Elizabeth Warren Talks to David Remnick About the Value of a Good Fight
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🗓️ 24 April 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
At a time when the Democratic Party is weak and divided, Senator Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts, has emerged as one of its heaviest hitters. In her new book, “This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class,” she describes her plan to regain some of the ground lost by the Party.
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| 1:12.2 | I'm Dorothy Wickenden. On today's Politics and More podcast, David Remneck talks to Senator Elizabeth Warren. |
| 1:19.1 | She sees the grassroots movements on the left as a sign of new life in the Democratic Party. |
| 1:26.7 | The Democratic Party, it's got to be said, is at its lowest point in generations, on the |
| 1:32.1 | state level, the national level in Congress, and it's all divided up into factions with |
| 1:37.4 | different points of view on how to rebuild. Certainly one of the strongest figures to |
| 1:41.8 | emerge in recent years somewhat admired throughout most of the party, is Elizabeth Warren. |
| 1:47.0 | As the senior senator from Massachusetts, holding Ted Kennedy's old seat, she's been pushing a progressive economic agenda for the future. |
| 1:55.2 | And she seemed to relish getting into it with Donald Trump on Twitter first when he was a candidate and now that he's president. Warren has written a book called This Fight is Our Fight, the Battle to Save America's |
| 2:06.5 | Middle Class, and I sat down with her earlier this week. Senator Warren, it's not quite a hundred |
| 2:12.2 | days. Not quite. Not quite, but we'll get there very, very soon. And I want to begin, of all |
| 2:17.4 | things with a statistic. Every one of the 493 wealthiest counties, mainly urban, voted for Hillary Clinton. The remaining 2,623 counties, largely small towns, suburbs, rural areas, voted for Donald Trump, which tells us what? |
| 2:37.0 | I think it tells us there's a lot of trouble out there in America and that America is |
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