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Psaki on what national narratives are missing about primary elections so far · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Those Republicans are forced to defend this failed lane duck
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  Speaker 1: president and his failed policies and the stories he tells
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  Speaker 1: himself at night about an election he lost. Democrats are
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  Speaker 1: gathering strength and energy and delivering actual messages about what
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  Speaker 1: they will do for the people they are asking to
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  Speaker 1: elect them. Which brings me to the guy who finds
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  Speaker 1: himself in the unexpected position of facing Tom Tiffany in November.
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  Speaker 1: Because later on this hour, I'll be joined by Democratic
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  Speaker 1: candidate for Wisconsin governor David Crowley. After his stunning upset
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  Speaker 1: victory in last night's primary. This morning, he attended a
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  Speaker 1: Unity breakfast along with his primary opponent, Francesca Hang. He
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  Speaker 1: can see them both. We tried to lighten them up
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  Speaker 1: there so you can see them and in the photo.
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  Speaker 1: And while there are a lot of hot takes out
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  Speaker 1: there about what his victory means, the newly minted Democratic
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  Speaker 1: candidate for governor had a lot to say about what
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  Speaker 1: he thinks his victory means.
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  Speaker 2: Over you've heard a lot of people try to define
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  Speaker 2: this election as a battle between the left and the center,
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  Speaker 2: between progressives and the establishment, between insiders and outsiders. That
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  Speaker 2: narrative misses the entire point of what we're doing, because
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  Speaker 2: when I traveled across Wisconsin, I didn't meet people who
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  Speaker 2: introduced themselves that way. I've met parents wondering how they're
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  Speaker 2: afford childcare. I met workers who want wages that keep
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  Speaker 2: up with the costs of living. I met farmers trying
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  Speaker 2: to preserve family traditions. I met small business owners trying
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  Speaker 2: to keep their doors open. And I met seniors who
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  Speaker 2: deserve security and dignity after a lifetime of work. I
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  Speaker 2: met young people who simply want a fair chance to
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  Speaker 2: build a life right here in this great state we
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  Speaker 2: call Wisconsin. We may not agree on every policy, we
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  Speaker 2: may not use the same labels, but we all want
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  Speaker 2: safe communities, strong schools, affordable health care, good paying jobs,
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  Speaker 2: and a brighter future for all of our children.
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  Speaker 1: So the point about national narratives he made and what
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  Speaker 1: they missed is key here and important for all of
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  Speaker 1: us to listen to. Myself included.
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  Speaker 3: I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Crowley's victory was a surprise to many, after polls showed
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  Speaker 1: his Democratic Socialist opponent leading in this race by double
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  Speaker 1: digits many many polls, and after an upset victory like that,
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  Speaker 1: there's always a tendency to have a sweeping take about
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  Speaker 1: what one race means for the power of the progressors
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  Speaker 1: versus moderates, insiders versus outsiders. Believe me, I fall into
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  Speaker 1: this too, But it's also important to look at the
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  Speaker 1: whole picture of candidates winning. If anything, all of the
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  Speaker 1: results from last night's election proved once again that the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party is a big tint. On the same night
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  Speaker 1: that Wisconsin primary voters nominated Crowley over a Democratic Socialist
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  Speaker 1: for statewide office, Minnesota primary voters chose Peggy Flanagan to
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  Speaker 1: be their Senate nominee, who won her primary with ads
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  Speaker 1: like this one.
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  Speaker 4: We need Peggy Flanagan as our next Senator. She'll fight
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  Speaker 4: for Medicare for all and paid family and medical league,
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  Speaker 4: reject corporate pack money, and always stand up to Ice
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  Speaker 4: Trump and his corruption.
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  Speaker 1: Peggy, It's gonna stand up to the greed of the
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  Speaker 1: billionaire class the next.
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  Speaker 3: Senator from Midicotae.
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  Speaker 1: She won a primary by twenty points. That was a
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  Speaker 1: huge sweeping victory for her. Now contrasts that ad with
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  Speaker 1: another ad released just yesterday by a different kind of
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  Speaker 1: Democrat running statewide also in the Midwest.
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  Speaker 5: I trained as a marksman in the Marine corps, focus discipline.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Bobye. I joined the Marines to fight for this country.
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  Speaker 5: Now I'm running for sectary of State to fight for
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  Speaker 5: you and clean up a corrupt office. I'll expose every
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  Speaker 5: wasted dollar and no big contract and work with both
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  Speaker 5: parties to lower taxes for families to make life more affordable.
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  Speaker 1: Now you may relate more to Bo Bye, you may
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  Speaker 1: relate more to Peggy flan again, or like a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of both of them. But the point is the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party tend is big enough that everyone from Peggy
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  Speaker 1: Flanagan to David Crowley to Bo Bye to John Ausoff
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  Speaker 1: can all run very different races in different parts of
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  Speaker 1: the country, and some of them in the same parts
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  Speaker 1: of the country. That's an actual conclusion to draw from
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  Speaker 1: last night's election, just like it was an actual conclusion
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  Speaker 1: to draw from the night that Abigail Spanberger and Zoron
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  Speaker 1: Mamdani both went. But transfer to another narrative I think
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  Speaker 1: is missing from coverage of these races right now, how
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  Speaker 1: quickly the Democratic Party can unify when it needs to.
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  Speaker 1: And as I mentioned before, the Wisconsin Democratic Party wasted
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  Speaker 1: no time in coming together for multiple unity events where
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  Speaker 1: primary rivals came together with a shared mission of defeating
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  Speaker 1: Republicans this November. It's similar to what we saw after
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  Speaker 1: last week's bitter primary in Michigan, where after an absolutely
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  Speaker 1: brutal primary campaign, the losing candidates Tale Stevens was quick
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  Speaker 1: to embrace the nominee Abdul Sayat, and vice versa, they
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  Speaker 1: embraced each other. Democrats have for the most part, not
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  Speaker 1: let these primary competitions dampen their enthusiasm. If anything, these
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  Speaker 1: primaries have generated more Democratic enthusiasm then we've seen in
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  Speaker 1: a very long time. The Associated Press actually estimates that
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  Speaker 1: nearly eight hundred thousand people voted in yesterday's Democratic primary
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  Speaker 1: in Wisconsin, And just to put that number in context,
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  Speaker 1: because it's like, what does that number mean? You can
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  Speaker 1: see this on your screen. That's about a fifty percent
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  Speaker 1: increase in turnout from the last open primary for governor
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  Speaker 1: back in twenty eighteen, which ended up being a wave
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  Speaker 1: election year for Democrats. We saw a similar boost in
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  Speaker 1: turnout and the Michigan primary last week, where the AP
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  Speaker 1: estimates more than a one point five million people turned
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  Speaker 1: out to vote in the Democratic primary, and that's up
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  Speaker 1: more than fifty percent from the last open Senate primary
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  Speaker 1: just two years ago, so that's a huge increase in
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  Speaker 1: enthusiasm in a bunch of different states. Democrats are more
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  Speaker 1: enthusiastic about voting in these elections than they have been
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  Speaker 1: in a number of years, and there's also a relentless
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  Speaker 1: focus we're seeing on what it is going to take
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  Speaker 1: to win. We've seen Democratic voters make those decisions like
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  Speaker 1: choosing David Crowley in last night's primary. We've also seen
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  Speaker 1: the national party make those decisions, like their unified calls
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  Speaker 1: to replace Graham Platner on the ballot in Maine. And
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  Speaker 1: we've seen Democratic candidates themselves make selfless strategic decisions in
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  Speaker 1: places like Nebraska, South Dakota, and Idaho where Democratic Senate
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  Speaker 1: candidates have dropped out of their races to pave the
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  Speaker 1: way for independent candidates who have a better chance of
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  Speaker 1: winning in those places. At the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: for all the debates about who has the most sway
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  Speaker 1: in the party in which tactics and message work best,
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  Speaker 1: the shared goal is electing people who are going to
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  Speaker 1: hold this administration and in all of the spineless minions
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  Speaker 1: that blindly follow it to account. Which brings me to
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  Speaker 1: the most overlooked narrative of all this election cycle, in
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  Speaker 1: my view, because for all the hemming and hauling about
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  Speaker 1: the direction of the Democratic Party, there's not been nearly
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  Speaker 1: enough attention paid to the people Republicans are nominating to
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  Speaker 1: run against them. I mean, last night, Republicans in Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: nominated former sports broadcaster Michelle Tavoya to be their candidate
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  Speaker 1: for US Senate, and she won that nomination despite saying
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  Speaker 1: things like this about the cost of Trump's war in Iran.
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  Speaker 3: Here we are in a conflict in the Middle East,
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  Speaker 3: which is bringing gas pipes up again. I think right
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  Speaker 3: now it leaves just kind of keeping a stiff upper lip.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you'd take one less trip to Starbucks and so
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  Speaker 3: that gas goes a little further until this thing is
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  Speaker 3: over and these gas prizes come back down again. Let's
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  Speaker 3: just try to be patriots about this.
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  Speaker 1: Just be a patriot. Everyone, suck it up. Pay for
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  Speaker 1: this war nobody wanted. Maybe take fewer trips to Starbucks everyone,
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  Speaker 1: that's her advice. There very of the people that Michelle Dafoya.
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  Speaker 3: Now for the.
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  Speaker 1: Record, Moody's estimates that estimates that this war has cost
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  Speaker 1: the average American about eleven hundred dollars. It's a little
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  Speaker 1: tip for Michelle Dafoye out there. That's about two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seventy eight VENTI coffees in just the past six months,
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  Speaker 1: if you're on the Starbucks plan she's recommended. It's not
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  Speaker 1: just tone deaf candidates like Dafoya that Republicans are nominating.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the man with the aggressively manicured eyebrows you
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  Speaker 1: see on your screen is twenty six year old Michael Alfonso,
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  Speaker 1: who won the Republican nomination to run for Wisconsin's seventh
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  Speaker 1: congressional district last night. And the guy has a very
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  Speaker 1: thin resume. I mean, his most relevant employment experience appears
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  Speaker 1: to be a year long stint working as a producer
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  Speaker 1: for Dan Bongino's podcast. But he's the son in law
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  Speaker 1: of Trump's reality TV star slash Transportation secretary Sean Zavey,
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  Speaker 1: so there's that. And his father in law has played
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  Speaker 1: quite an important role in his because just ten days
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  Speaker 1: before Trump endorsed him for this Wisconsin seat, Alfonso changed
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  Speaker 1: his voter registration from his home in Florida to his
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  Speaker 1: father in law's house in Wisconsin. His campaign claims he
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  Speaker 1: has lived in Wisconsin most of his life, which makes
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  Speaker 1: you wonder why he lists Sean Duffy's house as his
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  Speaker 1: residents for voting. I'm sure will soon learn, and that's
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  Speaker 1: really just scratching the service when it comes to problematic
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  Speaker 1: candidates Republicans have chosen for important seats. Heading into this year,
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  Speaker 1: Republicans were giddy about their chances of flipping the Georgia
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  Speaker 1: Senate seat held by Democrat John oss Off, But thanks
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  Speaker 1: to an endorsement from Donald Trump, Republicans chose one of
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  Speaker 1: the worst possible candidates they could for that swing state race.
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  Speaker 1: Republican Senate candidate my Collins has spent the last few
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  Speaker 1: weeks sinking in the polls as he dodges questions about
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  Speaker 1: his controversial comments and his ties to white nationalists. But
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  Speaker 1: the controversies just keep coming for this guy. This last night,
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  Speaker 1: newly released video shows Mike Collins enthusiastically tying himself to
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  Speaker 1: one of Trump's most unpopular ideas when he got this
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  Speaker 1: question from a part in January sixth rider during a
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  Speaker 1: campaign event.
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  Speaker 6: Would you support either the Victims of political Weaponization Fund,
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  Speaker 6: compensation fund, or some form of compensatory relief Not just
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  Speaker 6: to January six ers like myself, but all Americans left
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  Speaker 6: right and center who have become victims of a weaponized
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  Speaker 6: political system.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it seems a lot of things have been politicized
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  Speaker 4: and weaponized.
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  Speaker 2: And with the federal govn harms that, yes, they have
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  Speaker 2: a piability too.
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  Speaker 4: As a district.
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  Speaker 1: Slush fund for January six writers, one of whom is
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  Speaker 1: at your event, because why not? That's an easy yes
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  Speaker 1: for Mike Collins. Doesn't that tell you a lot? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is the kind of candidate Republicans have chosen to
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  Speaker 1: nominate this year in the Senate district that they felt
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  Speaker 1: have felt they had the best chance in Well, Democrats
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  Speaker 1: are building a broad and unified coalition that includes everyone
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  Speaker 1: from progressives to moderates, to Democratic socialists and independents who
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  Speaker 1: don't even identify as Democrats. That's the narrative that matters
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  Speaker 1: heading into this election and one that deserves more attention.
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  Speaker 1: Joining me now is Democratic Senator John Ossoff of Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: It's great to see you, Senator. Let me start by
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  Speaker 1: asking you, I mean, your opponent, good to you.
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  Speaker 3: You're