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Ruben Gallego: “The party...are starting to see that this is an existential…”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy

Published February 15, 2025 | Video Starts at 03:08

Do you see a shift in how seriously the party is taking this moment? I do think that The party...are starting to see that this is an existential threat. If they keep going down this road, if we can't rely on the judiciary to be part of those checks and balances, then what is left? (03:08–03:15)

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Asserts that the Democratic Party views the current situation as an existential threat.

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“The GDP under [President] Biden was the highest and we had the lowest unemployment ever.”
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“Canada would be much better off being a 51st state.”
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“We don't have to buy [Gaza]. There's nothing to buy.”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 00:31-00:34
“We're more stuck on appeasing a group of people that don't actually represent any constituencies.”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 01:20-01:25
“Republicans...own this economy now, and they're not doing stuff for everyday Americans.”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 02:29-05:32
“We can't rely on the judiciary to be part of those checks and balances.”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 03:16-03:21
“Prices are still high, the cost of eggs are still high, people can't buy homes.”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 05:17-05:22
“We have to separate what we're hearing from kind of the DC Crowd from what we're hearing...in the streets.”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 05:42-05:48
“We entirely miss where the American public was during the 2024 election.”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 06:27-06:33
“Working class men don't really listen, especially Latino men don't really listen to political commercials. They don't watch TV news.”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 12:06-12:14
“In 2022, this is when I was the head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, we had polling that showed that there was no slippage happening…”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 13:36-13:50
“If we're not willing to be booed, take chances. The people that really get hurt are the people that we're supposedly in office for.”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 16:38-16:48
“Working class people appreciate kids going to college, especially kids that came from poverty going to college.”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 18:10-18:14
“The thing that finally started moving Donald Trump's numbers away before the 2018 elections was when he gave a massive tax cut to the rich.”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 20:11-20:21
“I think this administration is gonna give a massive tax cut to the rich, and they'll do it by cutting Medicaid and other programs for the…”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 20:22-20:30
“My mom was a naturalized citizen when I was born. My father was a legal green card holder then.”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 22:49-22:56
“Borderers were very fluid. People were coming, you know, getting visas, working, going back.”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 23:22-23:29
“I voted for [the Lake and Riley Act] also in the House of Representatives.”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 25:52-25:55
“This is not where Latinos, what Latinos want, like they don't want this bill. I'm like, that's actually not true.”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 26:25-26:31
“The immigration groups have moved to a point where they somehow started representing that they represent the voice of Latinos and they…”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 26:41-26:53
“The Democrats basically dropped the ball on the chaos on the border for many years.”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 28:36-28:42
“The everyday voter doesn't trust us on the border and on immigration reform because for years they saw that chaos on the border and we did…”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 28:46-28:56
“The Biden administration finally moved, but by then it had been so long and the damage had been done.”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 28:55-29:02
“These immigration groups that I think are looking out for people ended up making the situation a lot worse.”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 29:55-30:03
“If you talk to local law enforcement, and especially in Arizona, talking to the sheriffs and talking to the police, they don't have the…”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 30:12-30:20
“They're bringing investigators off ATF, DEA and HSI, who are actually going after real criminals, both U.S. citizens and non U.S. citizens.”
Interview with Senator Ruben Gallego on Democratic Strategy and Immigration Policy | Uploaded February 15, 2025 | 32:43-32:43