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Rep. Eric Swalwell says Democrats suffer from an ideological purity perception
“I think the perception is that to be a Democrat, you have to check all these purity boxes and then You can be a part of the party. And right now the Republican party is like, I think the exact opposite.”
Swalwell calls Mark Cuban one of the Democratic Party's best thought leaders
“I think one of our best thought leaders is Mark Cuban.”
Swalwell: Trump will allow TikTok to operate in US
“I mean, I think Donald Trump is going to allow TikTok.”
Swalwell: Open to corporate tax cuts if middle-class constituents benefit
“Because if it's just, as I said, if it's just kind of a broligarchy that benefits and you don't benefit, then I won't support it. But if you can draw the line and say, you know, this business getting this benefit or this corporate tax rate going down means tha…”
Swalwell: Kamala Harris lost due to global anti-incumbent political headwinds
“I just think she was attached to an incumbent party, incumbent parties worldwide. Are just getting pounded, and there wasn't much that was going to change where this thing was going.”
Swalwell: House Democrats provided majority votes on every consequential bill in 118th Congress
“In the last Congress you saw something that you've never seen before in any Congress in our country, any parliament in the world, which is the minority party delivered the majority votes On every vote of consequence.”
Swalwell: Any alternative candidate replacing Biden would likely have failed
“There are a bunch of great candidates. I still think all of them would have probably been set up to fail. It's too, too short of a runway.”
Swalwell: More people watched Biden's SOTU on TikTok than anywhere else
“More people watch president Biden's state of the union address on tick tock than anywhere else.”
Swalwell: California Republican Party is too disorganized to succeed
“They don't have their sh** together either, by the way, the Republican party in California.”
Swalwell admits Democrats lost a broad range of voters in 2024
“And we didn't just lose you. You lost a lot of folks.”
Swalwell: U.S. is losing to China on rare earth processing and magnetizing
“We're getting our ass kicked by China on this on the you know, not just the mining, but the processing and the magnetizing, but we do have allies who have these resources.”