00:00So you, Senator, are outholding town halls with voters, not only in Arizona.
00:06Interestingly, you held one in Warren, Michigan, Friday night.
00:08A new poll from the Wall Street Journal shows that your party, the Democrats,
00:12are at your lowest approval rating in 35 years.
00:1563% of those polls, voters, say they held an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party.
00:22So what are you hearing from voters, and why do you think your party's struggling so much?
00:26Well, first of all, Jake, thank you for having me on, and we have to fix this.
00:34I don't put a ton of stock into, you know, polls, especially this far away from an election,
00:40but we certainly do have a problem, and it's a messaging problem.
00:42And it's important to get out there and talk to people about the issues that they care about.
00:48So I was outside of Detroit there in Warren talking to folks who don't get to hear from their member of Congress,
00:55a guy named John James, he doesn't explain to them what happened in this big bill that the president
01:02and House and Senate Republicans passed, and it's really a bad deal for the American people.
01:08So myself and my wife Gabby, you know, sat there in front of a large group and took some questions from them
01:14and tried to explain to them, you know, what's going to happen to Medicaid, what's going to happen to food assistance through SNAP.
01:22And there were folks here that I got the sense that these programs directly are going to affect them and their family members,
01:30and they do deserve an explanation from somebody in the United States Congress,
01:36and if their representative isn't going to do it, I'm going to go there, and hopefully in time,
01:41you know, the American people will understand that we are out there fighting for them.
01:45So you talk about how the Democratic Party has a communications problem.
01:49Your party, the Democratic Party, posted on Twitter or X in the last few days a chart that showed the price of groceries skyrocketing.
01:56The White House took that Democratic chart and accurately reposted it to show that most of the price jumps in that graph
02:05happened under the Biden administration.
02:08The Democrats then deleted the post.
02:11So I wonder if you think Democrats have figured out their problems both in terms of communications
02:16and also acknowledging that Biden-era inflation, for example, is one of the reasons why your party is out of power.
02:25Yeah, I think that's fair.
02:29There was inflation during the Biden administration.
02:32I track this pretty closely.
02:34You know, I know what, you know, ground beef and eggs and milk costs at the Safeway,
02:39where Gabby and I shop in Tucson, Arizona.
02:42They went up during the Biden administration.
02:45They went up some more.
02:46You know, you're going to see prices go up and down.
02:48But I think what's important for the American people to know is that Donald Trump's tariff policy is very likely to increase costs.
02:55It's going to take some time because of supply chains, stuff coming from, you know, in some cases from all over the planet.
03:01And his trade policy for my constituents in Arizona, there are a lot of products that come across the southern border, agricultural products that create thousands and thousands of jobs, not only in Arizona, but in the state of Texas.
03:17And we are facing right now some significant job loss.
03:22So when you think inflation is a problem for a family, somebody losing a job is even a bigger problem.
03:28And we're trying to figure out how we navigate that with this administration.
03:31They, you know, I've spoken to the secretary of commerce about some of these tariffs, and we haven't gotten the response that we need.
03:39We're trying to figure out how we navigate that with this administration.
