Rep. Janelle Bynum Shares Playbook for Dems Winning in Red States
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How are Democrats planning to win in red states?
The midterms are getting closer than we think. And I think we have to really talk about how Democrats plan on flipping red congressional seats blue, how they plan on flipping red states and turning them blue. And we have to look at what's working across the country. And we do see things that are working. And so I think it's important we highlight people who are in these frontline districts who are winning. I want to remind everybody about our reporting last week about the mayoral election in Omaha, Nebraska, where a Democrat, John Ewing Jr., defeated the longest serving Republican mayor incumbent in the United States. And it was a 20-point shift from the prior election held in 2021. So a 20-point shift where a Republican who had held that seat for 12 years, that mayoral seat for 12 years, lost. I want to remind you of what John Ewing Jr. said when he won. Here, let's play this clip quickly.
Tonight, we embark on a new chapter. I am deeply honored. and humbled to stand before you today as your mayor-elect.
You know, one of the things in that election that I think was important is that the Republican candidate went full MAGA and was talking about all these culture war issues and bathrooms and just all of these things. And John Ewing Jr. was talking about potholes and on medicine and health care and things that really mattered, you know, to his constituents. You know, there was a debate over this horrible budget bill that the MAGA Republicans are trying to ram through. And this is a portion that kind of brings it home where there was a Congresswoman Fernandez wanted one of these MAGA Republican Congress members, Adam Smith, to just read the legislation they were pushing through at 1 a.m., and they were sneaking in all of these provisions, like a way to do tax deductions or exemptions for tanning beds, because they're all tanning themselves orange over there, while taking away hospital beds.
This is an important moment that I think really resonates with voters. Let's play this clip.
So that the American public knows what this bill does. One of the little things that it does, would you please read page 901, line 20?
I think it'd be better if you read it.
Oh, he doesn't want to read it. I'll read it.
Actually, Ranking Member Moore. Ranking Member Moore.
It was a question. We would read it. So I'll ask Ranking Member Moore to read the text. This is in their bill. They don't want to read a line from their own bill. Ranking Member.
I don't want to read the bill for you. I am testifying about this legislation. I'm not going to read the bill to you.
Okay, I am, I am, this is amazing.
Ms. Lager-Fernandez, shall I pass this back or shall I read it for you? No, no, why don't you just read it? Action 111106, repeal of excise tax on indoor tanning services.
So they're going to repeal, they're repealing an excise tax. On tanning beds. Okay, so if you have a tanning bed, you get a little bit of a tax break. And if you need a hospital bed in rural America, I'm sorry, you're out of luck. Right? And I don't know where this particular provision came from. We do know that there are certain elected officials who appear to have a certain orange hue about them, that maybe they want to make sure that tanning beds get a little bit of special credit. But really, really, we are prioritizing tanning beds over hospital beds in rural America.
So then we look to Oregon's Fifth Congressional District for, I think, one of the best roadmaps of how Democrats can flip seats. There you had Lori Chavez-Durimer, a MAGA Republican who's now the Labor Secretary who actually hates labor. She's been a fraud her entire life, but she pretended that she was for labor. You had the now Democratic Congresswoman, Janelle Bynum, who had ran against her before. but was really able to effectively point out in this past election that the Laurie Chavez Doremer did not care about the constituents. And Congresswoman Bynum's always focused on hospital beds, health care, Medicaid, focusing on issues that people really talk about. And she won. Laurie Chavez Doremer lost.
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