have you to close the intensity gap and make it real. say, look, this is unacceptable, your inaction. it s resulting in innocent dead people. what does it look like to you from inside this effort? from those of us looking outside it seems as though the white house has kind of dropped the ball, not spoken out as actively. you don t see the real pressure on the held from the white house side? i think white house leadership has helped a lot, brought a lot of groups together. as a result we ve gotten further than we ve ever had since the brady bill passed. people who were there in that fight in the mid-90s are telling me now, this is what it felt like. really think there s a chance for this? i think with the overwhelming majority of public support, it s just a matter of time before elected officials realize you need to support something as common sense as a background check. what would you say to wayne lapierre who is going to be on meet the press with david
bipartisan group. republicans for immigration reform and the national immigration forum. they tell us that in republican states, conservative states, poll of republicans only from depending on the state, 61%, to 78% of republicans are in favor of immigration reform. so if these congressmen are listening to their constituents. they will pitch in and help us. you may have some special interests that they re afraid of, i m not sure. here s the problem, though. that polling, i ve seen polling that s similar. there s an intensity gap which is to say, i ve heard members of congress saying, our switchboards are getting lit up by people who are opposed to amnesty. there are the rallies on the capitol lawn. your job as i understand it, folks like you, who are committed, well known republicans is to try to put a thumb on the other scale. so my question is, when you re inside a room with a member of congress from the republican party who s on the fence on
that we ve seen say that the vast majority of republicans, in republican states or for immigration reform. and so the this poll by the public policy polling and harper polling, i don t know if you re familiar with it, done by a bipartisan group. republicans for immigration reform and the national immigration forum. they tell us that in republican states, conservative states, poll of republicans only from depending on the state, 61%, to 78% of republicans are in favor of immigration reform. so if these congressmen are listening to their constituents. they will pitch in and help us. you may have some special interests that they re afraid of, i m not sure. here s the problem, though. that polling, i ve seen polling that s similar. there s an intensity gap which is to say, i ve heard members of congress saying, our switchboards are getting lit up by people who are opposed to amnesty.
immigration reform. and so the this poll by the public policy polling and harper polling, i don t know if you re familiar with it, done by a bipartisan group. republicans for immigration reform and the national immigration forum. they tell us that in republican states, conservative states, poll of republicans only from depending on the state, 61%, to 78% of republicans are in favor of immigration reform. so if these congressmen are listening to their constituents. they will pitch in and help us. you may have some special interests that they re afraid of, i m not sure. here s the problem, though. that polling, i ve seen polling that s similar. there s an intensity gap which is to say, i ve heard members of congress saying, our switchboards are getting lit up
state and face what she s faced this week. watching dean heller from nevada suddenly get poll numbers that say, maybe there s a backlash to me about voting no on background checks. or jeff flake, potentially moving toward a swing state of arizona, where the same things happen. why is that a surprise when polls say 90% of people want this legislation? the key thing is, whether, you know, this is going to last in a couple months, in a couple of years. the key dynamic to the gunfight, and steve knows this, there s always been an intensity gap. the numbers have always been on the side of gun safety measures. but the people who care about that stuff, it s not the number one item on their list. the people who care about gun rights as they call it, you know, asked them what their priority list, and it s guns, first, second, third, fourth and fifth. so they come out and will make people pay. they ll make sure it s painful if you don t do what they want to do. cannot happen on the other sid