white house and met with her at trump tower. did you ever consider taking him up on his offer to switch parties? no. reporter: why not? it was a joke. he probably didn t think it was. we agree on so much, why don t you switch parties? the one thing that i just think that you have to be who you are and at the end of the day, i m an fdr republican or democrat. i m an fdr democrat. reporter: across the country heitkamp is one of five democratic senators facing re-election in deep red states that trump carried in double digits. because she s going where all other democrats are not, embracing trump. i don t think either party has all the right answers. that s why i voted over half the time with president trump. reporter: she down played the president s visit to fargo. at the end of the day, he s going to maybe say some mean things about me. that s okay. reporter: for senate republicans, it couldn t come
just as the house bill came back that just because of today that this isn t over. so i know there ll be a push, a discussion that mcconnell may have a vote anyway. look we have to keep fighting because we re not going to kick people off of health care as a way to keep costs down. the notion that s the way to go is the wrong idea and i think is the fault of the plan. now, let s talk about the individual market. let s talk about what are the challenges there and try to move forward. let me show you something from frank roosevelt back in 1936. i think it s where the democrats are right now. it s a good piece of film here. we don t have that yet. i wish i could show it because he s saying the republicans come along and say we can do anything the democrats can do and it won t cost you anything. here it is. it s great. it s fdr.
not able to deliver. my mom who s an fdr democrat would be proud of that clip and would agree with you. i think that s what made her a democrat. somebody said, look, you re not giving access to either a job or to make the economy work and here s what we have to do. and she appreciated that. and i think now what we have to do is say, there are things working in the affordable care act. the expansion of medicaid has driven downward pressures on the private insurance market price. okay. so that s worked. we changed the delivery system and made some improvements so patients are put at the front of the system and try to control costs that way. so let s talk about what s working and then let s discuss what s not. but the notion that you re going to get to the what s not by cutting off millions of americans off medicaid. i think there s a lot of senators who just thought that was the wrong approach. thank you so much.
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jersey the governor. the governor, right. then you ran in this race. yes. you were endorsed by bernie sanders. i m an fdr democrat. you re an fdr democrat. we ve got hyde park in our district. i actually think it s a time for a return to some fdr democratic principles. one of the thins that is so relevant right now, fdr, this is a sitting president, said that we had to take on these princes who want to take over our politics and that we had to wake up to economic and political tyranny. and fdr said just as the minutemen fought political tyranny, we have to fight economic tyranny. i think we need a little more of that spirit in our democratic party. a willingness to take on the princes of wall street. a willingness to take on the elite financiers and say, no, we re standing up for working men and women. here s my question for you. your district was one of these classic districts that we re now