Hi, I'm Isaac Dover, Chief Washington correspondent for Politico, and your new host for

Off Message, season two. Let me tell you a little bit about what we're going to be doing here

on season two. We're going to be talking with the people, some of them in office, some of them

behind the scenes, who are really driving what's happening in the White House, Congress, politics,

and government in these crazy times. We'll be doing it here in Washington and all around

the country too. And today we've got Brendan Boyle and Mark Visi, two Democratic congressmen.

You know what went wrong in the 2016 elections for Democrats is a long, long list.

But one thing that everybody agrees on is they lost touch with the working class,

blue collar. White working Americans is one way to put it, but it's not just white people.

We've got two congressmen, one from Philadelphia in the suburbs of Philadelphia named

Brendan Boyle, and another name Mark Visi, who's from Dallas and Texas, who have come

together to form a new group called the Blue Collar Caucus, not that inventive of a name, but

something that Democrats haven't had anywhere in the House to this point.

They've got 26 members, and they're bringing in people from all around

the country to talk to them and they're planning to go out around the country and help their party

understand just how much they have to learn if they hope to get back in touch with these people

for the sake of governing and for the sake of maybe doing better in 2018, 2020, and beyond.

We sat down with both of them at Bull Feathers, which is a famous bar right near Capitol Hill

over some beers.

And they talked about not just the work of the Blue Collar Caucus, but what it's like to be a

Democrat in the House when they are at a historic minority,

when they know that they are nowhere near getting the majority in the House,

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