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Can The GOP Keep Blue-Collar Workers? Former RNC Chairman Weighs In | Katy Tur | MSNBC - YouTube
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michael i want to give you something
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this is from tripp gabriel
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in the new york times talking about what
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republicans have been doing
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um donald trump did very well with blue
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collar workers in the last election but
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since then republicans have done very
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little to offer them anything
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and democrats are facing universal
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opposition from
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congressional republicans to the package
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which is
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chock full of measures to benefit
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struggling workers a full year into the
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coronavirus
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pandemic instead gabriel writes
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republican officials following mr
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trump's own example
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are exploiting the cultural anger and
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racial resentment of a sizable segment
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of the white working class
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but are making no concerted effort to
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help these americans
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economically so what do you make of that
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michael
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i i think that's a very accurate
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description of what the play has been
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for
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at least the last two cycles certainly
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we saw
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the early emergence of that in the 2018
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cycle when
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it was playing to the and i would say
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preying on the fears
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of of folks having caravans of
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brown-skinned individuals coming across
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the border
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uh this cycle it was you know letting
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white women in suburban america know oh
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they're coming to your neighborhood
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watch out be careful i alone can protect
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you
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um so this cultural narrative this this
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playing on grievance uh this playing on
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the fears
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uh the racial fears that are not
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necessarily anchored in racism
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per se but exploit that
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narrative to the degree that
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the republicans have and we see it now
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in places like georgia and elsewhere
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with the legislation on the back end of
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the election
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with respect to voting rights is a
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carrying card
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with the party's not putting out a
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counter agenda
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to what joe biden wants all right you
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don't want to spend 1.9 trillion
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then lay out what it is you want to
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spend it on and how do you take care of
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those blue collar workers in your
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backyard
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who by what the polls are showing 59 of
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republicans like
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over 75 percent of americans like what
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is your counter proposal
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but the the narrative plays and works
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right now
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if i can prey on your fears that's how i
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keep you anchored
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to my heel but the reality uh katie is
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simply this and this is what the article
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points out
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those voters are going to be looking for
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results they're going to be looking
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for solutions and if the only solution
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on the table
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is as we see in the example of the
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covert plan what joe biden is putting on
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the table and they like that
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gets where they go and that's the
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challenge and
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and the really gnarly point of 2022
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given the narrative that we see playing
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out right now and trump is dictating
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that narrative for the gop
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michael the point also is made in that
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article that republicans
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uh know that this bill is going to pass
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they expect to benefit from the bill
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passing and to only really
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uh feel any pain if they stopped the
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bill from passing so
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i don't know i'm pushing back on the
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idea that voters are going to be looking
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for results maybe they're looking for
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results they'll see some results
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but they won't necessarily reward the
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democrats for it considering
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that donald trump and i know it's a
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mixed bag but donald trump did
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gain voters in 2020
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yeah but you got to look at why he
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gained voters i mean everybody's just
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going off of this narrative oh he gained
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they gained all these voters well
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let's understand why you know what was
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driving that gain
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was the police narrative that the
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democrats had an irresponsible answer
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for
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along with some other variables that may
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have been closer to the ground so i
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think
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you're right in the sense that you know
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the party is going to try to ride this
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and and and you know take the credit
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even though there is no effort in in
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sort of reigning the horse um but the
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reality of it is
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how the democrats then on the other side
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of this speak about this and right now
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joe biden has the upper hand of the
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narrative the polling is reflecting that
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that's not going to benefit republicans
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that that 70 some percent
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is not going to just you know okay well
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we'll give the republicans credit
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for standing in the way
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