Jessica Millan Patterson
Appearances
Next Up with Mark Halperin
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I want to thank you very much, Gretchen. Good job. Thank you.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
Right. So just last week, it was announced that we are the fourth largest economy in the world. And it doesn't mean a lot to a lot of people because only 15 percent of Californians can afford to buy a home here. We are losing people faster than we are gaining them. I think Democrat one party rule has failed Californians.
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And that's shown by the fact that for the first time in our state's history, we lost a congressional district. And right now we're on track to lose four more by 2030. And it's absolutely been Democrats in charge of everything here. So what I would say is that the golden state is not quite as golden as it used to be. But I think there are a lot of opportunities on the horizon.
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And I think a lot of Californians, thanks to great independent journalism that's happening in our state and that's talking about the real problems of California and who has caused these problems, Californians are waking up and they're ready for some change.
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A hundred percent. The views from our beautiful oceans and mountains have not changed. Our wonderful Central Valley that provides the food for the entire world. None of this has changed. It's just the policies that have come out of Sacramento have changed. Our world championship Dodgers. I love my Dodgers. I love my state. I love being from L.A., but I hate what my state has become.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
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Well, I think that we haven't we've seen it tried before. Right. We saw Meg Whitman in 2020, even Carly Fiorina, who ran for U.S. Senate. We've definitely seen the try. I think at that point, I don't know that California was exactly ready for it. We had just come off of a Schwarzenegger administration and Governor Schwarzenegger had stopped Democrats from doing a lot of bad things.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
with his veto power as governor. So I don't think that we had gotten to a place where it had gotten so bad that they were ready to make that choice with the way that the demographics had changed voter registration alone. Because for 15 years in California, Republican voter registration was on a downward trajectory, right?
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
In February of 2019, we took over and we started moving it in the right direction. And for the last six years, we registered over a million voters. In the last three polls that we have seen statewide, California voters at about 48%, 47, 48% in those three polls have said they are ready to vote for a Republican governor.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
The problem that we have been running into is that whenever we feed in a name, none of them can get to 48%. And I think you're on the right track. I do think that Silicon Valley might be the answer. And I think some of these tech bros and sisters are ready to make that jump. And I don't know who the right person is yet, but I think that that is kind of the place where we should be looking.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
I think she's odds on favorite. I think the biggest mistake that California Democrats can make is to coronate her. I think that they have to allow people to make their own decisions, whether or not they're going to get in or get out of this race on their own. So I think the biggest mistake that they can make is not giving her a primary.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
I think that we haven't reached a point yet where Republicans are, quote unquote, dominating. I do think that if she is their candidate, that is the best chance for Republicans to win.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
Well, as your earlier guest has proven, you don't have to spend all of your time in Sacramento.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
I think that the mom movement is huge, right? Back in the Bush days, we would talk about soccer moms, right? This is something that has been going on for a very long time. And I know I can probably speak for Jessica as well, the other Jessica. We get these conversations. And when we started, I was a background person for a very, very long time.
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And once I was out in the foreground with my last job, the amount of moms that would come up to me and obviously is very anecdotal and like whisper to me and, you know, thank you for what you do. Or my husband who works in academia, the people that would come up to him and, oh my gosh, I saw your wife on the news the other day.
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And so this movement and the things that are being talked about, right, they're like what we would over our lifetimes think as common sense things. We want to know what's going on with our kids in school. We want to be the decision makers in their lives. We don't want undue influence on our children and the culture and the values. We think that that should be done in the home.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
These are all things that for a very long time, and I would venture to say our entire lifetimes and Prior to that, we have always believed that that was the role of the parent. And particularly here in California, we see this radical side of the Democrat Party. It's not all Democrats.
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It's this radical side of the Democrat Party who do not believe that we have the rights to raise our children with the values that we see fit.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
So professionally, without a doubt, it's Susie Wiles. I think that she is the neck of the operation. Obviously, President Trump is the head. She is the one that is steering the direction. and the work that she does behind the scenes.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
So, you know, I generally don't like to be too critical of Republicans. I feel that the Democrats do enough that we have enough to talk about.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
I would say just a general like stay off the signal. You know, I think that was an unforced error. Yeah. And that would be my advice to the whole group.
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Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
So I always talk about priorities versus balancing. And so priorities every single day, my number one priority is to be a good wife to Wes Patterson. Number two is to be a good mom to Abby and Maddie. And then my job or whatever all falls underneath that. There are a few things that I think that really affect your everyday life. And it's choices that you make every single day.
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I'm a huge fan of Dave Ramsey and the financial freedom that comes with his processes. We listen to that with both of our daughters who are 10 and 12. And as the person's calling in, we will say, pause it, tell us when to pause it. And you can tell us when this person has made a bad life decision. So things like that. We're also a practicing Catholic family.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
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And so for us, our faith is something that's critical and central to our entire lives. So when I'm taking the girls to school in the morning, we pray the first three decades of a rosary. We go to church on Sundays. This is our community. So I think that there are things that you have control over. Certainly the things that you put in front of your children.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
And, you know, the other day, Abigail and I yesterday, Madeline and I were listening to your podcast. And she heard that Gavin Newsom was going to be on on Thursday. And she was like, when is that guy done? Right. So they are politically informed as well. I think that has a lot to do with who their mom is.
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But, you know, those are the types of things that, you know, we try and be careful about what's put in front of them because the rest of the world will try and brainwash your children. And so it has to be our job to make sure that their foundation, their roots are good enough where they can defend it.
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Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
Oh, gosh. I'm generally against it. I think that that is the role of parents. And I think that a lot of parents have given the keys to the children in this instance in giving them phones too early and giving them iPads and, you know, having them be the babysitters of their children.
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Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
So they have Facebook accounts from when they were born, but they don't have access to them. So I just tag them in everything. But no, they're 10 and 12. They do not have social media.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
KidsTube.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
I would say it's very interesting that you use this word. I interviewed Senate Majority Leader John Thune last week, and he used that exact word. In fact, President Trump said to him, When they were talking about the big, beautiful bill, he said he's never had a piece of legislation referred to as glamorous.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
Everything about this presidency, everything about this administration and all that surrounds it, they are putting in glamour. You know, when we see him talking to networks that we wouldn't expect him to talk to, sitting down with journalists that we wouldn't expect him to talk to. He is doing it because he knows the value of people seeing it.
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We have these open cabinet meetings because he knows what the value to people seeing what is going on behind the scenes and having these conversations is. And it is all the glamour that you could expect.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
So I generally wouldn't. The ones that aren't ready to be open minded to it, like I wouldn't really waste my time on it. Like my job has always been to get more Republicans elected.
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And if Democrats continue down this path where I think a lot of them are putting their head in the sand and not paying attention to what happened in November and what's been happening over the last 100 days, I think they do it at their own peril. And this is a time, you know, history tells us. that a midterm could be very, very good for the opposition party.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
But what it seems like for Democrats is they're not going out and doing anything. They're not going out and showing this is what we would do instead, or this is what is wrong with what they are doing. They're just waiting for our plans to fail. And I don't think that you win people over by rooting against America. Jessica and I both live here in California.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
Neither of us want to see California fail. We want to see California be a successful state. It just hasn't been able to do that over the last 15 years with one party rule. So I don't know that there's a whole lot that you can say to convince people to have an open mind about things.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
But what I would say is that they have an opportunity and Republicans have to go and deliver on all of these promises.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
Thank you, Mark. Thanks. I had such a great time.
Next Up with Mark Halperin
Waltz OUT as NSA... Could Witkoff Be Next Up? Plus, Gavin Newsom on Why He's Not a "Crazy Liberal"
You know, we live in a celebrity culture, and so I'm always a little bit suspicious of the hype, and that's probably my Kansas side of me.