This Senator has an Eric Swalwell problem
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm in Washington, D.C.
What is the focus of the interview with Senator Ruben Gallego?
this week to interview Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego. He's a Democrat from Arizona, but he's been thinking about running for higher office, and he's been pitching himself as someone who has a new message for Latino voters that can bring them back to the Democratic Party. But Gallego's run into some hot water recently because of his connection to Congressman Eric Swalwell.
Eric Swalwell lied to all of us. My friendship with him, our family's friendship together with him, clouded my judgment. And I was wrong. I deeply, deeply regret that.
This week on America Actually, we ask Iago about predatory behavior in Washington, his plans for immigration reform, and more. Let's dig in.
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How is Eric Swalwell's resignation impacting Gallego's political future?
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Senator Gallego, thank you for joining America Actually. Thanks for having me. I appreciate your time. I know that there's been some news this week. I want to get to it later, but I want to start with the premise of why we asked you to come on the show. We've been thinking a lot about topics that you've been talking about, things like immigration, affordability, even the Democrats' outreach to Latino voters. I kind of wanted to start there. Okay. You know, out of the groups that we've seen over the last year, Latinos maybe have the biggest polling shift in terms of backlash against Donald Trump. You represent the swing state with the highest percentage of Latino voters. I wanted to know what you think is driving this backlash to the administration, at least that we see in the numbers.
So two things. Number one, the affordability crisis. And number two, immigration, immigration enforcement. The affordability crisis, Latinos are probably just also as affected by the economy as black men. And so when things start going south, that community first feels it first. They're the ones that will get fired first. They're the ones that start losing contracts first. And they don't have much savings to actually kind of like get through these bumps, right? Yeah. So if you see when the economy started going south, here, Latinos had already started moving against the president because they were feeling it first, right? Number two, immigration enforcement. Now, the president had a message in 2024 that if you listened, it said, I want to do mass deportations.
And of course, everyone in, you know, D.C. mind world says like, well, how do these Latinos not see that? Yeah, yeah. In their mind, like what they're talking about is those people that are coming across the border right now in these massive waves claiming asylum. They weren't thinking that, oh, you're going to go after the person in my neighborhood that's been here for 20 years. That's a good person that works. And so they rationalized it that that's not going to happen. And then to add the fact that they were racially profiling U.S. citizens has made them turn and turn very, very fast.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:01
2
What is the focus of the interview with Senator Ruben Gallego?
0:01–0:56
3
How is Eric Swalwell's resignation impacting Gallego's political future?
0:56–9:00
4
What are the main issues affecting Latino voters according to Gallego?
9:00–11:32
5
What are the two main factors driving Latino backlash against Trump?
11:32–25:41
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How does Gallego define the Democrats' stance on immigration reform?
25:41–30:18