Patrick Gaspard

A couple of days ago, that kind of seized the public political imagination, but Senator Booker stood up there for 25 hours, and he gave us a kind of moral language for the moment that we're in, and he ran down all that shit that is, you know... coming downstream from the sewer of Donald Trump.

A couple of days ago, that kind of seized the public political imagination, but Senator Booker stood up there for 25 hours, and he gave us a kind of moral language for the moment that we're in, and he ran down all that shit that is, you know... coming downstream from the sewer of Donald Trump.

A couple of days ago, that kind of seized the public political imagination, but Senator Booker stood up there for 25 hours, and he gave us a kind of moral language for the moment that we're in, and he ran down all that shit that is, you know... coming downstream from the sewer of Donald Trump.

But he also kind of owned up to a number of failings and said, we didn't do our part in this way, in this way, in this way. He kind of elucidated that and said, we've got to do better on these fronts. And he kind of pushed up some North stores on the values front and on the policy front and on substance, while also being really clear about who the bad guys and gals are in this moment.

But he also kind of owned up to a number of failings and said, we didn't do our part in this way, in this way, in this way. He kind of elucidated that and said, we've got to do better on these fronts. And he kind of pushed up some North stores on the values front and on the policy front and on substance, while also being really clear about who the bad guys and gals are in this moment.

But he also kind of owned up to a number of failings and said, we didn't do our part in this way, in this way, in this way. He kind of elucidated that and said, we've got to do better on these fronts. And he kind of pushed up some North stores on the values front and on the policy front and on substance, while also being really clear about who the bad guys and gals are in this moment.

You can do both things at once. And we got to be caught both listening, but moving into a kind of pugilistic mode on this stuff quicker, faster now.

You can do both things at once. And we got to be caught both listening, but moving into a kind of pugilistic mode on this stuff quicker, faster now.

You can do both things at once. And we got to be caught both listening, but moving into a kind of pugilistic mode on this stuff quicker, faster now.

Well, housing we didn't even talk about, right? It wasn't until Kamala Harris becomes the nominee and then around the Democratic Convention, you know, a plan is thrown up. that doesn't really have an opportunity to bleed through because we weren't driving it successfully, but a plan is still not there.

Well, housing we didn't even talk about, right? It wasn't until Kamala Harris becomes the nominee and then around the Democratic Convention, you know, a plan is thrown up. that doesn't really have an opportunity to bleed through because we weren't driving it successfully, but a plan is still not there.

Well, housing we didn't even talk about, right? It wasn't until Kamala Harris becomes the nominee and then around the Democratic Convention, you know, a plan is thrown up. that doesn't really have an opportunity to bleed through because we weren't driving it successfully, but a plan is still not there.

In all the polling that we were conducting in Center for American Progress, we kept seeing that the stubborn metric in people's experiences about the economy was housing, housing, housing, whether they were rural, suburban, or urban Americans, whether they were home buyers or aspiring to buy a home or aspiring to just be able to rent reasonably in a market.

In all the polling that we were conducting in Center for American Progress, we kept seeing that the stubborn metric in people's experiences about the economy was housing, housing, housing, whether they were rural, suburban, or urban Americans, whether they were home buyers or aspiring to buy a home or aspiring to just be able to rent reasonably in a market.

In all the polling that we were conducting in Center for American Progress, we kept seeing that the stubborn metric in people's experiences about the economy was housing, housing, housing, whether they were rural, suburban, or urban Americans, whether they were home buyers or aspiring to buy a home or aspiring to just be able to rent reasonably in a market.

Housing was the thing that they were concerned about overwhelmingly. And we weren't talking about it. We didn't have a plan for it. Imagine for a second, Tim, that the infrastructure plan that we passed had been a housing infrastructure plan.

Housing was the thing that they were concerned about overwhelmingly. And we weren't talking about it. We didn't have a plan for it. Imagine for a second, Tim, that the infrastructure plan that we passed had been a housing infrastructure plan.

Housing was the thing that they were concerned about overwhelmingly. And we weren't talking about it. We didn't have a plan for it. Imagine for a second, Tim, that the infrastructure plan that we passed had been a housing infrastructure plan.

How might Americans that viewed us differently in that moment, how might they have said, oh, they hear it, they see it, and they are responding in a way that I can vote for and I can rally for. We were not caught listening on that and speaking to it.

How might Americans that viewed us differently in that moment, how might they have said, oh, they hear it, they see it, and they are responding in a way that I can vote for and I can rally for. We were not caught listening on that and speaking to it.