Dems Slam Schumer for Betrayal; Is He Helping Trump?
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Who is Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan and what is her significance?
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We have a very special guest today on IHIP News, Lieutenant Governor from Minnesota, the highest ranking female Native American, Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan.
Thanks so much for having me. I'm so excited to be here with you.
I'm so happy to meet you. I have been pulling for you. I did not realize that the United States had never had a Native American governor. So when Governor Walz was running with Vice President Harris, I was like, The number one thing I'm excited about is for them to win. The second thing I'm excited about is to have a Native American governor. And we got neither, and we got a complete net running the country. So add it to my list of disappointments with the election.
Well, I think that's the least of our problems, but I appreciate your support. The good news is that we have the opportunity to have a Native American woman governor in Deb Haaland, who's running in New Mexico. So I'm going to try to be the first Native American woman to serve in the U.S. Senate instead.
What challenges are Democrats facing in leadership?
Well, I wholeheartedly support your position. You have a populist message, which seems to be something that the Democratic establishment is having trouble wrapping their arms around. And I note that you do not take APAC money. So how does that put you in comparison to other candidates?
Sure, so I don't take corporate PAC money and I don't take corporate PAC money because I think corporations have plenty of power in Washington. It's the rest of us who need it and it's focused on both sides of the aisle, frankly, and I think that's what's impacting. our elections and the results that we're getting. I also do not take APAC money, nor do I think that they would give it to me. You know, I, well, but I made the decision, you know, to speak out and say that I would have supported the Sanders resolution this summer, that both of my senators, Senator Klobuchar and Senator Tina Smith, voted in support of, to say that we're not going to have offensive weapons going to Israel when children are starving.
And, you know, that's a position that I stand by. I'm a mom, I'm a child advocate, and we have to use our voices to speak up when we see And so I can call out Benjamin Netanyahu's government in the same way that I can call out the Trump administration as well. And I think we need to use our voices. And that's what I did. And now they've decided to go after me and they're supporting my opponent in a big way.
Isn't that just, it's so frustrating because it's like doing the right thing since Citizens United has put people that really wanna do the right thing in a terrible position in terms of being able to compete financially. And it takes so much money to run now.
Right. And that's of course, you know, we've known that for a long time, but really, you know, running for Senate is the thing that has just, for me, opened my eyes in a major way. People want us to do the right thing. People want us to be courageous and simply nibbling around the edges isn't getting us anywhere. When I travel across the state of Minnesota, folks aren't saying like, gosh, you know, be careful, right? They're saying, be bold, do the things we need you to do. People cannot afford their lives right now. And so we need to make sure that we're going big so that folks know one, they can trust us. And two, that, you know, we're going to fight for them, but not just in 2026. It's what we're building.
For 2028 and 2030 and 2032, we need a Democratic Party that is no longer fighting from a defensive crouch, but is telling people what it is that we're for, that we're going to fight for the things that they need and that they deserve.
I completely agree. And I'm just wondering, what was your thought, your first reaction when you heard that the Senate had caved on the government shutdown? I was so profoundly disappointed. And it goes back to leadership in the Senate is old, stale, and governed by corporate interest and seniority.
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