Congressman, the issues were all watching besides trump is issue of the confederate statues. 3 of 5 people in virginia including all races and genders were for keeping the statues the way they are, dont want changes, yet that was position of gillespie the republican. Position of the democratic candidate northam was get them all down. Thats how he started anyway. Says to me, voters said thats where i am on this issue, didnt vote on this issue. It was not the issue. But gillespie and trump. Gillespie didnt know who trump was in Northern Virginia but ran a Television Ad campaign that absolutely invoked worst of the trump campaign. Southerner . This time it didnt work. Catholic guy who grew up in new jersey running down there waving the flag of stonewall
a controversial president in byelection. Anybody with any problems with the government party, any problem they lay on you. Right . Absolutely right. You take all the hell with trumps name on it. And historically thats how virginia performs
democratic members of a house democratic majority what they think. because they re the ones who are doing the town hall meetings, doing the supermarket saturdays. i talk to them directly. you know what they tell me? in those 40 districts which were flipped from republicans, their constituents aren t talking about impeachment. they re talking about medicare, prescription drug prices, trump s behavior. if in those districts, if the narrative is dominated by impeachment, you lose the majority, i believe. and one more point, in terms of the presidential election, this is a quintile election. 35% of the electorate locked in for him, 45% locked in against him. this is going to be the 20% that haven t made a judgment. you re saying some of what matters is what your colleagues again, you did this job, you re in this caucus, you know these people. you re saying it s what they re hearing at the town halls. i m being told, we told folks we would bring anything interesting out of the justin am
percentage of the poverty level, in fact above. apparently that s one of the pressures congressman connolly. we saw a referendum on this in maine and passed. what is particular aggravating point on health care? threat to obamacare? you and i have talked about how i go back home and do supermarket saturdays, walk the aisles and ewhat s on people s minds. health care is dominant. biggest concern i hear is people who have seen family members live through cancer and heart attacks and preexisting conditions and what s going to happen with them. what paul ryan and donald trump is doing on the cost of health care, we re going to continue to see this go up unless they decide to work with democrats and address the rising costs of
would have liked, but we are making progress. i m not discouraged. i would have liked to have one, i don t feel discouraged. julie: what message do you think this might send for the democratic party as many had hoped the russian investigation involving president trump s campaign might turn voters from voting republican? i know in a tough district, and i happen to represent a district and in illinois the donald trump one, but i won by 20 points. when i go home on weekends, we do supermarket saturdays. i m walking the aisles and talking to grandpa s when they are picking out tangerines and grandmas when they re picking out there oatmeal. when i hear is they want us to focus on jobs and the economy. i m of no question about russia. what am i focused on?
piece, the economic piece i can see, the democrats have been trusted, always, they created social security, they re going to keep it. they created obama care, they re going to refine it and make it better. they re going to fight for it. people know that. the sense that people are being talked down to, you know what it is, the sense of the democrat party being the ivy league party, it s snifty towards regular people and they get it and they don t like it. they vote for trump, he s played on that all the time. this is something that i m sharing with people who are members of congress currently and those who are looking for run for congress, i m sharing these ideas with them. when i m not at washington, i m at home. one, is we do supermarket saturdays. i walk up and down the aisles of grocery stores, i represent 7,000 square miles, while grandma are buying their corn flakes, i m introducing myself and i say, what do you want me to know when i head back to