Sen. Cortez Masto: I Want to Win Votes, Not Go Viral
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🗓️ 23 August 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Building a coffee business, serving the best Americano in town is up to you. But winning back time and growing your business, leave that to sum up. Take orders and payments anywhere with the new SumUp terminal. Turn occasional customers into regulars with a free loyalty program. And with the SumUp point of sale system, you'll always know when you're running low on your best selling blends. Visit sumup.com.com.uk to learn more. Hey guys, it's Lauren Egan here at the bulwark. And today I have Senator Catherine |
| 0:25.0 | Cortez Mastow with me. You have to tell me, is it Nevada or Nevada? I feel like I never get it |
| 0:31.1 | right. First of all, thank you for asking. It is Nevada. It's almost like the little ant, |
| 0:36.2 | the little bug ant. Remember the A is Nevada. And, you know, |
| 0:39.9 | as Nevadans, we are very proud. When when somebody says it wrong, we have to shout out and |
| 0:46.5 | tell them. You are the new chair of the moderate Democrats pack and you're from a swing state, |
| 0:53.4 | obviously. You've won multiple times |
| 0:57.2 | um and you've talked a lot about how Democrats need to drop purity tests and kind of like not engage |
| 1:02.7 | in stuff like defund the police um and I'm curious whether you feel like since the 20204 election |
| 1:10.3 | if there's been kind of a shift in the party, |
| 1:12.9 | whether or not you've heard from folks or kind of coming around more to your theory of politics, |
| 1:18.6 | particularly among the more like liberal part of your caucus. |
| 1:22.3 | Let me just say, Lauren, a couple of things. One, there's enough room for all of us. |
| 1:31.1 | And if we really are going to focus on and learn from the last election about what voters want, then we should be listening to them. |
| 1:36.4 | And what I am hearing in my swing state from all of my voters in my rural areas and urban areas |
| 1:42.0 | who are feeling this kind of chaos and certain anxiety, |
| 1:45.2 | is that they just want common sense policies. They want people focus on lowering their costs, |
| 1:50.0 | right, and keeping communities safe and making sure they can stay healthy. And if we're doing that |
| 1:56.1 | as Democrats and reaching out and talking to folks, then we are going to be able to win these |
| 2:02.8 | elections, but we've got to show up and we've got to have these conversations. It's not, it's not |
| 2:07.5 | really a difficult thing to understand. It's just it really is a matter of Democrats understanding |
| 2:13.7 | what voters want in swing states like mine, |
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