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Adam Frisch: “I could build this pro normal party coalition.”

Featuring: Adam Frisch, Moderate, Pragmatic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Colorado, District 3

Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch

Published August 19, 2024 | Video Starts at 13:44

And I just knew that if a conservative moderate Democrat could get by the primary democratic, which wasn't easy, but we did it. I won by 300 votes. I could build this pro normal party coalition. And we worked very, very hard running around. This is not about team Democrat and team Republican. (13:44–13:47)

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Asserts his ability to build a coalition of moderate voters.

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“Our district's half the size of Colorado.”
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“It's larger than the entire state of Pennsylvania.”
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“It takes me 12 hours to drive from point to point [in the district].”
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“We have all of the Utah border.”
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“We have a third of the Wyoming border.”
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“We have 27 counties.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 03:14-03:17
“Our registration is 22% registered Democrat, 32% Republican, and about 45% independent.”
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“Our district is about 25% Latino.”
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“We have 64 counties in our country and I represent pretty much mostly rural ones.”
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“The cost of living was pretty bad a couple of years ago, but in the past year and a half, that's kind of just a higher conversation.”
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“Until about a year ago, I would say the immigration conversation was in two buckets, which are related but not really related.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 07:22-07:31
“There's a border conversation and then there's the twelve or 13 million people that are here in our country, conversation dreamers and DACA.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 07:30-07:38
“Over the past five or six, seven months, the conversation is bordered, and it's about securing the border.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 07:49-07:57
“People want the border fixed. They don't want it closed.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 08:18-08:21
“There's no space or time for the conversation about dreamers and DAcas and onboarding and that type of further integration until this border…”
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“It's a crisis on the border. It's a humanitarian crisis without a doubt, but it's a multifaceted crisis as well.”
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“We have 50,000 miles and we have a handful of cities. We have 250,000 person cities. The third largest city is 20,000 people.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 09:09-09:19
“The vast majority of people are exhausted with politics, and they want people speaking between the 240 yard lines.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 09:36-09:42
“Rural healthcare is a big conversation for us.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 10:11-10:14
“We have more in common with rural Tennessee than we do with Denver or Fort Collins.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 10:14-10:20
“I'm very, very focused on the regional issues of national issues, the rural aspects of healthcare, the rural aspects of education funding.”
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“The vast majority of the country is between the 240 yard lines and I mean that sincerely.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 12:26-12:31
“Boebort was the only one that had. She only won by ten points, and everyone else is in districts by 30 or 40, 50 points.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 13:19-13:26
“Representative Boebert was running around in a plus ten district, thinking that she was plus 30, like Margaret Taylor Greene.”
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“85% of our districts [...] are pretty much cooked at the primary level.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 14:09-14:15
“I tell people what I tell people in Durango and Telluride, which are 85% down. I tell them the exact same conversation in Rangeley and…”
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“I do know that in mid December, 2 weeks before she bailed, [...] she's like the first person in 25 years to actually bail on a district that…”
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“She did some polling about how effective she was after her three years of entertainment and the Beetlejuice conversation.”
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“Colorado does not have majority wins. It's the plurality conversation.”
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“I will never, ever, ever bail on cd three, no matter what happens in this race, to go elsewhere to look out.”
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“Our average donation is $28.”
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“She helped us generate 350,000 different donors out there.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 19:03-19:08
“We are going to show up with some amount of four or $5 million at the end of the primary to go into the general election.”
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“They do not want government mandated pregnancies.”
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“They do not want government mandated family planning.”
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“The district is 22% Democrat.”
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“I'm showing up at conferences where a Democrat has never gone to, let alone give the opening address to the Western National Mining…”
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“There's a global climate crisis, without a doubt.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 23:43-23:46
“We also need to be realistic about the math behind [the global climate crisis].”
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“I think there's six republicans running.”
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“He has skipped six out of the seven republican candidate forms and he doesn't return to the press.”
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“We raised four times as much money [than Lauren Boebert] after she was already gone.”
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“We came so close last time.”
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“We can take bucks as our average.”
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“There are five current Democrats in Trump district districts.”
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“You have 18 Democrats, 18 Republicans in Biden districts right now.”
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“Trump has attracted a lot of former Democrats.”
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“Trust is underappreciated and underrated in politics, even at a national level.”
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“My dad worked in Indian Health Service for five years.”
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“He ended up becoming an OBGYN, opened up a woman's clinic in Minneapolis.”
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“He worked for Planned Parenthood the last couple years of his career.”
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“Kansas, a year and a half ago or two years ago, was able to support a healthcare freedom act by 18 points.”
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“The western part of southern Colorado is a lot more, again, like Kansas.”
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