House democrats has been answered. By our nominee for speaker, the gentleman from brooklyn, the leader of our House Democratic caucus, the honorable Hakeem Jeffries [ applause ] leader jeffries has answered our call, but the majoritys nominee is disconnected. Disconnected from the American People and their values. Maga extremism is designed to divide. And it has broken the republican party. Their nominees vision is a direct attack on the freedom and the rights of the American People. And hes got the record to prove it. The republican nominee has voted against healthcare for children, for veterans, even for 9 11 survivors. He has opposed lowering the cost of insulin repeatedly. He wants to cut Social Security and medicare. Dont take it from me, it was raised on the other side of the aisle, just this week, as a Selling Point to make him speaker. Over his 16 years in the house, the republican nominee has never supported a farm bill. What does that mean . What does that mean . It means he
what they do know is that this is a way for them to push back on the racial debate so any concern about the history of racism or police violence now is see what you re doing is critical race theory. now you asked the question is it going to work? republicans, obviously, think playing the race card will work. what is interesting is the cynicism here is how much of their energy they are putting behind pretty direct racial politics going to their base and saying, look, we will protect you from black lives matter, from these radicals, from these socialists and they ve calculated this will give them an edge in the swing stricts and given the structure problems that we have, including gerrymandering, i don t think you can eliminate the possibility. there might be one last spasm for this kind of racial politics that we ve seen in the past. rachel, i ll get you to talk