What a progressive government should focus on. Former u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. , Samantha Power looking at the Progressive Agenda as it relates to National Security. Democratic legislative Campaign Committee president jessica post discusses the states the committee will be targeting in the 2020 election. Liketing states pennsylvania, arizona, and texas. Hello. Good morning. Im the d. O. C. National press secretary and welcome you to our first press event. Having a room full of reporters is a milestone and attention that the we werent getting. The major driver of our driver is our president who i have the job of introducing today. She spent most of her professional career working in the legislative space. To quote a piece, they wrote, steering democratic strategy, jessica, an operative who is little known outside of campaign circles and turning the once sleepy dlcc into a juggernaut. Without taking any more of your time, i will turn it over to jessica who will share exactly how we
Welcome you to our first Major Press Conference at the d. L. C. Headquarters. Having a room full of reporters and National Coverage of an event is a milestone for us. And quite frankly its attention that the d. L. C. Wasnt getting two or three cycles ago. The major driver of our growth has been our president jessica post who i have the fantastic job of introducing today. Jessica has spent most of her professional career working in the legislative space and is a master resource on state legislatures. To quote a politico piece published last night, they wrote, steering democrat vati to win back state legislative powers jessica post, an operative who is little known outside Democratic Campaign circles and has spent the last five years turning the once sleepy d. L. C. C. Into a juggernaut. So without taking any more of your time, im going to turn it over to jessica who will share exactly how we turned the dlcc into a juggernaut and our plan to win more state legislatures in 2020. Thanks so
A correspondent for the national beast. A quarterly journal that has existed for 10 or 11 years and it is a broadly left of Center Journal about policy, ideas, debate. Host good to have you back on cspan. Elitism is liberalisms biggest problem. There are plenty of nondeplorables in Middle America. The democrats need to learn how to embrace them. Go on to say it is essential that we explore the reasons for our defeat, but at a certain point, a point we reached weeks ago, that it stopped being a debate and became more of a ideological standoff, a kind of purity test. Please explain. Guest let me explain what this piece isnt. A 500,000 piece about why liberals cannot connect with trump voters and the white working class. The headline gives that impression, but thats not what the piece is about. It is not about trump voters. It is about potential allies in red states. Liberals who live in red states and moderates. Voterst be about trump to the extent that you have these voters that switche
A show you some examples. How did this become an important issue, this is a famous picture, who knows what this is. Los angeles immigration rally. Excellent job. Must be one of your students. In 2065 and 600,000 people rallying against hr 33 seven. Eventually they turned into thousand 10, the momentum continued. This was an app put together by republican candidate in nevada. Racializing the immigration issue, harry reid responded by leaning in very forcefully on the issue of bringing the panel together again. Now with maria was former reed staffer and campaigning with louise on behalf of immigrant rights. That puts us at the forefront it , it all came together with dock. Thats how how got on the issue. I would be remiss not to mention it. But then we have these pictures. Anyone read the shirts . Obama deep ports parents. Thats what we say about emotion, this is an issue people are passionate about you dont see rallies about this about changing the tax code. So this was in 2013 and 13 a
The forsythe county Republican Party has announced that they no longer support James Lee Knox in his bid to become the next mayor of winstonsalem. This comes after mr. Knox admitted using with the local paper describes as several derogatory terms including the n word in a confrontation with a local elections worker last year. Mr. Knox acknowledged that he used the racial slur after the 2012 election. He said he was trying to find out the name of a black elections employee with whom he had exchanged words during early voting. During a conversation with another county worker, mr. Knox referred to the woman using several derogatory terms including the n word. Mr. Knox says he does not believe in using such words but that he, quote, got frustrated. Thats how he explains it. He got frustrated. You get frustrated and out pops the n word. She was black. You know, as you do. So reportedly the state Republican Party in North Carolina decided to not get involved in this situation in winstonsalem