candidates, battlefield is 104 deep. we have viable candidates and many of them with records of service, met van veterans, operatives, business leaders. most of them are women. momentum on our side. history on our side. dana: meredith kelly, spokesperson for you was on the show a few weeks ago talking about the red to blue campaign. talking about the candidates. i m like wow, they sound like moderate people. but it feels to me like a lot of the energy for the democrats is on the progressive side. your primaries this year, pulling your candidates so far to the left they might not be able to win in the centrist districts? no. they are running who they are and they fit the district across the country. i remember all the attacks from the national republican campaign committee against conor lamb to suggest he was running as a republican. conor lamb, pro-medicare, pro-union, pro-affordable
aware of rick saccone s voting issues on union issues. it felt to me this was a swing back toward what has been the natural home for union voters in the democratic party. it was pro union, pro social security, pro medicare, the issue of union pensions was huge in this race. to a degree, it does give democrats a blueprint in the industrial midwest. now, to the point of nancy pelosi, i look at it slightly differently. i don t think it s an electoral problem. bear with me, precisely because they ran against him because he didn t work. a lot of democrats say i don t support her, an easy way to take the issue off the table. if they were to take back the house, yeah, you do have a legitimate problem on the floor if they elect another speaker because you have all these
that is so dumb. what steve is saying, is really smart. i mean, rand said he didn t support nancy pelosi. he wasn t out there talking about climate change. there are important lessons here. he is pro union, pro medicare, pro roe v wade. there is a bill up in congress that restricted the woman s right to choose. and the most important thing is he attacked the trump tax cuts. and then they stopped advertising it. they were losing on their signature accomplishment. smart republicans are looking at this and saying this is not heart burn. this is a heart attack. are you arguing along with the white house that he is trump
democratic candidates nationwide. candidate talent matters of cour course. but a big tient matters. i m a pope francis democrat. i don t want to drive people out of my church, and you have the same fight in the republican party where they brand people rhinos if they dare vote against one thing. i like the fact that the democrats found someone who is a democrat, as kirsten pointed out, pro-union, pro-medicare, pro-medicaid, pro-choice, but also fit the district. you got to meet people where they live. i think this is a great template for the democrats. not every candidate will be a progressive. not every candidate will be that talented. but if the democrats finally are learning but could conor lamb win on a national stage in the democratic party as it is today. he s just 12 years old no, he s 33. someone with those numbers. yeah, joe biden. he says he s personally