{"id":1520,"date":"2025-02-25T08:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2025-02-25T08:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T08:59:51","slug":"us-politics-the-clients-the-voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/us-politics-the-clients-the-voter\/","title":{"rendered":"US politics \u2014 The client’s the voter…"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a thoughtful interview on the New York Times<\/em> web site … ‘The Interview’ Feb 15, 2025, Lulu Garcia-Navarro in conversation with Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona …<\/p>\n

Senator Gallego:<\/p>\n

“The base Democratic voter wants to be rich. And there\u2019s nothing wrong with that. And so our job is to expose when there are abuses by, quote-unquote, the rich, the wealthy, the powerful. Then that\u2019s how we get those people that want to aspire to that to vote for Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lulu Garcia-Navarro:<\/p>\n

\u201cSo Elon Musk, Donald Trump, are these the people who have actually figured out how to connect with the working class?\u201d<\/p>\n

Senator Gallego:<\/p>\n

\u201cYes. Yeah. We just had an election that proved that. I mean \u2014 \u201d<\/p>\n

Lulu Garcia-Navarro:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n

Senator Gallego:<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I think because they both are two things that I think a lot of Democratic politicians are. No. 1, they actually understand, quote-unquote, the consumer. Right? And because they are engaged in, every day, one way or the other, trying to talk to the consumer. And in this case, it\u2019s the voter, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

Lulu Garcia-Navarro:<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s so interesting. They\u2019re salesmen, essentially.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senator Gallego:<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, exactly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lulu Garcia-Navarro<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd they understand who the client is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senator Gallego:<\/p>\n

\u201cMm-hmm. The client\u2019s the voter. And they don\u2019t care. By the way, that\u2019s the other thing that\u2019s \u2014 they don\u2019t care how they get the sale done. Right? This is why you saw during the campaign, Trump said, You know what? No tax on tips. We\u2019re not going to tax your security, all this kind of stuff. And on the other side, people were like, Well, that\u2019s really going to do something and do an imbalance to the budget deficit. What did Donald Trump care? He just wanted to win, right? What does Elon Musk want to do? He just wants to win, right? He knows where the voter is, and he\u2019ll get there however he can get there. But they\u2019re closer to the ground, to where the base voter is, than to some of us Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n

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