and all over the country. because these people are moving with right to work for less laws and they re trying to strip obama care from people and they re doing all kind of bad things across the state, including trying to pass these photo i.d. laws, which i think are nothing more than voter suppression. look, democrats have not gotten hip to the fact that republicans identify voter suppression as a core strategic goal. we have not identified voter expansion as a core strategic goal and if i m the dnc chair, we will. and we ll be fighting to just increase it by, not just say what is the minimum that we need to win. we will say that the vote and the ballot and democratic participation is the right of every american and we ll bring it to him. i will come back to the muslim issue in a minute. quickly what you just said did the dncerr by not fighting voter suppression more vigorously? did the dnc, all of us democrats, including me, could
hey, if you have a plan better than obama care, let s hear it. we d be happy to repeal it if we had something else on the table. but you live in the state of kentucky where matt beven did get rid of people s health care and i think republicans feel like they can get away with it. in a state like kentucky, if paul ryan goes in and eviscerates medicare and those minors health benefits for blawhat are democrats going to do about it? how do they fight it and convince kentucky voters they are on their side? absolutely. you ve got to fight it and convince people that they ve been had, essentially. i mean, this man came in claiming to be a savior telling people here that coal industry jobs were going to come back. he was lying. there is no plan for that. immediately after the election mitch mcconnell came out and said, well, even if we change course on the epa, those jobs are probably not going to come back. you have to do that work of
crisis, he picked somebody who knows nothing about housing. ben carson. neuro surgeon. we re a a point where he has made very clear we had noommon ground. it s our job to fight trumpism. but not only just to verbally talk bad about it, we ve got to go to the neighborhood. to the vfw halls, the union halls, grocery stores and hair shops and talk to people in detroit and flint, but also in kentucky. both. we have to talk to both and explain to people not only the damage that he s doing to them taking away their health care won t even work on fixing the water crisis. but, actually what we would do which is to help make government work for them. now, you brought up another very important point which is this question of whether to go searching for core republicans. white working class voters are republicans for the most part, even some who may have voted for barack obama a couple of times. whether democrats should go looking for them and trying to
jewish democrats, right? the democratic party enjoys 71% from the jewish community absolutely need it. fundamental and important to our success. we value and prize our jewish support from the democratic party. and we know republicans don t like it and they re going to try to wedge it. but what i say is let s hang together. we have more in common and we re going to stick together. what is the most important change that you would make to the dnc as chair? we would reorient the whole institution toward voter turnout. 365 days a year in every single district in the country. we would not rely on tv advertising as much. that s okay. we d use it, but be more focused on field door-to-door, neighborhood neighbor to neighbor. we would go into rural america. we would go into we d go into the blue states that we know we have. you know, in california we really go, we go there to fund-raise but they have had an
situation politically. here you have a policy that is clearly helped millions of people who didn t have health care. whose children or family members had pre-existing conditions. so, there is a political consequence that we have got to expose once the republicans go down this path. and our last word to you on this. you worked with moveon.org that exists to make republicans pay a political price for doing things that people don t like. is that what is going to happen? let them do the bad thing and highlight it. we have to go. save that answer. you guys are coming back in our next hour. i have gone over time, which i often do. up next, congressman pete ellison joins me live. more am joy after the break.