LEADER JEFFRIES: "YOU HAVE A DO-NOTHING REPUBLICAN CONGRESS THAT HAS DELIVERED NO MEANINGFUL PROGRESS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE"
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Good evening. Great to be with you.
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Well, certainly, it's interesting to see that Donald Trump continues to march toward the Republican nomination. He is a clear and present danger to our democracy, to our way of life, to everyday Americans. And I think, on a night like this, the stakes continue to be crystallized, that this is going to be a matchup, in all likelihood, between the former President and President Joe Biden. I think that's a matchup, once it's completely crystallized, the American people will understand that we can either move the country forward under the leadership of Joe Biden or risk turning back the clock under Donald Trump in a very dangerous way.
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Yeah, I do think it will be an important part of this campaign because you can establish a clear contrast. You have a do-nothing Republican Congress that has delivered no meaningful progress for the American people. Instead, it's been chaos and dysfunction and extremism. And that compares to the track record of accomplishment under the leadership of President Biden, a historic Congress in the previous two years prior to this Congress starting, where we got things done, like clean water in every community, bringing domestic manufacturing jobs back home to the United States of America, lowering the high cost of lifesaving prescription drugs, including shrinking the price of insulin to $35 a month for millions of Americans. It's an extraordinary track record of accomplishment. Now, we can contrast that with the do-nothing Republican Congress and also make clear that moving forward, President Biden has a vision for making life even better for the American people over the next four years.
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Well I strongly disagree. I think the New York State Legislature did a good job in drawing the fairest possible map that is a meaningful improvement on the map that had previously been drawn by an unelected, out-of-town Special Master that broke up communities of interest and seemed to have been done in a way that provided a partisan political advantage to Republicans. Now, that said, it was under the current map, not the new map that we will be running under in November, that Tom Suozzi decisively defeated a Republican and basically swung the district by 15 points from the congressional election in 2022. And of the five competitive districts that we have in New York, the Suozzi district was the toughest. And so, I think we've got a lot of room moving forward. They'll all be close races, but in the four other super-competitive races that we have, we've got a lot of room to get the job done.
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Well, I'm going to continue to stand behind members of the House Democratic Caucus. We're a diverse family. We're an enthusiastic family. But at the end of the day, we're a family. We're progressives, we're New Dems and we're Blue Dogs. And so, I believe that the value of House Democrats range from the entire spectrum. From Representative Ocasio-Cortez to Representative Josh Gottheimer and all points in between. And as has been the case under the leadership of Speaker Pelosi and other Democratic leaders, I'm going to continue to stand behind our members.
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