How Democrats Are Feeling Right Now
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 25 December 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What is the mood amongst your fellow Democrats right now? |
| 0:06.0 | Well, it's one of introspection to see what we need to do in terms of connecting |
| 0:16.0 | with rural communities, with deindustrialized towns, factory towns, communities of color, working class |
| 0:24.1 | voters to build trust. But it's also one of resolve a result, a sense that we can win back |
| 0:35.7 | in 2026, win back in 28, stand up to the president when he engages |
| 0:42.0 | in actions that are extreme and betray the people who voted for him. |
| 0:50.5 | Do you feel like that there's a plan or a plan coming together inside the house |
| 0:58.4 | where there is a vision to be able to block, to pick up a couple vulnerable Republican members |
| 1:09.5 | to help you block Trump from doing his worst, including |
| 1:15.6 | perhaps even voting to restrict funding to some of Trump's more abusive policies. |
| 1:23.6 | Has anybody sat down so far and with you in the room, and I would hope you would be one of the people in the room, and said, we're not going to talk about what happened in the election. |
| 1:37.1 | We're not going to talk about why we're sitting in the minority by two seats. |
| 1:43.3 | We're going to have a conversation about what the |
| 1:45.4 | plan is going to be come to noon hour on January 20th to be upfront in opposition to the abuses |
| 1:56.2 | that we know are coming down the highway. Is that going on? |
| 2:01.4 | It is. |
| 2:01.8 | I just was chatting with Jamie Raskin this morning in the House Democratic Focus. |
| 2:05.9 | And he was talking about how do we focus our attention on the most egregious abuses? |
| 2:14.1 | And we are having those conversations with the ranking members on our committees. |
| 2:18.3 | In fact, this morning we were electing ranking members to, so that every day on the House floor in House committees, |
| 2:27.3 | Democrats are speaking out about what's going on and shining a light to it. |
| 2:33.3 | In some sense, we are the front lines of letting people know what the Trump administration |
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