representatives, senators, abandoning their posts because they don t like how the elections turned out? does anybody see the inconsistency here? well there s an obvious inconsistency. i m a democrat and i m a proud democrat. i disagree with what scott walker is doing. i think he can you ve said this on the show, it s been said, i thought david gregory did probably a better job than anyone has with scott walker in pinning him down. the unions have agreed to help pass the budget and save the money. right. at some point democrats will have to come back and vote on it. they have to work. i was critical of republicans as a democrat. democrats would be critical of republicans if there s a shutdown at the federal level as republicans will likely be critical of democrats. we have to be consistent here. i appreciate yours on it. as a democrat you have to say at some point it s time to come back. that does not make walker right. right. trumka raised good points, barber raised
they are up already in double digits in both of those cases. what kind of trickle down effect is it going to have? we have already seen for instance in pennsylvania just this week that democrats had basically pulled out of the third district there. this is cathy dahlkemper. erie, pennsylvania, base district. at this point democrats have a feeling they will have a hard time holding this district. she only agreed to vote for health care when that abortion language was in there. pennsylvania, in general, is one of those places that republicans believe they have to pick up three, four, maybe five seats that democrats currently hold if they expect to get the majority. then, i want to focus on iowa and the reason is this. iowa is what i would call the wave state. in this state, three of the five congressional districts are held by democrats. and the one i want to focus on is the third congressional district. this is in the des moines area.
issue. the democratic construct politically is pushing moderates to abandon the filibuster is more dicey than to allow voting restrictions. democrats are wrong. spend 5 minutes watching fox news and you will see that republicans aren t even pretending anymore these laws are really about election fraud or integrity. that s because lifelong republicans like chris krebs have said out loud on the record that 2020 was the most secure election in our country s history. bill barr looked high and low and did not find any evidence of widespread voter fraud. at this point democrats could be as complicit as republicans if they rely on the same tactics for a whole new war against gop legislation. beto o rourke s call to action. an elections bill that is premised on a lie that there is widespread fraud in our elections even though there is