Colin Allred

And so I think this is very clear and very straightforward.

I hope Republicans will come to the table and negotiate and try to make sure we can end this shutdown as soon as possible.

Well, listen, what I've been trying to do is make sure that we reorient ourselves around what I think working folks are going through.

And I think there were a lot of promises made to working people in the last election about their costs were going to go down, that inflation was going to go away on day one.

And we've seen the opposite.

And as I've been going around the state, I'm not just going around.

I'm trying to find areas where I can go directly to working folks because I'm constantly thinking about my mom, who was working two jobs and was watching me in the evening.

And she couldn't come to one of our town halls that we have or to a political rally.

But if I go to them on the job, then we can have those conversations.

And so I was in grocery stores and construction sites.