you surprised. what s interesting is for most of our lives even if the nra position was a majority position, the intensity gap between the nra and people who wanted more gun control was disproportionate. you had people who disagreed with the nra but weren t motivated to take it on. that switched overnight both as a result of the parkland shootings but also as a result of this pouring into politics of all of these previously not superpolitically engaged suburban white woman who are, were, making the political landscape all over the place and are hyper mobilized and you know, furious about the fact that their kids have to go to active shooter drills in elementary school. i remember having you here and you were down in georgia 6 on the special election. there s special elections tonight. i think democrats picked up a republican district in new hampshire if i m not mistaken.
world view from there forward. these kids are not going anywhere. it s going to be a sustained effort because they re fighting for their lives. jason just said something that has been the defining feature of this debate in american life for a long time which is that you can poll people and 2-1 majorities for all kinds of common gun sense legislation. there is an intensity mismatch between the intensity nra and the other side. is that changing? you know, i ve never seen this intensity gap. i m the mom of five. i m not numb. i wake up every day and fight on this issue as a volunteer. we have nearly 100,000 volunteers across the country, 75,000 joined since last week. we re holding hundreds of eventsents across the country. i ve never seen the intensity gap. 90% of americans agree we need stronger gun laws and a fualaaumakers who are beholden to the national rifle association who will not force any change at the federal level. if there is no intensity gap, why is the legislative rec
we have nearly 100,000 volunteers across the country, 75,000 joined since last week. we re holding hundreds of eventsents across the country. i ve never seen the intensity gap. 90% of americans agree we need stronger gun laws and a fualaaumakers who are beholden to the national rifle association who will not force any change at the federal level. if there is no intensity gap, why is the legislative record, why is it what it is? why is it the fact it is so hard to do very simple and basic things legislatively both at the state and federal level on anything relating to gun safety? because the nra gives money, gives campaign donations to donald trump and to some members of congress and some members of state legislatures. they will not even allow the bills to be discussed. one till we change the makeup of congress and our state legislatures, the will of the people is not going to be done. and that is what we have to bring this energy into the midterm elections and agree that we re goin
move on to something else. i can tell you as somebody who, i was in my mid 20s when i had the experience of realizing that there were folks in charge who weren t looking out, weren t protecting us who were supposed to be. i was in afghanistan and a vehicle with no armor. these kids are in high school and younger and realizing that people who are supposed to protect them supposed to do the right thing aren t. i can tell you it defines your world view from there forward. these kids are not going anywhere. it s going to be a sustained effort because they re fighting for their lives. jason just said something that has been the defining feature of this debate in american life for a long time which is that you can poll people and 2-1 majorities for all kinds of common gun sense legislation. there is an intensity mismatch between the intensity nra and the other side. is that changing? you know, i ve never seen this intensity gap. i m the mom of five. i m not numb. i wake up every day and
but the results of the actual elections where democrats are getting larger than usual turnout in an off year and as lynn was saying, are seeing a big movement among college-educated white voters, especially women. republicans are holding their base of blue collar, rural, evangelical older white voters, but they are not turning out at the same rate of democrats, and that s what you d expect at this point with people who strongly disapprove of the president s performance. there is an intensity gap, no question. democrats, as it was in 2010 and 2014 for the republicans, the message is cutting donald trump s presidency in half. i think in most swing districts, democrats will be comfortable running on the idea of whether you want to enable or constrain donald trump for two more years and that will be at the center of the message. whether or not republicans choose to run next to him or away from him, as i said, the reality of the past 20 years or so is, the president s approval