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Republicans are pouncing on it. here is senator lindsey graham. >> if we don't win in 2020 i will be surprised. it seems like our friends on the other side have literally gone not to the left ditch but to the left edge of the world. venezuela is a good example of what would happen if you put socialist policies in place. >> lisa: meantime, some democratic lawmakers have expressed skepticism about the green new deal. congressman tim ryan is one of them. he says that proposals are basically conversation starters. >> these plans across the board i really value statements. these are value documents...

>> these plans, i think across-the-board, really are value statements. these are value documents. they are saying look, we have a healthcare crisis in the united states where we spend 2.5 times as much money on healthcare as every other industrialized country, and we get the worst outcomes. we know that if we continue down the path we're going down now, with regard to energy and farming and all the rest that we're going to have a seven degree increase celsius in our global temperature in the next 70 years. that's a big problem and you know whose most concerned about that is the united states m...

These are a set of values that, they're value documents -- >> i understand that. but they're not designed to -- what are they designed to do? >> complete -- well, they're designed to lay out what the vision for that party is moving forward. and i think that's what it's done. >> and stir up the base. >> absolutely. there's definitely some, like, this is the pieces of it. but i'll tell you this, particularly with women voters, who were key. i mean, gender gap, huge in 2012, all of our polling at emily's list has shown that they are looking for some solutions here. and the solutions entail some t...