Honor and a privilege to be with you today. Thanks a lot, thank you. Thank you. [applause] thank you. Son it is an honor to be here. The constitution does not mention Political Parties, and George Washington warned us against them in his farewell address. He said that Political Parties would form factions of men, and he said that the men in those factions would end up caring more about their faction than about their country. Georgebviously washington was correct. Situation where the political system goes on and on and on about how divided we are, and yet the political system itself is the primary divider. I think that the dividing lines are not even true. They are not even appropriate to the times in which we live, because the Main Division today is not between left and right. The Main Division today is between democracy and antidemocracy. The Main Division today is between those who believe that economic principles unfettered by any ethical or moral consideration should organize our s
The political system goes on and on and on about how divided we are, and yet the political system itself is the primary divider. I think that the dividing lines are not even true. They are not even appropriate to the times in which we live, because the Main Division today is not between left and right. The Main Division today is between democracy and antidemocracy. The Main Division today is between those who believe that economic principles unfettered by any ethical or moral consideration should organize our society versus those that believe humanitarian principles should organize our society. The division today is not between conservative and liberal. Eisenhower, president eisenhower said that the American Mind at its best is both liberal and conservative, and i believe that. I believe there are highminded conservative values and highminded liberal values. But while conservatives and liberals are going at it each other, a real opponent of both of them is having a great time laughing
Thank you. Son it is an honor to be here. The constitution does not mention Political Parties, and George Washington warned us against them in his farewell address. He said that Political Parties would form factions of men, and he said that the men in those factions would end up caring more about their faction than about their country. Georgebviously washington was correct. Situation where the political system goes on and on and on about how divided we are, and yet the political system itself is the primary divider. I think that the dividing lines are not even true. They are not even appropriate to the times in which we live, because the Main Division today is not between left and right. The Main Division today is between democracy and antidemocracy. The Main Division today is between those who believe that economic principles unfettered by any ethical or moral consideration should organize our society versus those that believe humanitarian principles should organize our society. The d
For the House Majority in 2024. Lets start with californias third district, kevin kiley. This is probably among the seats that are competitive and republican held. One of the less competitive ones. He is a freshman congressman. This is a seat that trump won by a couple of points in 2020. Depending w the president ial race plays out, it could be competitive. Democrats have a strong candidate in jessica e. We have this as likely reblican moving on to californias 13th district, you have rated this as a tossup. Explain. Have four california districts. They are all held by republicans. A lot of folks that i have talked to think the 13th district could be the most vulnerable republican in california. He represents a seat that is in the Central Valley, contains parts of bakersfield. The democratic candidate last cycle came away from winning. Democrats do have an inherent advantage republicans as the incumbent, he is going resources he did not have last cycle. In terms of the primary is not a
Trail, cspan takes you to South Carolina. And to virginia, where nikki haley continued her push in super tuesday states. And to the u. S. Mexico border in texas where President Biden and donald trump both made visits. First a look at some of the house races currently held by republicans in california. Erin kobe is a house analyst for the cook political report. You have done some analysis on the importance of these california house seats. With their primary around the corner, why should people be taking attention to some of these california house seats . Control of the house is on the line this year. Republicans only have a four seat majority in the house and the redistricting in a couple of states has thrown some curveballs into that. It looks like at the end of the day, democrats will only need to flip a few seats. We dont think either party has a huge advantage for control of the house. At the end of the day, a lot of these competitive seats are either in new york or california. New