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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Bloomberg Audio Studios. Podcasts. Radio. News. This is the first time in history that we've been in this situation. There has never been a party that shut down the entire government or a party that shut down, you know, over a clean CR for nothing but political partisan purposes. Their rally illustrated exactly what we've been saying for the last 20 days. It's about politics and it's disgusting.
And that was House Speaker Mike Johnson on the 20th day of the government shutdown, now the third longest in U.S. history.
Johnson's comments came 48 hours after one of the largest demonstrations in recent memory, with the so-called No Kings protest happening in cities and towns coast to coast, as demonstrators made their voices heard protesting against the president and his supporters in Congress. One voice that was there joins us now, Colin Allred, former Democratic congressman from Texas and now U.S.
Senate candidate. Congressman, thanks so much for being with us.
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Millions of people were in these dubbed No Kings protests this weekend. You were one of them in Houston. You saw the images, the pictures, just the large crowds. The question now, Congressman Allred, is how do you turn that into votes?
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the No Kings protests?
And we were trying to make sure that if this did ever happen again, that the members of Congress and senators would feel the same pain as working people out there who are not getting paid. But in this case, Republicans have the power, and the Speaker of the House has spent a month not calling the House back into session.
They have the power to negotiate this and say, listen, we know that we need your votes and we want to make sure that we are in consultation and negotiation the way things have always been done. And I'm sorry they have not used the power that they have to try and protect folks' health care, which is what I think Democrats are standing up for.
We have 4 million Texans, 4 million here, who are in the Affordable Care Act exchanges. I just got an email from some of the associations that I'm a part of saying that open enrollment is going to be starting next month and saying to expect dramatic increases in your costs and your premiums. In some cases, we may see those double.
And if you see costs go up that much for your premium, that's basically the same thing as not having health care at all. And so I think this is very clear and very straightforward. I hope Republicans will come to the table and negotiate and try to make sure we can end this shutdown as soon as possible.
Congressman, before we let you go, we do want to talk about your race. You know this statistic as well as anyone. No Democrat has won statewide in the state of Texas since the early 90s. You ran. You did not win last time, and you raised a lot of money. So what makes you think this time around it's different?
Well, listen, what I've been trying to do is make sure that we reorient ourselves around what I think working folks are going through. And I think there were a lot of promises made to working people in the last election about their costs were going to go down, that inflation was going to go away on day one. And we've seen the opposite.
And as I've been going around the state, I'm not just going around. I'm trying to find areas where I can go directly to working folks because I'm constantly thinking about my mom, who was working two jobs and was watching me in the evening. And she couldn't come to one of our town halls that we have or to a political rally. But if I go to them on the job, then we can have those conversations.
And so I was in grocery stores and construction sites.
Come back and talk to us when we have more time to talk about your race, Congressman. It's good to have Colin Allred with us. This is Bloomberg.
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Chapter 3: How can protests translate into voter action?
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