00:00All right, thank you.
00:02Congresswoman, what is the Democratic Party doing
00:05to reconnect with ordinary people?
00:07Historically, the Democrats were seen
00:10as the party of Main Street
00:11and the Republicans as the party of Wall Street.
00:15For instance, the Minnesota Party is the DFL,
00:18the Democratic Farmer Labor,
00:20but our rural districts have been voting Republican.
00:23What is the Democratic Party doing to reconnect
00:27with ordinary people so that they can feel represented
00:30by the Democratic Party?
00:38And that's a really good question.
00:41I think for a long time,
00:44whether it is the DFL party in Minnesota
00:49or whether it is the DNC nationally,
00:54nationally, we have seen Democrats just being,
01:04we have seen a move for Democrats to just concede
01:10and cede ground to Republicans and not contest
01:15in areas where we have historically connected,
01:18whether it is rural communities,
01:21whether it's farm towns,
01:22whether it is with blue collar workers,
01:30and it is gonna be really important
01:33for the Democratic Party and Democratic candidates
01:36to go back to helping and standing with small businesses,
01:45with labor, to be standing with poor working,
01:52folks, not just people who say they're in the middle class,
01:55but they're actually wealthy.
01:57It's gonna be really important for them
02:01to stop being seen as the elites,
02:05which is in many ways, ridiculous when you have
02:09Elon Musk and Donald Trump running our country
02:12in this moment, that we see Democrats
02:16who come from working class backgrounds,
02:20who fight for the little guy every day,
02:24being talked about as the ones that are for Wall Street
02:31and for the elites, and that has to do,
02:33not in the way in which we vote,
02:36that has to do in the way in which we have been branded
02:40by the other side, and we haven't done enough
02:44to fight against that branding,
02:46and it's going to be really important for us
02:50to do that.
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