confirms the results
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Speaker 1: of a pullback in May that showed that AOC was
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Speaker 1: clearly winning a matchup by twenty one points to be
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Speaker 1: fifty four to thirty three among likely Democratic voters in
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Speaker 1: a primary. Now, I ever wins the primary, he's going
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Speaker 1: to win the general. We all know that because it's
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Speaker 1: New York and so Schumer is not up for reelection,
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Speaker 1: and this is good for him. Until twenty twenty eight,
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Speaker 1: he'll likely be He'll be like week shy. I think
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Speaker 1: of his seventy eighth birthday, and now he's got to
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Speaker 1: deal with a primary challenge, and there's a good chance
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Speaker 1: he may lose his power in the Senate as the
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Speaker 1: leader of the Democratic Party there as well. How did
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Speaker 1: we get to this point, I'll tell you exactly how
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Speaker 1: because of the radical left in the Democrats, and the
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Speaker 1: Democrats did not police them.
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Speaker 2: They have now taken over center.
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Speaker 1: Booker, by the way, is also now calling for new
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Speaker 1: leadership in the Democratic Party. Here's part of that conversation
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Speaker 1: on Fox News Channel as they were describing what is
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Speaker 1: now at civil war.
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Speaker 5: So in terms of who will be leading the Democrats,
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Speaker 5: there's a good chance it might not be Chuck Schumer
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Speaker 5: in the Senate because Corey Booker seems to be leading
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Speaker 5: the charge in terms of wanting new leadership. Listen to
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Speaker 5: what he said.
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Speaker 6: Chuck Schumer's generation, Nancy Pelosi's generation, John Lewis's generation. They
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Speaker 6: have so much to be proud of. It is time, though,
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Speaker 6: for new leadership the other generations ex. Millennials, Zee, It's
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Speaker 6: time for us to step up. The stage is waiting
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Speaker 6: for us to lead, not just the party but the
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Speaker 6: nation right now.
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Speaker 2: It time.
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Speaker 7: I think the Democrats are fishing in the wrong well here.
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Speaker 7: It's not an issue of age, just not an issue
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Speaker 7: of generation. It's an issue of the party being way
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Speaker 7: too far left. What the election told us last week
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Speaker 7: is that the economy may be better under the Trump
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Speaker 7: administration that it was under the Biden administration, but it's
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Speaker 7: not good enough. Democrats have a lane right here. But
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Speaker 7: what they're doing is they're going to the far left
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Speaker 7: because that's where the.
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Speaker 4: Social media influencers are.
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Speaker 7: Social media loves conflict, it loves anger, it loves extremism.
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Speaker 4: But that's not where voters are.
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Speaker 7: Seventy percent of American voters are either conservative or moderate,
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Speaker 7: and there is a lane here. There is an opportunity
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Speaker 7: for Democrats to go after those voters, those swing voters
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Speaker 7: that make the difference in the national elections coming up.
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Speaker 7: We haven't seen national Virginia New Jersey, New York. They
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Speaker 7: were not national elections. You take this progressive socialist show
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Speaker 7: on the road nationally, it's not going to work. If
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Speaker 7: Democrats move to the political center, that's where that's where
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Speaker 7: the sweet part is for them. But they can't do
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Speaker 7: that because they are addicted to the social media left break.
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Speaker 5: And when you think about who are the loudest voices
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Speaker 5: in the Democratic Party, it's alexandri or Cassio Kortez, it's
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Speaker 5: Jasmin Crockett, it's Bernie Sanders.
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Speaker 8: But when asked.
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Speaker 5: About who the future leaders of the Democratic Party are,
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Speaker 5: listen to what roconnaissanis.
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Speaker 9: We have dynamic, young new leaders where some of it.
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Speaker 9: Chris Murphy is a top leader. Cory Booker is a
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Speaker 9: dynamic leader. Brian Schatz is a dynamic leader. Do you
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Speaker 9: think Democrats around the country think that Chuck Schumer should
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Speaker 9: be the face of the future of the Democratic Party?
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Speaker 5: Of course, not interesting that there was not a mention
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Speaker 5: of AOC, Jasbin Krockett or any of the people on
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Speaker 5: the far left.
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Speaker 8: Chris Murphy was about as far as you got.
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Speaker 10: Well, I think Julian had exactly right and that Democrats
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Speaker 10: are far too worried right now about pronouns as opposed
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Speaker 10: to paychecks or issues that Americans are really concerned about.
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Speaker 10: But I don't think that the solution is the fact
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Speaker 10: that Corey Booker looked around and Senator Spartacus let everyone
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Speaker 10: know that he might be the best person to step
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Speaker 10: up and lead. The fact of the matter is right
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Speaker 10: now is Democrats have two real problems. Number one, not
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Speaker 10: just the ideology, but they don't have a specific set
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Speaker 10: of issues or ideas to tackle those issues that they
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Speaker 10: can lead with. The second thing is when they talk
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Speaker 10: about leaders, Chris Murphy is like watching paint dry. He
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Speaker 10: is very boring. Until Democrats actually have some leaders who
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Speaker 10: can step up, no one's going to grab the attention
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Speaker 10: we're able to command any sort of audience. Now that said,
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Speaker 10: regardless to the fact of how left the Democrats have
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Speaker 10: gone so far, whoever the Democrats do put forward in
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Speaker 10: twenty eight will be formidable. The country is very much
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Speaker 10: right down the middle, very divided, and so it will
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Speaker 10: be a tough battle. But I don't think Democrats know
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Speaker 10: who they want yet.
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Speaker 1: Yeah the bump, I love how they say there. I
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Speaker 1: don't think they know who they want yet. Like That's
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Speaker 1: the part here that I think is so frustrating is
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Speaker 1: for them, as they're like, yeah, of course they do.
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Speaker 1: about a civil war that is happening in the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 1: Let me also just get to another point that I
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Speaker 1: think is very interesting, and that is how fast the
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Speaker 1: Democratic Party is actually moving to the radical left. You
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Speaker 1: got Mundani that gets elected full blown communists is in
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Speaker 1: Socialist is in New York City.
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Speaker 2: Cheosay remember that name, all right?
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Speaker 1: Chi Osay It's probably the first time you've ever heard it,
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Speaker 1: but it's a name that you're going to want to remember.
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Speaker 1: Because Chiosay has now filed paperwork to challenge Akeem Jeffries
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Speaker 1: from the left. This is again how crazy the left
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Speaker 1: has become. Now this story gets just insane because you
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Speaker 1: have this New York City council member that filed the
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Speaker 1: paperwork this week to run against the House Minority Leader
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Speaker 1: Hakeem Jeffries. Now, let's be clear, six months ago, Hakeem
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Speaker 1: Jeffries was like AOC of the left. Now apparently he's
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Speaker 1: not left enough for this Brooklyn based congressional seat that
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Speaker 1: just also gave you Mundani. So this is what this
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Speaker 1: dude's saying. All right, and again it's New York City
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Speaker 1: council member. We know they're extreme there.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: The Democratic Party's leadership is not only failing to effectively
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Speaker 1: fight back against Donald Trump, they have also failed to
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Speaker 1: deliver a vision that we can all believe in Osi,
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Speaker 1: who recently joined the Democratic Socialists of America.
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Speaker 2: So it's another socialist set.
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Speaker 1: In a statement to Axios, these failures are some of
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Speaker 1: the many reasons why I'm currently exploring a potential run
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Speaker 1: for New York's eighth congressional district.
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Speaker 2: Again, this is a Keem Jeffries district.
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Speaker 1: This is no longer a Democratic party, that's a socialist party.
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Speaker 2: This is a twenty seven year old, all right.
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Speaker 1: He's also an ally of the New York Mayor Mandani
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Speaker 1: and is known as a left wing voice in the
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Speaker 1: New York City Council. OSEI was considering the bid against Jeffries,
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Speaker 1: and now he's saying, well, because the government shutdown, I
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Speaker 1: just got to do it. He filed the Federal Election
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Speaker 1: Commission on Monday to run in the Democratic primary for
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Speaker 1: the New York's eighth district, which covers parts of South
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Speaker 1: and East Brooklyn. His team also set up an Act
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Speaker 1: Blue page they're the radical left organization for him to
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Speaker 1: begin fundraising for his run. Jeffries campaign spokesman is not
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Speaker 1: responding yet. Asked by Axios in October about a possible
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Speaker 1: primary challenge from this city council member, Jeffries replied, if
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Speaker 1: you ask me a serious question, I'll give you a
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Speaker 1: serious answer. And you know what's not a serious question
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Speaker 1: based on everything coming out of Brooklyn. So he's basically like,
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Speaker 1: this guy's beneath me. Well, guess what, you just got
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Speaker 1: a socialist elected to the mayor's office. There's a very
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Speaker 1: good chance that this kid, twenty seven year old socialists
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Speaker 1: could win against the leader of the Democratic Party in
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Speaker 1: the who was an extreme leftist when they elected him. Now,
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Speaker 1: Jeffreys campaign spokesman also said, asked again last week if
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Speaker 1: he had a comment on the reports New York Times
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Speaker 1: in the New York Posts that Osay was planned to run,
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Speaker 1: Jeffries responded simply no. Despite being a high profile supporter
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Speaker 1: mandani OSEI will likely run without the incoming mayor's support,
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Speaker 1: at least for now, we're being told, and that may
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Speaker 1: not matter. When you can say, hey, I'm just like
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Speaker 1: the mayor, that'll probably help. When you say you're a socialist,
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Speaker 1: that helps. And when you say you want to give
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Speaker 1: away free stuff that helps. Is this on brand for
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Speaker 1: New York in the Bronx at Brooklyn area, Yes, no doubt.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: This is also interesting because this run would be a
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Speaker 1: part of a broader nationwide effort my younger and more
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Speaker 1: progressive Democrats to Alison comments that they say as just
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Speaker 1: too old or to establishment oriented in the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 1: Many of those insurgent candidates declined to comment on whether
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Speaker 1: they would even vote or commit to vote for Jeffries
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Speaker 1: as a leader or even a speaker, And many of
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Speaker 1: them said, you know what, no, in general, we would
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Speaker 1: not do this. So this is again enraged Democrats. And
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go to another headline here, and I'm
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Speaker 1: going to read you this headline, and this is what
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Speaker 1: it says, quote enraged Democratic candidates turn on their own leaders.
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Speaker 2: When I tell you this, in all how civil war
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Speaker 2: it is.
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Speaker 1: Democratic congressional candidates nationwide, feeding off voter fury, are raging
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Speaker 1: against their leadership and vowing to be ruthless. Quote I'm
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Speaker 1: not a When they go low, we go high person.
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Speaker 1: I'm not that kind of girl. That is what Texas
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Speaker 1: State Representative Jones, who's running in a November special election
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Speaker 1: for a safely Democratic US House seat, said to Axios
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Speaker 1: dealing with Republicans, saying, quote, if they go low, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to the gutter. So that is now the mantra
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Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party. Axios interviewed dozen of Democratic congressional candidates,
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Speaker 1: some challenging longtime Democrat incumbents and others running in open
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Speaker 1: primaries in blue or purple seats. What was consistent across
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Speaker 1: many of those interviews, Axio says, was a notion that
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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party establishment has not been met or has
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Speaker 1: not met, I should say, the moment since President Trump
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Speaker 1: re entered the White House in January. So they're saying
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Speaker 1: you got to be even more extreme to go up
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Speaker 1: against Trump. And this echoes, by the way, what Democratic
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Speaker 1: elective officials have heard for their constituents, particularly in their
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Speaker 1: liberal grass roots, for the last nine months. It also
17:36
Speaker 1: signles a massive headache for Democratic leadership, which may have
17:40
Speaker 1: to grapple with its own version of the Tea Party
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Speaker 1: wave and retavoc on the GOP leadership back in the day.
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Speaker 1: So here's what you got to know. They left the
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Speaker 1: radical left, the socialist left of the Democratic Party says, Look,
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Speaker 1: this is what the American people want.
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Speaker 2: They want to be.
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Speaker 1: Part of a movement that fights back, they say, for
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Speaker 1: their rights. That's what a former Houston City councilwoman Aman Edwards,
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Speaker 1: another leading Canada the Texas special election set Then you
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Speaker 1: got Donald Trump.
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Speaker 2: What do they say about Trump?
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Speaker 1: She said, quote Trump is willing to go as far
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Speaker 1: as he can possibly go and has no limitations. At
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Speaker 1: what point are we going to be in a position
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Speaker 1: where we are ready to fight back and have a strategy.
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Speaker 1: So she's demanding massive change within the Democratic Party. Now
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Speaker 1: there's also a prominent progressive influencer running in Illinois told
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Speaker 1: Axios his name is Kat. You need to show the
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Speaker 1: people that you're angry, and not just that you're angry,
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Speaker 1: that you're going to do something about it.
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Speaker 2: We're on the.
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Speaker 1: Brink of a authoritarian coup, is what a former tech
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Speaker 1: entrepreneur in Progressive Operative challenging former Speaker in Nancy Pelosi
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Speaker 1: had to say. A week before Pelosi said I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to war run for re election, she said people
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Speaker 1: want to see legislators actually showing up at these courthouses
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Speaker 1: and confronting Ice, something she says Nancy Pelosi didn't do.
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Speaker 1: And now we know Nancy Pelosi is not going to
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Speaker 1: run for re election. Now dozens of Democratic candidates for
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Speaker 1: the US House are refusing to commit or outright declining
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Speaker 1: to vote for House Minority Leader at Keem Jeffries, a
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Speaker 1: speaker or leader.
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Speaker 2: That is again the newest report that's coming out.
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Speaker 1: Democratic leadership has to take a much stronger stand against
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Speaker 1: the Trump administration. Is what the Evanstound Mayor Daniel Biss,
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Speaker 1: another one of the leading candidates in one of those races,
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Speaker 1: said as well. This added, we can't be afraid to
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Speaker 1: use our leverage to fight back, and we have to
19:33
Speaker 1: speak out clearly and forcefully about the damaged Trump is
19:36
Speaker 1: doing to our communities. People are angry, they're frustrated, and
19:40
Speaker 1: they're deeply dismayed by what they're seeing, of course by
19:43
Speaker 1: the Trump administration, but honestly, a lot of it is
19:45
Speaker 1: profound disappointment with the Democrats. That is what an attorney
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Speaker 1: by the name of Patrick Roth, a primary challenger to
19:53
Speaker 1: Representative Stephen Lynch, a Democrat mass Chuseus, said in another interview.
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Speaker 1: So if you look away for just moment and you
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Speaker 1: zoom out from these local races, here's what the takeaway is.
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Speaker 1: Number One, many of the leading Democratic candidates and key
20:08
Speaker 1: battleground primaries are Jeffrey loyalists or recruits. It may take
20:13
Speaker 1: only a handful of renegades to frustrate the leadership if
20:17
Speaker 1: he wins a small majority next year. The nearly dozen
20:20
Speaker 1: House Democratics that are retiring or seeking higher off as
20:24
Speaker 1: this cycle have left a slew of crowded Democratic primaries
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Speaker 1: in their wake that leadership are going to have virtually
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Speaker 1: no control over trying to control the situation, right, They
20:35
Speaker 1: would love to hand pick people that ain't gonna happen now.
20:38
Speaker 1: That is in addition to the ten older House Democrats
20:43
Speaker 1: who are facing well funded primary challengers as well. And
20:48
Speaker 1: this is another way that Jones, the House Ken in
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Speaker 1: Texas said it this way quote, I just think that
20:54
Speaker 1: the days of following a playbook are over. There's no
20:57
Speaker 1: way I'm following rules when other people aren't. If you
21:01
Speaker 1: grew up in the hood like me, that's the fastest
21:05
Speaker 1: way literally to be killed. My brother was murdered, my
21:07
Speaker 1: aunt was murdered, my cousin was murdered. My dad blew
21:10
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21:21
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21:25
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21:27
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24:01
Speaker 1: President Trump going on offense, reminding the American people of
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Speaker 1: what America looked like before he became president the second time,
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Speaker 1: and also reminding you what Democrats want to do this
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Speaker 1: country economically, and reminding you about what all has already
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Speaker 1: been accomplished.
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Speaker 2: In the last nine months.
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Speaker 1: As the President described it, we're making big progress on prices,
24:24
Speaker 1: and we'll keep working to make sure everyone benefits. The
24:28
Speaker 1: President making it clear at a summit revolving around McDonald's
24:33
Speaker 1: where one in eight Americans have actually worked that Donald
24:36
Speaker 1: Trump not only inherited an economic mass when he took office,
24:39
Speaker 1: but that was because of years of mismanagement under Joe Biden,
24:43
Speaker 1: his incompetent administration, and Democrats in Congress who also spent
24:48
Speaker 1: years insisting and lying to you claiming that inflation was
24:53
Speaker 1: quote transitory, and then they decided to go out trillions
24:58
Speaker 1: and new spinning and dramatic upscale our government side. This
25:03
Speaker 1: brought the country to the brink of economic ruin, which
25:07
Speaker 1: is mainly why Donald Trump was elected. Now, since day one,
25:11
Speaker 1: the Trump administration has been on a mission to tame
25:14
Speaker 1: Biden's inflation crisis, stop the sky high Biden price increases,
25:20
Speaker 1: and lower costs for everyday families. While it can't happen overnight,
25:24
Speaker 1: the White House says, there is clear evidence that shows
25:28
Speaker 1: the trend is in the right direction.
25:30
Speaker 2: Now.
25:30
Speaker 1: President Trump had to tame Biden's inflation and under Biden,
25:35
Speaker 1: inflation average nearly five percent and hitting nine point one
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Speaker 1: percent during the worst inflation crisis in decades, all of
25:44
Speaker 1: it fueled by radical left, out of control government spending.
25:48
Speaker 1: In President Trump's second term, inflation has dropped to an
25:52
Speaker 1: average of just two point seven percent, significantly lower than
25:57
Speaker 1: the four year average of five percent under Biden, in
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Speaker 1: nine point one percent of it's all time high, the
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Speaker 1: critical first step in reversing the Democrats' cost of living disaster.
26:08
Speaker 1: In fact, under President Trump, Americans have even seen the
26:11
Speaker 1: first overall price declines since twenty twenty in several different categories. Now,
26:19
Speaker 1: Americans have made real wage gains as well, and there's
26:22
Speaker 1: still work to do, the White House says as well,
26:25
Speaker 1: but let's remind you about where we were. Under Biden,
26:28
Speaker 1: workers lost more than two thousand, nine hundred dollars in
26:32
Speaker 1: purchasing power, meaning inflation rose faster than wages. In President
26:38
Speaker 1: Trump's second term, even after accounting for higher prices, America's
26:42
Speaker 1: real wages have grown by nearly seven hundred dollars and
26:46
Speaker 1: are on track to increase by nearly one thy two
26:48
Speaker 1: hundred after his first full year in office. And then
26:53
Speaker 1: there's the major prices that we deal with every day.
26:56
Speaker 1: Gas price is a great example. Under Biden, the average
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Speaker 1: gas price was the highest it had ever been during
27:04
Speaker 1: a presidential term, reaching its highest ever price even after
27:09
Speaker 1: he drained our strategic oil reserves to artificially decrease pricing
27:14
Speaker 1: before election day and President Trump's second term, Americans have
27:18
Speaker 1: seen the lowest average gas price in more than four years,
27:22
Speaker 1: and we're on track to spend the lowest amount of
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Speaker 1: their disposable income on gas in the last two decades.
27:28
Speaker 1: As President Trump's energy dominance vision continues to come to
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Speaker 1: fruition energy prices, they say we'll fall even further, igniting
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Speaker 1: another price decline that will help all Americans. Now, if
27:42
Speaker 1: you're not happy with the price of the pump, let's
27:45
Speaker 1: talk about Grocery prices and housing prices are trending also
27:49
Speaker 1: in the right directions for American workers. Prices for everyday
27:53
Speaker 1: staples are starting to see declines finally under Donald Trump.
27:58
Speaker 1: Prices for eggs, ice cream, fresh fruit, cereal, fish, seafood, rice, pasta,
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Speaker 1: and ham have all seen declines, and more help is
28:11
Speaker 1: on the way. Housing costs are also moderating under Biden.
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Speaker 1: Mortgage rates at their highest in decades. In President Trump's
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Speaker 1: second term, the average thirty year fixed rate mortgage was
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Speaker 1: six point one seven percent at the end of October,
28:27
Speaker 1: twelve percent lower than when he took office that according
28:31
Speaker 1: to the Consumer Price Index. In fact, the twelve months
28:34
Speaker 1: change in overall shelter costs is at its lowest level
28:39
Speaker 1: in four years as well. Now there are other efforts
28:43
Speaker 1: to continue driving prices down. The President talked about it tonight,
28:47
Speaker 1: ramping up take home pay and strengthening our economy. President
28:51
Speaker 1: Trump's deregulatory efforts are also saving Americans a collective one
28:55
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty billion. What does that mean for you?
28:58
Speaker 1: Two thousand and one undred dollars per family of four?
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Speaker 1: For example, President Trump halted Burdens and Biden air efficiency
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Speaker 1: standards that jacked up the price of everyday appliances. And
29:11
Speaker 1: President Trump signed into law the largest tax cut in
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Speaker 1: American history. This includes no tax on tips, no tax
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Speaker 1: on overtime, and no tax on Social Security, all of
29:24
Speaker 1: which will save Americans money in their tax returns. The
29:28
Speaker 1: landmark legislation will raise America's take home pay by as
29:33
Speaker 1: much as thirteen thousand, three hundred and wages by as
29:37
Speaker 1: much as eleven thousand, six hundred. So the President decided
29:41
Speaker 1: to take the stage to talk about exactly where we are.
29:45
Speaker 1: And I want you to hear what the President had
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Speaker 1: to say.
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Speaker 11: While Democrats wanted to give Americans the largest tax syke
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Speaker 11: in history, in July, I proudbly gave you the largest
29:55
Speaker 11: tax cuts in American history and signed the one big
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Speaker 11: beautiful bill.
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Speaker 8: I caught the great, big utiful built into.
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Speaker 11: Law that includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime,
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Speaker 11: and no tax on Social Security for our great seniors.
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Speaker 8: That is a big deal.
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Speaker 1: It's amazing what the President's accomplished already this year. But
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Speaker 1: the President says I'm not done there, and made a
30:19
Speaker 1: pledge to the American families, no matter if you're rich
30:22
Speaker 1: or poor, conservative or liberal, black or white, or anything
30:25
Speaker 1: else in between. Here's what the present pledged to you.
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Speaker 11: In my first term, we built the greatest economy in
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Speaker 11: the history of the world.
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Speaker 8: And now we're doing it again.
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Speaker 11: But this time it really is, as I said, much stronger,
30:39
Speaker 11: much better. I think it's going to be something that
30:43
Speaker 11: nobody has ever seen before. My pledge to every family
30:46
Speaker 11: and every small businesses that I will not rest until
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Speaker 11: you are rich or stronger, more successful, happier, till you've
30:54
Speaker 11: gotten a piece of the American dream. Some of you
30:56
Speaker 11: in this room have really gotten a piece of it
30:59
Speaker 11: because you made a great decision to go with a great,
31:01
Speaker 11: great company years ago. And it's really pretty amazing. And
31:06
Speaker 11: that begins with making America.
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Speaker 8: We have to do.
31:09
Speaker 11: The word is affordable, and affordable should be our word,
31:13
Speaker 11: not theirs, because the Democrats got up and took affordability,
31:17
Speaker 11: afford and they don't say that they had the worst
31:19
Speaker 11: inflation in history, the highest energy prices in history.
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Speaker 8: Everything was the worst.
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Speaker 1: President Trump is bringing jobs and investments back to the
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Speaker 1: US as part of his plan to expand America's economy
31:33
Speaker 1: and facts. Since President Trump took office, companies have invested trillions,
31:37
Speaker 1: I want to say that word again, trillions of dollars
31:40
Speaker 1: into their US based operations, on shoring and creating hundreds
31:45
Speaker 1: of thousands of new jobs for Americans. President Trump is
31:49
Speaker 1: also reducing the deficit. A combination of spending cuts, interest savings,
31:55
Speaker 1: economic growth, and tariff revenues are expected to reduce the
32:00
Speaker 1: deficit by trillions of dollars, resulting in higher take on
32:05
Speaker 1: pay lower interest rates in a much stronger American economy.
32:09
Speaker 1: In fact, one point nine million more American born workers
32:13
Speaker 1: are employed today than when President Trump took office. That's
32:18
Speaker 1: one point nine million Americans who are now happily at
32:22
Speaker 1: work with a job right now. The US has more
32:25
Speaker 1: people working now than at any time in the history
32:29
Speaker 1: of our country. And the Trump administration, he says, will
32:33
Speaker 1: not rest until the high prices that resulted from democratic
32:37
Speaker 1: policies are fully rained in. He said, We're making progress,
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Speaker 1: and the best, he says, is yet to come.
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Speaker 8: We're making tremendous progress.
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Speaker 11: One point nine million more American born workers are employed
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Speaker 11: today than when I took off. To think of that,
32:55
Speaker 11: one point nine million more today, and these are American
32:59
Speaker 11: born workers. Nobody thought that was possible. And we have
33:03
Speaker 11: the strongest borders in the history of our country. Nobody
33:06
Speaker 11: comes in unless they come in legally. You see the numbers.
33:09
Speaker 11: Everyone thinks it's impossible a year ago, millions of people
33:13
Speaker 11: with storming our borders. Today they only come in if
33:16
Speaker 11: they come in legally, and wages for hourly workers arising
33:20
Speaker 11: at the fastest pace in sixty years now.
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Speaker 1: The President also made it clear that there's a lot
33:26
Speaker 1: when it comes to trade deals. We're seeing trade deals
33:29
Speaker 1: with Switzerland that have just been announced, and we're modifying
33:31
Speaker 1: tariffs for certain agricultural products. In fact, on Friday, President
33:36
Speaker 1: Trump signed an executive order exempting certain qualifying agricultural products
33:41
Speaker 1: from the reciprocal tariffs that he first announced on April.
33:44
Speaker 1: The second exemptions are accordingly set to be granted following
33:49
Speaker 1: a spat of new trade deals being inked with some
33:52
Speaker 1: of our biggest allies in the Western Hemisphere, in addition
33:55
Speaker 1: to deals that President Trump has already secured with the EU, Japan,
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Speaker 1: the UK, and other major trading partners.
34:03
Speaker 2: What will this do well.
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Speaker 1: It will give substantial progress in making sure that American
34:09
Speaker 1: workers are able to export at the same level that
34:12
Speaker 1: we're importing. And Donald Trump also made it clear that
34:16
Speaker 1: there are major investments coming into this country and the
34:20
Speaker 1: tariff money is being used to help American workers, something
34:24
Speaker 1: that the left and the media said was impossible.
34:27
Speaker 2: Take a listen about that.
34:29
Speaker 11: And to your leader, who when we met, I said,
34:33
Speaker 11: how are you doing with racist prices are coming down?
34:35
Speaker 11: He said, we were up forty percent because of Biden
34:38
Speaker 11: and inflation, and they're coming down, and they're coming down rapidly.
34:41
Speaker 11: So I hope that all continues to go. But we're
34:45
Speaker 11: really doing well as the country. Most importantly, however, I
34:48
Speaker 11: will take big picture. We have over seventeen trillion dollars
34:53
Speaker 11: being invested in our country in nine months. It's now
34:56
Speaker 11: just about ready to crack eighteen. And by the end
34:59
Speaker 11: of one year, we will have about twenty to twenty
35:03
Speaker 11: one trillion dollars invested in our country. That's more by
35:07
Speaker 11: ten times, the highest amount ever invested in any country
35:12
Speaker 11: ever before. And it's largely because of tariffs, and I
35:17
Speaker 11: think November fifth election, but it's the largest amount. As
35:20
Speaker 11: an example, so if we have twenty or twenty one
35:23
Speaker 11: in one year, twenty one trillion, think of.
35:25
Speaker 8: What that is.
35:27
Speaker 11: That's car factories, that's AI, it's everything. They're all coming
35:31
Speaker 11: back because of the tariffs. They're all coming back because
35:34
Speaker 11: they don't want to pay fifteen twenty thirty one hundred
35:37
Speaker 11: percent tariff. It wasn't that complicated. People are saying, you know,
35:40
Speaker 11: Trump was right. It really wasn't that complicated. But it's
35:44
Speaker 11: been amazing. As an example, if you take me at
35:46
Speaker 11: twenty for one year, sleepy Joe Biden, you know what,
35:50
Speaker 11: he was less than one for four years and if
35:54
Speaker 11: they got elected, they would have been at minus ten
35:57
Speaker 11: because people were moving out of the country in record numbers.
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36:15
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36:19
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36:21
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36:25
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36:28
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36:32
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