Democrats Are Losing Voters by Ignoring Affordability

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. Well, it was an interesting week for the Democratic Party. Well, which way is the Democratic Party going? Oh? Well, King Jeffrey says, maybe he’s going to stand up against the Socialists. Well, we don’t know. But a good friend, a great New Yorker, and he was the majority leader of the Assembly in New York. Jerry Kremo’s with us

0:25 this morning and to give us his gut feeling, and he knows a little bit about politics. So Jerry, give us, give us an update.

0:34 Speaker 2 Good morning, John, Well, this was the week of fake news and sixteen failed incumbents. It’s two different stories. The first story, John, is that the media has made a big, big fuss about a Democratic Socialist getting the nomination in Florida to run for the US Senate. But the real story behind that was it wasn’t really a Democratic socialis

1:00 won anything. It was a Democratic candidate alex Vinman was sixteen million dollars in the bank who thought that he was going to win this primary easily and ps he’s now sitting with nine million dollars and he lost. So the story really wasn’t that the Democratic socialist won.

1:23 Speaker 1 You didn’t spend the money to win.

1:26 Speaker 2 He fell asleep. His idea. He was so confident that he had fundraiser is ready in Moss’s vineyard after the primary, because he was convinced he was going to win.

1:40 Speaker 1 Well, if you would have spent the money, maybe you would still be in Yes.

1:44 Speaker 2 So he’s now sitting with nine million dollars and he’s out in the cold. And I’ll say John and so I called that my category today’s faith News of the Week. Another, and I think, which is an equally big story, is the fact that incumbents in both parties, both Democrat and Republican, were ousted this past Tuesday. And that’s really a sign

2:08 that we’ve got a restless pro public. We’ve got a lot of voters who don’t seem to know where they what they want, or where they’re going. And so, you know, it’s the tale of two stories. But the fact of the matter is is that the Democrats still have to fend off a challenge from from the left. And I

2:28 would bet you that Hakim Jefferies will wind up being the speaker. And these socialists will have a choice between getting officers, getting staffed and and and the real world once they get to Washington. So Hakim Jeffries has the power of the purse if he becomes speaker, and you know, I think the Democratic Socialists are going to be put

2:50 in their place.

2:54 Speaker 1 Is the Democratic Party has had trouble raising money the last few months? Is it straightening out towards as we come? Well, I guess the midterms are only what eight weeks away?

3:07 Speaker 2 Right? Well? John, The way I look at it is the Democratic Party is still as a party, totally disorganized. The thing that benefits them this year is they’re the other party. It’s always the other party in these kind of years. Who benefits from the fact that people are unhappy.

3:26 But if the Democrats stokes, you, get their act together, even if they wind up winning their seats in Congress and taking the majority in the House, they’ve got to have a plan, they’ve got to have a platform, they’ve got to have money, and they’re not doing well with.

3:39 Speaker 1 That, understood. Do you see anybody out there other than your current leadership in the Democratic Party that’s gonna stand out? I mean, is it a Joshapiro is from Pennsylvania? Is it anybody else? Is it somebody from Illinois or anybody from California? Anybody with common sense that you think will stand out.

4:08 Speaker 2 Well, this is what I think is going to happen. You’re not hearing too much from anybody now except John Assoff down in Georgia. But you’ve got You’ve got the governor of Kentucky. You’ve got the governor of Maryland, You’ve got the governor of Pennsylvania. There are you know, there are three or four people who really will be a

4:29 dark course. But keep an eye on Mark Kelly. Somehow there’s a little movement brewing, and I’m hearing it all over the country to start boosting Mark Kelly as a candidate for president. So could there be a Kelly ASO for Kelly Shapiro a slate? Very possible, understood.

4:53 Speaker 1 Let’s go we’re talking national, let’s go local. Uh. All of a sudden, I understand that the Mayor’s office is took looking to revisit the Pierre tear tax and having meetings about it. Maybe the I guess maybe the governor got a lot of heat on it, or alban he got a lot of heat on it, and they’re trying to revisit it.

5:24 Speaker 2 Have you heard anything, Well, I haven’t heard that they’re revisiting in the Mayor’s office, because you’ve got to remember, he needed about four or five billion dollars in all kinds of money to make up the gap and his budget, and of course the pH tax was going to give him, you know, seven hundred million to a billion dollars, but

5:47 I haven’t heard it yet. But they would have to figure out how to stand down on that and come up with another way to handle it. But you know, John, let’s be practical. With the two hundred and twenty billion dollar budget, this mayor was unable to find more than a couple of hundred million dollars in cuts. Now, it’s

6:07 very clear that the city was never serious about making any cuts. But the answer is they got to save themselves before they ask the state to save them.

6:18 Speaker 1 Understood, what else do you want to say on a Sunday money.

6:23 Speaker 2 Well, you know, John, the answer is is that. And I keep wondering when it’s going to click. The issue for November is affordability, and both parties have to deal with it. And the incumbents, you know, the Republicans, they’ve got to face the fact that the public only wants to talk about affordability nothing else. They’re not interested in

6:46 all these other issues that we read about every day and we hear over the radio they just want to talk about pocketbook issues. And the candidates they’re going to win in November are the ones who talk about those issues, and if they avoid talking about affordability, that doomed to lose.

7:04 Speaker 1 Well, thank you so much for coming on this Sunday morning, and we pray for common sense in both parties, and God bless you, and God bless America.

7:14 Speaker 2 Thank you, sir, Thank you,