Lulu Garcia Navarro
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that we're trying to accomplish, that President Trump is trying to accomplish, is more stable and resilient supply chains, which we have learned to be an enormous problem in the wake of the pandemic. So that's a major national security and economic security risk.
We get screwed. by everyone and we could afford it in the 1950s. We can't afford it. That's the thing the rest of the world needs to understand. It's like when they want to come to Uncle Sam for support, for democracy, if we don't have manufacturing in the defense industrial base because it all got exported because people are cheating us on trade, We're not going to be there.
And that's why in the first term when President Trump said economic security is national security, it was a very important message and foundation for the way we here in Trump land think about things.
It's not going to be painful for America. It's going to be a beautiful thing. President Donald John Trump has proven that tariffs work for the American people. And they're going to be even more, much more important this second term. This is all set in motion now, Ana. So... Stay tuned.
From The New York Times, this is The Interview. I'm Lulu Garcia Navarro. It's been a blizzard of political news over the past few weeks as President Donald Trump and his billionaire backer, Elon Musk, try to remake America's government. From dismantling federal agencies to the mass firing of federal workers, the duo's frenzied efforts are testing both the courts and the opposition.
Democrats, having lost the Senate and the presidency, are struggling to come up with a unified strategy, not only to stop Trump's agenda, but also to win back the voters they need who moved towards him in the election. It's a real moment of soul-searching for the party.
So over the next month, I'll be having a series of conversations with influential Democratic politicians to understand their internal debates about the way forward. My first is with Arizona's junior Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego. Gallego's win over Republican Kerry Lake was one of the few bright spots for Democrats in November.
A former member of the House, Gallego won in a tight race by overperforming Kamala Harris among key demographics that Democrats have struggled with, especially men and Latinos. Gallego is the son of an immigrant single mother and grew up poor.
He eventually went to Harvard and then became a Marine fighting in Iraq and ultimately ended up in politics where he says his story of struggle and success helped him connect to voters. He has a lot of advice for and criticism of Democrats right now, as I discovered when I sat down with him earlier this week in Washington, D.C., Here's my conversation with Senator Ruben Gallego.
And it occurs to me, you're a first-term senator, but you were in the House for about 10 years before that. And you were in Congress during the first Trump administration.
Yeah. So I guess I'm wondering, does this time feel different?
Do you see a shift in how seriously the party is taking this moment?
And I guess the big question for Democrats is what it means to be an effective opposition party. And I think there are two issues here, right? One is what Democrats should actually do effectively. to counter Trump's actions. And the other is how you should communicate what you're doing. On the first, there is talk of using government spending, which has to be negotiated by March 14th as leverage.
Obviously, the risk is that if there is a shutdown, the Democrats will be blamed for that at a moment when, indeed, the party is trying to beach voters, rebuild itself, communicate that it is a party worth voting for. Is the risk too high?
I could see you in your brain changing the word.
I want to take a step back because, as we've mentioned, Democrats are trying to redefine their party. And your victory in a state that Trump won has been framed as possibly offering a model for what kind of message actually works. You outperformed Harris in your state, meaning that you won over some Trump voters. Why do you think that happened?
I want to talk through some demographic groups that Democrats really need to win back if they want to be competitive.
I mean, men, for example. Yeah. You've been described to me as a bro. And not in a bad way.
You won Latino men by 30 points in an election that saw Trump dominate that group.
I know men are a very sort of broad group, but what do you think Democrats have misunderstood about men?
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