Speaker 1: We want to get into politics and the headlines I've
Speaker 1: seen this week and from Washington about the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1: There's a new CNN poll that shows the party's favorability
Speaker 1: among Americans has dropped to a record low. The poll
Speaker 1: was conducted for CNN via web and telephone on THESRS
Speaker 1: Opinion Panel. That's a nationally representative panel of US adults
Speaker 1: ages eighteen or older, recruited using probability based sampling techniques.
Speaker 1: To be clear, they are an independent research company, not
Speaker 1: right or left. So here's what the poll revealed. Many
Speaker 1: people in the Democratic Party are saying that leadership should
Speaker 1: do more to stand up to President Trump. It shows
Speaker 1: that Democrats and Democratic aligned in dependents say fifty seven
Speaker 1: to forty two percent that Democrats should mainly work to
Speaker 1: stop the Republican agenda rather than working with the GOP
Speaker 1: majority to get some Democratic ideas into legislation. The survey
Speaker 1: was taken days before ten Democratic senators, including Senate Minority
Speaker 1: Leader Chuck Schumer, voted with Republicans to advance a GOP
Speaker 1: authored spending bill to avert a government shutdown. The survey
Speaker 1: also revealed the Democratic lined adults say fifty two to
Speaker 1: forty eight percent that the leadership of the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: is currently taking the party in the wrong direction. There's
Speaker 1: another shift from eight years ago, when views on the
Speaker 1: same metric were largely positive. And finally, the poll revealed
Speaker 1: that among the American public overall, the Democratic Party's favorability
Speaker 1: rating stands at just twenty nine percent. That's a record
Speaker 1: low in CNN's polling dating back to nineteen ninety two,
Speaker 1: and a drop of twenty points since January twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: when Trump left his first term under the shadow of
Speaker 1: the January sixth attack on the Capitol. Okay, again, the
Speaker 1: poll was conducted for CNN by an independent research company.
Speaker 1: The surveys were obtained on March sixth through the ninth,
Speaker 1: before the spending bill occurred. First of all, that's the
Speaker 1: problem with producers and editors. That's too damn long, too
Speaker 1: much information. Okay, yes, they say I gotta read that
Speaker 1: to you or whatever, but damn it, I hope you
Speaker 1: didn't fall asleep on that, because that's not the subject.
Speaker 1: That's not the point. Here's the point. The strategy's not
Speaker 1: gonna work. Are you listening to me, Michael, You're listening
Speaker 1: to me? Sherry it's not gonna work because it's still
Speaker 1: not touching on what's really, really really the issue. All
Speaker 1: of that stuff that I just read. I know what
Speaker 1: y'all saying. It's mumbo jumble, it's facts, it's accurate, it's
Speaker 1: something you needed to hear. But you really don't give
Speaker 1: a shit. What you really care about is what you're
Speaker 1: gonna do to reclaim the White House, what you're gonna
Speaker 1: do to reclaim seats in the House and the Senate.
Speaker 1: I got a story to tell the Democratic Party. Are
Speaker 1: you ready for this? Rather than telling us what we
Speaker 1: should vote against, maybe you should present us with options
Speaker 1: of what to vote for. Just a thought. I mean,
Speaker 1: my god, it you okay Michael with me suggesting that
Speaker 1: are you okay with me? Sherry suggesting that Rashwan Galen
Speaker 1: and all of a bunch of leftists that's under my
Speaker 1: umbrella trying to act like they're independence when they're full
Speaker 1: of it. I'm talking about my whole damn staff. I
Speaker 1: can say it with love and affection because I don't mind.
Speaker 1: I'm a centrist. I think my man Rashwan is a centrist.
Speaker 1: The rest of these damn people working for me, I mean,
Speaker 1: what left wing party are you associated with. I mean,
Speaker 1: you gotta believe this stuff. You gotta listen to it
Speaker 1: to hear it. I'm gonna say it again. Rather than
Speaker 1: come to them, to come to folks with what to
Speaker 1: vote against, how about telling us what we should vote for.
Speaker 1: Because you see, I'm no fan of Chuck Schumer. I'm
Speaker 1: not a fan of Chuck Schumer, but he wasn't wrong here.
Speaker 1: Didn't you know that when a government shut down takes place,
Speaker 1: whatever party supports the government shut down is who gets blamed.
Speaker 1: It don't even matter how right you are. You could
Speaker 1: have very salient points. You don't like Trump and now
Speaker 1: cutting USA program DEI programs. You don't like what they're suggesting.
Speaker 1: You don't approve of his position with the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: You don't approve of him schmoozing with Vladimir Putin in Russia.
Speaker 1: You're wondering, where was all of this talk about in
Speaker 1: inflation in the economy? What if you're really really done
Speaker 1: to address it? You got a thirty seven trillion dollar budget,
Speaker 1: which he contributed to, by the way, because he spent
Speaker 1: a lot of money when he was president number forty five.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like it was that the Democrats spending It
Speaker 1: was him too, And you're talking about holding them accountable
Speaker 1: for all of that. Fair. Fair. You're talking about him
Speaker 1: and the immigration policy, and you're talking about targeting criminals.
Speaker 1: But we're talking about a ten year old that I
Speaker 1: just finished asking bort us our Tom Homan about the
Speaker 1: other day, that was being deported back to Mexico even
Speaker 1: though she's US citizen. Blah blah blah blah blah, all
Speaker 1: of these things you want to point to. I'm not
Speaker 1: even saying you might not be right. What I'm saying
Speaker 1: is if you're the Democrats, that ain't gonna work for you.
Speaker 1: You know why, because you're done messed up, and your
Speaker 1: objective should be recapturing a trust that you're once had
Speaker 1: from folks on the left. In order to do that,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to be aligned and unified and start
Speaker 1: preaching about what's important to the American people instead of
Speaker 1: what you'll think the American people should find important. See
Speaker 1: the difference. Will we try that again, Michael, want to
Speaker 1: try that against Sherry. I'm just saying, you gotta be
Speaker 1: about preaching about what's important to the American people and
Speaker 1: what they care about. Instead of telling them what they
Speaker 1: should care about. You know why you can't make that
Speaker 1: argument anymore because you had your chance. You had President
Speaker 1: Biden up in that office. You knew he wasn't the same.
Speaker 1: You knew there was shrinkage that kicked in mentally. You
Speaker 1: knew that people were talking about him being incapacitated. This
Speaker 1: before the debate on June twenty seventh. You knew it.
Speaker 1: You knew it, You knew it, and it got you
Speaker 1: on camera chant for four more years for a dude
Speaker 1: that was approaching eighty two years of age, that would
Speaker 1: have been in office until he was eighty six, assumed
Speaker 1: he got there, even think he was gonna make it,
Speaker 1: and God bless him, I hope he does. But what
Speaker 1: you did was say, let's just get him through the
Speaker 1: election because the rest of us is running the government anyway.
Speaker 1: The trust of the American people were compromised. I'm a
Speaker 1: black man. You know how mean times I get tied
Speaker 1: of this not being mentioned. How racism and things pertinent
Speaker 1: to a community that makes up thirteen and a half
Speaker 1: percent of our population was shoved to the waystside. And
Speaker 1: it wasn't even for the LGBTQ plus community. As a whole.
Speaker 1: You were focusing on transgender rights more so than you
Speaker 1: were focusing on black people. You took him for granted.
Speaker 1: The Hispanics with the borders, do you know that I
Speaker 1: know more Hispanic folks that wanted closed borders more than
Speaker 1: one in open borders. Latinos in this country. Let tin
Speaker 1: that's in this country had a problem with illegal immigrants
Speaker 1: more than some of the American citizens because they said
Speaker 1: they have to stand in line. Who the hell are
Speaker 1: they not to have to stand in line? But you
Speaker 1: ignored that too. The economy stupid. Remember what James Carville
Speaker 1: said in nineteen ninety two when Clinton was running for
Speaker 1: the presidency. It's the economy stupid. Remember that. Well, we
Speaker 1: preaching about that now. We weren't even acting like inflation
Speaker 1: was an issue until they've slapped us all in the face. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's no border crisis, not at all. Remember Vice President
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris on the view. Here's there anything about President
Speaker 1: Biden's administration that you would do differently? I really can't
Speaker 1: think of anything, really, ladies and gentlemen. That's why she
Speaker 1: can't run for president again in twenty twenty eight. She
Speaker 1: has no chance. She has to run for the governance
Speaker 1: sea to California. She can't run for the presidency. Say oh,
Speaker 1: this announcement is coming this summer. Please not wasting your time.
Speaker 1: You can announce it now. It's got to be the
Speaker 1: governor's position or nothing, because you can't run for the
Speaker 1: presidency of the United States if you Kamala Harris, because
Speaker 1: they're going to reair that interview, and it just shows
Speaker 1: that there was a collective deceit being pushed forward to
Speaker 1: the American public. And after all of that backdrop, and
Speaker 1: after the embarrassment of the Democratic Party with Trump's speech
Speaker 1: to both Houses of Congress the other day where people
Speaker 1: holding signs and they're making videos with twenty two people
Speaker 1: echoing the same verbiage clearly toned down, and they got
Speaker 1: the nerve to be dancing, some of them with their
Speaker 1: non dancing air selves on video, trying to appeal to
Speaker 1: folks knowing they were beyond their lane trying to do that.
Speaker 1: After all of that, you're gonna let the government shut down?
Speaker 1: You would have played right into Donald Trump's hands. Even
Speaker 1: with Elon Musk scaring the living daylights out of more
Speaker 1: than half the American population with what the hell he
Speaker 1: gonna do next. What cuts is he going to suggest
Speaker 1: that Trump is going to okay? How many programs are
Speaker 1: gonna be slashed, how many bodies are gonna fall, how
Speaker 1: many federal workers are gonna be without a job. Even
Speaker 1: with all of that, the Democrats still don't have the
Speaker 1: cachet and the leverage to shut down the government. If
Speaker 1: Schumer deserves credit for nothing, and I'll be damned if
Speaker 1: I want to give him credit for much, we gotta
Speaker 1: give him credit for that. He knew better. You can't
Speaker 1: shut down the government him and none of the colleagues.
Speaker 1: But if I have votes to pass a budget to
Speaker 1: fund the government through September thirtieth, it had to happen,
Speaker 1: because you're a house divided. The GOP stood together and
Speaker 1: they pushed forth the budget and it was going to
Speaker 1: go through. And if the Democrats hadn't supported it and
Speaker 1: the government happened to shut it down, jobs would have
Speaker 1: been lost, wages would have been lost, programs would have
Speaker 1: been slashed, and the Democrats and their lack of togetherness
Speaker 1: would have been to blame. Why, Because the GOP is
Speaker 1: aligned under Trump, there's nobody aligned with the Democrats. Because
Speaker 1: you don't have leadership. Minority House Leader haw Kim Jeffries
Speaker 1: evidently is not aligned with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer,
Speaker 1: AOC Alexandria A Cassio Cortez representative out of New York.
Speaker 1: What is she talking about? Schuman needs to be replaced.
Speaker 1: You got representative algree won't even let anybody, won't even
Speaker 1: let Trump speak, and he has to get booted out
Speaker 1: during the speech and ultimately censured. I like Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to having her on this show. I
Speaker 1: appreciate the fervor and the fight in AOC. She's welcomed
Speaker 1: on this show. But the Democrats are not together. You
Speaker 1: have no cachet and to be furious at Schumer is
Speaker 1: not paying attention to what's going on. If we'll be honest,
Speaker 1: if we're being honest, you're not paying attention to what's
Speaker 1: going on. This is an article that was written Michael Sherry.
Speaker 1: This is for y'all. I'm just looking at all of
Speaker 1: this right now. This a story in the Washington Post
Speaker 1: dated February second. Democrats are in trouble and a provocative
Speaker 1: analysis offers ideas to repair the party. And in the
Speaker 1: article it's talking about the polling and how unpopular they are.
Speaker 1: This is more than a month ago, aren't you. There's
Speaker 1: more than a month ago, And I'm trying to find
Speaker 1: a graph here, and it says if Democrats are serious
Speaker 1: about addressing their problems, they face a period of vigorous
Speaker 1: debate and self reflection akin to what they experienced after
Speaker 1: losing three consecutive presidential elections in the nineteen eighties, member
Speaker 1: both Reagan two terms and then hw Bush as a star.
Speaker 1: Two veterans of that period, William Galston and Elaine Comark,
Speaker 1: have offered an assessment of the state of the party
Speaker 1: to be published Sunday by the centrist group Third Way,
Speaker 1: and advanced copy was made available to The Washington Post
Speaker 1: at the time. I want to read these couple of graphs,
Speaker 1: especially to my left wing guy, Michael here, okay, and Sherry,
Speaker 1: you'll be lord here. Let me read this to y'all,
Speaker 1: just help y'all out for those Democrats who think a
Speaker 1: rapid response to war Room or massive get out the
Speaker 1: vote efforts will restore the party to its previous highs.
Speaker 1: The authors provide a bracing and provocative analysis quote this
Speaker 1: renewal involves more than communications organization and mobilization. They write,
Speaker 1: it will require a party to ask itself hard questions
Speaker 1: about the reasons for its dwindling support among groups. It
Speaker 1: has long taken for granted to reflect on declining public
Speaker 1: confidence and government as a vehicle of progress, and the
Speaker 1: think a new about its policy agenda in an era
Speaker 1: of rapid change at home and abroad end quote. The
Speaker 1: fracturing of the Democratic Coalition represents a major challenge. Though
Speaker 1: the decline and working class support for Democrats started decades ago,
Speaker 1: that Trump error has accelerated it and expanded it beyond
Speaker 1: on white working class voters to work in class, Hispanic
Speaker 1: and black voters, particularly men. So what is this article saying.
Speaker 1: What are the experts saying working class voters? The numbers
Speaker 1: were dissipating within the Democratic Party from white that work
Speaker 1: in class voters, but now it's sifted to Hispanic and
Speaker 1: black working class voters, especially men. So you don't have
Speaker 1: working class voters the way you used to, and you
Speaker 1: don't have men the way that you used to in white,
Speaker 1: Hispanics and blacks. You have no party. You're just a
Speaker 1: bunch of individual parts claiming to be Democrats. You're not
Speaker 1: a party. You're fragmented, you're weak, and the only way
Speaker 1: you can get yourself together is to be strong. That's
Speaker 1: one thing. But take it from me. I'm a novice
Speaker 1: at this, and even I know this. You have to
Speaker 1: reclaim being for the working class. When I say reclaim
Speaker 1: the working class does it doesn't mean money. It doesn't
Speaker 1: mean bathrooms shared by both genders. It doesn't mean that stuff.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean pronouncing the right of proper nouns and pronouns,
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that stuff. Working class. Back to James Carvell,
Speaker 1: it's the economy, stupid. It's about dollars and cents. It's
Speaker 1: about money in people's pocket, it's about the court to
Speaker 1: live in. Everything starts there. What the Democrats need to
Speaker 1: do is refocus on proclaiming yourself as the better party
Speaker 1: for the economy. Make sure that your policies are better
Speaker 1: when it comes to employing folks and putting money in
Speaker 1: the pockets of the American citizens better than them. You
Speaker 1: pull that off without all of that other stuff on
Speaker 1: the fringes, and you get back to being sent to left.
Speaker 1: You can reclaim one of the houses of Congress in
Speaker 1: the midterms. You'd have a chance in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 1: But if you keep being at the mercy of the
Speaker 1: extreme left, which Chuck Schuman in this case refused to
Speaker 1: do with the whole bill oh spending bill of budget,
Speaker 1: making sure that the government then shut down. If you
Speaker 1: ignore that and go far left, it's not an election
Speaker 1: or another election you're gonna lose. You're gonna lose the country.
Speaker 1: The Democratic Party will cease to exist by the year
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, if not the year twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: unless y'all get y'all act together. We all got stuff
Speaker 1: we want, and there's certain things that we can't be
Speaker 1: deprived of. I will remind you President Obama deported more
Speaker 1: people than Donald Trump. He just didn't brag about it.
Speaker 1: There are certain things that you can want and you
Speaker 1: can get away with wanning if you ain't sticking out
Speaker 1: your chest proclaiming that as your battle cry, so using
Speaker 1: that to supplant other things that should be a priority.
Speaker 1: If you prioritize a on behalf of the American people,
Speaker 1: you'd be surprised what else you could get away with.
Speaker 1: If you made sure you handle business first, prioritize appropriately,
Speaker 1: show yourself to be the better party than the others
Speaker 1: by what you have to offer instead of decrying what
Speaker 1: they are offering, and you might have a chance. If
Speaker 1: you don't, you're dead. You're done, And in case you
Speaker 1: haven't noticed, you're pretty damn close to that right now anyway,
Speaker 1: regardless of what you want to think about how close
Speaker 1: this election was in your mind, get your shit together.