Luján: “Democrats can and will win back the House… we are connecting with a very personal message.”
“We have extraordinary candidates with records of service, veterans, women, small business owners that do incredible work all across America.”
“Under Republican control of the House, of the Senate and of the White House, Republicans have forced premiums to increase…”
In case you missed it, DCCC Chairman Ben Ray Luján spoke to Martha Raddatz on This Week with George Stephanopoulos about why Democrats are poised to take back the House.
TRANSCRIPT
[…] LUJÁN: Well Martha, good to be with you as well. And look, my friend Steve Stivers, I think he’s one of the only people in America that believes Republicans will hold onto the House. I’m confident that Democrats and will win back the House. We have extraordinary candidates with records of service, veterans, women, small business owners that do incredible work all across America.
And we are connecting with a very personal message. Putting people first. Democrats have always been for the people. And the more that we can drive an agenda that helps to lower the costs of healthcare and prescription drugs for the American people and increase wages, the stronger we will be and the stronger we will do.
And the more that we can drive an agenda that helps to lower the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs for the American people and increase wages, the stronger we will be and the stronger we will do.
And so we have to continue to earn the trust of the American people and that’s something we’re working on every day.
RADDATZ: And – and for the people, is that message really getting through? It doesn’t seem that much different from messages of the past.
LUJÁN: Martha, this is personal, this is not a slogan, it’s not just a message. This is talking about the real impacts that people are facing every day. And while Republicans and my friend Mr. Stivers like to talk about national trends, what matters most to the American people is what’s happening to their pocket books.
Under Republican control of the House, of the Senate and of the White House, Republicans have forced premiums to increase – healthcare premiums to increase on the American people.
Out of pocket costs are skyrocketing while stripping away preexisting condition protections from the American people. And it’s not just that House Republicans voted to take away preexisting conditions away from the American people, now Republicans are suing to take that away.
So this is very personal as we talk about how we stand up for the people, put people first and have a strong agenda that is built around for the people.
[…] LUJÁN: — Republicans don’t – well look, Steve Stivers knows that Republicans don’t have a record nor an agenda to run on. His rhetoric around healthcare and what Republicans are doing is dizzying.
Under Republican rule, healthcare costs have skyrocketed under Republican rule of the House and the Senate. Look, Democrats wants to work together in a bipartisan way when it comes to comprehensive immigration reform.
[…] LUJÁN: Democrats want to work on a bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform package to address all of our issues across the country. I think Mr. Stivers would agree that we have to do that.
It’s under Speaker Paul Ryan that Republicans refuse to bring the DREAM Act to the floor, refuse to bring the USA Act, which is a bipartisan bill to overturn President Trump’s demeaning actions on DREAMers that also includes border security protections, in addition to what we can do with the DREAM act itself.
So look, Democrats are standing strong when it comes to a comprehensive immigration reform conversation with the American people that is fair, that is tough and that will be good for America.
And Mr. Stivers knows that there is just holes in his argument today.
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