Democrats Regroup After Painful Ossoff Loss

>>> I THINK OUR MESSAGE IS UNDER EVERY ROOF IN AMERICA ARE THE
DREAMS THAT EVERY FAMILY HAS FOR THEIR KIDS FOR THEIR JOB AND
THEIR HEALTH CARE AND WE'RE FOR YOU.
AND WE JUST NEED TO DO A BETTER JOB OF COMMUNICATING THAT.
>> THE OTHER WAY TO LOOK AT THIS, CANDIDATES MATTER, YOU HAD
A VERY YOUNG CANDIDATE, A CHARISMATIC ONE BUT HE DIDN'T
HAVE THE LONGEST RESUME, HE DIDN'T LIVE IN THE DISTRICT SO
THAT WAS A CHALLENGE. >> THERE IS NO QUESTION MILLIONS
OF DOLLARS WERE SPENT IN TIEING THE DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE IN
GEORGIA TO NANCY PELOSI AND I THINK THAT WAS A SIGNIFICANT
FACTOR IN THE FINAL RESULT. NOT THE ONLY THING.
>> REPUBLICAN KAREN HANDLE'S VICTORY TURNED DEMOCRATS INTO
ARMCHAIR. A HOST OF REASONS FOR WHAT WENT
WRONG. TO THE PARTY'S CANDIDATE
30-YEAR-OLD JON OSSOFF AND SOME REACHED ALL THE WAY TO THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES TO BLAME THE PARTY'S MINORITY LEADER IN THAT
BODY, NANCY PELOSI. HER SUPPOSEDLY TOXIC IMAGE
WEIGHING DOWN DEMOCRATS. LOST IN THE GAME IS THE
POLITICAL REALITY OF A REPUBLICAN DISTRICT THAT HASN'T
SENT A DEMOCRAT TO CONGRESS IN 39 YEARS.
BACK WITH ME AT THE TABLE JOINING ME IS JIMY WILLIAMS,
JASON JOHNSON, SO THIS IS LIKE THE PERFECT PANEL FOR THIS.
I DO BELIEVE ALL YOU, HE'S NOT GOING TO WIN.
BUT THE MAIN HE'S NOT GOING TO WIN GUY IS MY BUDDY JIMMY.
WHAT HAPPENED? YOU SAID HE WASN'T GOING TO WIN.
YOU WANT TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO FOR THREE MINUTES OR EXPLAIN
WHAT HAPPENED? >> NO, SIMPLE.
IT'S A VERY REPUBLICAN DISTRICT AND IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW MUCH
MONEY, WHAT IS IT 20 MILLION, THE DCCC SPENT 6 MILLION IN THAT
DISTRICT AND RAN ADS WITH PELOSI.
SET THE PELOSI THING ASIDE. THAT'S NOT MY PROBLEM.
MY PROBLEM IS THE DCCC BLEW ITS ENTIRE LIKE BANK ACCOUNT BUT YOU
GET MY POINT, ON A RACE OF A 30-YEAR-OLD WHO DIDN'T LIVE IN
THE DISTRICT WHO NEVER HAD RUN FOR OFFICE AGAINST A VERY BAD
CANDIDATE AND BY THE WAY, THE CAMPAIGN PUT OUT A POSTMORTEM
MEMO THAT SAID OSSOFF NEVER WENT BELOW 50% APPROVAL.
HE LOST. WHY WOULD THE DCCC SPEND 6
MILLION ON THAT RACE WHEN ON THE SAME DAY ABOUT 150 MILES AWAY IN
SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE OLD JOHN SPRAT SEAT, ARCHIE PARNELL WAS
RUNNING HE LOST THAT RACE BY 2700 VOTES.
EIGHT VOTES PER PRECINCT. HOW MUCH DID THEY SPEND THERE,
AROUND $275,000. THEY SENT OUT MAILERS, NONE OF
WHICH HAD ARCHIE'S NAME ON THEM. DID RADIO, THEY DID TV, THEY
DIDFACEBOOK, ALL KINDS OF THINGS.
HECK, THEY EVEN WIRED $145,000 TO THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATIC
PARTY WHO THEN PROCEEDED TO WIRE IT BACK TO THEM FOR SOME UNKNOWN
REASON. I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT.
I DO UNDERSTAND IS THIS. WHAT I UNDERSTAND IS THIS.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, THE DCCC AND THE LEADERSHIP, MADE A HUGE
MASSIVE MISTAKE, THEY COULD HAVE ELECTED AT LEAST ONE DEMOCRAT
LAST WEEK AND THEY MADE THE MISTAKE AND DIDN'T DO IT.
>> OR THE OTHER WAY YOU COULD SAY IS THAT THEY LOST THEHE OSSF
RACE. COULD HAVE LOST FOR FREE.
I WANTED QUICKLY -- >> RIGHT.
>> YOU WROTE WHAT I THOUGHT, BEFORE I GET TO YOUR PIECE JUST
THE STATS, THE POLITICAL REPORT LOOKED AT THE RATING OF THE
GEORGIA SIX RACE AND IT'S R PLUS 8.
71 REPUBLICAN HELD DISTRICTS HAVE A SMALLER GOP LEAN THAN
THAT, AND DEMOCRATS NEED 24 TO CONTROL THE HOUSE.
TO THE POINT THAT WAS MADE, THE OSSOFF CAMPAIGN PUT OUT A MEMO
WHERE THEY DID A POSTMORTEM. GEORGIA 6 A DEEPLY RED DISTRICT.
TOM PRICE WAS CONSISTENTLY ELECTED BY DOUBLE DIGIT MARGINS.
THEY ARE TWICE AS MANY REPUBLICANS AS DEMOCRATS, NO
PATH TO VICTORY HERE WITHOUT INDEPENDENTS AND SOME
REPUBLICANS. IN THIS ENVIRONMENT, FIGHTING
RIGHT WING GROUPS. YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT.
>> I THOUGHT IT WAS REASONABLE. THERE WAS ONE THING THAT THEY
WERE MISSING, JOY, THE LESSON THAT COULD HAVE BEEN LEARNED
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. THERE'S THIS CRAZY IDEA THAT
LIKE WHEN YOU WANT TO WIN AN ELECTION YOU SHOULD SPEND MONEY
ON YOUR OWN PEOPLE AND NOT TRYING TO CONVINCE PEOPLE WHO
DON'T LIKE YOU. THE OSSOFF CAMPAIGN IF THERE IS
ONE MISTAKE, THEY DIDN'T SPEND ENOUGH IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN
AND LATINO COMMUNITY. IT'S NOT A GUARANTEE THEY WERE
GOING TO WIN BUT THEY LEFT THAT TO A LOT OF OUTSIDE GROUPS.
THE REALITY IS WITH SO MUCH EARLY TURNOUT AND ATTENTION
PAID, REPUBLICANS CAME OUT AN VOTED EARLY, THE RIGHT LEANING
INDEPENDENTS CAME OUT AND VOTED EARLY.
OSSOFF OVERPERFORMED AND YOU SPEAK TO ANYBODY THERE AND
THAT'S WHAT THEY SAY. THEY STILL MISSED THE BOAT, YOU
NEED TO FOCUS ON BLACK MEN, BLACK WOMEN, LATINOS AND SINGLE
PEOPLE.
>> JASON DID WRITE, IT'S A GREAT PIECE, ON WHITE PEOPLE GENERALLY
DON'T VOTE FOR DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN GEORGIA OR ANY OTHER SOUTHERN
STATE. TO SEND A MESSAGE TO DONALD
TRUMP FROM GEORGIA WAS A FANTASY CREATED BY THE PLU SCREEN AND
CGI WHO WANTED A HAPPY ENDING TO THE TRUMP NARRATIVE.
DEMOCRATS ARE CRYING OVER LOSING IN MONTANA, KANSAS, SOUTH
CAROLINA AND GEORGIA. AND THEY ARE ACTING AS IF THERE
WAS SOME WAY THEY COULD HAVE WON WHEN THEY TO JASON'S POINT ARE
PAYING SOLE ATTENTION TO FLIPPING WHITE VOTERS WHO ARE
REPUBLICAN. >> RIGHT.
AND SO YOU KNOW WHERE I STAND ON THIS, JOY.
YOU KNOW WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION MANY TIMES.
I AM A BIG BELIEVER IN THE YOU CANNOT MAXIMIZE TURNOUT WHICH
JON OSSOFF DID, I DON'T WANT TO -- BUT IF YOU CANNOT MAXIMIZE
FULLY TURNOUT AMONG YOUR OWN PEOPLE, THEN IT IS POINTLESS TO
THEN -- IF YOU CAN'T CONVINCE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE ALREADY
PRIMARILY ALIGNED WITH YOU, AND JUST MAY NOT BE MOTIVATED TO
VOTE, IF YOU CAN'T CONVINCE THEM YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE A HECK OF
A TIME TRYING TO CONVINCE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT PREDISPOSED TO YOUR
POSITION. SO I DO THINK THAT THE THING THE
DEMOCRATS NEED TO FOCUS ON IN MY MIND IS MASSIVE VOTER
REGISTRATION AND I THINK THAT LET THE OUTSIDE GROUP DUES WHAT
WHAT THEY DO BUT YOU NEED HAVE YOUR CAMPAIGN NEED AS PROCESS
FOR THAT AS WELL. >> VOTER SUPPRESSION IS STILL AN
ISSUE IN THIS COUNTRY AND IT'S NOT GETTING ENOUGH ATTENTION AND
IT'S ONLY GETTING WORSE. SO YOU JUDGE GERRYMANDERED
DISTRICTS ALREADY AN UPHILL BATTLE.
COMBINE THAT WITH THE FACT THEY ARE ACTIVE AND AGGRESSIVE
EFFORTS GOING ON TO DISENFRANCHISE PEOPLE AND BLACK,
BROWN, ASIAN, BUT NOT JUST THAT, WHITE VOTERS WHO ALIGN WITH THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY ARE HAVING TROUBLE.
COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE NOT BEING ABLE TO USE STUDENT I.D., GUN
OWNER'S PERMIT IS ELIGIBLE. EARLY VOTING CUT.
SO THERE IS A MASSIVE ASSAULT ON VOTING RIGHTS IN THIS COUNTRY
AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT DEMOCRATS NEED TO AGGRESSIVELY
ATTACK. >> JASON, TO THAT POINT THE
THING THE DEMOCRATS DO IN THAT VAIN IS SAY JOHN LEWIS OR DO AN
ADD OR HAVE BARACK OBAMA CUT A RADIO ADD AND THEN DON'T DO
ANYTHING. >> EXACTLY.
IN JOHN LEWIS IS GREAT AND EVERYBODY HEARD HIS STORIES AND
HE IS WONDERFUL BUT THERE IS THIS PROBLEM.
THIS IS THE DIFFERENCE, WHAT THEY DID IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
IT WAS VERY EXPERIMENTAL. IF THE DEMOCRATS HAD FOCUSED ON
SOUTH CAROLINA IT WOULD HAVE GOTTEN BLOWN OUT.
THE REASON THEY DID WELL IS IT STUCK UP ON THE CANDIDATE.
WHAT THEY DECIDED TO DO IS DEVELOP TARGETED MESSAGES FOR
AFRICAN-AMERICANS. YOU SAID LOOK, THIS AFFECTS
HEART DISEASE WHICH AFFECTS THE BLACK COMMUNITY.
TURNOUT HAS TO BE SPECIFIC TIKE THE PEOPLE THAT YOU'RE TALKING
TO. AND ALL TOO OFTEN DEMOCRATS SEEM
TO THINK THAT TELLING BLACK FOLK AND TELLING HISPANIC HEY THERE
IS AN ELECTION IS ENOUGH. THAT IS THE LESSON THAT SHOULD
BE LEARNED. IT'S NOT NANCY PELOSI'S FAULT,
NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT.
IT HAD TO DO WITH THE BASIC FACTS.
ONE LAST THING, WHEN YOU POLL SOMEONE OUT OF CONGRESS TO JOIN
YOUR ADMINISTRATION YOU ONLY POLL FROM SAFE DISTRICTS.
>> I THINK THAT'S THE OTHER POINT.
BRINGING NANCY PELOSI INTO IT ASSUMES THAT VOTERS ARE SORT OF
HELPLESS VICTIMS THAT YOU CAN SAY NANCY PELOSI AND GO MY GOD.
ISN'T IT ALSO THE CASE, YOU TALK ABOUT INA LOT, NATIONALIZING
THESE ELECTIONS ISN'T ALSO THE WAY TO GO.
YOU NEED TO PICK THE DISTRICT. WHO FITS THE DISTRICT, RUN
SOMEBODY AND SPEND SOME MONEY. RIGHT?
>> LET ME FOLLOW UP ON SOMETHING JASON SAID.
THE DNC DID DO THAT MONEY TO SOUTH CAROLINA '05 AND IT WORKED
PRETTY WELL. TO THAT POINT THOUGH, YES, LOOK,
NANCY PELOSI YOU CAN BLAME HER ALL DAY LONG.
IF I HAVE HEM ROIDS IT'S NOT NANCY PELOSI'S FAULT.
HOWEVER I'M ALSO NEVER RUNNING FOR AN OFFICE NO MATTER WHAT SO
NO ONE IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO BLAME NANCY PELOSI FOR THAT.
I CAN TELL YOU THIS. IN GEORGIA THAT DID WORK TO A
LARGE DEGREE. IN SOUTH CAROLINA EVEN IF SOUTH
CAROLINA, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HERE, HAD SPENT THAT MONEY
BEFORE THEY SENT IT BACK THAT WOULD HAVE NEVER SHOWN UP ON THE
REPORTS UNTIL THE MIDDLE OF JULY WELL AFTER ARCHIE PARNELL HAD
BEEN SWORN IN AS A MEMBER OF CONGRESS SO.
THE PELOSI EFFECT WOULDN'T HAVE MATTERED IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
IT SIMPLY WOULDN'T HAVE. YOU DO HAVE TO -- LISTEN.
TARA IS RIGHT. JASON'S RIGHT.
VOTER REGISTRATION, CALLING OUT SUPPRESSION, THAT STUFF HAS TO
BE A PRIORITY FOR THE PARTIES, BUILDING PARTIES MEANS BUILDING
PEOPLE. IF YOU DON'T DO THAT YOU CAN'T
WIN IN SOUTH CAROLINA, AND SO DO THE -- THE DCCC, THEY FAILED IN
BOTH OF THESE. >> I LIKE THE FACT THAT YOU
CALLED OUT THE DCCC. NANCY PELOSI DOESN'T RUN THESE,
IT'S THE JOB TO WIN THESE. AND ONE MORE EDITORIAL THING.
SPENDING ALL OF THAT MONEY ON TV AS OPPOSED TO SPENDING IT ON
VOTER REGISTRATION AND GROUND GAME MIGHT BE A PROBLEM TOO.
IF YOU DID HAVE HEMORRHOIDS I BET YOU NANCY WOULD SEND YOU A
DESIGNER PILLOW. THAT'S HOW YOU KNOW, SHE'S GOING
TO SEND YOU SOMETHING. >> I HAVE A DESIGNER PILLOW.
THANK YOU. >> YOU GUYS ARE GREAT.
TARA, JASON, WISH YOU WERE ALL HERE.
COMING UP. FORMER ACTOR OR ACTING ATTORNEY
GENERAL

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