How Chuck Schumer Plans to Win Over Trump Voters
About this episode
Chuck Schumer explains his theory of Democratic politics through Joe and Eileen Bailey, the fictional middle-class couple from his 2007 book Positively American, who voted for Clinton, Bush, and then Trump. He argues that voters who have lost faith in the American Dream need government to deliver tangible help, and that Democrats must 'go big' rather than fear being seen as doing too much. The conversation covers the filibuster, budget reconciliation, S.1 (the For the People Act), the Justice and Policing Act, and Schumer's task of holding together a 50-vote Senate stretching from Bernie Sanders to Joe Manchin. They discuss student-debt cancellation, monthly child tax credits, expanding the electorate in states like Georgia and North Carolina, and what Democrats must accomplish before the 2022 midterms.