that s a great point. in this day and age when there s so many younger candidates and younger voters are the heartbeat of the democratic party right now in many ways and since trump they have become more activated, do you want to talk about what s in a candidate s past? in the case of warren, it makes sense. she lived the life she s describing of people she s trying to help. she came from a family she talked about being on the ragged edge of the middle class. she was a single mother for a period of time. she knows what she s talking about in terms of how people on lower rung of the economic spectrum suffer. she s got credibility there. she was invoking history that informs what the democratic party has been and perhaps can be again. she was talking about labor unions which have become less fashionable and have dropped in power over the past many decades. they used to be the heart and soul of the democratic party. we see union members voting overwhelmingly for donald trump in 2016.
me too and racism, the trump era is wonderful. we look at this and we look at it in the context of what we went through with the last supreme court nomination. it looms large. yeah. how do you see it affecting how things will happen here? there s the voluntary testimony before if there s an impeachment proceeding. how does it color that? it s really interesting. what a week. i think that one thing that i have been glad to see is that i think there s been a history where women of color were told to be silent because they were told to be what was good for the movement or the community, the people. that has not happened this time. i happen to nova necessaknow va. she s a serious, strong, principled woman. her bravery in doing this and this isn t the time, right? realizing it s never not time to talk about sexual assault.
interested in what she could bring to the field. tonight might be the first step in that move towards presidency. look for one of those warming houses. i saw those billed as well. i will. benth, i want to turn to massachusetts. senator warren making her announcement there. i was struck by her nod to history. you have kamala harris and cory booker looking forward. as i listened to senator warren, she s looking to the past and to elements of the history of the country as well, talking about, yes, that history of immigration. i was struck as joe kennedy, the young congressman introduced her, he talked about all that elizabeth warren knew. she knew the crisis was going to happen. talk about that.
of labor, the history of working people belongs to the democratic party. that needs to come back and be part of our coalition. she s talking about pulling together sort of her own personal history, the history of where the party has been and how that can inform going forward for a presidential candidate to go up against president trump. therein is the difficulty. the personal history. there have been traps she set and fallen into over the course of the last few years, the most recent of which was this piece that she on her bar application in oklahoma wrote american indian down. she needs to stop talking about this, talking about the foreigner clinton spokesman said was the e-mails all over again if she continues down this path. what s your prescription for her as she has to face these articles and these allegations, this part of her history, as she wants to talk about other facets, what is she to do? she has an opportunity. i don t think she should shy away from this. this is a mom
can take advantage of experts and educate all of us on the history of oklahoma and native tribes in oklahoma specifically. the fact that she heard growing up that she perhaps had this in her background is not in and of itself controversial. i need to say that. somehow we gloss over that. she s a liar, no. she heard this growing up. it s not something that s completely implausible if you know about the history of oklahoma, which not enough people who are covering the story do. i would just encourage people to educate themselves. but i think she has an opportunity to educate others. another point i would add is her speech not only touched on economic issues, but it intersected with race and gender. that s where i feel like the democratic party message has legs. i think she can use the controversy over her native heritage and her message and it intersects. it s about race and about economics. she can talk about the issues on native land in this country and