touted again and again about tom perez. no doubt he represents the narrative. he got through school riding on a jark raj truck. let him finish. this is a guy who has represented democratic values and principles in the civil rights division of the u.s. attorney s office. if that s true why did he jump in the race? keith ellison does not represent the direction of the party like other people like myself think it should be. exactly. it s not about establishment or not the establishment. it s about the party that lost for a deck you had a. the reason we don t have power in this country is because you don t know how to run elections. with that attitude let s talk about the facts. what you do with that passion if perez wins. this is the problem. with that attitude we divide. it s facts. it s not the facts. the fact is this.
voted for somebody not named donald trump and yet the president is governing as if he has a mandate and the people in this country, not just the democratic party, but the people of this country are standing up against that. jeff, how how strongly do you believe the movement is is prepared to infiltrate in the democratic party? if you don t hear what you want to hear today and what do you want to hear that will help you built the democratic party up, or is there a risk that your revolution is going to go off and form its own party, that you will abandon the democratic party all together? well, i don t think it s a question of people forming another party. i will tell you that our revolution has been quite active across the country and helping folks work and run for local party office. we ve been successful in a number of states across this country. i think the comment was made
about revolutions not happening out of washington or movements not happening out of washington is right so we are fighting, you know, state by state or county by county or party by party, you know, state party by state party and that s what we ve got to do electorally as well. i mean, the democratic bench has been decimated and lost 1,000 democratic legislators since 2010 and that s got to be reversed and has to be reversed in every zip code in this country and we cannot afford to abandon midwest states or southern states or other states where the party has not traditional put a lot of money. we have got to be a national party that speaks to working people in every state in this country. all right. jeff weaver and jason candor and steven collinson, thanks so much for taking the time to be with us. appreciate it. new evidence shows that the epidemic of opioid deaths and heroine overdoses across the country is getting worse, and there s a socialologist who says the reasons behind tha
meeting today. the challenges we face as a party and a country are real. and now more than ever we need to stay engaged, in the field and online, reaching out to new voters, young people and everyone who wants a better, stronger, fairer america. our best days are still ahead. so keep fighting and keep the faith, and i ll be right there with you every accept of the way. jason. how influential is her voice in this at this point? well, i think if you listen to what she said, it s not that different from what s being said at town halls across the country in even the most conservative districts that was being said at the women s march or the protest against this awful immigration policy. you know, successful movements historically have not started in washington but outside washington and there s something happening in the country right now. there s a movement going on and what it is is that 54% of the people who voted in november
going to talk about is the perspective of the next generation that what has to happen is we need to go out there and una jet click make our argument. i m a progressive from a red state and won a very cloits race in missouri and lost a close race in missouri but both times i outperformed the top of the democratic ticket substantially and the way i did it is made the argument to everybody, no matter where you are in the state and the country, it s my believe that progressive values, that the policies of the democratic party is what are best to improve your life and that s the argument we need to make. steven, robert said earlier, too, that the democrats are just not engaged here and that they need to figure out how to make the party relevant. how are they going to do that? in this meeting alone, how do they set that foundation? i think it s a first step. i think this race has been very interesting because it s shown the extent to which the democratic party and is not alone in this is