Gallego: Very Early, My Campaign Talked About Economy, the Border Which D.C. ‘Didn’t Want to Hear’

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GALLEGO: “You know, I had the benefit of growing up in a working-class family. Like, my mom's a secretary. My father was a carpenter. I grew up — and still even my whole family, Latino family, is working-class. So I actually have — it's a big Latino family, too. I actually have a really good pulse on what's happening there. And we don't want to hear the bad news. And I think a lot of times, you know, we knew that something was bad with Latino community when it comes to their opinion of the economy, because I'm very much connected to it. I think a lot of politicians didn't want to hear what was actually happening out there. And the reason we were successful is because we heard about it and we moved early on it. My first campaign commercial was about the economy in Spanish and also on the border. We were the — our first commercial was about immigration and more border security in Spanish, because we heard about it earlier. I think there's a lot of people in D.C. that didn't want to hear what was happening out there because it would go against some of their — you know, some of the stuff they had learned in the past."