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Raw Milk Debate
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You know, I would have loved to continue the conversation, but you know, we also have limited time. | |
| It's always a great pleasure, Sheikh Bahmat, Prime Minister of Qatar, to both have you and Davos, but also to listen to your insights. | ||
| So thank you very much. | ||
| This morning, House Speaker Mike Johnson delivered remarks to the United Kingdom's Parliament in London as our nation commemorates the 250th anniversary of American independence. | ||
| He was the first U.S. Speaker of the House to address Parliament. | ||
| Watch his remarks tonight at 9 Eastern on C-SPAN, C-SPAN Now, our free mobile app, and online at C-SPAN.org. | ||
| Best ideas and best practices can be found anywhere. | ||
| We have to listen so we can govern better. | ||
| Democracy depends on heavy doses of civility. | ||
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You can fight and still be friendly. | |
| Bridging the divide in American politics. | ||
| You know, you may not agree with the Democrat in everything, but you can find areas where you do agree. | ||
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He's a pretty likable guy as well. | |
| Chris Koons and I are actually friends. | ||
| He votes wrong all the time, but we're actually friends. | ||
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A horrible secret that Scott and I have is that we actually respect each other. | |
| We all don't hate each other. | ||
| You two actually kind of like each other. | ||
| These are the kinds of secrets we'd like to expose. | ||
| It's nice to be with a member who knows what they're talking about. | ||
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You guys did agree to the civility, all right? | |
| He owes my son $10 from a bed for a year. | ||
| And he has never paid for it. | ||
| Fork it over. | ||
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That's fighting words right there. | |
| I'm glad I'm not in charge of it. | ||
| I'm thrilled to be on the show with him. | ||
| There are not shows like this, right? | ||
| Incentivizing that relationship. | ||
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Ceasefire, Friday nights on C-SPAN. | |
| Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rowland spoke about the U.S. food supply, agricultural production, and nutrition programs during brief remarks outside the White House. | ||
| During her discussion with reporters, the Secretary also talks about the first year of the second Trump administration. | ||
| First of all, what an exciting day. | ||
| Exactly a year ago, we arrived for the first time. | ||
| The president sworn in again. | ||
| And I would just like to say from my perspective as Secretary of Agriculture, I don't know that there has ever been a president who has been more focused on our rural communities, our agriculture producers, our food supply. | ||
| And when you look at, I think, what's happened over the last year, and especially with what we inherited, no new trade deals under the Biden administration, a $50 billion agriculture deficit after four years of Biden. | ||
| We left here with an agriculture trade surplus. | ||
| And the cost of inputs for our food producers going up between 30 and 40 percent, as high as 73 percent for interest rates. | ||
| We have already begun to bring a lot of that down and to take certain action. | ||
| And then the flip side, and I think this could go down perhaps as one of the most important things this president did, and that is the fight to make America healthy again. | ||
| The very end of the year, beginning of this year, Bobby Kennedy and I rolled out our new dietary guidelines as we work to completely recalibrate what it is, especially through our nutrition programs at USDA, school lunches, snap programs, etc. | ||
| We have a massive chronic health disease crisis in this country, and this is the way to fix it. | ||
| So very, very proud of this president. | ||
| Of course, the secure borders, lowering inflation, cutting taxes, solving a lot of the wars across the world. | ||
| There's just so much to be proud of. | ||
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Secretary McCarthy, real quick, you got some criticism for a comment that you made on News Nation, actually, about a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, and a tortilla, and one other item being around $3. | |
| Do you regret those remarks? | ||
| Do you think you were a little bit flip about the price of groceries? | ||
| Well, I regret that I didn't make it sound like a more robust plate because that is what I meant to make it sound like a really big piece of chicken. | ||
| When I said a piece of broccoli, I meant like a big, I'm a mom of four and I cook broccoli a lot. | ||
| For me, that's a big head of broccoli, a baked potato, etc., a couple pieces of bread. | ||
| I just came from a meeting where over at USDA, right before I got back here to the White House, where every week I'll check on food prices. | ||
| And about two weeks ago, I asked our economists over at USDA, said, I really want y'all to dig in. | ||
| The food on this now upside-down triangle, what exactly, the food on the triangle, if you were to put that together and you were to put a day's worth of meals together, whether it's pork or salmon, I'm kind of thinking of the food triangle, a glass of whole milk, whole grain bread, fruits and vegetables, rice and beans, etc. | ||
| I said, come back to me and let me know. | ||
| And I don't want any funny business with numbers. | ||
| Like, I really want to know what that looks like because we had run almost a thousand simulations, and between three and four dollars is a fair number if you can have access to that food. | ||
| So just about an hour ago, I saw new numbers that were run. | ||
| A full day, meaning three full square meals and a snack, is about $15.64, $15.64. | ||
| That's all three meals and a snack. | ||
| So we'll be talking more about that in the coming days and weeks. | ||
| Part of me sort of cringed at the criticism that I got because it wasn't what I meant. | ||
| And I grew up with a single mom in a really small town and certainly never meant to be flippant. | ||
| But I also think that the left or those that were attacking me perhaps know that this is an issue that 90% of Americans agree on. | ||
| It is one that no one's really done anything about until this administration. | ||
| And it is one where we will fundamentally, I believe, change the trajectory of our country by changing the health of our country. | ||
| I'm really proud of that. | ||
| So thank you, though, for letting me explain that. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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And, Secretary, you've probably seen in the past couple years the whole big thing about raw milk. | |
| And a lot of the mainstream media, I'm with Real America's voice, a lot of them say, you know, the whole idea of not having raw milk is the pasteurization of that. | ||
| Have you been able to actually see any difference? | ||
| If they're actually, my family, raw milk, raw butter, grew up on a farm. | ||
| That's just, that's what we do. | ||
| Have you been able to kind of back up anything that they're saying, or would you say it's healthy? | ||
| You know, we are looking into every bit of that. | ||
| Obviously, as a farm grow myself, I'm really, really proud of the dairy producers and the raw milk. | ||
| We were a little bit a part of that when I was growing up. | ||
| I do know, I think, almost 23 states. | ||
| It says it is allowable to sell and serve raw milk. | ||
| You just can't take it across state lines. | ||
| So that's kind of where a lot of the rub is right now: is there something we should do to allow the market to open up for raw milk? | ||
| I think that we are making such great progress on all fronts regarding eating real food, getting whole milk back into schools. | ||
| I think the raw milk discussion is a really important one. | ||
| And I'm going to keep working with the states to make sure that every family in this country has access to the nutritious, healthy, real food they need for their children. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Thank you guys so much. | ||
| Thanks, everybody. | ||
| Y'all too. | ||
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China's Commitment to Multilateralism
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No commentary, no agenda, just democracy. | |
| Unfiltered every day on the C-SPAN networks. | ||
| Remarks now from the Chinese vice premier at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. | ||
| He argues there were no winners in the trade wars and escalations of tariffs seen during the second Trump administration. | ||
| The Vice Premier proposed deepening global economic ties and lowering trade barriers and reaffirmed China's commitment to the World Trade Organization. | ||
| Here's a look. | ||
| First, an apology because of the intense traffic. | ||
| I was a little bit late. | ||
| Sorry about that. | ||
| Chairman Andre Hoffman. | ||
| Chairman Lawrence Fink. | ||
| President Grande, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, friends, good morning. | ||
| It gives me great pleasure to join you in beautiful Davos for the World Economic Forum annual meeting. | ||
| Under the theme of Spirit of Dialogue, it is timely that we listen to each other, learn from each other, and build stronger trust with each other. | ||
| In 2017, facing backlash against globalization, President Xi Jinping gave an incisive answer to the question, what has gone wrong with the world and what should we do about it here in Davos? | ||
| As he pointed out, any attempt to channel the waters in the ocean back into isolated lakes and creeks is simply not possible and runs counter to the historical trend. | ||
| His important speech offered much enlightenment and brought the world some sunshine, as the World Economic Forum described. | ||
| In 2021, President Xi proposed that we should let the torch of multilateralism light up humanity's way forward. | ||
| One year later, on the major question of how to rebuild from COVID, President Xi underscored that amidst the rage and torrents of a global crisis, countries are not riding separately in some 190 small boats, but are rather all in a giant ship on which our shared destiny hinges. | ||
| Over nine years, guided by President Xi's important remarks, China has consistently acted on the vision of a community with a shared future for humanity and remained steadfast in supporting multilateralism and free trade. | ||
| Today, President Xi's insights continue to resonate and remain as inspiring as ever. | ||
| As we speak, transformation not seen in a century is accelerating across the world. | ||
| Rising unilateralism and protection, compounded by the impacts of regional conflicts and geopolitics, are bringing new changes to the global economic and trade order. | ||
| In particular, since last year, tariff and trade wars have inflicted significant shocks on the world economy and posed serious challenges to multilateralism and free trade. | ||
| In response to the changes of the world, of our times and in the dynamics, President Xi has put forward the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and last year, the Global Governance Initiative, pulling consensus and strength for solidarity and cooperation over division and confrontation, and providing China's solution to the common problems of the world. | ||
| In light of the current situation, I wish to share a few observations. | ||
| First, we should firmly support free trade and jointly promote a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization. | ||
| Economic globalization, driven by international specialization, collaboration, complementary strengths, and the pursuit of wing-wing, is a prevailing trend of history. | ||
| It has benefited many countries, including China, and enabled them to achieve fast development. | ||
| On the contrary, tariffs and trade wars have no winners. | ||
| Beyond driving up costs for production and trade, they fragment the world economy and disrupt the global distribution of resources. | ||
| WTO data shows that the share of global trade under most favoured nation terms has dropped from 80% at the beginning of last year to 72%. | ||
| The IMF estimates that economic fragmentation can reduce global economic output by about 7%. | ||
| That is in no country's interest. | ||
| While economic globalization is not perfect and may cause some problems, we cannot completely reject it and retreat to self-imposed isolation. | ||
| The right approach should be and can only be to find solutions together through dialogue and steer economic globalization in the correct direction. | ||
| China advocates a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization. | ||
| We are committed to building bridges, not walls. | ||
| We will firmly support trade and investment liberalization and facilitation and continue to share development opportunities with the world. | ||
| We will work with all parties to create a bright future of prosperity and development where every country and every community shares the dividends of development. | ||
| Second, we should firmly safeguard multilateralism and make the international economic and trade order more just and equitable. | ||
| The multilateral trading system now faces the most serious challenges in years. | ||
| The unilateral acts and trade deals of certain countries clearly violate the fundamental principles and rules of the WTO and severely impact the global economic and trade order. | ||
| As President Xi Jinping noted, at difficult times, we must uphold our original commitment to peaceful coexistence and strengthen our confidence in win-win cooperation. | ||
| Multilateralism is the right way to keep the international order stable and promote humanity's development and progress. | ||
| The rules must apply equally to everyone. | ||
| A handful of countries should not enjoy privileges based on their strengths, and the world must not return to the law of the jungle where the strong bully the weak. | ||
| Every country is entitled to defend its legitimate rights and interests. | ||
| Since joining the WTO, China has strictly followed the organization's rules, earnestly fulfilled its commitments, and taken voluntary steps to contribute more. | ||
| Last year, it solemnly announced that it will not seek new, special, and differential treatment in current and future negotiations at the WTO. | ||
| China will continue to firmly uphold the WTO-centered rules-based multilateral trading system and firmly support the reforms of multilateral institutions, including the WTO and the IMF, with a view to enhancing the authority, effectiveness, and inclusiveness of the multilateral trading system and increasing the representation of the global south and developing countries. | ||
| China is glad to see countries reaching trade agreements that are mutually beneficial, but these agreements should comply with WTO rules and not undermine the interests of third parties. | ||
| Third, we should pursue win-win cooperation, work together to make the pie bigger, and jointly resolve development issues. | ||
| Currently, world economic growth is lacking momentum. | ||
| The IMF forecasts global growth of 3.1% for 2026, which is below the pre-COVID average of 3.7%. | ||
| What is more worrying is that unfairness continues to grow and sustainable development is facing severe challenges. | ||
| According to a UN report, two-thirds of the sustainable development goals will not be met by 2030. | ||
| The pursuit of development should not be a you-lose-i-win zero-sum game. | ||
| Rather, every party should play its part and get its fair share. | ||
| Making the pie bigger together is more important than fighting for the pie, and solving problems together is more effective than blaming each other. | ||
| China is committed to fostering common prosperity with its trading partners through its own development and making the pie bigger for global economy and trade. | ||
| We never seek trade surplus. | ||
| On top of being the world's factory, we hope to be the world's market too. | ||
| However, in many cases, when China wants to buy, others don't want to sell. | ||
| Trade issues often become security hurdles. | ||
| On the other hand, services now account for two-thirds of global GDP. | ||
| China has recorded a large deficit in its services trade over the long term, but it never feels being taken advantage of. | ||
| We will give full play to our supersized market, step up our efforts to expand import and strengthen industrial cooperation so that countries can better share in China's opportunities. | ||
| Fourth, we should uphold mutual respect and equal-footed consultation and manage differences and solve problems through dialogue. | ||
| Last year, economic and trade relations between China and the United States went through some ups and downs. | ||
| Guided by the common understandings of the two presidents from their meeting in Busan and four phone calls, Chinese and U.S. teams had five realms of consultation and economic trade issues. | ||
| Following the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and winning cooperation, they properly handled some outstanding issues and kept the economic and trade relationship generally stable. | ||
| Facts have demonstrated once again that China and the United States will gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation, and that they should and can help each other succeed and prosper together. | ||
| The trade talks also showed that as long as the two sides engage in equal food consultation and work in the same direction, there will always be more solutions than problems. | ||
| To be frank, it's normal for countries with different social systems, stages of development, histories, and cultures to encounter divergences and frictions as they develop and interact. | ||
| But sometimes these are merely misunderstandings. | ||
| The key is to uphold the spirit of equality, respect and mutual benefit, build trust through dialogue, and resolve disputes through consultation. | ||
| Instead of looking for answers from confrontation or antagonism, we must find a way out through communication and consultation and explore the path of win-win and all-win. | ||
| China is a trading partner, not a rival for other countries. | ||
| And China's development presents an opportunity, not a threat, to the world's economy. | ||
| When it comes to differences and misunderstandings in international economic and trade cooperation, China calls for equal consultation to enhance mutual trust, bridge differences, and solve problems. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, friends, over the past five years, the Chinese economy has made steady progress. | ||
| We have deepened reform and opening up, continued to expand the consumer market, made solid headway in developing new quality productive forces, and accelerated the green and low-carbon transition. | ||
| With an average annual growth rate of around 5.4%, China's economy has expanded to 140 trillion RMB yuan, contributing approximately 30% to global economic growth. | ||
| Over the past five years, China has imported over 15 trillion US dollars worth of goods and services. | ||
| Its overseas investment has generated over 300 billion US dollars of tax revenue, created numerous jobs, and boosted local economic growth. | ||
| The Chinese economy is on solid foundations, demonstrating advantages in many areas, strong resilience, and great potential. | ||
| China's development has been achieved mainly through reform, opening up, and innovation, rather than so-called government subsidies. | ||
| Admittedly, we do face some old and new problems and challenges, but they are predominantly the growing pains of our development and transition, and we are working hard on them. | ||
| And we are fully confident and capable of tackling all kinds of risks and challenges. | ||
| Last October, the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held its fourth plenary session and adopted the recommendations for the 15th five-year plan, laying out the top-level design and strategic blueprint for China's economic and social development in the next five years. | ||
| China will further apply the new development philosophy of innovative, coordinated, green, open, and shared development put forward by President Xi Jinping. | ||
| Work faster to foster a new development paradigm with domestic circulation as the mainstay and domestic and international circulations reinforcing each other. | ||
| Fully tap into the potential of our supersized market with 1.4 billion people and strive for new progress in high-quality development. | ||
| We will improve our market rules and institutional safeguards and provide more opportunities for all other countries. | ||
| China will actively expand domestic demand and share with the world the opportunities in its fast market. | ||
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China's Consumption Boom
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| Currently, China is the world's second largest consumer market, and in many segments, such as automobile, mobile phone, and home appliances, it is already the largest one. | ||
| But its per capita consumer spending is still below that of developed economies. | ||
| As China's middle-income group continues to grow, there will be more and more diverse needs for a higher quality of life, which means immense potential for consumption. | ||
| China has put domestic demand on top of its economic agenda this year and is working faster on an income growth plan for both urban and rural residents to vigorously boost consumption and make itself a consumption powerhouse on top of a manufacturing powerhouse. | ||
| China will continuously promote investment in both physical assets and in human capital, actively expand investment and consumption in such areas as education, medical services, and elderly care, and create more space for consumption. | ||
| We will continue to host events such as the China International Import Expo, further expand import, and encourage more quality products across the globe to enter the Chinese market. | ||
| We encourage businesses from around the world to seize the opportunities presented by our expanding domestic demand, provide more and better products and services, and further explore China's consumer market so as to gain a head start in the fierce international competition. | ||
| China will steadfastly expand opening up and share with the world the opportunities from its high standard opening up. | ||
| Reform and opening up is China's fundamental state policy. | ||
| China will open its doors still wider to the world. | ||
| China will actively expand voluntary opening up, align with high-standard international economic and trade rules, expand market access and open more areas, particularly in the service sector, and step up our efforts to attract and utilize foreign investment. | ||
| China will continue to foster a market-oriented, law-based, and world-class business environment, provide equal treatment for both domestic and foreign enterprises, and make the demand list of businesses a service list of the government. | ||
| Should foreign enterprises encounter any problems in China, please do not hesitate to inform us, and we will actively address them. | ||
| China is committed to deepening international industrial specialization and collaboration, keeping global industrial and supply chains secure and stable, and building a global market of shared benefits. | ||
| We welcome foreign enterprises to invest in China and share in China's opportunities. | ||
| We also hope governments of other countries can provide a fair, non-discriminatory, transparent, and predictable investment environment for Chinese enterprises. | ||
| China will accelerate sci-tech innovation and share with the world the opportunities from its innovation-driven development. | ||
| The latest round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is unfolding at a faster pace, creating new historical opportunities. | ||
| Innovation is an essential engine for China's high-quality economic development, and Chinese modernization must be underpinned by modernization in science and technology. | ||
| Currently, China has the biggest number of researchers and international patent applications. | ||
| There are diverse scenarios for application and a sound environment for innovation. | ||
| And now AI is empowering various sectors. | ||
| China will continue to promote full integration between technological and industrial innovation, strengthen the protection and application of intellectual property rights, and stimulate the vitality of all innovators. | ||
| Scientific and technological progress cannot be achieved without international cooperation, and innovation brings both opportunities and risks. | ||
| China is ready to work with all other countries in a spirit of openness and cooperation to advance scientific innovation, empower the world economy, and address global challenges in such areas as AI governance. | ||
| China's innovation-driven development not only serves itself, but also benefits the world. | ||
| We welcome companies from around the world to deepen cooperation with China on innovation and sharing the opportunities presented by innovation-driven development. | ||
| China will pursue green development and share with the world the opportunities from green and low-carbon transition. | ||
| At the UN climate summit last September, President Xi Jinping solemnly announced China's 2035 nationally determined contributions. | ||
| This is the first time that China put forward an absolute emissions reduction target, which is a testament to China's firm resolve and maximum effort. | ||
| China has put in place the world's largest renewable energy system and the most complete new energy industrial change. | ||
| We will control both the total amount and intensity of carbon emissions across the board and strive to achieve carbon peaking before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060. | ||
| China will work with all other parties to fully and effectively implement the UNFCCC and its Paris Agreement, uphold the multilateral process on climate change and actively promote global green and low-carbon development. | ||
| China will work with all parties to foster closer partnerships for green development, address the shortfall in green production capacity, and ensure the free flow of quality green products globally. | ||
| We invite enterprises from all over the world to embrace the opportunities for green the low-carbon transition, work closely with China in such areas as green infrastructure, green energy, green minerals, and green finance, and jointly create a green and prosperous future. | ||
| Ladies and gentlemen, friends, the wisdom of Davos lies in dialogue, and the future of the world hinges on cooperation. | ||
| As President Xi Jinping noted, for us to break through the mist and embrace a bright future, the biggest strength comes from cooperation, and the most effective way is through solidarity. | ||
| Let us uphold the vision of a community with a shared future for humanity, carry forward a spirit of dialogue, enhance openness and cooperation, and steer the giant ship of the world economy steadily forward on the vast blue ocean, breaking all winds and waves. | ||
| Let's build a better future for all. | ||
| I wish this annual meeting a full success. | ||
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This morning, House Speaker Mike Johnson delivered remarks to the United Kingdom's Parliament in London as our nation commemorates the 250th anniversary of American independence. | |
| He was the first U.S. Speaker of the House to address Parliament. | ||
| Watch his remarks tonight at 9 Eastern on C-SPAN, C-SPAN Now, our free mobile app, and online at c-span.org. | ||
| So you interviewed the other night. | ||
| I watched it about 2 o'clock in the morning. | ||
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There was a little thing called C-SPAN, which I don't know how many people were watching. | |
| Don't worry, you were in prime time too, but they happened to have a little re-run. | ||
| Do you really think that we don't remember what just happened last week? | ||
| Thank goodness for C-SPAN, and we all should review the tape. | ||
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Everyone wonders when they're watching C-SPAN what the conversations are on the floor. | |
| I'm about to read to you something that was published by C-SPAN. | ||
| There's a lot of things that Congress fights about, that they disagree on. | ||
| We can all watch that on C-SPAN. | ||
| Millions of people across the country tuned into C-SPAN. | ||
| That was a May-for-C-SPAN moment. | ||
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If you watch on C-SPAN, you're going to see me physically across the aisle every day, just trying to build relationships and try to understand their perspective and find common ground. | |
| And welcome aboard everybody watching at home. | ||
| We know C-SPAN covers this live as well. | ||
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We appreciate that. | |
| And one can only hope that he's able to watch C-SPAN on a black and white television set in his prison cell. | ||
| This is being carried live by C-SPAN. | ||
| It is being watched not only in this country, but it's being watched around the world right now. | ||
| Mike said before, I happened to listen to him. | ||
| He was on C-SPAN 1. | ||
| That's a big upgrade, right? | ||
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Primary Battle Heating Up
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Rita Dove, Hulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate. | |
| The books, the voices, the places that preserve our past and spark the ideas that will shape our future. | ||
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| Welcome back. | ||
| Joining us now to talk all things Senate is Senate and Governor's Editor for Cook Political Report, Jessica Taylor. | ||
| Jessica, thanks so much for being with us this morning. | ||
| Thanks for having me. | ||
| All right, let's dive right in. | ||
| Obviously, this is going to be a busy year for the Senate, midterm elections, and the House. | ||
| Remind our audience, though, what control of Senate currently looks like, and how many seats do Democrats need to win to take that control? | ||
| Right now, Democrats, or Republicans rather, have a 52-48 majority, and they need four seats in order to flip that. | ||
| And the number of seats that are up, Republicans have more seats up, but they're in safer seats. | ||
| And so that four is really difficult to do because there's only one Republican-held seat that is up in a state that Kamala Harris won, which is Maine Susan Collins. | ||
| And even though she sits in a blue state, she has won election after election. | ||
| Despite that, the next possible pickup that we rate as a Tosh Up is in North Carolina, where Chuck Schumer successfully recruited former Governor Roy Cooper into the race. | ||
| You have former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Watley running there. | ||
| And then beyond those two, you have to go into double-digit Trump states. | ||
| So they are looking at states like Ohio, where they did get former Senator Sherrod Brown to run, or Alaska, where just last week former Congresswoman Mary Peltola announced. | ||
| But then Democrats also have their own states that they're defending. | ||
| They're defending an open seat in Michigan that has a very crowded and potentially contentious Democratic primary that's not going to be decided until August. | ||
| They're defending Georgia with John Ossoff. | ||
| I was going to ask you about Georgia here, that seat held by Democrat John Osoff. | ||
| Who is challenging him and what are the risks to offshoot in that seat? | ||
| Obviously, we know he won it during a special election, I believe, before. | ||
| Talk to it. | ||
| Walk us through that race. | ||
| Yeah, so this is a place where Republicans didn't get their number one recruit that they wanted, who was former or current governor Brian Kemp, who is term limited. | ||
| So there is a three-way primary right now happening between two congressmen, Buddy Carter, who represents the Savannah area, Mike Collins, who represents the Athens area, and then former University of Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley. | ||
| Now Dooley has Kemp's endorsement, but he's a newcomer to politics. | ||
| Carter's put in a lot of his own money. | ||
| Collins has gotten a lot of county chairman and different things across the state. | ||
| So this is the primary is still pretty up in the air. | ||
| Trump has not weighed in here. | ||
| And as we see in most Republican primaries, that can be really determinative if he decides to. | ||
| Now, how much did Trump win Georgia by? | ||
| And what is the risk to Osoff, no matter who wins the Republican primary on his side? | ||
| Osoff is obviously running in a very trumpy state. | ||
| Yes, he is. | ||
| But I mean, again, you know, Trump lost it in 2020 very narrowly, won it again in 2024. | ||
| So, but this is in a midterm election like we saw, like we saw with Raphael Warnock that won that seat in 2022. | ||
| It went to a runoff. | ||
| That could happen again. | ||
| They've still got to get to 50% plus one if there's more candidates in that race. | ||
| But Osoff has amassed a massive war chest. | ||
| He's been able to do that because he doesn't have a Democratic primary challenger. | ||
| He's been a prodigious fundraiser. | ||
| So Osoff, I think, is sitting better in this position than we believe that he might have been, say, at the beginning of 2025. | ||
| So this seat, I think, is looking better for Democrats in that regard because Republicans have a messy primary still. | ||
| Osoff has been able to amass money. | ||
| In midterm years, we do see potentially higher black turnout in the Atlanta area and things to all things. | ||
| And if that Trump base stays home in a midterm election, if they're very frustrated with him, as we see polls indicate, that can certainly help Osoff. | ||
| Now let's turn a little bit further away from Georgia to Michigan. | ||
| The current Democrat in that Senate seat, Gary Peters, is retiring, creating an open seat. | ||
| Who is running to fill it? | ||
| And what is the current polling now? | ||
| So right now you have really a reverse of what happened in 2024, which was also an open seat when Deputy Stapenow retired. | ||
| And Democrats coalesced behind Alyssa Slotkin versus Republicans had a primary there. | ||
| The opposite is happening right now. | ||
| The 2024 nominee, former Congressman Mike Rogers, is running again. | ||
| Now he narrowly, very narrowly lost that seat, but it was at the same time that Trump, of course, won Michigan. | ||
| So he underperformed Trump. | ||
| So he needs to get back out Trump voters that is typically more difficult in a midterm environment than we have seen in Michigan. | ||
| But he is currently very narrowly leading the Democratic challengers in polls. | ||
| But Democrats have a three-way primary that, again, isn't going to be resolved until August. | ||
| And so you have current Congresswoman Haley Stevens running. | ||
| She's seen as the choice of the Democratic establishment. | ||
| She formerly worked on the auto bailouts and things. | ||
| And then you have state senator Mallory McMorrow. | ||
| She sort of went viral for a House floor speech. | ||
| So she's sort of running a sort of a new progressive in a way. | ||
| And then further left in the progressive lane, you have former Wayne County Health Chief Abdul Al-Syed. | ||
| He's been endorsed by Bernie Sanders. | ||
| You know, I think that Stevens and probably McMorrow would not endanger this seat, but I think that Al-Syed, if he were the nominee, that could really pose a problem for Democrats. | ||
| And I know we talked a little bit about Maine before. | ||
| Obviously, Susan Collins has won statewide time and time again, despite difficult races, despite people really doubting her in some of those races, a moderate there. | ||
| She also is running right now uncontested, though it's said that Trump has advocated for folks to jump in on that race against her. | ||
| But she's facing two Democrats in the race, or there are two Temperats running in the primary over there. | ||
| Can you break down that race for us? | ||
| Sure. | ||
| This is another place where Chuck Schumer got his favorite recruit in the current governor, Janet Mills, who's seen as more of a moderate. | ||
| But Graham Plattner, an oysterman there in Maine, also running Bernie Sanders' endorsement, running as a full-throated progressive, has really sort of captured lightning in a bottle there in Maine. | ||
| Now, there's been a lot of things that have come out against him. | ||