Speaker 1: And now for a moment of clarity.
Speaker 2: It's not only that he has gone up completely back
on his promise to lower costs, to not start a
new war, but it is this attitude of my family
is making billions, We're busy building ballrooms. But you, you
who can afford groceries, who's seen the price per gallon
go up over a dollar thirty, who is struggling already
to meet and pay their electric bills and find housing,
you can afford? You just now, after Grin and Barrett
and all of this started by taking away people's fundamental
health care in order to give tax breaks to the
billionaire class, layer on tariffs, and we have a mess
and true despair for American families. We know that eighty
four percent of families are giving up something. Just like
the person in the video clips said, you can't have
it all. I can't fill up my tank and put
food on the table for my family. These are the
choices that Americans are making. And Donald Trump and his
supporters in Congress are completely deaf to the cries for
help that we are hearing.
Speaker 1: So, Congressman, what I find somewhat ironic at this moment,
given our conversation tonight is that there are a lot
of Republicans who agree with you. I think we have
found an actual bipartisan moment in Washington and around the
country in which Republicans agree that the economy is a
problem for this administration and for them. I give you
one former House Speaker, Nuke Ingridge, who noted if the
election were in May, Republicans would lose. Said Newke Gingridge,
the Republican former House speaker who urged his party's leaders
to quote get reality, get reality a little better, and
get communications a hell of a lot better to challenge
their majorities. This fall, the war, the sense of affordability
and gas lines, some of that has to be cleared
up in order to win. Mister Gingrid said, if it
doesn't change, I'll start tearing out my hair. Brother, welcome
to the party, because we've been doing that for a
while over here, and it just speaks to the moment.
But here's where I there's where I kind of rub
up against some of this and scratch a little bit
of hair I have left because folks like new Gangridge
are part of the problem here. They helped create this
landscape that we find ourselves in. When the President leveled
up tariffs. Now, Gingridge is not a tariff republican, never
has been. New Gingridge is not an an anti NATO republican,
never has been. Newke Ingridge is not a Yeah, he
wants border security, but he's not about putting kids in
cages and separating families. Never has been. But when you
stay silent and allow these things to transpire the way
they have, you can't now come back and go, oh,
you know, the war, the sense of affordability and gasoline.
You've got to get a grip on that. I mean, So,
how them do Democrats kind of lean into that messaging?
Because the visuals are already being given to you, the
images of Donald Trump with the ballroom and his little
model of his little arc, the Trump that he wants
to put up. And meanwhile, you juxtapose that against the
price of gasoline going from two dollars and ninety cents
to four dollars seven dollars in other parts of the country.
How do you see that, Madam whip in as part
of the fall strategy, particularly given what we've seen the
Supreme Court do and the obstacles that the Republicans are
already going to be putting up in front of you. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Our message is very clear to Americans at home, to
American voters, we see you, and you deserve better than
you're getting. You deserve to have a lower cost of
living so that you can afford housing, groceries, and to
pay your electric bills. You deserve healthcare where and when
you need it. And you deserve a government that is
working for you, not one that is working for self
enrichment like we are seeing from the President of the
United States.
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