politician that is fearless right now, it s her. do they know they had the wrong team last time when they ran? do they know they didn t have the right advisers? we all made it clear to them. i think they know that. let me go to michelle on that. do you see a new team emerging around the secretary of state who might would suggest she is going to make this a better effort, a more state-of-the-art effort, a little less what s the right word? a little less of a cotillion of her friends and more like the best you can get to help you win? yeah, i think it s already really clear that s that is what is happening. it was really significant that they hired jeremy byrd, who was really important for their kind of legendary turnout operation. you know, all the things that she was beaten last time, she is going to have an advantage on this time. she is rung. so she is running? she is hiring the get out the vote expert and she is not running? why would you hire a get out the vote expert i
0 this is important to job creation, so they re going to probably be pleased that the president is proposing some form of a tax reduction. they do support a reduction of corporate tax rates because they feel the country is less competitive around the world because of these high rates. but they re going to want to get more out of this. and we ve already seen that in their responses today. jon: i read where the president is going to propose reducing or taking away corporate benefits for things like the purchase of private debt, private jets. now, he s a ceo. he s got air force one to fly him anywhere he goes. why does he want why does he not want, you know, other corporate leaders to be able to buy a private jet to be able to go where they want to go? well, i look, i don t know if you can make a one to one comparison, but it s a great political talking point to run around saying that republicans are trying to protect corporate jet owners. reducing, getting rid of this tax loophole is
you see the white population would drop below 40%. another ten years after that, hispanics alone become the majority in texas. 52% to just 32% of whites and then you see this massively changing the demographic. of course, there is some struggles as republicans, as democrats try to do this. in the favor of republicans, they hold all statewide offices and super majorities in the texas legislative. democrats haven t won a statewide race since 1994. the republicans are 101-0 in statewide races since 2006. statewide majorities in 107 of counties including harris counties. so, a ton of work to do. that said, let s take a look at one of the people who is trying to flip this here. jeremy byrd is a democratic consultant, worked on the obama campaign and launching an
this republican firefighter won against the republican party in his state thanks to all those petitions, they got the union stripping law on the ballot for repeal and ohio voted to repeal it by 22 points. it was not even close. it was a blowout. with that republican overreach, ohio republicans woke up the electorate and the electorate kicked them in the proverbial butt. you want to know who what was the activists in the fight in ohio, who was helping them in ohio with the machinery of the campaigning, leaflets, phone calling, door knocking, rallies, get out the vote, with the work that goes into a presidential campaign? who helped ohio do that work in 2011? it was the obama campaign. jeremy byrd, national field director for the obama campaign was on the ground in ohio joining the fight last year. they did not leave the state in 2008 after obama won it last year. they didn t leave the state in 08 and plan to come back now. the obama campaign has been working in ohio all along. after th
petitions, they got the union stripping law on the ballot for repeal and ohio voted to repeal it by 22 points. it was not even close. it was a blowout. with that republican overreach, ohio republicans woke up the electorate and the electorate kicked them in the proverbial butt. you want to know who what was the activists in the fight in ohio, who was helping them in ohio with the machinery of the campaigning, leaflets, phone calling, door knocking, rallies, get out the vote, with the work that goes into a presidential campaign? who helped ohio do that work in 2011? it was the obama campaign. jeremy byrd, national field director for the obama campaign was on the ground in ohio joining the fight last year. they did not leave the state in 2008 after obama won it last year. they didn t leave the state in 08 and plan to come back now. the obama campaign has been working in ohio all along. after their big win in the 2010 midterms, the republicans thought they had taken ohio