Kentucky, virginia, and other state races. The Christian Science monitor event also asked about the ongoing impeachment inquiry against president trump. Good morning. I am linda feldman, Washington Bureau chief of the Christian Science monitor. Tom perez,oday is chair of the Democratic National committee. Congratulations on last night. A bit of background. Chairman perez is from buffalo, new york. He earned his bachelor degree from Brown University and a law degree from harvard. He served a number of government positions, clerked for a federal judge, was a prosecutor for ted kennedy, worked in the office of civil rights for president clinton, and in 2002, became the first hispanic member of the Montgomery County council in maryland. He became secretary of labor. In 2009, president obama named mr. Perez head of the Civil Rights Division at the u. S. Department of justice. In 2015, president obama made him secretary of labor, and in 2017, mr. Perez was elected chairman of the Democratic National committee, which brings us to today. To the ground rules. We are on the record here. Please know live tweeting no live tweeting while the breakfast is underway. There is no embargo when the session ends at 12 00. Soon as the breakfast and if you would like to ask me a question, please send a signal and we will allow for that if time permits. And now mr. Perez has opening remarks. Tom perez thank you. It is an honor to be here with all of you. ,wo and a half years ago i ran forf 2017, chair of the dnc under the promise that we would Work Together with our partners in the democratic ecosystem to build a 50 state party so that we are competing everywhere, every year, in every zip code, and we are doing exactly that. And new017, virginia jersey, those elections taught us that democrats could win again. A month later, doug jones victory in alabama taught us we could win everywhere. 2017 was about scale. What can we do across the sky and across the country at scale . We now have nancy pelosi as speaker of the house, even against the headwinds of gerrymandering where we had to win races. The last time we flipped this many governor seats from red to 1982. As historic gains in state legislatures. Work continues into 2019. Meani say the ecosystem, i the ecosystem. Yesterdays victory was a victory for all democrats. It was a victory for our democratic values. I cannot say enough about the great work of all the partners in the ecosystem. The Democratic Governors Association powerhouse invested 5 million alone in kentucky not to mention other efforts they made. Made investments in mississippi as well. About say a bit mississippi. We invested in jim hood. We are investing next year again because we are in it for the long haul. That is what a 50 state party does. What i learned from last night we indeed can win everywhere. About thetable to me victory in kentucky is the similarities it has to our victories last year in wisconsin. One, it starts with candidate quality. In wisconsin, we had a spectacular candidate for governor. In kentucky, a spectacular candidate for governor, steve bashir. Andy beshear. Andy is the attorney general, as you know. His father built, when he was governor of kentucky, one of the most effective healthcare exchanges in the country, and when matt bevin got elected, he broke it. People saw that. You cannotlieve govern effectively if you have to hate everybody you disagree with. Thats what matt bevins, was. Thats what scott walkers, was. What you saw yesterday was a great candidate, a Great Organization competing everywhere. Eberts not, tony only did better in milwaukee and madison, but across the state. Wast a quarter of the gain in milwaukee and madison. The rest was all across the state. We competed everywhere and when we were competitive everywhere. Same thing in kentucky. It wasnt only louisville and lexington, although we ran up the score there. We did well in areas where bevin had done well four years ago. In coal country, we won a number of counties, competing in rural parts of the state. When you are in every zip code candidate and your message resonates everywhere because he was talking about health care, he was talking about basic pocketbook issues, that is how he succeeded. Another example, and i cannot say enough good things about the great work of the Democratic Legislative Committee , an important player in the ecosystem. At the beginning of this term, i spoke with jessica post, the remarkable leader of the dlc c. We talked about if we could flip roughly 4041 seats in the legislative chambers this cycle, we would flip those chambers. Thats on top of what we flipped in 2018. We were talking about the two chambers in virginia. Mission accomplished last night. In princee night William County. Prince William County embodies the challenges that donald trump and his politics of division are confronting in todays world. It is the quintessential suburb that democrats continue to win across the country, whether it is in virginia or pennsylvania in 2018 or elsewhere. Corey practiced the politics of division. Virginians overwhelmingly rejected the politics of division, and they now have a majority in prince William County. Have as at we Democratic Party. We believe diversity is our greatest strength. Mr. President , when you continually divide america, that is not only unamerican, it is terrible politics. Thats not who we are. The voters of virginia spoke up. A sikh american elected last night in prince William County. Thats what we are all about. We are competing everywhere. When i look at Youth Engagement , Youth Engagement when up Something Like 200 300 percent. Young people are responding. This is the third year in a row donald trump has been president. The common denominator in all of these has been democrats competing, winning, and leading with our values. Again, i am so appreciative of the partnership and the leadership of the dlc c. , we had ay last night new entity in the democratic ecosystem, the Democratic Data Exchange which was created earlier this year. The work done in kentucky last was the first battle test for the Democratic Data Exchange. Partner very important in the evergrowing democratic ecosystem, a partner that can enable everybody running for office to have more information. We were proud to be a partner in kentucky. Roughlyproud to invest 900,000 dollars in the coordinated campaign in addition thehe work we did with voter file partnership. The state party chair is one of the best in the country. You could not find a better beshear, andn andy when you lead with your values, you can win. There is nothing weak about kindness and compassion. Last night, and he said i will truly be looking out for you, as opposed to the president the night before who said you need to vote for matt bevin, otherwise, it embarrasses me. Elections are not about you. They are about the people we are trying to help. Thats why democrats are winning. We are focused on helping people across the country. , but i am sober about the task at hand. We are going to continue to compete early, everywhere, and together with our partners as we are now less than one year from the most important election in my lifetime. Thank you. I am sure we will have more questions. I want to ask you about the 2020 the still huge, diverse, potentially divisive president ial field. On the question of party unity, i know you have a unity pledge, you have also talked about an expanded unity pledge which is not just to have candidates serve as surrogates for the eventual nominee, but to have senior advisors work with the eventual nominee and also share data, which Bernie Sanders did not do in 2016. Tell us where that stands, your efforts to keep the party from flying apart as we get closer to the actual nomination. Mr. Perez our unity is our strength as a party and Donald Trumps nightmare. It helped us win last night and in 2018 and 2017. Every candidate running for president understands this is not about them. This is about democracy at a a criticalt inflection point. Thats why i asked every candidate to not only pledge to support the nominee but to actively campaign for the nominee, to have a surrogate, an ambassador if and when they leave the race. One thing we know is that if there are 20 some odd people running for president , all that one will not make it to the mountaintop, and every one of them has taken that pledge. If they are running as a democrat, they made a clear commitment to us. Absolute confidence that everyone will follow through on that. Primaries that doesnt mean we wont have a tough primary. Thats what primaries are for. Whoever emerges will be battle tested. Have they all signed the document for the expanded pledge, the sharing of data . We havent made them sign a document. They have made a commitment and i am confident we are moving forward together. People understand this is different. Health care is on the ballot. Womens reproductive rights are on the ballot. Immigration is on the ballot. An economy that works for everyone is on the ballot, all of those things are on the ballot. Our democracy as we know it is on the ballot the ballot, and everything will candidate understand this is bigger than them. We have to come together, we will come together, and over the last three years, we have come together in these races, and our unity has enabled us to win names up and down the ballot. Are you worried the democrats will nominate someone who is too leftwing for a gardenvariety of democrats and that unity pledge will not hold . Think the problem is that the Republican Party of lincoln is dead, and the real challenge is right now, the Republican Party is no off the rails to the far right. Virginia yesterday, a big reason we won that race is because there was a special session a few months ago to do with the issue of reducing gun violence in the aftermath of yet another horrific shooting. What happened in that special session . 90 minutes into it, republicans gaveled it down. 90 of the American People believe we ought to do something to reduce gun violence, and we can do so consistently with the Second Amendment. When you look at roe v. Wade, two thirds, 70 of the American People believe that roe v. Wade should be the law of the land and the republicans are trying to overturn it. Violence reduction, people with preexisting conditions, people think you have to have your coverage, and it is the republicans that are trying to take away coverage. I think the extreme party in america right now is the Republican Party, and that is why we have been winning elections, because independent and moderate voters and lincoln republicans have been voting for democrats. What happened in 2018. You saw suburban women across this country, you saw young people voting in abundance. We saw it again last night in virginia and elsewhere, and so i am very confident that whoever wins our nomination, their values are going to command the respect and support of the majority of the American People. One more from me, where you stand on the issue of a corporatefunded super pac helping the democrats retake the presidency . That is going to be up to candidates, you know . For the dnc . Money you are way behind the republicans in money. The Third Quarter of this year, to be clear, if you look at what the democratic the rnc and the Trump Campaign manager, it was 311 million dollars. The democratic ecosystem, especially in the small dollar space, is raising record numbers of money, record amounts of money. Had more new donors in 2019 than they did in 2017 and 2018 combined. Their biggest single hour of fundraising in the Third Quarter of this year was the second hour of our september debate. That tells me that people are excited by our candidates, they their smartphone , and they are investing in candidates. Donald trump you know, they raised more money than the dnc last year, more money than the dnc in 2006. We won at scale last year. They are morally bankrupt and that is the problem. They have to spend a lot of money on their Legal Defense fund, their legal bills are mounting. We have to raise enough money to out, to builde out the infrastructure of success, and that is what we are doing. Are you ok with the corporate funded super pac helping the dnc . A we do not have corporatefunded super pac helping the dnc, and we have been very clear that we do not take money from organizations that are inconsistent with our values. Clear ruleen a very of engagement for us at the dnc, and that will continue to be. And you are ok with biden backing down on his rejection it will be up to the each individual candidate, and the voters will accept that. Each candidate have to run a campaign they believe that is best for them. Paul from the Washington Examiner . The president backed away from his promises after recent shootings. Nationally it was not big but in your races, it was a big thing, especially in virginia around the nra. How do you see this issue playing out in 2020 and would it be safe to say that the nra is surrounded by proguncontrol counties and legislators . Reducing gunof violence is an issue of national importance. This president has broken his promises repeatedly to the American People. He said of the day after a shooting yeah, weve got to do something about background checks, and the following day he meets with the nra. Voters in virginia spoke and communicated very clearly about this. Of nra members believe that we can have common sense Gun Violence Reduction measures and Second Amendment freedoms. Is going to bes a really important issue of the American People. I applaud the young people not simply from parkland, but across the country. The mothers of the movement. We need to stop going to and we need to stop kowtowing to the nra. People have spoken. This is an example of so many issues where this president makes promises and breaks promises. He said, i am not going to mess with your health care, now he wants to do away with coverage for preexisting condition. Be aid there will never plant closure to workers in ohio, michigan, wisconsin and are now ina, and we a manufacturing recession, the worst for the Auto Industry is the great recession. Barack obama save the Auto Industry and the president continues to break his promise. Him to keep his promise . I think the answer is a resounding no. Good morning, jonathan. Big municipal victories last night. A year ago last month, the democrats came and ran at the congressional races, but you lost legislative seats in new jersey this year. What in 2020 is your concern that you cannot keep your gains . You undoubtedly know, we won a lot of very critical races in new jersey. Did we win 100 of the ones out there, no, but did we win a majority . Absolutely. Bill murphy is one of the most effective governors in the country and fighting for issues that new jersey voters care about, making sure that the new jersey economy works for everyone, making sure if you work a fulltime job, you can feed your family. I think new jersey is going to oftinue to be a great model how we succeed as democrats. They have built a remarkably effective, every zip code organization, and that is what enables them to win. Issues,n on these local but when you look at the aggregate data in new jersey, we did pretty darn well. You won five seats in trump districts in 2020. Oni am actually focused taking the remaining house seats in new jersey. I know if bill murphy were here, he would say, i want all the house seats. The remarkable candidates, whether it is andy kim or mikey others, one of the big lessons i learned from this cycle is8, and 2019 that candidate quality matters. Feel candidates like matt bevin. Known you had your hands full, but i wonder how you feel about the u. K. General election, where you have a very left candidates, and whether you think there might be Lessons Learned for the Democratic Party, if you two had a leftwing candidate. I wonder what your opinion is on Jeremy Corbyn as well. The will let the voters in u. K. s beat to what is going to happen there. Ive am not going to do a donald thumbdid and put my on the scale of the election. They have been in a quicksand of deadlock since brexit past, and Boris Johnson it knowledge that a lot of his promises about brexit were not accurate. That is the challenge they confront. I am very confident about our candidates here because again, i tonk it is really important analyze what the American People are concerned about. They want a leader that is going to look out for them. What the tax bill that the republicans passed and the ukraine scandal have in common is they illustrate what this president of the north star is. The tax bill was all about helping himself and people like himself. Ukraine is all about himself. In northstar is what he sees the mirror every single morning, and the American People want a leader who is going to wake up every day looking out for them how am i going to keep my health care or get a better job . The Financial Times had a poll a few days ago that said, two thirds of the American People are not better off, feel like they are not better off off of donald trump. I understand why because they are not. Quex it would be a very Different Campaign for the ifocratic party to run sanders was the candidate compared to if it is joe biden or pete buttigieg. Winhat they have in common, you look at the polling, they are all defeating donald trump. I have confidence that whoever our nominee is is someone who is going to be fighting to ensure that you can keep your health a preexistinge condition, is going to fight to ensure we take on the pharmaceutical interest rate, that we take on the nra, that we make sure road versus wade roe v. Wade is the law of the land and we pass copperheads and immigration reform. We are a nation of laws and immigrants. That we at knowledge Climate Change and its accidental threat to america its existential threat to america. I think some of us in the media have a tendency to complete unity and unanimity. Im not saying the candidates agree on every detail of every issue, but the unity of values matches where the American People are. It is the Republican Party that is off the rails to the rights, and that is why we have been able to win back so many constituencies. John from newsmax, to your right. Two brief questions should donald trump be impeached or do you just want to defeat him next time . Second, you have a postscript on republicans, they are big talking points the big talking points this morning about ever electing the firstever black attorney kentucky, a proud from supporter, and a woman in the city, and in nra member. It brings no joy to me, speaker pelosi, it brings no joy to anyone. No one runs for office on a platform of, i want to impeach the president. I wants to help people. But when someone takes an oath, they take an oath to uphold and support the constitution of the united states. This is a straightforward abuse of power case. What we saw yesterday with the relief of ambassador sondland, that was a smoking gun, plain and simple. I spent over 10 years of my life as a prosecutor. If i had witnesses like ambassador taylor, ambassador ivanka that should ambassador yvanovic, these witnesses are unassailable on this president s effort to focus on the whistleblower in the classic distraction. The whistleblower has it knowledge that the whistleblower does not have firsthand knowledge. The folks whorom have firsthand knowledge and this was anted, abuse of power. You dont hold foreign aid hostage in order to get dirt, on athat is not exist, political opponent. The mountain of evidence grows, and what i am interested in knowing is what will republicans do . Will there be a howard baker moment like in watergate . It took him two years. But will it be someone who has the courage to step up . I am skeptical. I am skeptical. On every other issue, when kids were being held in cages, they did not step up. So many other moments charlottesville, they did not step up. The past actions do not exactly give me a lot of optimism that they will put country before party in the future. But time will tell, and i applaud the deliberate work being done by the committee and every time someone from the white house refuses to show up, that is just adding to potential articles of impeachment for corruption, for obstruction of justice. The postscript, your second question was about the election of the attorney general in kentucky. That is the same state that throughout matt bevin. If i would be trying to look for if i was the president , i would be trying to look for something he went to with matt bevin and rand paul by his side. He put his credibility on the most telling statement he made, you have to do this for me. President , it is not about you. You said you would not forget the people in coal country and you forgot them. They had one of the most effective healthcare exchanges in the country and matt bevin undermined it. That is what people remember. Being mean is not an effective longterm strategy, and that was matt bevins strategy. Good morning. So, texas. I wanted to ask you about the senate and the house race. At one point, you were involved totrying to encourage beto run for senate and maybe joaquin as well. We have a situation where there solid least four candidates that are in the race they are polling very, very long. 66 of primary voters do not even know who they are or who they will vote for. So i will ask you about how you see that and whether any of them what do you even think they could potentially i know he says no, but if it is possible that veto would cut that b eto would come back. And we have what is known as tex odus. I wanted to know what you think about that. Texas is a battleground. I do not know if you dont work will run it beto orourke will run. We did a debate in texas because we strongly believe that texas is a battleground. This president is underwater in texas. Poll i saw a month ago had the generic democrat ahead of the president in the general election by Something Like five points. That is why he was there. I think it is remarkable that this president has to spend time in states like texas. I think we can compete. I think one effect of last nights election, you will see more retirements. Not just in texas, but more retirements from republicans because they can see the handwriting on the wall. Donald trump wins the state by drag ats and he cant republican across the finish line in that state. Been a a republican swing or close to swing district, i am looking at myself in the mirror. I think we can win the senate race, i think we are competing in the president ial and equally importantly again, the dlc see is a really important partner of ours, we are competing in the state house of representatives because, i needed tobefore, we win 40, 41 seats in 10 chambers to flip those chambers, and we flipped two of them last night. We need about 37 seats in eight chambers. One of them is the texas austin representatives, where we need nine seats to flip that chamber. They have a remarkable party chair, and i look forward to continuing to work with him. Thead remarkable gains in last cycle and i think we can compete everywhere. Again, suburban virginia last night, you saw what happened there. The suburbs in 2018 in texas, you saw what happened there, harris county, fort bend county, democrats winning everywhere. Shot of taking over the house of representatives there, in addition to competing in the federal races. [inaudible] yes, our partners and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee already have a field office in texas, because they correctly believe and i could not agree with them more that there are six opportunities now, there might because texas up potentialkable opportunity. I will give you one more data points. 800 more latinos voted in 2018 in texas than in 2014. 800,000 more. 3. 5 million latinos were eligible to vote that did not vote. Andhly half for registered did not vote and roughly half were eligible to register and did not register. We are longterm invested. Again, that is a loss by a little over 200,000 votes. That number will be closer to 4 million. If you want to know why they engage on the republican side in Voter Suppression, they see the numbers. They cannot compete on the where africanamerican votes, latino votes, or asianamerican votes, so they try to make it harder for them to vote. That is why we are so invested. Not just we the dnc, but the democratic ecosystem and others in those communities. Could you go into more specifics about what exactly the dnc did, the money you put in, resources, things like that and how can we replicate it elsewhere . Sure. Ininvested roughly 900,000 the coordinated effort and invested in the party. Then self is a remarkable partner in that effort, the party chair. In addition, the voter file that file. Se is the dnc voter we spend a lot of time, our data people and they are data people, making sure that our data was as rich as possible. About 110 million cell phone numbers a year ago to give to all the state parties, toause if you want communicate with voters today, you have to meet the voters where they consume their news. Smartphones or the place where they are consuming their news. I also mentioned the Democratic Data Exchange, which was established earlier this year and it is chaired by governor dean, and it is a really critical addition to the Democratic Party ecosystem, because what the Data Exchange enables is the legal, realtime thesfer of data between independent expenditure side and the hard side. Radius to the establishment of this, you could not there was no vehicles so, in realtime, share information. Were running up to the election, the existence of that exchange enables everybody who kentucky,ed in whether it was us or the party or the bashir campaign or folks on the independent side, it enabled them to be smarter, to. Nderstand more about voters the Democratic Data Exchange is there have been previous efforts to establish an exchange of this nature and they did not succeed. We spent a lot of time working with all the stakeholders in the ecosystem to establish this, and what we intend to do in 2020 is scale it up. Learn lessons, plan, execute, reflect, reiterate, learn, and we will learn a lot of lessons from kentucky. Now, i know our immediate attention is on louisiana, because we have a Runoff Election there and we are going theontinue to work with dgn, with the Edwards Campaign and the Louisiana State party to ensure that we reelect john bel edwards. A twopart question. The first is devon highlighted thinkinge race about about if you commit. Do the results tell you that impeachment is bad politics for republicans . Bevin ran heavily on the aca and do youing medicaid, believe this is the message the democrats should carry in 2020, or are you equally confident that will pair can win . Singlepayer can win . Thanks to Lyndon Johnson with medicare and medicaid and barack obama with the Affordable Care act, we are well, we are 85 of the way or roughly up the mountain top. We are having a discussion about how we get to the front of the mountain. We have differences of opinion, and voters in the democratic primary are going to decide if health care is the number one issue. What do you think is the best pathway . Every democrat running for president wants to ensure that if you have a preexisting condition, you can keep your coverage. Pelosi and democrats in the house of pastor syria bells in the house to take on the pharmaceutical industry. The voters understood that steve bashir built one of the best healthcare exchanges in the united states. People were getting access to quality, Affordable Health care and matt bevin made it worse. The exactmp is doing same thing. On your impeachment question, they tried to nationalize the kentucky race. They were unsuccessful. They were unsuccessful because voters got to the polls and said , who is going to help me gato who has my back . Matt bevin had four years of a record, and it was a record that was abysmal. People could not trust him. We have a president at 1600 pennsylvania who is in the same boat. There have now been three 4017, 2018, 20 19, and each election has been a repudiation of trumpism. We have seen it, the politics that say no, you cannot have health care and the policies that say we are going to help me, donald trump, at the expense of everybody else. Today and every day leading up to the election next year with that same determination, to make sure we are focused on these Critical Issues. [inaudible] democrats can walk and chew gum. Constitutionala obligation to pursue this investigation. I think the American People look at the polling, the more people learn about this, this is a straightforward abuse of power case. President who ifeatened to take away they interfered in an election. He was inviting a foreign leader to interfere in a domestic election. A minimumamerican at and people can see through that, and people will also see that the democrats are doing their job constitutionally and doing allr job on health care and the other Critical Issues that people elected them for. Like torump, i would see him tweet about preexisting conditions. He does not because he is obsessed with tweeting about himself. When you started planning the 2020 debates, did you anticipate in november you would have 17 candidates still running, and what do you make of candidates who say the dnc is in some way picking winners and losers and putting those on a scale by raking the thresholds like you have . I was not sure how many people would be in the race. When we were planning the debate regimen, we didnt know there was going to be a historic field in terms of its size. We had some basic northstar principle fairness and transparency. Theanuary, we laid out rules of engagement before everyone was in the race. We laid out the threshold for the first debate, long before the first debate, we continued a grassroots fundraising threshold. The one thing we knew about the field is that there were going to be folks who are household names and there are going to be folks who are not household sure, but we want to make we give everyone a fair shake theyork with to ensure. One thing i applaud about cnn and others who do town halls, you did not just do the folks who were wellknown, you gave everyone an opportunity. This field has had more earned Media Opportunities than any field, i would argue, in american history. Because of that, the American People have got to kick the tires on our deep field. I am proud of our deep field. Andcloser you get to iowa New Hampshire and voting in every campaign, you raise the bar because candidates have to demonstrate they are getting traction. Question, iecond respectfully but strongly disagree with the notion that we have somehow been winnowing the field. We have been doing what you are doing in every cycle, where i started out in 1 in june or july. We went up to 2 in september, october. 3 in november, and december, there is no candidate that i am aware of on the democratic side who has been number 4 in or even had traction for a large part of the primary cycle. History andudy that make sure we have been exceedingly inclusive, because some days, frankly, i get a different question than what you ask me, which some days i get, you do not have enough people in the field. Some days, you have to many people in the field. Up for the voters and the candidates themselves. I am proud of what we have done, and it is indeed going to be up to the voters. Some candidates are up in the polls, some candidates are not. What we have done is create a fair and level Playing Field for them all to compete. You ran against one of the buttigieg, fore dnc chair. What did you learn about him in that race and do you think him losing to you with the best career decisions he has made . [laughter] question leave that for pete. He is incredibly talented. He is whip smart, a very whip smart,d very wellinformed and quick on his feet. I had the privilege of not getting to know just pete, but having gotten to know all the candidates. Coached basketball it is the 14th year in a row coaching at least one of my kids. I have never met a basketball coach who came to me and said tom, i have too much depth on my team. We have a remarkable amount of depth in this field, and the most important thing i think we can do is make sure we highlight that and leave it up to the voters to decide. That is exactly what is happening. I read your poll. When the candidates are asked about china, they criticize trumps approach on tariffs, but i have heard very few ideas about what they would do to tackle china and the trade issue. What should the democrats message on trade being going forward, not to the people who have made up their mind, but the people in the middle who have not decided an outcome . Our northstar is the worker. Northstar, look at trade. Donald trump walked into wisconsin eight weeks ago and said farmers are over the hump over the barrel. Wisconsin is the farm bankruptcy capital of america. The season, mostly in derry, were in one state, wisconsin. They had the audacity to go in and say, farmers are over the hump. Insult to injury, his agriculture secretary goes there and says oh, the big are going to get bigger and the little guys, you are out of luck. There is emerging not only a bankruptcy crisis, but an emerging suicide crisis among workers. This president has not put farmers first. The ethanol subsidy exemptions in iowa, he is putting big oil ahead of family farmers. Starting to see it. Another example of broken promises and what they want to ae in the trade policy is president who is truly putting them first. When you put them out of business, as he did with farmers in wisconsin and elsewhere, youre not putting them first. That is the reality of his trade policy, and he has to understand when you put tariffs on china and on canada as well, that is ludicrous. You need to work with our allies. We moral friends we need more friends in the world, not less friends. His policy by tweet but what should the democrats say they will do we need to put workers and family farmers first. The problem he does not understand is that a tariff is a shortterm measure to obtain a longterm solution. China is the problem. There is a that about it. They cheat there is no doubt about it. They cheat. If we want to create a Green Energy Economy in this country and build solar panels and Wind Turbines here, we have to deal with the fact that china dumps solar panels into the united states, making it hard to pay our workers a fair wage. We have to take on china, but his approach and policymaking by tweet, that is not how you get it done. The way you get it done is to engage allies in this. When you alienate your allies and you betray workers here, which he has done, and when a an end in itself, that is reflective of bad policymaking. Democrats understand that. I spent last week talking to voters about the governors race apathyre was a lot of several comments about voters and they are disgusted with his divisiveness, but there was also a lot of political apathy and comments around the same thing from the democratic side. They felt like both the republican and democratic candidate in the race were leading campaign with an unnecessary around of the tree word than other divisiveness. And i wondering when you think of 2020 and beyond, will the Democratic Party, is that the party that will fight fire with back to i think Michelle Obama won low, we go high. It seems like there are two. Ate at odds there two odds there. Something else i learned, i am not going to go to a knife fight with a spoon. At the same time, Michelle Obama said when they go hi my when they goat is low, we go vote. When they go lower, we make sure everyone who can is around us and eligible to vote. Look at the turnout in places like nevada and elsewhere. Look at the turnout yesterday, young voters in virginia, the is l of this president there is a trump city who has that hasump fatigue set in. We do not need a candidate that is going to match of divisiveness and vulgarity with more divisiveness and vulgarity. In wisconsin with tony ewers by contrasting vision of scott walker with the politics, inclusion, and optimism. We did that yesterday. Andy bashir, if you read what he said last night, he wants to take care of the least of kentuckians. He has a proven track record of doing that. What we are going to do moving into 2020 is again, when they go low, we go vote. The reason why there is so much Voter Suppression of their is in texas inow response to your question look at the remarkable opportunities with latino, africanamerican, Asian American voters. They cannot win on merits, though. They make it harder for their perceived vote to win. We will make the win by getting everyone out there, leaving clearly what our value is and not taking the bait. Distracting donald will create distraction. The distraction now is going to be socialism, and that is the oldest trick in the. When we enacted in the book. When we activated medicare and social security, what it all had in common, republicans called it socialism. I call those policies the anchor of our social contacts. At the end of the table, you are [inaudible] to make clear that you see immigration as an opportunity to best hit him on what you see as negative policies on immigration. Do you have any concern that some candidates, particularly on wouldre progressive side, go as a direction that is or andas too far, things like that . Our democratic nation believes firmly we can be a nation of immigrants and the nation of laws. That is what you will see from to make sure need we pass comprehensive immigration reform, that we do not demonize them, and what this president is doing on immigration is the quintessential divide communities against one another. You can only succeed if the over it fails. That has never been the case. Us you areid bring rich, we said bring us your tile and huddled masses, and so many people who came here with pennies in their pockets have become millionaires and job creators in this country. Forwell continue to fight an enforcement policy that is sensible, and we will continue to fight for immigration policies that are sensible. He is not only against undocumented immigrants, he is against immigration. Look at what he is doing with refugees and legal immigration. This is quintessentially american and it will make america a lot less competitive. Is why the values of the Democratic Party, i think, they command thees that respect and support from most of the American People. Another one from texas todd gillman of the Dallas Morning News the president last night boasted that before his rally in he had a massive impact and the increase in the ce was 15s ran points, maybe 20. Is that plausible . No. My instinct just says no. How critical about hispanics are in the 2020 race, but it is remarkable that the only hispanic candidate for president is going to get shut out of the next debate and probably one after that and is barely making a dent. How do you square those . Who or who isnow not going to make the debate stage. I do not know what is going to happen and i do not want to prejudge it. I have had the privilege of working with just about every candidate in this race, and the difference is between every single candidate running for president and this incoming president and the party of trump, on immigration why is hispanic not getting traction you look at latino voter turnout, in 2018, and it was increasing remarkably. I was in prince William County last night. Turnout isoter remarkable and increased substantially, and is one of the reasons why we flipped the county board of supervisors. I am proud of the fact that i am the first latino chair of the dnc, but i am also aware of the fact that you do not have to be latino to fight for latino issues, and the community understands the difference between people who are fighting to defy them and cannot even speak out when their brethren are in cages and every candidate who is fighting to build an America Opportunity for them. I think this campaign has been remarkable in its breadth, depth, and diversity. Candidates of caller are more numerous than other and have made more progress than ever, and they lay a groundwork, whether they succeed now, they lay a marker for future campaigns. That is why i am so proud of our field. Every single candidate is going to be running, to make sure that not just the latino community, but communities across this country have access to the american dream. Besam stein from the daily at . Herillary clinton mentioned fears that Tulsi Gabbard was being groomed by russians to be a thirdparty candidate. One, do you share those concerns . Two, have you talked to tell to gabbard about this or hillary clinton, for that matter . Three, generally speaking, how fearful are you of a thirdparty candidacy doing something akin to what jill stein did in 2016, which was siphoned off votes in critical states . We worked with every campaign, and she has told us and the American People, i am not running as a thirdparty candidate. We asked every candidate to take that pledge, the first or second question, and healthy took it enthusiastically. I invite you to look at posts she did on social media. Year, and that was , that is a , and she took an unequivocal pledge in that regard. Elsie gabbert and every single candidate running for president understands that it is not about them, but something much bigger, which is the strengthening and preservation of our democracy. Did you say you talked to her campaign after the clinton comments . We spoke to every Campaign Last week regarding the pledge and every campaign took that pledge and took it with enthusiasm. [inaudible] yes, absolutely. We have reached the end of our hour. I hope you come again. And last year you were sat when i mentioned the patriots, but now i think you are a better team than i. Yes, but now they are 62. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] House Intelligence Committee chair adam schiff gave an update today on the impeachment inquiry hearings. He tweeted next week, the House Intelligence Committee holds its first open hearings as part of the impeachment inquiries. On wednesday, november 13, 2019, we will tear William Taylor and george catch. On friday, november 15, 2019, we will hear from marie yo vanovitch. More to come. 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