De Blasio on How Democrats Can Win: ‘Be Blunt About Institutional Racism’

‘Don’t talk about Donald Trump, he does plenty of talking on his own’

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BRZEZINSKI: “Mayor de Blasio, before you go, give us your take on what Democrats learned in these midterms elections? Did they learn to, you know, go way progressive and continue leaning way left? Or was it a more convoluted lesson given the slow trickle of winds ultimately?”
DE BLASIO: “I think it is three things, Mika. It's don’t talk about Donald Trump, he does plenty of talking on his own. He is his own worse salesman. Obviously we saw on the elections results, over 6 million more votes for Democrats for Congress nationwide. Hillary Clinton won with 3 million more. That's more than double. Don’t talk about Donald Trump. Talk about health care. Talk about basic economic reality, college debt. Talk about the fact that people need new and better jobs in areas like renewable energy. That's what Americans want to hear about and Democrats really have a huge opportunity, a clear progressive economic vision. Make clear we are never the party of the elites. We don’t want corporate money for the DNC. We want to repeal that tax break that corporations and the wealthy got and give that money back to middle class and working class Americans. And be blunt about institutional racism. Be blunt about pay inequity for women. All of those ideas go together. There has been some that say you have to choose one or the other. Actually we have seen a lot of Democrats talk about all of the above but not talk about Donald Trump. And those folks did either won or came damn close. And I think we have a clear template for what we need to do in the next two years."

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