Rep. Jayapal Suggests Terry McAuliffe Lost Because He Ran ‘Just on Anti-Trump’

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JAYAPAL: "Well, I think that the most important thing is we can never run just on anti-Trump. That is not a message that voters are going to resonate to. We have to run on the things we do when voters deliver us majorities in the House and the White House. And so that I think is a really important lesson. You know, I think that there was an attempt to kind of nationalize the race around Trump, but that’s not what voters are looking at. They’re looking at can I get child care so I can go back to work. I mean, women pushed out of the work force in record numbers over the last two years still haven’t returned to the work force, still can’t afford child care, still don’t have pre-k, still don’t have health care. These are the things that we can deliver right now to people, and we should. And we also shouldn’t make last night’s -- we should pay close attention to them, don’t get me wrong, important for us to deliver -- we also just shouldn’t assume that that’s the course to beat. We can change the course by delivering results today that appeal to families who are struggling right now."