Ep. 206 - Rep. Cheri Bustos

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Illinois Congresswoman Cheri Bustos joins David to talk about representing a district that voted for Trump, how Democrats can reach out to rural white voters, why pushing for impeachment is a mistake, the state of Democratic leadership, and much more.

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0:00.0	And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your
0:12.5	host, David Axelrod.
0:16.2	Political anthropologists are busy analyzing the Trump communities and how Democrats can
0:25.4	make inroads there.
0:27.5	Well, Sherry Bustos thinks she knows the answer because she won by 20 points in her
0:33.6	race for Congress in 2016 in a rural Illinois district that Donald Trump carried by three
0:41.8	points.
0:42.8	I sat down with her last week to talk about that, the State of the Democratic Party, and
0:50.2	what she thinks may happen in 2018.
0:56.4	Sherry Bustos, so good to see you on a cold winter day here in Chicago.
1:04.0	It is cold.
1:05.0	Thank you for crossing the frozen tundra of Illinois to be here this morning.
1:10.7	You know, when I sat down with people, they all have different pathways to whatever they're
1:20.2	doing.
1:21.2	Usually it's politics, not always.
1:24.0	But yours was pretty clear in that you were surrounded by politics and journalism all
1:31.4	your life.
1:32.4	I was.
1:33.4	Tell me about that.
1:35.6	So we can go back to Gash.
1:38.5	I was a three-year-old girl, a little girl, living in a place called Garden Courts, which
1:47.9	is I think is public housing now on the East Side of Springfield.
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