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Chair Ladies for the House Communication. | |
| The Speaker's Rooms, Washington, D.C., November 7th, 2025. | ||
| I hereby designate the period from Monday, November 10th, 2025 through Sunday, November 16th, 2025, as a district work period under clause 13 of Rule 1. | ||
| Signed sincerely, Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives. | ||
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Pursuant to Clause 13 of Rule 1, the House stands adjourned until noon on Monday, November 10th, 2025. | |
| And wrapping up today's brief House session on this Day 38 of the government shutdown, our live coverage of the House will continue, as always, when members return next here on C-SPAN. | ||
| Well, shortly, we will take you live to the National War College in Washington, D.C., where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to speak to a gathering of industry and military leaders and government officials. | ||
| Until then, here's a portion of this morning's Washington Journal. | ||
| Kuberman joining us next here this morning on the Washington Journal to talk about the Democratic Party, the future of it after Tuesday night's elections. | ||
| Carly Cooperman is a Democratic pollster and strategist. | ||
| I want to begin with your pre-election op-ed in the Hill newspaper, the headline, if Democrats want to win, they need to start driving in the middle lane. | ||
| What were you arguing here? | ||
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Yeah, I was arguing, broadly speaking, that the Democrats had lost in 2024 in large part because voters felt like that they were not, the party was not connected to them in terms of the issues that were really driving them, the cost of living. | |
| They were concerned about safety and security, both in terms of like public safety in their neighborhoods as well as the border control. | ||
| And so my argument was that in terms of winning big picture, in terms of gaining control back into the House and also swing states, that we saw a huge movement to Trump. | ||
| We really needed to see the party come back to the center in terms of issues that voters care about and connecting to voters. | ||
| And so, you know, then we had an election and Democrats had a really big night. | ||
| And I think there's a few takeaways, and I know we're going to talk about that today, but in two cases, in the cases of New Jersey and Virginia, we did see that play out. | ||
| Those are two candidates who absolutely are moderate or centrist Democrats who drove really, really hard home on the message of affordability, cost of living. | ||
| In Virginia, in particular, it was the case of the economy and having so many workers hit between the government shutdown and the Doge cuts that took place in the state as well. | ||
| And then in New York City, I would say that you had a candidate who really, really hit home with voters on the issue of affordability yet again, driving up costs. | ||
| A city like New York City that has just become so expensive for so many people. | ||
| And Mamdani ran a really strong and disciplined messaging campaign connecting on those same issues. | ||
| We already heard from Republicans following Tuesday night's elections and the election of Zorah Mamdani in the Big Apple saying that's the type of Democrat that is going to run the party, the Democratic socialist, and trying to strike fear in voters across the country that this is the future of the Democratic Party. | ||
| Would you advise or how would you advise the Democrats to respond before the next election cycle, the midterms in 2026? | ||
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Yeah, absolutely. | |
| Look, I think that the key thing about what we saw happening Tuesday night is that there is a big tent for the Democratic Party. | ||
| And this is a situation where we saw leaders literally across the political spectrum within the Democratic Party able to succeed because again, they were unified about two things. | ||
| One, a repudiation of Trump, who was elected because he said he was going to be the person that was going to address how expensive day-to-day life was for voters. | ||
| And not only has he not done that, but he has instead abused his powers in a wide range of other ways that voters aren't particularly pleased about. | ||
| And then number two, really connecting with voters on the fact that the day-to-day costs of their lives have not gotten any better and a large part of Americans feel that way. | ||
| And so what I would say to party and to the elected officials is that those are the themes that are going to be needed to drive home as they go into the election. | ||
| Now, in terms of who the party leaders are and who is going to step forward and ultimately, you know, in 2026 and 2028, I think that that, you know, we're going to see that play out. | ||
| And I would much rather see Democratic leaders have a conversation, you know, about the best ways to address affordability, whether it's, you know, some of the policies that Mom Dami supports in New York City versus some of the more centrist-oriented approaches that some of the other leaders take. | ||
| Yeah, I'd rather that conversation be what you're seeing amongst party leaders. | ||
| But I think that a lot of people know that New York City is a specific demographic in a specific area and that it's not necessarily applicable to the rest of the country. | ||
| But we're going to see. | ||
| You know, we've got strong Democratic leaders coming into next year. | ||
| Washington Post editorial this morning. | ||
| Outside of New York, Democratic socialism lost. | ||
| And the picture that they have here is of the Democratic mayor-elect Mary Sheffield on Tuesday. | ||
| And they list in numerous areas across the country in Tuesday's elections where they say moderate Democrats won, Democratic socialism lost. | ||
| And they say with Democratic socialists feeling emboldened, they write any silver lining, any silver linings are welcome. | ||
| Would you advise Democrats to run against Zoran Momdani? | ||
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No, I don't think that's going to be productive in this case. | |
| I mean, what I'm seeing people are doing is acknowledging that he ran a really strong campaign where he really connected to voters about an issue that is driving them. | ||
| I mean, these are the bread and butter issues of cost of living and affordability. | ||
| That being said, I think we've seen lots of Democratic leaders say, you know, I don't agree with some of the Democratic socialist policies that Momdami agrees with. | ||
| And that's okay. | ||
| And in those areas where other Democrats live, they know their electorate and they know their voters. | ||
| And those policies are not going to be well received. | ||
| And so they can acknowledge Mom Dami really energized voters, got young people to show up, got voters who had never shown up before for the first time to show up in record levels. | ||
| And yet his policies are not necessarily my policies. | ||
| And I can understand where we overlap in terms of affordability and also where we differ in terms of policies and approaches. | ||
| Respond to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. | ||
| This is a quote from her. | ||
| I think the message that sense is that the Democratic Party cannot last much longer by denying the future, by trying to undercut our young, by trying to undercut a next generation of diverse and upcoming Democrats that have the parties, the actual party, that are actual electorate and voter support. | ||
| It also puts folks on notice that we have a future to plan for. | ||
| We have a future to fight for. | ||
| And we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. | ||
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Yeah, look, AOC has been one of the most compelling Democratic Party leaders and speakers in recent history. | |
| You know, after Trump won, again, and the Democrats were generally feeling pretty negative and not quite sure how to come back. | ||
| You know, she did all of those tours and really energized voters. | ||
| And, you know, again, she, like Mom Dami, is able to connect to and really energize a certain part of the Democratic electorate. | ||
| And I think that's important. | ||
| And, you know, she's saying we have to be able to get people excited and get people connect to the people who are going to bring this party forward. | ||
| And, you know, I think that is true to some extent. | ||
| And it's just a matter of having a healthy debate about the policies to get there. | ||
| But I believe that she's right about the fact that you have to have Democratic elected officials and Democratic leaders energizing and connecting to voters or else those people are not going to turn out to vote. | ||
| One of the things Mom Dami was able to do in New York City is some of the big voter groups that moved to Trump that the Democratic Party had talked about losing in 2024, young voters, minority voters. | ||
| I mean, and we saw it in New Jersey and Virginia also, the independents, too. | ||
| These were voter groups that in this election actually went back to the Democrat. | ||
| And so it shows that there's a big space out there to connect with voters who are not happy with President Trump. | ||
| His approval rating is negative in all of those states and of course across the country. | ||
| And also to connect with people who feel like the reason that Trump was elected has not gotten better. | ||
| Let's get to phone calls here. | ||
| We're talking about the future of the Democratic Party, what it means for midterm elections in 2026. | ||
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And we'll leave this now to take you live to the National War College in Washington, D.C., where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will address a gathering of industry and military leaders and government officials. | |
| This is live coverage on C-SPAN. | ||
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