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Rep. Jasmine Crockett
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I want to bring in Democratic
Congresswoman from Texas, Jasmine
Crockett, who's also running the United
States Senate. Congresswoman, I'm glad
that you're here. Thank you. You heard
the president speak tonight. You're
hearing from members of the House as
well, including the speaker. The
president is blaming President Biden for
today's problems.
Is there any truth to that?
There's no truth. Um, and the American
people are done with a con man. I mean,
as he stood up today in front of the
American people, he sound like a used
car salesman. like, "Let me just shout
it out. Buy what I'm selling." Yes, this
is a lemon. Yes, he is selling nothing
but lemons. Right now, I don't think
that this really should come down to um
right or left. As I've been saying over
and over, this is about right and wrong.
And so, if people have questions, just
go ahead and call your insurance
provider and ask them, "What are my
insurance premiums going to be?" You
don't have to go and listen to what the
Democrats are telling you. You don't
have to listen to what the president is
telling you. You can find out for
yourself what those premiums are going
to be without these subsidies. But he is
suggesting that the split screen is as
follows. Everything was horrible under
Biden. He called the country dead a year
ago. And now he has made everything
better. The polls suggest that the
American public do not buy it, including
Republicans. Why do you think he is
putting forth the message that
everything is awesome?
He's going to do that because um lying
has worked for him in the past and right
now that is what he's trying to do. He
is trying to lie his way through and the
only thing that he cares about is making
it through these midterms. He is so
nervous. That is why they are cheating
and going from state to state to state
trying to redistrict. As you heard the
speaker saying, "No, I haven't lost
control of the house. I just have this
really slim majority." Well, guess what?
The last time that Donald Trump was in
and had to go through a midterm, it
didn't turn out really well for him. He
lost a lot of seats. And right now, no
matter how much tricking they do, we are
going to win the House. I feel very
confident in that because people are
over it. They are over the games. When
you look at a state like Texas, the
Republicans control the House, the
Senate, and the governor's mansion. Same
thing when it comes to the federal
level. It's the Republicans that control
the House, the Senate, and the White
House. So, if you are upset because
something has changed in your life,
whether it's the lack of jobs, because
you're trying to tell us everything's
peachy, but we know according to your
own numbers that we have lost
approximately 1.1 million jobs. And we
also know that they have not been
accurately reporting the jobs numbers.
So if these are the numbers that you're
willing to put out, these numbers are
being compared not to a recession but to
great recession numbers. And people are
feeling that as you have a president
saying things like, "Oh, as Christmas
approaches, maybe you just don't buy as
many baby dolls. It's okay."
Or pencils
or pencils, right? No. And so, um, I
think that the people are are really
showing up as we see in these elections,
even throughout the South. You see what
happened in Miami, the mayoral that had
been Republican control for 30 years, it
flipped. We are swinging se seats no
less than 10 points since he has been in
office. And so, I know that he sees the
writing on the wall and he's doing
everything that he can to try to um lie.
Well, describe that writing on the wall
when it comes to health care because you
had a small group of Republicans joining
with Democrats to force a vote on
extending those subsidies for three
years, which seemed to be a dealbreaker
just as recently as last week, two to
three years. You also have House
Republicans passing a bill that will let
the subsidies expire. And you know, the
Senate already rejected both plans last
week.
Is there on this wall? Is there hope on
the horizon that this will change?
because January is a hop, skip, and a
jump away as are those premiums.
No, you know, I would blunt I I would
love to be your typical politician and
give you some excuse, but at the end of
the day, um people are about to lose
their healthcare at the end of the day.
Um there are people that are going to
die as a result because some people just
will not be able to afford to get
life-saving care. Does that mean
Democrats ought to compromise to avoid
that from happening or on the
Republicans?
If there was It's on Republicans. I
mean, we don't control anything as I
just laid out. But more importantly, um
you know, we are supposed to be in
session until Friday. The speaker, he
loves to run when things get tough. Um
that's not leadership. That's cowardice.
And so that is what he's decided to do.
We saw this happen when it came down to
the Epstein files. He decided to send
Congress out right now. We are supposed
to be in until Friday. He has decided
that our last day is going to be
tomorrow because he does not want to
deal with the fact that we have a ripe
um discharge petition that is sitting in
front of him that could not only help
our constituents but help he is. I mean,
you know, it is it is really sad um what
we have devolved into in this country.
Um we have Republicans that are too
cowardous to actually represent the
people that put them into office. Um,
you know, and I think that frankly the
people should show up and show them how
they feel about people not looking out
for them. Um, we know that with the big
ugly bill, we were going to lose about
17 million people when it came to
Medicaid and Medicare alone. We know
that there are community hospitals um in
rural areas as well as others that had
already stated because we are
anticipating the budget and the
shortfall, we are already going to say
that we're closing. This is life or
death. And so, you know, for anyone that
feels like, hey, I don't do politics. I
like to tell people, you may not do
politics, but politics will do you.
Every single decision that takes place
in your life, from whether or not you
have a job, whether or not you can
afford healthcare, whether or not you
have a roof over your head, or whether
or not you literally have access to
health care, is a political decision. Do
you regret, given your description of
Speaker Johnson's behavior as an act of
cowardice, do you regret bailing him out
essentially last May, would you do that
again?
Bailing him out how?
In the sense of voting to help in May of
last year to ensure that he remains
there um just to correct the record.
I I had a anyway uh I will just say that
well because we changed it on the
record. I actually voted in error. I'm
gonna be honest. Um, but I will tell you
this. Um, I don't think that Speaker
Johnson is equipped to handle the job. I
don't think Speaker Johnson was ever
equipped to handle the job. And I think
that the cracks are showing through at
this moment. Um, so
well, how will Democrats capitalize on
that then? Because obviously what you
describe just weeks from now, the loss
of health insurance, the idea that most
Americans, frankly, whether they like it
or not, are one illness away from
bankruptcy, let alone paycheck to
paycheck, given the dire predictions of
this being inevitable. I mean, people
are frustrated and they're scared. And
you have a new poll suggesting and the
mayor's poll that now they believe that
Democrats are edging out Republicans on
the ability to handle the economy more
efficiently. So, how do you as a member
of Congress and you'd like to be a
member of the Senate? How do you
capitalize on that to make sure the
voters not only trust Democrats but will
believe you can actually accomplish it?
Yeah. So, the first thing is we can't be
distracted. um this president, you know,
there's a lot of things that I could say
about him, but one thing that I can say
is that he is a master of distraction. I
will give him that. Um and so he likes
to get people off on tangents. We've got
to keep people focused. We've got to be
disciplined and we've got to
continuously remind them as you are
trying to um deal with taking care of
your mother or your grandmother or your
grandfather um because now they may have
to live with you because now they can't
be in the assisted living that they
normally could be in. um as you're going
to the grocery store and the cost have
gone up yet your pay has not gone up. It
is important to remind people of the
source of their pain. And so that is why
right now the president who is the
source of the vast majority of the pain
that the American people are feeling
wants to deflect and tell people no no
no don't believe your lying eyes. This
doesn't have anything to do with me. It
has everything to do with Joe Biden who
I claim was cenile and didn't know what
he was doing. it's his fault, right?
Like it's it's absolutely insane. And
and again, I think the numbers are
showing. You can talk to me about polls,
but as we know, a lot of people don't
necessarily even trust polls, right?
But what you can't deny is the votes.
And when the votes are rolling in from
the historic elections that we had on
November 4th until even um as recently
as last week, it is showing that people
are wide awake and they are not happy
with how this administration is handling
everything from immigration to the
economy.
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