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Alex Padilla

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  1. “Oh, I think it's hugely significant in a way that most of the public doesn't understand you. It's been tough enough to explain the 50-50 majority where Vice President Harris has been particularly busy breaking ties. But a 51st vote isn't just one more vote, a little bit of wiggle room. Not everything goes by way of Senator Mansion, for example, but just the way this tenant operates. Is evilly split 50 50. So you have a bunch of deadlock Thai votes in committee. There's ways to pull a measure out of committee to the full Senate for a vote, but it takes extra steps, extra votes, extra time. It's very inefficient. Just having that one vote margin in committee can continue to have party line votes, but the business of the Senate will proceed more efficiently as a result. make a big, big difference.”

    2022-11-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 512 — Sen. Alex Padilla · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Exactly So, again, you can discuss and debate tax policy. You can discuss and debate health policy. But when voters see that there's one party in particular that is disproportionately trying to undermine confidence in the electoral process, that throws everything, puts everything at risk. And we saw the response to that.”

    2022-11-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 512 — Sen. Alex Padilla · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “But to your point earlier, I think abortion moved a lot of people because of abortion itself. The opposition moved a lot of people because of the dynamic of extremism, the other significant example of this cycle. So many election deniers. Running for office for United States Senate, for a governor, for Attorney General, for Secretary of State, which is personal to me because some of the position.”

    2022-11-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 512 — Sen. Alex Padilla · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “I think honestly, I think it was both. Elections are always about contrast. You have a choice. This candidate, this is what you're going to get that candidate, that's what you're going to get. So the Democrats, we knew what we want more of. With the Republicans, we're getting the majority of what's at risk. The Dobbs decision undoing 50 years of protections under Roe v. Wade was just the beginning, right? And just on abortion, for example, I mean, post that decision by the Supreme Court, Mitch McConnell said, hey, if Republicans regain the majority, a national abortion ban is in play. That was very public. And then they didn't even wait until the November elections. Lindsay Graham introduced the ban. And so that was very real. You heard our response after the Dobbs decision, the way in which the Supreme Court went about it put all of a sudden into jeopardy so many other rights that we thought had been settled, whether it's interracial marriage, on and on and on.”

    2022-11-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 512 — Sen. Alex Padilla · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Handled the COVID-19 pandemic headed a sand completely denial incomes President Biden with a Democratic majority in Congress that we delivered relief for families, relief for small business owners, for state and local governments and funding for vaccines because we followed the science and we're in a much better place”

    2022-11-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 512 — Sen. Alex Padilla · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Gotta tell you, I was too surprised, at least not on the Senate side. My four colleagues who were considered more vulnerable, but in tougher re-election races, if you will, Maggie Hasson in New Hampshire, Reverend Warrenock in Georgia, Mark Kelly in Arizona, Captain Cortez Masto in Nevada. I know their tremendous servants have been able to work with them up close and personal the last couple of years. I know they were campaigning strong and smartly. Take one look at their opponents and you think, yeah, they're going to get re-elected. And so at a minimum, I felt we hold our 50-50 majority. I think the biggest piece for me is we had something to run on. We had a story to tell as Democrats. Think back to January 2021 when I joined the Senate among the first things I had a chance to be a part of was the crafting and voting for the American rescue plan. We saw how the prior administration.”

    2022-11-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 512 — Sen. Alex Padilla · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Thank you. Thank you. It is California. They're still counting votes, but the margin is certainly big and just being able to settle in as an elected United States senator, just an appointment to the United States senator is a. It just feels tremendous to think that the voters of California have once again put their trust and confidence in me and the fight that I bring on their behalf to the United States Senate, but also, you know, I got to confess, I constantly think back on my life journey, starting with my parents who are immigrants from Mexico, my dad for many years working as a short order cook, my mom cleaning houses. One of those only in American oris that in one generation.”

    2022-11-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 512 — Sen. Alex Padilla · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source