Cheri Bustos Reflects on Her Service

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🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Rep. Cheri Bustos is leaving Congress at the end of this term. What has she learned from her five terms in the House and—as the former leader of the House Democrats’ campaign arm—from the 2020 election? How can Democrats improve their prospects in the 2022 midterms? Sarah gets these answers and more in a candid conversation with the Illinois congresswoman. Show Notes: -Hope from the Heartland: How Democrats Can Better Serve the Midwest by Bringing Rural, Working Class Wisdom to Washington -How Dems Win in Trump Districts -The Sweep: “Tsunami or Ripple? What a Midterm Wave Might Look Like.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dispatch Podcast.
0:02.0	I'm your host, Sarah Isger.
0:03.6	And today we are talking to Congresswoman Sherry Bustos
0:07.1	of the Illinois 17th Congressional District.
0:10.5	Congresswoman Bustos known for being the head
0:13.9	of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
0:16.2	in 2020, also retiring from Congress after this year.
0:20.6	She will have spent 10 years in the House of Representatives,
0:23.6	a Democratic Congresswoman with lots to talk about
0:27.0	living in a Trump-1 congressional district.
0:30.5	What that means for our politics and how to fix Congress.
0:33.6	Let's dive right in.
0:48.9	Congresswoman, thank you so much for joining us.
0:51.7	I feel like I have a thousand different things
0:54.1	I want to talk about with you.
0:56.0	But let's start with 2020.
1:00.6	You were the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign
1:04.9	Committee, the D-Triple C. And Democrats were running
1:11.3	on an anti-Trump message.
1:12.8	It looked like it was going to go very well, especially when
1:15.8	you look back at what happened in 2018.
1:18.6	Democrats picked up a lot of seats.
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