This Dem Fires Back Against Corrupt Opponent; Michael Blake is Trump's Worst Nightmare
IHIP News
Jennifer Welch & Angie Sullivan
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🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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We are joined by Michael Blake who is running for Congress to bring back politicians for the people and not PACs.
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| 0:50.2 | All right, progressives are now in a position where they are ready to primary establishment Democrats. |
| 0:55.7 | And in my opinion, this is the most important thing happening election-wise. And here with us today, |
| 1:02.8 | we have Michael Blake for Congress who is running to unseat Richie Torres in New York. Michael Blake, how are you? Well, I'm fantastic. I'm with y'all. So like, I'm already, vibes are good. |
| 1:09.3 | We know what time it is. We're feeling incredible right now. How |
| 1:12.3 | y'all doing? We're great. I'm very interested in watching your race. I thought you said |
| 1:19.1 | excited. You're going to say excited or interested? Oh, I'm excited. And I'm also very interested |
| 1:24.1 | in keeping an eye on your race because Richie Torres is very beholden |
| 1:32.2 | to A-PAC. |
| 1:33.8 | And I watched a really rather awkward exchange with him on a podcast. |
| 1:38.7 | I think the guy's last name is Friedman, but he's talking about Israel. |
| 1:43.9 | And it seems like he is so in the trance, in the |
| 1:47.6 | APEC trance, that he's completely forgotten his constituents. Yeah. Look, when you think about |
| 1:54.3 | that interview, what Adam Friedland, we saw pretty clearly that there was not a focus on what's |
| 1:59.6 | going on in the district. And that's the |
| 2:02.2 | primary reason why I'm running because New York 15, poorest district in the country, most |
| 2:08.3 | diverse district in the country. And you have someone, Richie Torres, who does not have a bill |
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