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| What's happening in California, but the larger issue. | ||
| Yeah, it's been really interesting to see, as Dave mentioned, the president has not been involved in California. | ||
| We know he has a personal foe in Gavin Newsom, and it is interesting that he doesn't want to take on Newsome just because it's Newsome. | ||
| I've been talking to folks around the White House. | ||
| It's been for two reasons. | ||
| One, the President's not getting involved in trying to take down Prop 50 and it's kind of accepted that it's going to happen because Republicans still think they have the upper hand in terms of the redistricting fight. | ||
| That sure Democrats can pick up five seats there because we got Texas, maybe North Carolina, wherever else. | ||
| And second, because the President thinks he has the upper hand on Newsom on other issues like crime and immigration. | ||
| So he doesn't need to take on this redistricting fight. | ||
| But it is just an interesting one because of this personal issue they've had. | ||
| We see Newsom on mocking the president on his own X account that does get under the White House's skin. | ||
| All caps, texts. | ||
| All caps. | ||
| And that the president doesn't want to get involved with this. | ||
| But I do think Republicans are feeling very good about their redistricting fights and are thinking of California as, sure, let that one go. | ||
| You can find the work of Alex Gangetano at Politico.com and Dave Weigel's work at semaphore.com. | ||
| To both of you, thanks for giving us your time today. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Again, if you want to participate in open forum, you have a chance to do so. | ||
| 202-748-8000 for Democrats, 202-748-8001 for Republicans. | ||
| And Independents, 2027-8002. | ||
| Tom is in Ohio. | ||
| Democrats line. | ||
| Tom, just to let you know, our guests have gone, but you're in Open Forum. | ||
| Tom, go ahead. | ||
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Well, hello. | |
| It's nice to speak to you. | ||
| My comment is there was a photograph of President Trump with Jeffries and Schumer. | ||
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And the first thing Trump did was hand them Trump 2028 hats. | |
| They're sitting on the desk in the picture. | ||
| How do you negotiate with somebody that is such a juvenile that would do that? | ||
| That's first of all. | ||
| Second of all, a year ago, our country was doing great, especially in Ohio. | ||
| It was just moving along. | ||
| And then Trump gets in there and everything is right down the tubes. | ||
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And then one more thing. | |
| How come the big beautiful bill was passed with 51 votes, but we need 60 to end this debacle? | ||
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So anyway, thanks. | |
| I appreciate your C-SPAN. | ||
| Thanks a lot. | ||
| Spring, Texas, Republican line. | ||
| Hello. | ||
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Hello. | |
| Hi, you're on. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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Oh, thank you, sir. | |
| Okay, I see that, you know, this blame game can go on forever. | ||
| However, I'm thinking one sure way to get everybody happy. | ||
| The Democrats are wanting to litigate the ACA before the government, you know, before they'll vote yes to open the government. | ||
| President Trump is telling the Republicans to use the nuclear option, which they are reluctant to do. | ||
| They don't want to do that. | ||
| But if the Republicans go to the Democrats and say, look, if we're forced to use the nuclear option, all discussions of ACA are off the table. | ||
| That way they might think, well, the only way they're going to litigate it is if we vote yes to open the government. | ||
| Both of them will be kind of on the hook. | ||
| Republicans don't want to go with the nuclear option. | ||
| And I don't think they'll be in any position. | ||
| They won't be in any form of their attitude won't be right towards discussion that discussing the ACA. | ||
| They're not going to be happy about using the nuclear option. | ||
| And that might work. | ||
| Think about it. | ||
| Cynthia, in Spring, Texas, ABC offers a little instructive site or a story when it takes a look at the filibuster, asking the question: what is it? | ||
| The long-standing rule allows any one senator to block or delay action on a bill or other matter by extending debate. | ||
| It requires 60 votes or three-fifths of the Senate to end debate and advance legislation to a final vote when it then just needs a simple majority to pass. | ||
| The filibuster's unlimited debate rule first emerged in the 19th century. | ||
| In 1917, the Senate adopted Rule 22 that made it possible to break a filibuster with a cloture vote, giving rise to the modern-day filibuster. | ||
| It's a tool that empowers the minority party but has frustrated majorities for decades. | ||
| That is ABC's site. | ||
| If you want to learn more about the filibuster, how it works. | ||
| Leonard in North Dakota, Independent Line. | ||
| Hello. | ||
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Hello. | |
| Thanks for taking my call. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Marjorie Taylor Green kind of hit it on the head. | ||
| I had a similar experience with my health care. | ||
| I had a small construction company in Michigan. | ||
| Back when Obamacare passed, I had called at Blue Cross New Shield trying to get insurance for my employees. | ||
| They basically laughed at me, not saying I could never afford it. | ||
| I think the insurance companies and hospitals being able to just have government money at will at any cost, they just, whatever the bill was, the government was throwing money their way, trying to cut people out of the system like me. | ||
| And it's socialism and the capitalism are clashing right now. | ||
| And I don't think any amount of money is going to save the system because greed, people just want more and more. | ||
| You can never print enough money. | ||
| But hopefully people stand up, work together. | ||
| People are going to have to take care of one another. | ||
| The system, the government, the money's not going to do it. | ||
| It's going to be humanity and the love for each other that's going to help us survive through this. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Let's go to DJ, DJ and Maryland, Democrats line. | ||
| Hello. | ||
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Yes, good morning. | |
| I'm calling this morning in regards to the shutdown and health care mainly. | ||
| We keep talking about the subsidies that were given from COVID. | ||
| Can we look back at COVID and how bad it was? | ||
| Maybe all these people that denied COVID should send back all those checks that were issued to them. | ||
| Can we look at how many government employees have been fired since the beginning of the year? | ||
| Not to mention the military members that have been either demoted or retired. | ||
| So with the shutdown, when they all go back to work, how many government employees are we actually going to have? | ||
| DJ and Maryland, let's go to Dennis. | ||
| Dennis joins us from Indiana, Republican line. | ||
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Yeah, I would just like to remind the American people that it was the Democrats that shoved the Unaffordable Care Act down our throats. | |
| And as Republicans, we tried to tell the people at the time what this was about. | ||
| And here we see they've made it so it's unaffordable. | ||
| They're just trying to force socialized medicine down our throat. | ||
| And now to do it, Chuck Schumer wants to starve innocent children to death. | ||
| This is Chuck Schumer's fault. | ||
| Plain and simple, he is the only. | ||
| Let's hear from Kenny. | ||
| Kenny is in Georgia, Independent Line. | ||
| Hi, Kenny. | ||
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So the Republicans don't want to get rid of the filibuster because they're afraid if the Democrats take power, they're going to pass Medicare for all, pre-public college, and universal pre-K, which are good things that I support. | |
| And so that's why I blame the Republicans. | ||
| And that's my comic. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Bye-bye. | ||
| Brian, up next, Brian in South Carolina, Republican line. | ||
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Oh, yes. | |
| I just, I want to talk about the people that were on a while ago, the reporters. | ||
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I wish that they would just take a camera and a microphone and go to the nearest, not in Washington, D.C., but in their local cities and towns in this country, go to the DSS, Department of Social Services. | |
| If they want to see where government money and state money is going, they have a line for Spanish-speaking people. | ||
| They have a line for English-speaking people. | ||
| And I'm just going to say that if Democrats get back into office again, it won't be 20 million. | ||
| It'll be 100 million illegals will be brought in next time. | ||
| So think about it when you go vote. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| That's Brian there in South Carolina. | ||
| We had our previous guest talk about some of these races that will be at the front and center on Tuesday. | ||
| The Sight Real Clear Politics provides an average of recent polling to give you a sense of where that race is at when they look at the New Jersey governor's race between Republican Jack Chitterelli, Democrat Mikey Sherrill, with those combination of polls. | ||
| Cheryl with a 3.3% lead, at least with the combination of these polls going into Election Day on Tuesday. | ||
| The Virginia governor's race with the Republican Lieutenant Governor Wilson Earl Sears versus Abigail Spanberger. | ||
| When you look at those combined polls, Abigail Spanberger with a 7.6% lead combining those polls. | ||
| And the Lieutenant Governor's race, which has become of interest in days because of Jay Jones, the Democrat versus Jason Miares, the current Attorney General in Virginia, it's Jason Miares leading with a 3.5% lead when you look at those combinations of polls going into Tuesday. | ||
| And as we heard our guest, Dave Weigel talk about the New York City's mayor race, Mr. Mandami, leading with a 14.5% lead, at least taking a look at those polls. | ||
| Again, be part of C-SPAN's coverage come Tuesday from this program and throughout the day into the evening, an analysis, and we'll give you results. | ||
| We'll let you have a chance to comment on these various races and the electoral process as well. | ||
| Look for that coming on Election Day this coming Tuesday. | ||
| Let's hear from Steve. | ||
| Steve is in Illinois, Democrats line. | ||
| Hello. | ||
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Hi, good morning. | |
| I would like to mention that Mr. | ||
| Schumer is sticking up for people because in the big, beautiful lie that is trying to be duped over the people of the country is the thing to make the wealthiest people have even more of a tax break, as they did in Trump's first term, and to let it be permanent forever. | ||
| We should be paying for making the billionaires trillionaires? | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| And I think before anything happens, that should be taken out and the people protected for all the other rights that are being taken away by Trump and his cronies. | ||
| I thank you and good morning. | ||
| Next, Gary joins us from Texas, Independent Line. | ||
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Hi. | |
| Hello, thank you for taking my call. | ||
| I'd like to maybe expand on what the last person said. | ||
| And the Republicans run around going, why won't the Democrats vote for this clean, continuous resolution? | ||
| They voted for the last three. | ||
| Why won't they vote for this one? | ||
| It's exactly the same. | ||
| There's a big difference. | ||
| The Republicans shoved the big, beautiful lie down our throats, which took health care away from millions and millions of Americans. | ||
| Yet they call this exactly the same clean, continuous resolution. | ||
| They're lying. | ||
| That's all there is. | ||
| That's the simplest way of saying it. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Joining us from Mississippi, this is Janet, Republican line. | ||
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Jeanette, yes. | |
| Jeanette, I'm sorry. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
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Okay, well, I think that they should not be taking the food stamps or nothing from the kids because kids has got, I understand, you know, an adults and stuff has got to, you know, not, you know, they won't, you know, be able to eat or whatever, but they could hustle for things, but kids can't and everything. | |
| So, you know, I think they need to put the food stamps back on like normal and open the White House or whatever and all that. | ||
| Because, you know, I don't think Trump, I always thought Trump was in it, but he ain't. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| I don't know who's doing this, but, you know, they don't need to take it out on the kids, you know, and stuff like that. | ||
| Okay. | ||
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So they need to do something. | |
| That's Jeanette there in Mississippi. | ||
| If you go to the front page of the New York Times, a story, it's a lead story focusing on what they describe the liberal justices of the Supreme Court. | ||
| Here's the headline: Liberal justices are split over Trump era strategy. | ||
| This is by Jody Cantor writing. | ||
| She says, for years, as the court has moved right, Justice Kagan has agonized over whether to be more confrontational confidence and has mostly concluded that to be effective, she must be careful about rocking the boat. | ||
| But in recent months, Justice Kagan's liberal colleague, Justice Kantanji Brown Jackson, has started warning the public that the boat is sinking. | ||
| The story going on to say, ever since Justice Jackson's arrival in 2022, friction has been building between her and Justice Soda Mayor and Kagan. | ||
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We take you live now to remarks by Jack Chitterelli, the Republican nominee in New Jersey's 2025 race for governor. | |
| He's speaking to supporters at a campaign rally in Toms River, New Jersey. | ||
| New Jersey geography. | ||
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When you're in Middlesex, you do not go out to Burlington County. | |
| You just don't. | ||
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We are going to win this race, and there's positive signs everywhere we're going to win this race. | |
| Have you seen the latest polls? | ||
| We are right where we need to be. | ||
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Right where we need to be. |