Michael Bennet (Senator of Colorado)
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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And I think I was the first Democrat to publicly say on on network television that we were going to lose in a landslide if he stayed at the top of the ticket.
Well, I think that, again, I have not made a personal assessment, you know, at that time, certainly of Joe Biden's mental decline. I think he was not in a position to wage a vigorous campaign against Trump, whether it was mental or physical. And we paid a heavy price for his decision to run again.
I would say that part of it is her origin story, which I think is really appealing to Democratic voters and American voters generally. I think that she's also a very effective communicator and politician. The fundamental point, though, I think is that the American people want a radical transformation of the economy that's not working well for themselves or for their kids.
And I think in the end, and I think she's with her roadshow with Bernie Sanders, in some ways, that's the... That's the vision that she's appealing to do. Whether or not that's a vision that can build a broad coalition of Americans that can defeat Trumpism, I think is a really open question. And I suspect that it probably can't.
I think it's an important part of that coalition, but not enough to be able to defeat Trumpism in a general election. And same question. What's the source of political strength of Kamala Harris? I think that her source of political strength was providing a newness to Joe Biden's ticket. That's what I think it was.
Well, I think the fact that she's well-known and was on a national ticket would be the source of her political stride.
I think it's not just working with the legislature, but working with county commissioners all over the state of Colorado, many of whom have jobs. you know, something relevant to say. And working with the private sector, we're going to have to work in a collaborative process to make housing cheaper, to make it more available, and to be able to build it faster.
I don't criticize Jared Polis, our governor, on that. I think he has made some incremental efforts that have been important on housing, but it's not enough to deal with what we're faced with. You mentioned the word crisis. I mean,
I would say where we are in the state is that there is not a county in my state, there's not a neighborhood where people feel like their kids are going to be able to live in the neighborhood that they live in, that they're going to be able to afford to have a house in the neighborhood they're in. That is the economic pressure, I think, that it has created.
the chance for Donald Trump to win an election twice in this country. And if we don't solve for that, this country is going to continue to elect people who, as Trump, you know, said, we don't need a democracy. I alone can fix it. You know, you should expect your public sector and your private sector to be totally corrupt and totally bankrupt. That is a very natural conversation.
thing for someone to run on in a world where people have lost a sense of economic opportunity for themselves and their families. I think we've got to work together to figure out how to give the American people hope that their children can prosper in this country, or in my case, in the state of Colorado, that they can actually live there.
I think that if you take what I just said in terms of objectives, let's build it more cheaply, let's build it faster and let's build more of it and let's do it. with a serious collaboration among every level of government that is aligned with each other and in partnership with the private sector. I don't think we've seen that in any state in America yet. Same thing with education.
There is not a state in this country where people can say, you know what, that's a place where you can send your kid to school and propel them into the American economy. That does not exist out of 50 states. I hope to make Colorado the first one.
I think it's creating more density in our housing and supporting the efforts that we've already made to try to build more transit in the state and to make it more efficient. We have a regional transportation authority called RTD that I think could use a governor's help, let's put it that way, to be more effective and more efficient.
In politics, they try to label you. Okay, call me an idealist, a pragmatic idealist. You can't fix a broken Washington if you don't level with the American people. It's time for a new era of progress to reform our political system.
You know, you should stop including me on the list. I'm going home to Colorado for a reason. I think we need a place that can answer the questions that I was just talking about. And I'm looking forward to leaning in with the folks there to be able to be able to say this is the best state in America to raise a kid. And we need it, Mark.
We have got to find our way to a place that's better than just chaos and more chaos.
I don't have the name on that list. Honestly, I think we're going to have to have people go through to the go through the grueling competition of of winning this nomination. I suspect that the person who wins would be somebody that we won't even come up with today. You might you might come up with them, but I'm not smart enough. OK, though, is J.D.
I think he would be formidable as president. Why? Because I think he has the theory of the case that is a response to the economic dislocation that people feel. I don't think it's the only one. I think that I think Donald Trump's response to the economic dislocation in the end is going to be really bad for the American people and really bad for the prospects of this country.
What we need is a Democratic Party that has a vision for how to make this country better. for our children. And if we, as we talked about at the beginning of this conversation, and if we are able to do that, it's not just that the Democrats will succeed, which is interesting to me, but not compelling. It's that our country can succeed.
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