Maura Healey

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The Daily · 'The Interview': Gov. Maura Healey Wants Democrats to Put Up a Fight · 1 Mar 2025 podcast

I am appropriating congressional authority, which is why I thought at the outset, Congress and members of Congress each day have got to be out there explaining to the American people and everyday Americans, this isn't right. This

Look, I'll leave that for members of Congress to decide, right? I mean, I'm a governor. That's not my call. What I can tell you is we need leadership that is aggressive, that is proactive, and that is speaking to everyday Americans. I mean, I think part of the reason— That sounds like you're eliding the question. I don't mean to elide anything. I'll say that, you know—

I think part of what got the Democratic Party in trouble this last election is the fact that there was a perception that leaders within the Democratic Party were not actually seeing and feeling people's pain. I think there's a perception that, and I think it lived out to a certain extent among Democratic leadership, that they just didn't have their finger on the pulse.

You know, they're talking about issues that... that weren't bread and butter core economic issues that resonate. They allowed themselves in some ways to be caricatured as only caring about X, Y, and Z issue, which isn't true, by the way.

Well... There's definitely a brand problem. There's a big brand problem. And, you know, I don't pretend to speak for the party, but I can tell you as a Democratic leader what I'm going to do. I'm going to focus on driving what I believe is a Democratic message. Let's take this moment and redefine the brand. To me, the Democratic brand should be about delivering for everyday Americans.

We have the chance to do that with the foil of Donald Trump. cutting all these programs, cutting our military, for God's sakes, to free up funding that'll pay for the tax cuts he wants to give to billionaires. So what can we do as Democrats? Where do I think we need to go if I was going to offer advice?

It's to every day tack towards and have your North Star be, what am I doing for everyday Americans?

I think there are differences. I told President Biden directly a few years ago that he needed to be active on the border, that he should take executive action on the border. OK, I knew that as an attorney general and as a former prosecutor, there were things that could have been done. And I wish that he had done that. So I also think it's important to fight back.

You know, when there was all this talk and denigration of DEI, I don't know why the response wasn't, you know what? It's actually good to have women and people of color in the military. It's good to have women and people of color in the workforce. It's good to have women and people of color going to colleges and universities. Like... What's wrong with that?

And put it back on them instead of it being allowed to be this attenuated caricatured conversation about quote DEI, you know, and some of it's about how you match. the mischaracterization and how you match really offensive but effective attempts to strike down certain things or to pit people against each other. That's the thing. If you're getting bullied and

you don't respond with force, the bully's going to win always. And we need people who are able to do that and to do that effectively and in a way that shows that we're actually aligned with the majority of Americans on this. And that, I think, that's a work in progress.

I mean, I think that President Biden, the Biden administration, did so much for this country and pulled us through a pandemic, pulled us out of a really dark economic time, got us on really solid footing, did some incredible things. I think the party was hampered by having President Biden as the communicator-in-chief. if I'm being honest, okay? He wasn't the strongest communicator in chief.

And that hurt us because they weren't able to sell all of the important accomplishments that were actually, in fact, happening effectively or as effectively. And that definitely hurt.

I hadn't seen that comment. Are we grappling with what happened and having to deal with it right now? You better believe it. We've got Donald Trump in the White House. But, you know, I've talked before about this, you know, and my views about President Biden. And I think it was very hard for Kamala Harris, who I thought ran a fantastic campaign, to be able to overcome the disadvantage.

at the time and within the time that she was allotted. And I think it would have been a different story if the president had decided a few years ago that he was going to do what he said he would do, which is to serve one term, and then we'd have the opportunity for, you know, full engagement in a primary and the like. That didn't happen.

I have no interest in further spending time on it, revisiting history. I'm focused on the now.

It's interesting at a time when the co-president, Elon Musk, is giving us Hitler salutes, right? And espousing anti-Semitic things. And I just find it ironic that we're going to have this debate over DEI and whether it's effective. All the while, this is going on over here? I mean, like, seriously?

Yeah, you're right about the timing of it. I think that in the year before I took office, we'd seen the first influx of migrants into certain states. We're home to a significant Haitian diaspora here in Massachusetts. And so there were a number of Haitians coming into Massachusetts. This was something that I inherited. It was underway when I became governor.

And it only grew during the first year or so of my administration. It goes back to something fundamental. We have not had comprehensive immigration reform in this country. We need it. I was so upset when Donald Trump killed that border bill.

which would have provided a pathway for our dreamers, would have provided a pathway for people who are living here, working here, raising kids here, paying taxes here to become citizens. It also would have provided the kinds of resources for more border agents, more immigration judges, more resources at intercepting fentanyl and other drugs from coming into the country.

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