From Red to Blue with Rep. Max Rose

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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🗓️ 25 June 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

After two years of a Donald Trump presidency, voters turned out in the 2018 midterms to deliver Democrats the House by a historic margin. That freshman class has its fair share of rabble-rousers who are using their platforms to shake up Congress from the left of the party. But those members of Congress aren’t the ones who won Democrats the majority – for that, you have to look at the candidates who flipped district after district on election night. That includes Rep. Max Rose (D-NY 11th), an exceptionally fascinating guy who won a historically conservative district. Frontline members like Rep. Rose are the cornerstone upon which this Democratic majority is built, and will therefore be crucial to maintaining that majority in 2020. So how is his approach different – and how is it being received by his constituents?

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0:00.0	We have to constantly push to Mitch McConnell, because this is an army I want at this point.
0:04.0	Yep.
0:04.5	Who's side of you on, Mitch?
0:06.3	You've got Senate seats that you have to hold on to.
0:08.1	You have to hold on to your own seat.
0:09.7	And I have for a fact that your own voters voted to make America great again, voted to drain
0:16.0	the swamp.
0:17.0	And we are pushing pieces of legislation right in front of you where you can accomplish that.
0:21.5	So who's side of you on, Mitch?
0:23.1	Because we're not going to allow for you to bank on our political ADD, to bank on this
0:29.8	sense that we are just going to claim victories by passing them in the house.
0:33.6	No, we have to constantly be pushing this to him.
0:37.4	Hello, and welcome to Why is this happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.
0:45.2	So there's about 40 freshman Democratic members of Congress in this Congress, elected in
0:51.2	2018.
0:52.8	And you probably know some of them by name.
0:56.1	In fact, one of them has just become like a household name, like a fashion brand or a pop
1:02.2	singer, AOC, which is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is the youngest woman ever elected to
1:06.4	Congress.
1:07.4	And I think there's a very good reason that she has gotten the attention she's gotten.
1:10.0	She pulled off this unbelievably improbable primary upset.
1:13.2	She came out of nowhere.
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