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Adam Frisch: “It's the perceptions that someone walks in there, as soon as…”

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

"Team Normal" with Adam and Felix Frisch

Published September 3, 2024 | Video Starts at 24:24

I'm so, I'm building a pro normal party coalition, Rick. And that's what we've been talking about. And so the hardest thing is not the reality of where we disagree. It's the perceptions that someone walks in there, as soon as they see some of it's on that other team, it gets frustrated. Yeah. They get turned off by that. And it's on both sides. It happens on all sides. (24:24–24:33)

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“There's 18 Republicans in Biden districts.”
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“Ranchers and farmers are sadly surpassing veterans in suicide rates.”
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“We have more in common with rural Tennessee than we do with downtown Denver when it comes to healthcare conversations.”
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“We want to make sure that water stays in the western and southern part of Colorado.”
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“Lauren Boebert was the only person, no matter how much money went into a district, how hard are you going to work? She was the only one that…”
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“We ended up having the closest race in the country, 546 votes.”
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“For the first time, and we think 20 years, a city congressperson packed up their bags and packed up their tail between the legs, and they…”
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“She ended up getting about 40 some percent of the vote in the primary, and everyone else got, like, you know, the ten to 12%.”
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“The times that she's focused on Colorado issues, I'll work with her the other 97% of the time.”
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“We're going to be talking about the same issues that really matter, cost of living, healthcare, childcare, mental health, access lacking in…”
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“It was always about her policies, always about her voting against veterans, always against the, voting against different stuff.”
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“In the sixties and seventies and eighties, you could actually have a factory job and you were not living pay debt to paycheck array.”
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“That ability, that level of income, even adjusted for inflation, that's just gone.”
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“You look at how much expensive healthcare is, you look at childcare, you look at housing. They have not been going up at 2% a year…”
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“There's 3100 counties in the country ranked. 2000 of them are rural, defined by the Department of Agriculture, all based on density, which…”
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“Bill Clinton won half of the rural counties in the country. Rural America in the mid nineties was 50 50.”
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“12 years later, Barack Obama, he wins 25% of the rural counties.”
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“Barack Obama won Iowa twice, Indiana once.”
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“The vast majority of people want the border fixed.”
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“There are seven times more people on the border a couple months ago trying to cross than they were a couple years ago.”
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“Things have gotten a lot better in the past couple months [regarding border security].”
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“Fentanyl is a huge mess.”
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“A lot of that [fentanyl] is coming up through the New Mexico-Colorado border.”
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“We need to have more security, we need to have more legal immigration, but we need to have a lot less illegal immigration.”
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“We need to go back to that border agreement that was very, very Republican, I would have proudly supported it.”
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“We need to have more border agents, more judges to process people, because our workforce needs it.”
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“The order has been a mess and we need to bring more order back down to this whole process.”
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“The policies that we're trying to run on are just focused on what it is in small communities that they need.”
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“We just spend a lot of time talking about what we're hearing and confirming and learning always about how important it is to have domestic…”
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“How important it is to have a secure border that we do with humanity, with humane and the ability to have economic opportunity.”
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“Economic opportunity is harder out in rule the rule parts of the country.”
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“I've said this like, I'm not focused on who you voted for in 2016 or 2020.”
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“60,000 miles, I've never been asked I literally have never been asked by a single person [about national issues].”
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“We were one of the first people in the entire country on the democratic side. July 2, I had an op ed in the Washington Post that I asked…”
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“Our website is Adam for colorado.com dot. It's Adam F o rcolorado.com.”
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“We're very proud that our average donation is still dollar 30, our dollar 1000 on average last year, which might have set a record for sure.”
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“We can always use more money to tell our story because we have a lot of gas to fill up in our tank and we have four media markets out here.”
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“We think it's going to be a very close race the entire time as the whole country landscape is going to be.”
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“I just think people are refreshed and rejuvenated to hear about kind of this pro normal party coalition that we're trying to build.”
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“We've done a very good job last time and even with the representative moving on, we've been able to generate the revenue.”
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“More importantly, the excitement and the coalition that we're going to go going forward.”
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