so how many democrats within the democratic party? cuz that's what we're getting at today is really the dividing the party. how many people are with him? a, in that vision of pragmatic centrists, some fiscal responsibility. you know, let's have infrastructure, but let's not spend the whole bank. you know, how many of the caucus are, are quietly there, or overtly there versus say a oh c's side of the equation or bernie sanders side of the equation. i think there are a lot more moderate, pragmatic, centrist in the senate than one thinks i'm. i know that those specially in the house, those numbers have grown way out, shining what the progressives have made up on how side. but i think in the senate, you probably have 20 to 25 fiscal, fiscally responsible democrats. i would say any member who were any senator who used to be a governor is always fiscally responsible because they know at the end of the day they have to pay their bills. but you also have a lot of us senate democrats like john tester, chris kuhns hom carper agi hassan had been

, democrat party, were used by this guy alias. to make it easier not for people to vote but for democrat party to enshrine the votes systems they wanted. that is what that is about, in pennsylvania two serious federal constitutional cases were brought in connection with article 2 section 1 clause 2 to challenge that had been done which changed voting system in last days of the election. against the will of the republican state legislature. that violates the federal constitution. state legislatures, determine election procedures for appointing . >> why am i bringing this up? because donald trump has a point. you may not agree with every point, depends on the state there may be evidence or may not be, but idea we can't talk about what took place in the last election, so that democrats can now lay the foundation in the 2024 election to do the same thing, and double what they are doing is unacceptable. dark money, front groups, hundreds of millions raised. changes the voting systems to accommodate the democrat party, and democrat nomi

but i never left democratic party. i still work within it because i think america needs two parties that are open and reflect the widest array of opinions and are willing to negotiate. there are democrats in congress today who clearly are trying to do it now, and the infrastructure bill. host: one thing you point out in your book, you write "the problem now is that centrists in both parties may have trouble getting renominated in their party, and most also have no viable third-party option in the general election. changing both parts of that political reality is one of the great challenges for american politics in the years ahead." guest: i agree. listen, what's happened, this party has changed over time. people ask me all the time and i'm sure they want to talk with you over -- all the time, how did we get here? how did the parties become so divided in washington so unproductive and nasty? we've always had differences of opinion and some of them have been intense, going back to the founding of the country. but when it

party america needs to great parties to reflect the widest array of opinions and there are democrats in congress today that want to do that and try to do that now with the infrastructure bill. host: what you point out with the centrist solution the problem now is the centrist them both parties may have trouble getting we nominated also have no viable third-party options so changing parts of that political reality is a great challenge for american politics in the years ahead. >> i agree. this has changed over time. so how do we get here? how to the parties become so divided? and that is an important question so figuring out how we got here that we always have differences of opinion and then try to negotiate a solution we are not doing it as much today but the gerrymandering of districts the house of representatives 435 members the analyst will tell you that in a given election year and those that are contested for the nomination. so democrats are constantly too often living in fear with a challenge from the left and republicans do the same. and make them toe the party line more than t

historians taught one important wing of the democratic party. like silicon valley, tech people who are saving the world, that is one very wealthy democrats who are democrats. they are not necessarily a natural alliance with the working-class people of color a lot of people also assume is an important phase of the democratic party. he raised a real possibility. i don't know the answer. part of what's so interesting about the moment right now is it is still being written. i don't think we know indirection politics is going to move in in two years, four years. think there's a lot of theories, there's a lot of jockeying and posturing from republicans and democrats for the soul of the country is and who has the momentum. you do raise an important possibility of white democrats like joe biden have taken latinos for granted because latinos get lumped in with other people of color and american working class is having some natural connection to the democratic party. how could they possibly vote for anyone else. part of what happened with joe biden is tha

of the democratic party controls this democratic party. that's why they have this tug-of-war going on over the reconciliation bill and the fake infrastructure bill and the cr, all of the other radical proposals that they put on the floor are put on the floor because of the radical socialist wing of the democratic party controls the democratic party today. so what i hear from my, many of my democrat colleagues who come from-- there are no real-- the democrats have stripped away all of the moderates, the last pro-life democrat was a guy named dan lipinski in illinois, taken out by the aoc socialist wing. and they've gotten rid of the so-called blue dog democrats, and pro-life, and defeated in primary, that's the state of the democratic party and why they found themselves out of touch with the reality of where the most of the country is today and about to lose the majority. and i'll bet my starbucks card, which in you know me, it's holy to me, and that i will predict we'll win back majority by a 2010-like margin because a wave is building up

this is the democratic party at work, there was a democratic school board. then finally, media need to be denounced for the cover-up of this horrific story. but what is the actual consequence? it is stunningue to me that the parents are on trial. for this. the father is on trial. that our federal government has sided with those people who are covering up this policy and our federal government is putting that poor dad on trial. every parent who is horrified by this on trial. youal dare not speak out about this policy, that resulted in the rape. sodomizing, force fellatio of the poor darling 14-year-old girl. >> then we have a democrat, running for governor of virginia. mr. cauliffe who said that parents have no say on what goes on in classrooms, can you imagine? we pay for the classrooms, pay teacher salaries, we elect school boards, we have no say? so knuckle heads in charge are the school boards and teachers union are in charge of our children and we have no say. you are correct. >> think about what george allen ran for governor with famous me ma kaka momen

richard shelby felt isolated as a democrat and switched parties. senator shelby has lived a tension free life since then on the republican side of the aisle in the senate, but joe manchin's policy positions are still much more in line with the democratic party than the republican party. there is not a single republican senator who is in favor of spending one penny on the social infrastructure track of the biden bills. joe manchin is in favor of spending $1.75 trillion, and joe manchin is in favor of raising taxes including income taxes on the rich to pay for that package and no republican currently serving in the united states senate has ever voted for a tax increase on anything. there are reports today that congressional democrats are now rushing to reach an agreement on the biden social infrastructure bill. majority leader chuck schumer said this today on the senate floor. >> everyone is going to have to compromise if we're going to find that legislative sweet spot we can all get behind. nobody will get everything they want, but no matter what, o

senators, jim jeff hurts switch to the democratic party. after years of whispered encouragement from his democratic neighbors, like new york's -- and, the moment, the instant senator jeff hurts which party, control of the senate switch. from republicans to democrats. there's never been a more dramatic moment in the senate. most of the party switching though, in the senate, in our lifetimes, almost all of it, has been democrats switching to the republican party. that's the most common switch. that phenomenon began in earnest when south carolina's -- switch to the republican party in 1964 over cinema rights. -- who did not switch to the republican party were either defeated by republicans or replaced by pro republicans when they retired. alabama's current senior standard or, richard shelby was elected to the senate as a democrat. and switched parties at a low point in president clinton's popularity, in the 1990s. harsh treatment from the clinton white house was one of the reasons richard shelby felt isolated as a democrat and switched parties

they generally support the democratic party. but their support has shifted depending on candidates, depending on issues, and depending on the year. host: also depending on country of origin, perhaps? guest: ancestry of origin. you see cubans, venezuelans, nicaraguans, colombians, perhaps they lean more toward the republican party. and then you see mexican americans, puerto ricans and salvador ian's they lean toward the democratic party. degrees of support does depend on other factors, not just origin. the cuban story is unique because cuban voters are so strongly in the -- leaning toward the republican party and have been doing so for some time even though there are some shifts as well. not so strongly republican today as they were in the 1980's. host: how does age factor in to have a latino voter casts a vote? guest: it is very interesting. there is growth and the number of potential voters are coming from young people who have come of age. 4 million additional potential voters that i mentioned earlier, between presidential cyc

, when they start to reflect badly on the democratic party. that has been happening over the last several weeks. according to quinnipiac, a lively left-wing polestar, joe biden's national approval rating is now 38%. 60% of independents disapprove of what joe biden is doing as president. a new ap poll noted that just 34% of americans are pleased with the direction of the country. it is called the right track, wrong track poll and for the party in power, it is very bad news. this means the very same people who just last year lied to you to your face about how popular joe biden was are now admitting that he is actually the least popular president in modern clinical history. why are they telling you this all of a sudden? why are these reliably democratic pollsters telling democratic voters that their president is unpopular. maybe because they have no choice? ab there are other reasons? we are not sure. what is absolutely clear is according to a new poll from pew, democratic party voters understand what this means. what it means is in free and fair

the contemporary democratic party, there's a fight about with the democratic party is going to look like. that mindset is still with us in many of the most prominent figures in the democratic party today, right? >> one of the things, i think it is important in history, in writing history to render judgment. will shine a light on what seems silly, but democrats coming out of the 1970s is not very strange we should reconsider what they have been doing. the fact of the matter is the democrats did run candidate since fdr 1972 he lost going into the late 70s, his old political economy is a temporary aberration people are in the market in terms of politics and policy. the thing about jimmy carter is, i will give you one of my favorite quotes from jimmy carter. he starts tearing up the economy. i make the point he did something remarkable. he began scolding americans. we was something to be done about problems except when it we favorite sacrifice of others covers which abolished tax loopholes and less with our loopholes, walter lippmann in 1935 were recorded the same thing from walter lippmann

democratic party. and should she leave the democratic party? why does this matter? >> reporter: i looked and searched and turned over every stone and cannot find one new york times op-ed calling on john mccain when he was alive, when he was called a maverick in the gop to leave said gop on the location he booked his own party most famously for his vote to repeal and replace obamacare. this kind of rhetoric is only going to strengthen christensen a's result, following her into a bathroom wall or attempting to heckle her for 26 miles at the boston marathon even though she wasn't running anywhere a media can't get her head around the lawmaker who doesn't to the party line and conform, that may make that person by natural instinct stand for a. the questions we should be asking instead of focusing on christensen a and manchin, does the spending bill, the american taxpayers there dollars. any massive corporate tax is tax on to the consumer with high inflation. every analyst and every analysis of this shows t

democrat party. this is bernie sanders grand kids democrat party. right? this is bernie sanders democrat party. this is not my democrat party. because aoc, bernie sanders, the radical sociallyist progressive wing of the democrat control this is democrat party. that is why they have this tug of war going on over the infrastructure bill and other radical proposals they put on the floor are put there because the radical socialist win of the democrat party controls the democrat party today. so what i hear from my -- many of any democrat colleagues who come from -- there are no real -- the democrats have stripped away all of the moderates. the last pro life democrat was a guy named dan lipinski in illinois who was taken out of the primary in the last election by the aoc socialist wing. so they have gotten rid of all of the so called blue dogs or moderate or pro any democrat who dares to call themselves pro life. they have been defeated in primaries. so that's the state of the democrat party. that is why t

so, what does the democratic party need to do to win the confidence of hispanic voters back? >> well, margaret, first of all, it still received -- you know, president biden, in this last election, received well over 75% of the vote. so -- or 70-some-odd percent of the vote, so he still got a very significa part, but it could be even higher. what does it need to do? it needs to, first of all, meet its commitment that it has been talking about for years about immigration reform. it needs to be an opportunity-agenda party. the hispanic community is very entrepreneurial and it is socially, in many respects, more conservative. so, if you understand those factors, there is clearly a pathway for democrats not only to strengthen their position with the community, but to enhance it. and if we were to do those things, i think that we would see an overwhelming vote in the latino community moving forward. >> i'd be so curious, though, senator -- i mean, what do you think was the appeal of donald trump to hispanic voters? >> i think that, first of all, everybody likes to believe that they

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and's, leading towards the democratic party. the varying degrees of support depends on other factors. the cuban story is particularly unique because cuban voters are so strongly in the republican party and have been doing so for some time, even though there have been some shifts there as well. host: how does age factor into how a latino voter cast a vote? guest: that is interesting. a lot of the growth in the number of potential latino voters is coming from young people in the u.s. to have come of age. of that 4 million additional potential voters i mentioned earlier. between presidential cycle, 3 million will be young latinos entering adulthood. youth is an important part of the story. younger latinos tend to lean towards the democratic party than older latinos. it depends on the circumstances, origins, and so much more. just as we see with young people generally, they lean towards the democratic party. host: our ghost with the pew research center. describe the work as far as race and ethnicity? guest: we look at the race and e

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i think the democratic party won't want to go alone on it although there is some suggest jen that the democratic party may have to accept that they will have to push this through on their own but that would require doing some pretty unprecedented things such as getting rid of the controversial filibuster, but as i say, this deal has been put forward to the democratic party by mitch mcconnell, we haven't got any official confirmation yet on whether it will be accepted but if it is, as i've said before, itjust means that it gets delayed further on two december but it does mean that the democratic party get a bit more time, a bit more oxygen to enact president biden�*s domestic agenda which is something that is also a massive focus here in america. is also a massive focus here in america-— is also a massive focus here in america. ., ~ . ., america. thank you so much for that mediate _ let's now take a look at some other stories in the headlines, and france says its ambassador to australia will return to his post nearly three weeks after he was recalled when canberra pulled out over c

the liberalj democratic party has like that. the liberal - democratic party has basically governed japan since the second world war but as you mentioned, its reputation was damaged by the handling of the pandemic and then the tokyo 0lympics. people lost faith in the party? they have lost confidence in the liberal democratic party and their leader somewhat but there disappointment with them is not at the level where they are willing to give the opposition party a chance. i think what the voters are most likely to do in this election is that the liberal democratic party would definitely lose seats. and that is primarily because of the protest vote from all of those voters, not necessarily because the support vote, active support for the opposition, but it is their way of expressing frustration and unhappiness with the way the government has been handling these things, including the pandemic. these things, including the pandemic— these things, including the andemic. ., ., ., , ., pandemic. what do voters want the to prioritise? _

party, they changed it to the democrat party. they thought that was really smart, the democrat party. their point was that both parties are democratic parties in the sense that they both believe in democracy and our products of democracy, and so neither party should claim the adjective democratic for itself. republicans are no longer quite so fetishistic about their attachment to democracy. instead of expressing their belief in democracy, republicans now express their belief in stolen elections. the republican party has always presented itself as the defender of traditional american values against an assault on those values by liberal democrats. michael gerson may have been the single best republican practitioner of that art of expressing american values as a speech writer. michael gerson is an evangelical christian who was the chief speech writer for president george w. bush, and the words that he gave to president bush who sometimes mangled those words, were among the most eloquent expressions of traditional american values. to

my friends, i guarantee right now the democratic party will champion that hope. while the republicans are hell-bent on taking us back to the days of grandfather clauses and literacy tests, history will remember the democrats were a voting rights party. we have to make sure we also use the right to vote. if we don't, if we have hope without action, we will be doing the republicans a favor. they will not have to use their dirty tricks to take away our power. we will have given it away already. our motto here in south carolina is while i breathe, i hope. while i breathe, i hope. but folks, we don't have time for idle hope anymore. we have given you folks the tools and information they need to make their vote count. now we have to get them fired up to actually vote. so it can't just be while i breathe, i hope. it has to be while i breathe, i vote. while i breathe, i organize, i knock doors, i sent out postcards and texts. while i breathe, i act. i do everything in my power to make sure voters know if they are looking for leaders to show up, if they are looking for le

now, that tells you part of the democratic party's model. they can't win with regular americans, they sure can't win with people who come here illegally from these countries because all most every person i meet was come from a foreign country legally will say to you this is what i got away from. i don't want these guys to be in charge. and i think that werial could ft but we are never going to fix it if the big government socialists are in charge.lylywa >> sean: mr. speaker, great to have you back, thank you for your analysis as always. and with more, forming a massachusetts senator scott brown, also former ambassador to new zealand for four years. "new york post" columnist, fox news contribute or miranda devine, who refuses to send me her manuscript on hunter biden's laptop from hell and i thought we were friends and i don't know why, but i'm giving miranda a hard time. i don't know if you want to be called senator or ambassador. you know, it's very interesting, because i know you are friendsmb with joe manchin, and maybe i'm not being fair

over the democratic party reaching out receiving these voters rated. >> so both parties have expressed interest in latino voters go over the elections, defending on the elections on how much efforts have been put into reaching out to latino voters so in 2020, there were some concerns in discussion about whether or not the biden administration has moved early enough to shore up support among that latino voters particular place like miami-dade county where president trump onam the latino vote in south florida city men's and a where we are bt it does seem that both parties are interested latino voters are not locked into eating one of the generally support the democratic party for their support has shifted depending on candidates and defending on c issues depending on the year. >> may be the country of origin pretty. >> you do see for example, venezuela, columbiana and they are located and perhaps even more towards the republican party and then youic see for example, mexican americans and puerto ricans leaning more towards the democratic party, to varying degrees of support and other fact

my friends, i guarantee right now the democratic party will champion that hope. while the republicans are hell-bent on taking us back to the days of grandfather clauses and literacy tests, history will remember the democrats were a voting rights party. we have to make sure we also use the right to vote. if we don't, if we have hope without action, we will be doing the republicans a favor. they will not have to use their dirty tricks to take away our power. we will have given it away already. our motto here in south carolina is while i breathe, i hope. while i breathe, i hope. but folks, we don't have time for idle hope anymore. we have given you folks the tools and information they need to make their vote count. now we have to get them fired up to actually vote. so it can't just be while i breathe, i hope. it has to be while i breathe, i vote. while i breathe, i organize, i knock doors, i sent out postcards and texts. while i breathe, i act. i do everything in my power to make sure voters know if they are looking for leaders to show up, if they are looking for le

s. president and members of his democratic party have made progress. i tried to rescue job biden's economic agenda in a rare move. biden has met with his party members on capitol hill. and the united nations has told ethiopia as prime minister, it doesn't accept the country's decision to expel 7 of its senior personnel. ethiopia says the officials are being told to me because they meddled in the internal affairs of the country. that pulls up just open for cat tiles. first legislative elections, voters are choosing 30 of the 45 member. sure. a council. the body dates back to 1972. but until now was fully appointed by cattle emir. the council can propose laws approved budgets and recall ministers, though the mayor will retain vito palate while jamal shall joins us live now from upholding station in doha gemalto. this is the 1st time cats are, is holding this type of election. tell us what this means on white so significant well, darn, this is a major step in terms of the modernization of the governing system that the country is applying. as you mentioned

she's not from a state where the democratic party, you know, lines up with where she says she is like a mansion type of democrat. what makes her think that the same people who are refusing to raise the debt limit, the party that's going to let us literally crash our economy in less than a month represent her voters, her people? >> right. but i think joy, what we have a classic case right here now is that she's not seeing herself as a public servant and has a taste of a donor lifestyle and that's where she is now. amanda's point is valid. after mark kelly goes through his election in 2022, i think the arizona democratic party will probably put up a substantive challenge against her. someone who understands policy and not just understands the layout of what washington d.c. looks like but what arizonians need. obviously, she's from, you know, the state of john mccain who was a maverick. she's clearly trying to do something in that vain obviously working against not just the democrat party but americans at large. i guarantee after the 2022 midterm elections, the democratic party will look

host: what part of being part of a major party was inflaming to you, particularly the democratic party? guest: i mean, i did not feel particularly inflamed, i suppose. [laughter] i was a democrat for 26 years. ever since i could register to vote. but right now we are seeing a dysfunctional system where we are not able to get anything done on either side. i think people watching this at home can relate to that. if you are a reasonable person you are scratching your head being like, why is it our leaders seem so unreasonable relative to anyone else? [laughter] the answer is that those are the incentives of our system. right now if you become an elected representative you do not answer to 51% of the population, as much as we would like to pretend otherwise. who do you answer to? the answer to the 10% to 20% of the most partisan voters who will vote on a democrat or republican in your district. 80% of districts are safe seats. i can sense even from the people calling in, the approval rate for congress nationally is only 28%. people don't love what is going on or not going on. but the reele

democratic party this is bernie sanders' democratic party. this is not my democratic party. the radical socialists controls this democrat party. that's why they have this tug of war going on over the reconciliation bill and the fake infrastructure bill on all of the other radical proposals that they put on the floor because the radical socialist wing of the party controls the party today. what i hear from many of my democratic colleagues who come from -- the democrats have stripped away all of the moderates. the last pro-life democrat was taken out in the primary in the last election by the aoc socialist wing. they've gotten rid of the blue dogs or moderate or any democrat who dares to call himself pro-life. they've been defeated in primaries. that's the state of the democratic primary and why they find themselves so out of touch with the reality of where the country is today and i predict and will bet my starbucks card -- which if you know me, that's holy to me -- i will bet that we will win back the majority and not by a little bit but by a

adults say they republican party rather than the democrats party can better handle whatever problems they name as the most important problem facing the country. last year, 47% said the democratic party and 39% said the republican party can better address the problem, back when the pandemic, the government, and race relations were named the top issues. those identifying the coronavirus as the most important problem widely said the democratic party can better handle it. by contrast, those naming the government as a top problem are more inclined to say that republican can better handle it. this morning, in this first hour of the washington journal, we want to hear from you, what you think the most important problem facing this country is right now. doris is up first out of worcester, ohio. good morning. line for democrats. caller: good morning. i think the most pressing problem is the attempt to suppress the vote in state legislatures across the united states through gerrymandering and limiting access to voting. host: in which party do you think is best equipped to handle that? caller:

there is no leadership in the democrat party. it's controlled by a bunch of radical lunatics. it has never been this bad before.. we have seen the democrats going slowly off the deep end. i think donald trump broke at them but the problem is there are no more moderates left in the democrat party. there are no more blue-collar democrats. they are controlled by the radical left, they don't even have the decency to let a democratic senator use the bathroom in peace. i have a feeling if that was a conservative going after a liberal or one of the radicals they would have a problem with it but according to joe biden, it is just part of the process. it is a clown show and it is not changing anytime soon. >> sean: you said something and this is very true, americans now havech vaccine mandates, everybody has got to be tested once a week, they don't have their vaccine passport, okay, he's saying we may have 400,000 illegal immigrants in the month of october alone. averaging 200,000 every single month that we know about and we are not even discussing all the resources funneled to one are

gerry: what we learn this week about the democratic party, who is driving the democratic bus. >> if i could add one answer about the affordable care act, democrats pass that when they had 60 votes in the u.s. senate the filibuster approved the majority in the u.s. senate. president biden runs for office centrist in the democratic field of 20 or more candidates, bernie sanders is his main competitor, who is running things clearly i don't think joe biden is governing as a centrist and the fact is the president, one without a big majority on capitol hill has a lot of people the answer to, there is no doubt that the progressive wing of the party is an extraordinarily vocal and powerful group the house progressive caucus, just the house has 95 members, if anybody is driving the democratic party there pretty close to the wheel. gerry: let's take a break will become back i want to talk about the other big topic on capitol hill, president biden's damage credibility as his own generals contradicted some of his planene (vo) this is more than just glass, walls, doors and carpeted floor. it's a p

we're a party that wants to grow the economy, the democrats are a party that wants to grow the government. >> this is not a wish list, this is what the working families of this country want and what the economy needs. >> the build back better agenda has become the biden build back broke agenda. and the american people have figured out that what they're trying to do is institutionalize socialism. jon: jonah goldberg, editor-in-chief of "the dispatch" and if also a fox news contributor. you have kind of taken a look at a what's going on in washington, jonah. you say the progressives in the democrat party are actually winning this fight. >> they're certainly winning in terms of taking over what the democratic party stands for. and they're winning in the sense that they have rolled a president who was elected to be a moderate, a centrist, a return to normalcy, he basically only had a couple mandates; one was to not be donald trump, which he accomplished on day one, another one was to deal with the pandemic. he got a $1 is.9 trillion -- 1.9 trillion covid relief package through which was, you

this is about democrats and democrats and various wings of the party, and people who want certain things and don't want to do other things. and them coming together, joe biden says if they can do that, they will then be able to get it through the house. and the senate, but it might not be in a part of bipartisan basis, which he would like. but he talks about working together and he thinks he's brought the wings of the democratic party together to push this through. the next few days will all be important. now there's talk that nancy pelosi is going to keep everyone on the hill over the weekend to get the infrastructure bill through. and then to get this 2nd bill through which is the bill back. better act as it will become no one. they want to deliver a victory to joe by before he gets to glasgow before he starts talking climate change because there are big provisions to protect the climate in that bill. and he wants to be able to go to glasgow and say, look, we're doing it. others need to do as well if the 2nd biggest economy in the world can do it. every one else can do it too, so you'v