saturday night live opening sketch punch line your mayor and [ bleep ] reporter: in the heart of the suburban ford nation, he is the greatest public servant they have ever known. don t step down. i m not stepping down. don t worry. we are praying for you every day. yes, we are. more poor people than there are rich people and i stick up for the poor people. that s the bottom line. reporter: his brother invited us here to witness this love, counterweight to the gauntlet of political foes downtown, doing all they can to strip away his powerful lead. it was 4 -2 to strip down your emergency powers. from the outside that seems like you guys are political outcasts. you know how you want to make friends at city hall? keep spending taxpayers money. let them go on their free trips,
stop it. mike allen is here with the morning playbook. we haven t talked a whole lot about jim demint leaving. i had a call with him yesterday, and he said and he believed, and i certainly understand it, he s leaving because he ll have more money running the heritage foundation than being 1 of 100 senators. and i must say running think tanks is a good thing to do. running think tanks, not bad. i must say, there have been several times over the past several years that people have approached me and asked me to run for senate. and every time i ask people in the senate if i should run, they go, are you kidding me? right. are you kidding me? stay where you are. why step down? yeah, don t step down. 1 of 100 is very frustrating. you hear that from every single governor that serves in the senate. stay away. so i guess jim demint is following that trend. what does that say about the most exclusive club? and the tea party. it s very telling.
you don t step down. now, we re talking about the whole future of the middle class. i mean, things are really tough out there. and my view on this is that means we just have to fight back. i am not giving up on this. i am ready to take this fight all the way to the floor of the united states senate. scott brown s campaign has already bought a derisive web address to use against you. queenelizabethwarren.com, which i don t exactly know what that means. i guess they re trying to portray you as a rich person or representing rich people or maybe being a foreign person? i don t know. what are you anticipating about how your opponents you ve talked about the opponents you faced in your fight for the middle class in the past. what to you anticipate from how your political opponents will run against you? you know, i don t know. let the name calling begin. it s obviously already started. but i faced off against the
for 12 hours today meeting people across massachusetts. i want to quote to you one of the people who you spoke to, a 25-year-old woman later said this to a reporter. she said, she told me she really wanted to fight for the middle class that they ve been hammered on for a very long time and if things didn t start to change we d be in big trouble. i m not sure if any one candidate is able to turn things around for an entire group of people especially with the way things are in washington right now. what s your response to that young woman who you met today? how do you overcome that hopelessness about d.c. that exists among so many people right now? you know, i ve been told a lot of times about what s not possible. i grew up in pretty tough circumstances and i fought all my life for everything i ve gotten to do. i was told when i was down in washington we couldn t have a consumer financial protection bureau and the reason was because the largest lobbying force ever assembled on the face
it won t happen. you know, my view on that just meant then you stand up and you push harder. you push back. you don t step down. now, we re talking about the whole future of the middle class. i mean, things are really tough out there. and my view on this is that means we just have to fight back. i am not giving up on this. i am ready to take this fight all the way to the floor of the united states senate. scott brown s campaign has already bought a derisive web address to use against you. queenelizabethwarren.com, which i don t exactly know what that means. i guess they re trying to portray you as a rich person or representing rich people or maybe being a foreign person? i don t know. what are you anticipating about how your opponents you ve talked about the opponents you faced in your fight for the middle class in the past. what to you anticipate from how your political opponents will run against you? you know, i don t know.