Transcripts For CSPAN2 Campaign 2020 Interview With Rep. Tim

CSPAN2 Campaign 2020 Interview With Rep. Tim Ryan D-OH July 14, 2024

Statewide Union Conventions to get the big crowd and then you have on the other side, the early mornings that 4 00 a. M. Wakeup calls that you can catch a plane. The early stage, are easy to get to so from ohio gotta go to chicago and then to iowa somehow or another charlotte and then into South Carolina or atlanta. So the travels, the packing and unpacking of the bags. Being away from the family. Thats really the hard part. The one thing thats been interesting, is almost like the consensus in the country, not just how screwed up washington is but the challenges of the country. You can be in a Manufacturing Center in youngstown, the hospitals close, they lost jobs. The challenges with opiates of some kind of drug addiction, and shes around the environment. Water whatever. And you can go into the rural and is the same thing. They are losing their maternity board, the hospital and they are dealing with methane and phentermine issues. They are losing manufacturing in their downtown needs rehabilitated. Theyll theater needs renovated. So the commonality to me has been really striking. I thought that people are all experiencing the same thing with the loophole of detail as to exactly what is happening to them, and the challenges that they have is really across all of the states. And youve been talking out about that a lot of the campaign trail. Why did it shut down and how much of it was automation versus unions and industry itself. Is kind of like the perfect storm. While globalization, automation, ive said dont get rid of the cafe standards. Remaking the smaller fuelefficient vehicles there, the chevy cruze. And i knew once got rid of the fuel efficiency standards, that was going to put the plant in jeopardy. It was just a matter of weeks after President Trump got rid of the standards that they close the plant down. So, its a combination of everything that is happening. I dont blame President Trump for everything. I blame him for not having a plan to fix it. I think thats been the consensus. Here we have some jobs in the area 31 an hour. Any of the job you talking about replacing her 17 bucks an hour for a potential battery facility the me going to lordstown. Its the american story unfortunately. Of the last 40 years. How we go from these very highpaying jobs globalization automation no industrial policy here in the united states, no strategy here in the united states, and the worker takes it on the chin. I think the combination of all of those. The head of gm made 22 million a year. Do you think there should be salary caps for ceos of these companies. You have salary caps, increased taxes for the top marginal rate, theres a variety of ways to get there. Again, the comedy made 35 million in the last three years, they closed facilities and or stock prices go up. They got a huge tax cut and then the ceo is making like 281 for every 1 dollar the person on the factory floor is making. Theres a loophole of unfairness that is gross. And we do walk that picket line like i have, right after the strike happened and i went from youngstown and or simplot paramount which is outside of cleveland in toledo northwest ohio. Detroit in the flint. The stories you will hear, are people literally see, driving two hours to get to work and driving two hours home. Because the family was in cleveland or the family was over a couple of hours away and they didnt want to move the kids out of school. The mom of dad had a decent job. I just want people to know that making 30 bucks an hour. The loophole of sacrifice that many of these workers are making for their families. I was in toledo just three and half hours youngstown. I met yet more youngstown people in toledo and at the youngstown plant. Because they got transferred. The families are all back home. I have some really slow if simply for the ones with young kids. Im 15 yearold and six yearold and a five yearold. Heartbreaking to be away from it from them. But for them to think that i can do six more years and drive back after working five or 612 hour shifts, to make ends meet, is the loophole of anxiety that these families are going through. Those of the best dang jobs in the country. Thats just staying, how about all of the other people are making 50 bucks an hour and have a lot of anxiety or have to drive or can afford healthcare. That pain in the country right now, its not even a part of the conversation. So what is your campaign all. Why are you running . Ive been watching this my whole live. I grew up in northeast ohio. Just outside of youngstown. My family, they all worked in factories they were all union people. My dad wasnt union, he worked swing shifts. My fatherinlaw worked a steel mill for 40 years. My grandfather and my greatgrandfather, all worked in steel mills. They work really hard. They keep falling behind. I get really upset and moments. Im really passionate and moments about it. The unfairness of the leaders in the country have not but the people of this country on a trajectory to be able to compete. I talk a lot about an industrial policy, a lot about a chief manufacturing officer. Why. Because someone has to help organize the country around sectors of the economy that are growing. China does in germany does like any country who has a really strong middle class does. We have no plan. I believe that i understand that better than anyone else in this race because i have been living in this foxhole for 46 years. Seven he called his wife and your kids, im running for president. Ive tried prepare the kids. This was a running conversation between my wife and i. We had several dinners with the kids. Theyre going to call me a lot of things. If we have some success. You may see stuff on tv, your friends at school. I wanted to prepare the 16 yearold and 15 yearold mason bella, for the kind of psychological piece of it. Their teenagers, so theyre living our lives. I dont think this around all day thinking about me. But i wanted them to psychologically be prepared for me being away. And for them being having to help her mom out a lot around the house. And what may come from that of the pressure and stress and the things that their friends may do. And my wife has been like a rock. She has just been. Shes a firstrate schoolteacher. She works really hard and she is the phenomenal tshirt. She juggles three kids and two dogs. Pretty much by herself. So she shows me support by making sure that the kids are getting the attention and theyre getting help with their homework, their getting good meals for lunch, on the weekends try to go help out a little bit with lunches for the week. She chose me action. Campaign rally in which we cover live. How did you meet your wife. Through the brotherinlaw. I met at a golf outing and we were playing golf and we hit it off immediately. Coincidently enough his last name is ryan is it too. So we had a lot of fun and a couple of irish guy on the golf course. We are having fun. We hit it off and he said you have to meet my sisterinlaw. She was single with a couple of kids over the course over the next few months, weeded up seeing each other. November 22nd 2008, we met for almost the first time. It was at the buck cherry concert in Youngstown Ohio because commissions are because like that was, thats when the fire started kind of. Why did you decide run for congress. I thought the problems were national. The problems were global. Even when ive had opportunities to run for governor, it was like these problems are really structural around globalization. Around automation and art petition with china. Which i think is really definitive for a country for the next decade or two or three. And i really liked it but it was more about youngstown. It was more about how can i be in a position to really help my community that i grew up in and how do we get the economy going. Because politicians were running for years while i was growing up. Talking about the steel mills and bringing them back. It was timbales pop stuff. Going to bring the steel mills back. Theyre not bringing them back. Somebody better get a plan together here. Something in a position which is why i worked very hard to get on the Appropriations Committee because they were earmarks i can bring back money for particular projects around the district. Which ive been able to do and brought hundreds of millions of dollars back. For the local community but there was always that connection between the local plan but the issues around trade in taxes and globalization where in national nature. If you are not successful in getting the democratic nomination, we run for reelection. Yeah. I got a lot of seniority on the Appropriations Committee. I moving up on the defensive Appropriations Committee and weve been able to do a lot back home. I want to forgo what i can do for the people back home, so im in a position to help even if this doesnt work out. Yes im in a good spot there. You challenge speaker pelosi, what is your relationship like with her . Good. I think i conducted myself in a really professional manner. I like her a lot. Ive got enormous respect for her. I think she is probably the best politician in the Democratic Party quite frankly i think that baird is about. In the last few days with kind of waiting on the impeachment piece and i have been for impeachment for a month or two. Remember how long but she waited and waited and she kept staying, trump is going to impeach himself. And when to note, she was right. So her instincts and the legislative his process are really second to none. Would you, like to be speaker sunday . I dont think so. Its never really been my ambition. I was really frustrated when President Trump one because i felt like and still to a certain extent feel like Democratic Party its not connecting to people. The workers. The white and black and brown, like men and women, workingclass people. We have got to do a much better job of connecting. So after the trump election, and 16, i became even more apparent. When we lost michigan wisconsin and ohio and pennsylvania. That was the reason for me running and its the reason im running for president is it too. Not only to have big plans and im going to look out for the worker, but in addition to that, i can with the states. Those are my kind of states. Those are rough belt, and i could do really well in those states. And be donald trump so thats another reason why. But is the disconnect from them i think we reconnect with them around the new agenda moving into the future together. Uniting all of these community that have the same problems. And i would change the brand of the party. If the nominee, in youngstown, ohio, this postal coastal liberal ivy league brand that weve been battling against for how long. It goes away like that. And all of a sudden we are midwest bluecollar future of the economy and new idea party and i think that would be very effective. So are you worried that thats how the republicans will brand her. Nothing theres any question. Elizabeth warren, almost everybody on the stage is coastal ivy league and like i think we can theres a potential to walk into the brand. It could be who knows was going to happen. I just think we have got, its not me staying it. Mason, the 16, he plays football on friday nights. I try to make. I found in the moms and dads at the Football Games. Brady is five anyplace like football. We going saturday morning, i talked to montanez and this is what they were seeing. The party has forgotten us. Theyre not talking about us. They are talking a lot about other issues but not talking about the wages and the jobs that kind of thing so there is a real disconnect in those states. Theyve acted out and voted for trump. Instill real issue and i think whoever the nominee is, when its gonna be how we work really hard to connect to these workers which are advocating for myself actually. And how do we get right on the issues so that they dont feel like the stuff is being cooked up that went out them in mind. The policies of the future. I realizes the water with a bridge. What do you think theyll rape a Lenten Campaign didnt do that in 2016. Was a disconnect they didnt go to a lot of these areas. The client did a bus tour barack obama did a bus tour, through the small little tales. There was a lot of that. Theres a super focus on driving out the base. I think there wasnt enough. There was is it too much talk about trump and not enough talk about them the voter. Their economic anxiety. I think trump was very effective to pretty light, he said im not going to raise taxes on the ritz and expand health care into a huge infrastructure bill and bring all these manufacturing facilities back. Most people are looking at these one of the most effective things he said in our area was bill clinton passed. And we lost thousands of jobs in si. Plants closing and going over the border of mexico building another plant and shipping the product back to the united states. Unions and factories went from 13000 down to almost nothing. The General Motors used to be 16000 people now it is idle. Nafta is perceived to have a lot to do with it. It did have a tremendous impact. Sounded globalization. When trump started staying that, i thought man, thats going to hurt. Thats a strike. He had a little inside lane. Because traditionally room. Republicans couldnt say this kind of things being against free trade. He was against the republican orthodox and i think it out him a lot. Use the word lane. Players tim ryan. Like a lame thing. A good politician a good leader can pull from all of these different areas. You need a coalition. Michael elation ultimately will be more moderate people i think. I have kind of disengaged with the medicare for all as far as taking people his Health Insurance and forcing them into that system. I came out against decriminalizing at the border. Of come out against Free Health Care for undocumented workers. I think undocumented workers should be able to buy healthcare if they are sick, they can afford it, then the have to do that went out but you cant, theyre going to pay for free healthcare for undocumented workers when everyone else is working driving two hours to and from work to try to get healthcare for their own family. The segue to work. So on these issues, i positioned myself kind of away from most of the field. So that would be the more modest lane. You talk to those workers, they like their Health Insurance. Yeah, theyre driving two hours to and from work to make sure they dont lose it. To communicate very frankly, that person yeah they make 30 bucks an hour. Thats not a lot of money. Its a 60000 years good solid middleclass but they are doing it for the health care. May have a sick kid. Vinnies care and so they in the conversation of taking that away from them, when the whole world is collapsed around them, i think he its not good. Part of the lane conversation that i dont like is that in a keep staying its not left or right because the vibe that we have been trapped in, its not working and its really not even reflective of the changes that have come in the economy. In our culture. And into technology. Globalization, blue the left right divide away. Donald trump is living in the left right divide. I think a lot of democrats are putting a fresh coat of paint on a lot of the older policies that are part of the left right divide. So what ive been presenting his ideas that have both democrat and republican support that are about new and better around an industrial policy. Around manufacturing. Electric vehicles and batteries and charging stations and solar and wind like 80 percent of the American People support manufacturing. And chinas cleaning our clock and all of those areas. So lets unite around something we all agree on. Unionize a lot of these jobs so they are middleclass jobs. A talk a lot about social and emotional learner. Trauma informed care for our kids in the schools. Really dealing with their trauma. Making sure theres a Mental Health counselor in every school. Social Emotional Learning have support of the Brookings Institute and the American Enterprise institute. Left and right we could literally put a huge education reform proposal together and actually have the support of both the left and the right. Affect a lot about good regenerative agriculture which is about planting crops yearround. Carbon into the ground and farmers make money off of this because they dont use all of the pesticides and all of the nitrogen for the fertilizer. So make money. As i said, its precious carbon so it could be huge for the environment but has the support of republican and libertarian farmers who dont actually believe, that man caused climate change. Will who cares. Theyre going to have the carbon which is what democrats the liberals and progressives want. Its great for the environment, and produces healthier food, is a lot less pesticides, constructive theology looms and that dead zones at the mouth of the Mississippi River and the farmers like it. Why wouldnt they modern democratic parties and embrace this. And say misses us us were going to go in Rural America make it happen. None of those are left to right. See what im staying. And no better and they have a coalition that weekend actually move forward on. Even partisans are dying for some issue or issues that we could agree upon and move on. With all of these issues, curious, how do you make decisions. What is your thought process. Havisham your read and go through had ten riots formulates his opinions and his views. I read all of the time. Whatever is around. My wife makes fun of me. Like magazines and books laying all around. I watch documentaries. And talk to people is it too. Im a pretty social guy. I talk to these farmers for example around the generative agriculture. I got a nice network of people. I read a book about food and my default notice meditation years ago. Ive got interesting networks of people who like send me stuff. As my friends are scientists who study Buddhist Monks brains. And written books about that stuff. And people who practice the stuff in schools. With veterans and ike stuffed with all of the farmers and scientists behind that and the dodgers. So get a lot of incoming as most members of Congress Tour journalists. In a big network. Second a lot of really cool and cutting edge you know goi

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