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POLITICO's Off Message

Democrats Vow to Go After GOP Governors ‘Kowtowing’ to Trump

POLITICO's Off Message

POLITICO

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4.5637 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington and head of the Democratic Governors Association, wants gubernatorial races to become a battlefield for the anti-Trump resistance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Off Message. I'm Isaac Dover.

0:02.6

This guy exists because of his appeal to racism. Politically his...

0:07.2

Do you think he's a racist?

0:08.3

That's... I'll let other people use the words they want to use.

0:11.4

Anybody that formed their political existence by saying that Barack Obama was born in Kenya,

0:17.4

that is how he started his political career.

0:19.8

It is not a peripheral thing to me. It is a core of his political career. It is not a peripheral thing to me.

0:21.6

It is a core of his political efforts.

0:24.4

And he has continued to exhibit that.

0:26.5

And I'm just saying this, that people across the country have understood that,

0:30.8

and that divisiveness is not acceptable in suburbs or ex-herbs or rural areas across the country.

0:36.2

And that's one of the reasons we will do well

0:38.3

this year. Today's guest, Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington, and the chair of the Democratic

0:42.7

Governors Association, which oversees all the campaigns for the candidates for governor around

0:47.4

the country and does a whole lot of fundraising for them. You may have seen Inslee in the news a little

0:52.0

last week when he literally stood up to President

0:54.2

Trump at the White House, using an event from when he was in town for the National Governors

0:58.2

Association to make a point about how Trump should, quote, do a little less tweeting and a little

1:03.2

more listening to teachers and principals on what to do about school shootings.

1:07.3

Inslee told me he thinks Democrats should run on gun control, and he thinks that Democrats

1:10.8

should run on just about everything, on sticking it to Trump, moving away from the federal

1:16.3

government and doing things differently in the states. Though it's more on how he says the Republicans

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