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Cait Conley: “Even if you're in middle class America, you don't feel like…”

Featuring: Cait Conley, Democratic | Candidate, U.S. House New York, 17th Congressional District

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Published January 13, 2026 | Video Starts at 09:03

Yeah, I mean, right now I think we need to recognize that we can love this country like I do and believe in it and recognize that right now it is just too damn hard for families. And that Even if you're in middle class America, you don't feel like you're thriving. You feel like you're barely surviving. And so honestly, my focus, my what fires me up is we have got to make America work for working American families again. (09:03–09:09)

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Asserts that middle-class Americans feel they are not thriving but merely surviving.

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“This summer we saw how the recent college graduate unemployment rate exceeded the national average.”
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“The higher education tuition rates have gone up 41% in 20 years.”
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“Iran, by the way, the largest purveyor of lethal aid to terror groups in this world, cannot get a nuclear weapon.”
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“New York 17 is one of three districts in the entire country that split the ticket going for Kamala Harris and a Republican member of…”
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“I was asked to stay on to help lead a Homeland Security mission at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.”
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“I served six tours overseas in combat zones like Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen.”
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“I was at the White House as the Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council staff.”
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“My two sisters can't even afford to move back to raise their families in the communities that raised us because of how expensive it is.”
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“The American dream that I got to live feels out of reach for way too many American families.”
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“We have got to make America work for working American families again.”
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“This administration, at a time where we're facing an affordability crisis, has deliberately pursued policies that have done nothing but make…”
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“This administration [is] trying to prevent... any type of guardrails in place for AI workforce displacement.”
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“Implementing tariffs that are literally driving up prescription costs and grocery costs.”
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“It's about flipping seats from red to blue. It's about taking back the majority and putting checks on this administration.”
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“What we are seeing happening is not the America we fought for.”
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“To see how divided America is.”
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“For the first time in modern American history, the economic prospects of young Americans are worse than their parents or grandparents.”
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“We have seen that with the recklessness of this administration from the very beginning, when we saw egregious violations of security…”
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“Withdrawing from our allies in Europe, as we see Russian aggression violate the democratic sovereignty of another country, we saw them do…”
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“Iran [is] enabling things like the Russian war on Ukraine by sending them one way suicide drones.”
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“North Korea... talking about expanding their nuclear arsenal.”
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“We have seen a weaponization of the executive branch under the Trump administration that is unprecedented for our lifetimes.”
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“We fail to invest in our border security to make it adequate.”
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“Criminal groups like drug traffickers and human traffickers... have tried to exploit our borders.”
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“We have got to tackle our nation's failing critical infrastructure.”
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