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Welcome, Congressman Rokana.

Thank you for joining us. We appreciate it.

Always great to be on. Thank you.

So let's start super basic and broad and simple.

Why in your estimation did Connolly Harris lose the election?

We didn't have a vision of radical economic change, or sweeping economic change. I'd say it's rigged

capitalism and we need progressive capitalism. Call it whatever you want. But the reality is for

the past 50 years, not just working people, but probably 60 to 70% of Americans feel like

the economy hasn't worked for them. Corporations are either off-doring jobs or laying people off

or making hours longer. Wages aren't going up and places are being hollowed out. And we didn't speak a to that frustration

and then offer a sweeping vision of change of addressing that. And that to me is the fundamental

challenge for the Democratic Party. People say like what does the Democratic Party stand for?

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