what s cleving congress, that ends when you have fair districts. we re going to see this tuesday, will the voters in these four states decide to end the engineering of partisan districts and give the power back to people. tuesday, the most important thing everyone watching can do is vote. pick up your friend, a neighbor, your mother, your father, your sister, everyone must vote. congressman, steve, thank you so much for joining me on this important night. i m stephanie ruhle, you can catch me every weekday morning at 9:00, and then again at 1:00 with ali velshi. coming up, a very special edition of the last word with lawrence o donnell. you ll be excited, captain sully sullenberger will be here. rger will be here of nowhere. you do, too, but not in time. hey, no big deal. you ve got a good record and liberty mutual won t hold a grudge by raising your rates over one mistake. you hear that, karen?
extraordinary salesman. president trump stood on that campaign trail railing against goldman sachs and then he surrounded himself with former goldman sachs partners in the white house. while steve may be right, consumer confidence, business confidence big and small are up, and president trump sells a great story to these people. yes, he does. he says he was going to drain the swamp. the swamp has never been more murky. i think there are elements of the economy that are doing better, that are stronger. if you re talking about debt and defic deficits, he s exploded them. if you re talking about income equality, it s growing more severe. here s the strategic issue. i talk to my former colleagues in congress who are republicans every single day. why isn t he talking about the economy? why hasn t he been talking about this economy? he should be litigating this economy. he should be doing it in every speech, he should be doing it every day, here s why he doesn t. because he can t help hims
substantially my old boss, arnold schwarzenegger is very involved in all of these initiatives, redirecting reform, if you live in a country where the politicians pick the voters as opposed to the voters picking the politicians, you get what you get here. redirecting reforms politicians if you draw these district lines fairly. the congressman when he was the chairperson at the dccc. i spent a part of my career at the nrcc. if you re a part of the committees, you draw the lines in a way it advantages your party. the science and technology that s involved in this is extraordinary. it s important to understand because it blows apart the middle of your electorate. even your super educated voter doesn t pay attention to this, like an elected official would. most members of congress do not fear a general election opponent. they fear a primary from the far right, the far left, that s
shut down, all of these issues are driving turnout from a specific portion of the democratic electorate, in that initiative mix should work pretty well from a turnout perspective for democrats in all of these states. fda approving an opiod stronger than fentanyl and we re still debating weed. think about that. the reason that congress is so polarized is because of gerrymandering. districts drawn to protect the left or right, there s four states that would take the politics out of redirecting. have independent commissions. that would create districts that are more toward the center that would incentivize compromise. it s one of the more important reforms we have. four states will decide whether to approve those reforms. aren t you worry about how the center has been hollowed out? of course. it pushes politics to the right and the left. we live in a country
financially. republicans and president trump should be focusing on the economy, if you look at his big beautiful data, but instead, it s this. caravan of caravan of illegal aliens to flood into your communities. depleting our resources and overwhelming our nation. we don t want that. the choice in this election could not be more simple. a republican congress means more jobs, and less crime. a democrat congress means more crime and less jobs. it s very simple, right? all right, joining our panel, josh brown. josh, i have to go to you first, if you looked at the data, gdp, that is what you would think republicans and president trump would be all over but to me, trump s economy looks a lot like