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PREVIEW: Cenk Uygur

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Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4645 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, contributing editor Eli Massey speaks to Cenk Uygur, creator and host of The Young Turks, who is running as a Democrat in the 2020 primary for California's 25th congressional district. Cenk explains why he's running, his positions on everything from the Green New Deal to immigration to free speech, as well as giving his response to some criticisms of his past actions. You can read more about Cenk's campaign at cenk2020.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Republicans are monsters and they hate women.

0:02.7

They hate women's freedom.

0:04.5

They love big government.

0:06.0

A government's so big it's in your fallopian tubes.

0:09.4

And I would embarrass and humiliate them and make sure that you cannot do that to any American on our watch.

0:18.8

And so this is part of why I get so frustrated with the establishment

0:21.5

Democrats. They got no fight in them. I mean, what are you doing? What an unbelievably terrible

0:27.4

bill to propose and at the national level, sound of silence. I know my opponent. She's establishment

0:33.6

through and through. She's going to follow orders from Nancy Pelosi. She's not going to make any

0:37.2

of those speeches. She's not, she wants to reach out to Republicans. Are you kidding me? This is the totally wrongheaded ideology of corporate Democrats that, oh my God, in a purple district, we have to appease Republicans. No, no, your job as a Democrat is to defeat

0:55.5

Republicans, especially when they do things like this to take away women's freedom and to try

1:02.0

to control their bodies. But it's true on every issue. The question isn't what gender or ethnicity,

1:08.6

et cetera, you are. That's important because it could potentially bring a really important perspective to Congress.

1:16.3

But if you're not bringing that perspective and you're not fighting for that perspective, then it defeats the point.

1:21.2

The most important thing is to fight on those policy issues.

1:24.7

So you win for all those groups and you win for all of us.

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