Greg Casar

And I didn't just do that for political reasons.

We did that because we want to get this agenda passed.

This is a kind of no excuses agenda.

It plays well in every district and helps voters with the thing we hear, number one, from every day, especially disengaged voters about, which is how damn expensive life is getting in this country.

So as a progressive caucus, we have things called our flagship agenda.

That includes Medicare for All and the Green New Deal.

We keep on fighting for those flagship bills and to bring more parts of the party together around on those ideas.

But you're right, it is not the overwhelming number of Democratic members of Congress.

That's part of my job, is to keep convincing folks on those issues.

But these are not our flagships.

This new slate are our battleships that go in addition to our flagships.

These are the kinds of issues-

Yeah, these battleships, man, we've got in some cases 80 percent support of voters, not just right now, but consistently.

And so let's move that stuff since we can have consensus on it while still pushing for the big ideas.

I think that what we need to make sure we do in the climate movement is connected to everyday people's lives.

The moment that Republicans tried to make it seem that tackling the climate crisis was about buying more expensive products or was kind of an elite luxury, we took a big hit.

And so I think that it's very important if we care about having a livable climate agenda, we need to talk about how electrification is going to make things cheaper.

Let's get this restarted by taking on the insane price of your electric bill, earn people's trust, and then show folks how a agenda on climate can actually make your life more affordable instead of more expensive.

Mm-hmm.

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