commonwealth of pennsylvania. there you have the trust fund brad in a hoodie with tattoos. john fetterman, he s probably the most radical of all democratic candidates, unlike warnock, fetterman has never actually held down a real job outside of being a mayor of a town. wnd aboute population a little under twenty two hundred, when he lef left a little over seventeen hundred people didn t do well under his mayorship of you and daddy and his entire adultef life. he boughe.t his first home for1 one dollar from his sister. somehoter.w not working. he got money to purchasehe six other properties. i guess we can only assumely mon with family money one has toey first wonder if he pai fd taxes. on that income because he failed to pay over eighteen thousand dollars in property taxes. and get this, he wants get this to raise taxes on the people ofpenn pennsylvania and ruin the economy.sylvn the economy of that great state of that great state. with a moratorium on fracking, an eighty one billion i
is not to play into it by giving the republican side more fodder that can then play down to voters. i think the new york post effect is the perfect aspect of this. i think this is why eric adams did so well. what are people who are not maga people but conservatively oriented people reading the new york post, what is their perception of what is happening? part of their perception is the narrative in the post, part of the perception they re seeing in their community. eric i think spoke to that perception in a real way that paid off for him well in the mayorship. that doesn t mean you can t be for criminal justice reform and all this other stuff, but it means you have to acknowledge that as part of the political reality. to the sort of epistemic question here pushing this longer and i ll go to break, control room donna, as a democratic representative yourself, democratic politics, this point about perception and reality, before policy, before
to combat that democratic politicians. when i think the right thing to do is, not play into it. by giving the republican side more fodder that can play down to voters. the new york post effect is the perfect aspect of this that s why adams did so well. what are people who are not maga people, but conservatively orient people reading the new york post, what is their perception of what s happening? part of their perception is the narrative in the post, part of it is what they are seeing in their community. and so eric i think spoke to that perception in a real way that paid off for him well. in the mayorship. i don t think that means you can t be for criminal justice reform in all this other stuff, but it does mean you have to acknowledge that as part of the political reality. the epidemic question. going to push us a little longer. as a democratic representative
quote unquote regular americans. sometimes we say regular americans, and we were really meeting is kind of white folks. i mean on politically active people. people who aren t thinking about politics. you are not thinking about voting rights, people were just thinking about living their day-to-day lives. too many of them voting rights is an abstract. of course, i understand, that but of course the foundation of the ability to have any power at all, in the ability to change your community, your civic leadership your neighborhood your city council, your mayorship, your members of congress, the foundation is your right to vote. we were democracy in this country until the 60s, until people actually had the voting rights act to enabled so many millions of americans who up until that have not been able to cast a ballot, to do so. i think this is foundational. i think it s fundamental. i m not sure i agree with the premise that people don t care
your community, your civic leadership, your neighborhood, your city council, your mayorship, members of congress, all look to the presidency. the foundation is your right to vote. we were a democracy in this country until 1960s until people had the voting rights act that enabled so many millions of americans who had not been able to cast a ballot to do so. so i think this is foundational, fundamental and i am not sure i agree with the premise that people don t care about it. if people understood that their vote was denied, they would care about it and they do care about it. they care about it. are they thinking about it enough? do you think people think about it in their day-to-day life? the way you laid it out, is something we should all understand and prioritize. given all that people are dealing with, how do democrats get people to make it that priority? exactly how you just said. you know, i think it s connecting what s happening in