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Adam Frisch: “Our district's half the size of Colorado.”

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 02:26

Yeah. No, listen, it's great to be here. Happy summer. Happy Monday, everyone. And thanks for showing some interest. A couple of things. Our district's half the size of Colorado. It's larger than the entire state of Pennsylvania, and it takes me 12 hours to drive from point to point, which the highlight of my campaign and probably my life, was last summer when or in the summer and fall of 22. (02:26–02:28)

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Asserts that Colorado's third congressional district is half the size of the state of Colorado.

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“It's larger than the entire state of Pennsylvania.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 02:27-02:31
“It takes me 12 hours to drive from point to point [in the district].”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 02:31-02:34
“We have all of the Utah border.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 03:07-03:09
“We have a third of the Wyoming border.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 03:08-03:11
“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.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 03:32-03:41
“Our district is about 25% Latino.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 04:59-05:03
“We have 64 counties in our country and I represent pretty much mostly rural ones.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 05:46-05:52
“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.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 07:15-07:21
“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…”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 08:21-08:35
“It's a crisis on the border. It's a humanitarian crisis without a doubt, but it's a multifaceted crisis as well.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 08:39-08:45
“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.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 10:20-10:28
“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.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 13:26-13:34
“I could build this pro normal party coalition.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 13:44-13:47
“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…”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 14:25-14:40
“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…”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 15:56-16:07
“She did some polling about how effective she was after her three years of entertainment and the Beetlejuice conversation.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 16:17-16:27
“Colorado does not have majority wins. It's the plurality conversation.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 16:59-17:05
“I will never, ever, ever bail on cd three, no matter what happens in this race, to go elsewhere to look out.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 17:21-17:28
“Our average donation is $28.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 19:01-19:04
“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.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 19:26-19:35
“They do not want government mandated pregnancies.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 21:17-21:20
“They do not want government mandated family planning.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 21:19-21:23
“The district is 22% Democrat.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 22:46-22:49
“I'm showing up at conferences where a Democrat has never gone to, let alone give the opening address to the Western National Mining…”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 23:29-23:42
“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].”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 23:45-23:49
“I think there's six republicans running.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 25:13-25:17
“He has skipped six out of the seven republican candidate forms and he doesn't return to the press.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 25:56-26:03
“We raised four times as much money [than Lauren Boebert] after she was already gone.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 27:57-28:02
“We came so close last time.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 28:15-28:17
“We can take bucks as our average.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 28:23-28:27
“There are five current Democrats in Trump district districts.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 28:44-28:48
“You have 18 Democrats, 18 Republicans in Biden districts right now.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 28:54-28:59
“Trump has attracted a lot of former Democrats.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 29:44-29:47
“Trust is underappreciated and underrated in politics, even at a national level.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 30:47-30:55
“My dad worked in Indian Health Service for five years.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 31:42-31:46
“He ended up becoming an OBGYN, opened up a woman's clinic in Minneapolis.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 31:45-31:50
“He worked for Planned Parenthood the last couple years of his career.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 31:57-32:00
“Kansas, a year and a half ago or two years ago, was able to support a healthcare freedom act by 18 points.”
Political Wire: Conversation with Adam Frisch | Uploaded August 19, 2024 | 32:24-32:33
“The western part of southern Colorado is a lot more, again, like Kansas.”
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