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Rahm Emanuel

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“You're fired and you. Let me say this if anybody had done to me what I did to the chief of staff, then I would have fired them. I said to Mac McClarty when he said you're fired, I said that there's only one person in this bill. I don't know where I even got the.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's a lot of things. I mean, I disagreed, I said it. And I thought that we should not be doing certain things that we were, and I was willing to speak up. Look, I... One of the things I admire both about President Clinton and President Obama is they never had a problem if I walked in the Oval Office or anybody for that matter. I probably abused it too much telling them what I thought. and being honest and forthright. I learned a lot when I almost got fired. I learned, I think, who counted my life, who are real friends. I also learned how to pick myself up and dust myself off and not give in and give up.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, there's a bit about me because I've actually punched them in the nose. And he thinks that if he can try to bully people, and that's not going to be different, I've said, and I've declared that Chicago will be a Trump-free zone, and I stand by that because I think the policies that he's advocated are quite divisive. I think he also tries to do it for trying to play to, quote-unquote, his political base in you, Chicago as a shorthand, and I reject that as well.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think that the president is just using that with Philadelphia and Atlanta, but nothing like he's done Chicago because he's playing. Because of you?”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, but you know that that's been already been out in the press in the sense that the discussion started with that family months beforehand.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know, there was a process in place, like for every city. So David, you know this and you've seen this in other cities where there was a process to have those videos. Obviously, so nobody was changing their story for that. Alderman Sawyer, who's head of the Black Caucus, noted there was no politics played in that issue. When I look at it, I actually look at it from the inspiration of how we're going to make changes given our history as a city. There's been in the 100 years seven attempts to make changes to the police department. I am convinced that the road we're on now is the one that will actually put this to bed and make the fundamental changes. One third of the rank and file of the police department today? One-third have come into the police department with the changes that Superintendent and I have already made. And I think every day that only increases in the sense that they know the world.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's not what I'm saying. You know that, David. I also think economics is a factor. You asked me to list them off. I do think guns. I think when we've had a situation when a young man has taken a young boy off a playground, walked him into an alley for 100 feet. Shot him dead. And for that hundred feet, nothing goes off in their head that this is wrong. I think there's economics that are a factor. I think there's a lack of accountability in the criminal justice system. I think there's a whole host of factors. And I actually wholesale reject what you just said, and you know that. And so what I would say is that there's a lot of things that deal with it, and you have to deal with all of them, not sonable.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But that's a big piece of it. David, you have too many guns, too little values. You have a bad combination. And we have to deal with some issues that relate to values, the sense that kids are lost. And I want to say values. We had a situation three years ago where a young girl, 13 years old, shot another young girl. Her uncle, who was a victim of gun violence, got on a bus in a wheelchair, go to get a gun, brings it back, gives it to the 13-year-old. All in a wheelchair, and he himself is a victim of gun violence, gives it to the 13-year-old, it locks, he unlocks it, and she shoots the other 13-year-old. It is both the access to that gun and it's the lack of value.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think you know as a friend how painful that is, especially since I won't say a habit, but I always call and visit families who have kids affected. It's not the numbers, it's any individual, and I want no parent to feel alone. And I do it not as a mayor, but I do it as a father of three. I couldn't get out of bed. If anything happened to my three kids. And I regularly check in on mothers and grandmothers, so they don't think that they're alone in the loneliest moment of their time. The first call I do every morning. And the first data I check is and talk to as the first deputy of the police department to see what's happened. Now, the good news is we're making some progress. The problem is it's a challenge of guns.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We have gun laws that are reflect Wisconsin and Indiana. You and I want to get in the car, drive 20 minutes. I can get you anything you want. Just place the order. And two of them each with no restrictions. 40% of the guns we see, 60% of the guns we see here in the city come from outside Illinois. Second is we have lighter sentences for gun crimes than New York. They have a three-year minimum. We have a one-year minimum. And then we have a different, more entrenched gang culture. Now, it is a reflection of parts of the city, not the whole city, but it is a challenge for the whole city. Now, the good news is the superintendent and the police department with community leaders are now on a two-year significant decline in both shootings and homicides. We have a spasm like other cities in 2016 that we're getting our hands around and making progress on.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“David, you're a resident. You know that. We have a couple things and there's a couple factors. One, easy access to guns. We're on a two-year record high seizing guns, but there's no stopping to it. We have, unlike New York or LA, we don't have Connecticut New Jersey gun laws.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, the way I look at it is yes, it was as it is for the parochial school system I've extended the school day in the year, added years that never were provided for, and we took 49 schools that were not performing and under enrolled and continue to lose people and actually got every child as a University of Chicago said, to a better performing school and doing better academically. And our graduation rate has gone from 56 to 78%.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You don't want to get away from that and you know there are things today I'm going to go do an announcement and a speech about how to encourage men of color to become school principals because I actually think for young men of color walking through the halls of school and seeing a young man who is the principal Can actually be a very influential, and we know that from research, and to me, these are things that you can do as a mayor. And I just actually also think you also do.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Over the four years, but we're already added another 3,800 kids. We've grown up by 70%. We've added an hour and a half to every day and two weeks to every year. I've added four years to a child's education than a child 15 years ago. To me, that makes a trajectory difference. We now match the United States, even though 83% of the kids are from poverty or below in this public school system. 44% of our kids go to college. That's the same for the United States as a whole. Another 21%, rather another 22% go to community college. That's the same. And our demographics are slightly more challenging. And that to me is why public life is not just public life, but specifically being mayor, you can actually do something, see it, feel it. Now, I took the train in to work today. You can hear the good, the bad, the ugly from constituents, which is”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I got elected four terms. I just slightly disagreed, David. At least in Congress, I considered myself part of Chicago. I worked in Washington for part of it, worked here for part of it. I think today cities are emerging in a way as an economic, intellectual, cultural energy economy. And Chicago mayor, you can put your thumb on the scale and tip things. Give you one illustration. I've added full day kindergarten for every child. Didn't exist before. I've added full day pre-K for every child in the city of Chicago. Didn't exist before.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, I thought you said, why did you walk away from the job you love, which explain I was basically new that the third term given my energy level to finish the question that you should have asked on there. I love this job because you can make a difference in people's lives and also know it. I told you about the Chicago start. You”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, first of all, I love the job because I love the people and I love the city. And I'm giving it up, and it took a lot of thinking about, is I got to forget the Clinton years. In 2002, I got elected to Congress. Two years later, I was headed chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Two years later, I was made number four in the House Caucus Chair. Two years later, I was Chief of Staff of President Obama, and basically two years later, I got elected mayor of the city. I'm not asking”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that's why Obviously, I want to. David, did I say anywhere that we shouldn't have a primary? Wait a second. What kind of course you have? Of course we're going to have a primary. And I said he should run and put his name forward. But my point was one month after the election. We're talking about that. We're talking about the House speaker, and we've said to the voters, Bupkis, nothing, zero. They voted for a change. They voted for a set of issues on healthcare cost control, transportation, a whole set of economic issues that in one month, and remember, right after the election, they're taking a second look. What did we fill it in with? Nothing that matters to them. And everything we talked about is what matters to us. That is how you fedter away in a unique opportunity.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What party takes a person who led the party to the greatest wins in the House since Watergate and says we're going to cut your knees off and then says we want to nominate somebody who didn't win. It wasn't about him. I admire what he did. It's about our party that I don't admire. And the second thing is because we're literally, since an election, you and I are talking, it's one month. Have we said anything to the voters about the minimum wage? Have we said anything to the voters about we're going to move a prescription drug cost control bill? Have we said anything to the voters about what we're going to do on insurance companies or on student loans? We've actually only talked about either who's going to be in the house leadership or who's going to be in what persons we're going to nominate for the party. We haven't said a single thing in one month to the voters of this country who just said”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What I said was look at what we're communicating. First of all, I'm in great admirer of what he did and what he did in that area. And not only fundraising, but also on his vote. My point was about the party.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Gets attacked on his tweets, it usually communicates to his base. He's the outsider trying to change Washington. The last thing I think we need is a nominee who owns Washington. If you stayed there longer than two weeks, I really don't think that's our place. It's not only not worked for us historically. So my attitude is who brings a fresh face, an energy that contrasts best with Donald Trump. And I don't think, and then there's demographics meaning who to appeal to working class voters and I believe that's very, very important. You're not going to just win it in suburban and urban coalition.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, here's my I have a different premise. I'm trying to look for history to draw lessons. Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama All younger than the age of 50, all from outside of Washington. And obviously, President Obama was a senator, but he barely unpacked his suitcase before he started running. All of them, two of them, Governor of Southern States. My general rule is that has worked for us. When President Trump”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nor have you, so let's not be clear. We have been clear for contrast, but those contrast can work dramatically. I actually think the American people know that the country and its leadership are off on a dirt path and they want to get it back.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're asking me that today. Look, in all due respect, I actually don't think that's impressive with 3.7% unemployment. I actually look at it the different way. The fact is, David, if President Obama, Bill Clinton, or Bush were present today with this economy, they would not be at 45%. They would all be 55% or north. Now, one of the things interesting I look at is you look at President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, three eight-year presidencies. The last time that happened was Jefferson Madison Monero. We're due for one termer. Doesn't guarantee anything, but we're due. So my view on that, now that's been 200 years. My view on this is to focus and look at where do you have both substantive and stylistic? And I actually think to his disunity we offer unity, to his abrasiveness.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, he is a factor. I mean, there's just no getting away from it. I mean, this is not fair because you and I share this view. I think I would both on substance but as equally valuable on style, and I don't mean style in a bad way, on narrative and character, I would actually look for very clear contrasting points with the president. I actually think, David, American people are exhausted. And more than exhausted, they're embarrassed. They're ashamed. And it's enough. And they know that what he's doing is 45%.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's different, but he hasn't. And that doesn't mean your responsibilities to the EPA and to the entire, not to EPA, to the pollution, to financial oversight, to what's going on in the student loan industry You know, what's happening in the student loan industry? And so to me. If Mueller lays it down, that's different. Before he lays it down, you also got to walk and chew gum. There's an entire element where the blurring between industry and government agencies, there is no line, they become one and the same, and the American people are paying for it. Not in a very positive way”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You have an entire government that, and here's the other thing, people think the Democrats are going to go there. So don't do what's predicted. Go to where actually there's news. I always say.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Other issues. Look at what they're doing to EPA and the environment. Now, if you wanted to communicate to urban and suburban voters, the relationship and the literally cahoots between both the polluters and the departments, people that came out of these very polluters are writing the laws to ease up on them. To me, I would just go into the interior department and the EPA and literally watch wholesale what people believe happens in Republican administrations. And that to me is worthy of oversight. I would also do it in the financial area. And I basically the entire oversight or division between the public and private sector has been blurred. You can't tell the difference between some of these agencies and the very companies and industries that are doing some real damage. And before you get Donald Trump.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You don't have to go and lean Mueller. You need Mueller to lead. You have an entire government that is not on its game protecting the American people. The House should focus there.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Don't focus immediately on Trump. Focus immediately. You have something with a Secretary of Labor, you have with EPA, you have Interior Department, you have it at the Commerce Department, you have it at HUD. He has brought the swamp to Washington and flooded the plains. And I think Mueller will deal with Trump.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Mom, I love you. No, here is what I would say. Stop saying return the party to democratic control. It's not the period of time from Sam Rayburn all the way through to, I was going to say Jim Wright, but other members of the leadership of the Democratic Party. The fact is what worked in the 60s and 70s when Democrats had a 40-year control, it's not true today. We're in the 21st century in this process, I would say to the leadership of the Democratic Party in the House, you need some wholesale changes that give a breath of fresh air, not just to the people at the top, but to the way the process works. And if you do that, you give a channel where newer members got. You say we got something. We got real reform changes.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So there's a lot of things that would go against the grain. And here's one of the things that I would say to the Democratic leadership. So let me rather, you wanted me to speak to the new, I'm going to speak to the leadership.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But that can be done at committee chairs. That can be done at a lot of different levels. You know, one of the things maybe there should be term limits for committee chairmen.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What distinguishes me. And I think that you got to get some concessions about change. I think the House rules should be updated and the House rules based on what is allowed on the floor. There's got to be a more openness, a more transparency. I think that goes to something Nancy's comfortable with and should be comfortable with. And I think it's a legitimate thing that then members knew and some members that are in their second or third term can at least say these are changes and concessions we got. So there's some element of change to the way the process works.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You don't want the first. Well, let me say one thing for all those who are saying this. If that was the case, this is one way to interpret the election. The Republicans try to make Nancy Pelosi an issue. We made the issues the issue on health care costs education. The Republican argument didn't work because we won more seats than any other time since Watergate. So you can actually answer that politically. The challenge she has to figure out, and this is where her legislative skills and tacticians of maybe having another vote, a vote that creates that people can say X versus Y, is if you made a pledge, you don't want people to have the first vote you cast is to go back on that pledge. And there's got to be a tactical way she's”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I think Nancy would be the first to tell you that she wants to elevate other people to be voices for the Democratic Party. Anybody knowing anything knows that she's not going to be there for another 20 years, et cetera. But I think this is kind of the energy that comes off in the life checking.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and she basically. So, what does she do? Let's replay the tape. She attacks, it attacks, it attacks it to prove her bone fides to her caucus, and then goes in and says, this is what we're going to do because if the Senate can't pass it, and she ends up passing the bill that she said has got to be changed. Very smart. Very capable of showing her left that she had to do that. Now, the end of the day, she got that done, and that makes her, in my view, an incredible legislative and political tactician. I think if you looked at the deficit side, the two big claims that are out there, one is she's been there so long and it's time for a new fresh phrase of leadership and a capacity. The second item is that her inside strengths don't come across on the outside game.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nobody who's effective or a leader is 100%. By nature have forces that are both real strong foreign, real strong against. That's what makes a leader. Look, I think we just talked about fundraising. She's a tenacious fundraiser. That gives Democrats an advantage, or not advantage, but eliminates a Republican advantage. She is an incredible strategist, tactician inside a caucus. One illustration to you, David, you know this. When we passed President Obama's health care bill, there's institutional hatred between the House and Senate. There's not partisan. The one thing the House can always agree on, regardless of party, is that the Senate was a constitutional mistake to do that. The fact is she got the House caucus. Adopt basically the Democrat's health care bill. They didn't want.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, one thing is look, I am close. Now, let's be clear. We had our differences. And as the chief of staff for President Obama, we used to fight a lot. But I respect her tenacity.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Let me quote my grandmother, oi. No, this is, here's the thing. I think he is very damaging to America. I don't agree with his policies. I think he's not only damaging at home and playing on major, major fissures that need to be dealt with and healed and damaging America overseas. Eight years in control of the White House and the apparatus of government. Would actually not just atrophy but actually do serious damage to the capacity of America to meet challenges at home and abroad. And I think four years are clearly, we're not even at two years, we're at the two-year mark and it's, well, January make a two-year mark. It's unbelievably damaging. Eight years of this would be something I'm not sure how long it would take for America to recuperate and recover from.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He's right about that, except for one thing America doesn't need him. I mean, for all those people that kind of play in the political arena. He has been a boom. He's not wrong. The problem is it's a boon for him and for media. It's really disastrous for America. And if you score it his way, he's right. If you don't score it his way, you score it, which is why we're involved in public policy or politics, he's really dangerous.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think the whole thing is, prior to this cycle, if Democrats were competitive with Republicans on money, that was a victory. That was always their edge. We eliminated it. Here, this is a Wild West total new world, and hopefully the voters and the online donors stay as active in that process.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In 06 to 08, both Nancy Pelosi as a speaker, I was a caucus chair Stenny, we created by forcing President Bush to deal with the surge with health care, fissures in the Republican base that created a pathway for Barack Obama. That's what is right now the most important thing to think about. And we have to focus on the issues that solidify this opportunity rather than literally kick it away and then B, set up 2020 where Trump's foundation gets cracked and you create fissures in the Republican base.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a rural area. And I shouldn't say can't. It's just much harder than it was on the 06 cycle than it was today. And some of the routes that were put down over the years just got deeper. My big thing right now is to do two things. Take this opportunity and solidify it and create a pathway to the victory in 2020, which is everything. We did it, and now I said this before, but in the shadows of President Bush's funeral, George Mitchell in 1990 made him a majority leader by making Bush walk away from reading my lips no new taxes, created a crack in the Republican base that Bill Clinton could cease.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, certain districts in urban areas did have primaries, and incumbents got knocked off. In suburban districts, actually, I don't want this is at 10,000 feet. You can always find something that didn't work, a more, I would not say centrist in the sense of ideology, more moderate candidates in the sense of tone and tenor got nominated. But the difference between if you're trying to always draw a comparison. Evansville, Indiana. I recruited a sheriff Brad Ellsworth. He went on to win that district in the southeast corner of the state rule. Mainly it was like 20-some-odd contents. You couldn't recruit there in telling you the shift by literally 12 years later. You couldn't recruit a candidate and win that district, let alone recruit a serious candidate. And so you can do”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It also happened in New King's district. Both Newt Kingrich, the Speaker of the House, Denny Hasser, Speaker of the House, both Republicans. Both districts voted for Mitt Romney and for Donald Trump, both elected African American women. And in 06, after the 04... Loss, we had to go out and recruit. After the 2016 loss, candidates recruited themselves. It was a different environment. But there are districts to go back, take Indiana next door to us, David.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Or we fitted it away and we actually didn't make it. And so nothing's permanent, but I think if the Republican Party stays as angry as Donald Trump, as ugly as Donald Trump, I think that's a unique opportunity for the Democrats to actually open up and build a stronger, more stable coalition that not only wins gubernatorial races and house races, but the ultimate prize, the White House.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nothing is permanent in politics. I think it's a unique opportunity for us. Now, the truth is we did do well in the suburbs in 06, but also in rural areas that we didn't do well, congressionally. I think what's happened is the voters are clearly in the suburban areas turned off by Donald Trump. If we do what we're supposed to do on minimum wage, if we do what we're supposed to do on prescription drugs and other health care costs, if we do what we're supposed to do on transportation, easing people's commute, et cetera, we can actually create a bind between urban and suburban. I think it's a false argument, David, to say, oh, you got to really have an energized base and then kind of forget the suburbs. No, you got to create a coalition that is withstands and stands stronger for 2020. And what we do between 2018 and 2020, we'll either say this was a unique opportunity we seized.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Unwrapping and understanding. And I would almost say 90% of that showing up and saying we appreciate your life, we don't look down on it, and we appreciate your kid's future. It counts not just in the urban centers. And we have to actually speak to them.”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“All the voters that I would call anti-Hillary voters, but not pro-Trump, left Donald Trump, mainly in the suburbs, and came to the Democratic Party. And you created, I think, a unique opportunity not just to have voters that walked away from Donald Trump and into our arms. Our goal now must be to put our arms around them. On the congressional level, which is what I call the Metropolitan Majority, issues that cross both the urban center and the suburban. On the other hand, what's probably more significant is if you look at the gubernatorial races in the upper Midwest, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, you see actually Democrats also not only doing well in urban and suburban, but actually minimizing their losses in the kind of cities of 150,000 or less. And that to me deserves much more”
2018-12-09 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 293 — Rahm Emanuel (TV) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source