Patrick Gaspard

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.

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.

Uh, and then on immigration, you know, I think that a lot of my friends on this issue thought that we had a messaging problem and didn't recognize that we had a policy problem actually. And we should have been saying much earlier and a, and a much more robust way that the asylum system wasn't be broken. And that, um,

Uh, and then on immigration, you know, I think that a lot of my friends on this issue thought that we had a messaging problem and didn't recognize that we had a policy problem actually. And we should have been saying much earlier and a, and a much more robust way that the asylum system wasn't be broken. And that, um,

Uh, and then on immigration, you know, I think that a lot of my friends on this issue thought that we had a messaging problem and didn't recognize that we had a policy problem actually. And we should have been saying much earlier and a, and a much more robust way that the asylum system wasn't be broken. And that, um,

Not only did we need more resources at the border, but an entirely different approach on the question of asylum. And I think we waited way too long to address that. We kept saying there was no crisis at the border.

Not only did we need more resources at the border, but an entirely different approach on the question of asylum. And I think we waited way too long to address that. We kept saying there was no crisis at the border.

Not only did we need more resources at the border, but an entirely different approach on the question of asylum. And I think we waited way too long to address that. We kept saying there was no crisis at the border.

And that's not what people were experiencing far away from the border, even in blue cities, where folks were feeling a downward pressure on public goods, more people waiting in the hospital emergency room, more kids in my kids' classroom. What's going on here now? And why isn't anyone talking about it at

And that's not what people were experiencing far away from the border, even in blue cities, where folks were feeling a downward pressure on public goods, more people waiting in the hospital emergency room, more kids in my kids' classroom. What's going on here now? And why isn't anyone talking about it at

And that's not what people were experiencing far away from the border, even in blue cities, where folks were feeling a downward pressure on public goods, more people waiting in the hospital emergency room, more kids in my kids' classroom. What's going on here now? And why isn't anyone talking about it at

addressing it at a time when we're feeling economically squeezed, but it feels as if we're allowing other people to jump the queue and get work rights and permissions. So we were narrating it badly, but we had a bad set of policies there. And there's got to be a way for the broad center left tent to

addressing it at a time when we're feeling economically squeezed, but it feels as if we're allowing other people to jump the queue and get work rights and permissions. So we were narrating it badly, but we had a bad set of policies there. And there's got to be a way for the broad center left tent to

addressing it at a time when we're feeling economically squeezed, but it feels as if we're allowing other people to jump the queue and get work rights and permissions. So we were narrating it badly, but we had a bad set of policies there. And there's got to be a way for the broad center left tent to

to take up a really different approach on immigration that, yes, speaks to our values and speaks to our history of what it means to be able to grow our prosperity in our country and improve our economic outcomes as a consequence of the parole every year we get from immigration, but speaks to the real consequences of having a broken, fractured asylum system. And we just didn't do that well.

to take up a really different approach on immigration that, yes, speaks to our values and speaks to our history of what it means to be able to grow our prosperity in our country and improve our economic outcomes as a consequence of the parole every year we get from immigration, but speaks to the real consequences of having a broken, fractured asylum system. And we just didn't do that well.

to take up a really different approach on immigration that, yes, speaks to our values and speaks to our history of what it means to be able to grow our prosperity in our country and improve our economic outcomes as a consequence of the parole every year we get from immigration, but speaks to the real consequences of having a broken, fractured asylum system. And we just didn't do that well.