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DFLers Ryan Winkler and Jeff Hayden talk with Republicans Amy Frederiksen and Fritz Knaak.
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Former Lawmaker Panel | Republican Midterm Convention
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DFLers Ryan Winkler and Jeff Hayden talk with Republicans Amy Frederiksen and Fritz Knaak.
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IF THE REPUBLICANS WIN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE UNITED STATES SENATE, BOTH OF THEM, BECAUSE OF OUR ECONOMIC ... TREMENDOUS ECONOMIC SUCCESS, LIKE, IN HISTORY WE'VE NEVER HAD ANYTHING LIKE WHAT'S HAPPENING, BUT BECAUSE OF OUR TREMENDOUS STRENGTH AND SUCCESS ECONOMICALLY, I WILL ISSUE A DIVIDEND TO EVERY ADULT CITIZEN IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] FOR $5,000.
VERY MUCH LIKE A SUCCESSFUL COMPANY WILL DO A CASH DISTRIBUTION TO ITS SHAREHOLDERS OR LIKE LAST EAR WHEN I GAVE OUR GREAT MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY 1776, REMEMBER?
[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] I GAVE IT TO OUR MILITARY.
$1,776.
IF THE REPUBLICANS WIN, IF YOU WIN, WE MIGHT NOT WIN, THE REASON THE DEMOCRATS CAN'T DO THAT IS BECAUSE THEY DON'T DO TARIFFS, THEY DON'T TAKE IN MONEY.
ALL THEY KNOW IS POVERTY AND HOW TO RUIN OUR COUNTRY.
BUT WE'RE MAKING A FORTUNE.
SO IF THE REPUBLICANS WIN, YOU WIN WITH US AND YOU GET $5,000.
IT WILL BE CALLED THE TRUMP DIVIDEND.
[ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] >> WE'RE JUST 55 DAYS FROM ELECTION DAY SO LET'S GET RIGHT DOWN TO BUSINESS!
AS YOU'VE HEARD THIS IS AN ELECTION BETWEEN COMMON SENSE AND COMMUNISM!
BETWEEN AMERICA LOVING PATRIOTS AND HATE AMERICA EXTREMISTS!
BETWEEN FREEDOM AND TYRANNY.
THE COMMUNIST PARTY -- EXCUSE ME, THE DEMOCRATS, HAVE NO LEADER AND THEY HAVE NO MESSAGE.
THE ONLY THING THEY CAN AGREE ON IS THEIR DISGUSTING HATRED OF AMERICA AND OUR GREAT PRESIDENT.
THESE PEOPLE ARE SICK!
THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NOTHING DEMOCRATIC ABOUT SOCIALISM!
[ CHEERS ] >> BY THE WAY, THESE PEOPLE AREN'T EVEN SOCIALISTS!
THEY'RE COMMUNISTS AND THEY'RE ANARCHISTS AND THEY HATE OUR COUNTRY.
IN NOVEMBER WE HAVE A CLEAR CHOICE.
YOU CAN CHOOSE THE 12 BY 12 DILAPIDATED, GOVERNMENT OWNED HOUSING AND THE CRUMBS OF FOOD THAT MAMDANI THE COMMY IS OFFERING.
YOU CAN CHOOSE TO GO WITH AMERICA HATERS LIKE ILHAN OMAR.
[ BOOING ] ILHAN OMAR WHO WANTS TO RAISE YOUR TAXES WHILE ALLOWING SOMALI FRAUDSTERS TO RUN FREE.
[ BOOING ] ♪ ♪ >> Eric: AS YOU JUST SAW REPUBLICANS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY THIS WEEK ATTENDED A MIDTERM CONVENTION ITH PRESIDENT TRUMP AIMED TO BOOST FUND-RAISING AND MORALE AHEAD OF THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS AND WHILE REPRESENTATIVE TOM EMMER MADE A NOTABLE APPEARANCE MANY OF HIS MINNESOTA G.O.P.
COLLEAGUES DID NOT.
HERE TO TALK ABOUT THAT, THE CONVENTION BATTLES OVER VOTING, REDISTRICTING AND MORE, A QUARTET.
FORMER LAWMAKERS.
DEMOCRATS UP FIRST TONIGHT RYAN WINKLER, FORMER MAJORITY LEADER FOR THE STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WITH HIM IS JEFF HAYDEN, FORMER DEPUTY MAJORITIES LEADER IN THE STATE SENATE NOW LOBBYIST.
AMY FREDERIKSEN, FORMER STATE SENATE MAJORITY LEADER, NOW LOBBYIST AND LASTLY BUT NOT LEASTLY, FRITZ KNAAK, FORMER STATE SENATOR AND ATTORNEY IN PRIVATE PRACTICE.
>> NOT A LOBBYIST.
>> Eric: THE SENATOR IS FIRED UP.
>> HE IS, WELL, TOM IS USUALLY FIRED UP.
THAT'S PRETTY CLASSIC TOM EMMER, THAT'S A BIG STAGE HE'S BEEN ON AND HE'S BEEN ON THAT STAGE NOW FOR A COUPLE YEARS AND PRETTY EXCITING FOR FOLKS IN HIS DISTRICT.
>> Eric: DID YOU BUY THE REASON FOR THE REASON BEHIND THE CONVENTION?
>> YOU EXPECT ME TO SAY NO?
HONESTLY I THINK THE IDEA OF PUMPING UP THE PARTY BASE MIDTERMS AND USING ANY RALLYING YOU AN IS PROBABLY A GOOD IDEA.
NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE, IT'S UNIQUE, IT'S CREATIVE, I'VE HEARD PEOPLE SAY GOOD THINGS ABOUT IT.
WE'RE IN SOMETHING OF A BUBBLE HERE IN MINNESOTA, I DON'T THINK YOU SAW ANYTHING ABOUT IT IN THE MEDIA HERE BUT GOT SOME PRETTY INTERESTING COVERAGE SOME POPULATIONS.
>> IT FEELS LIKE A SIGN OF DESPERATION TO ME, LIKE THEY KNOW THEY'RE LOSING AND THE WAVE IS COMING THEIR WAY AND DOING ANYTHING TO RALLY THEIR FOLKS.
THE OTHER THING I MIGHT SAY IS TOM LOOKED LIKE HE WAS REALLY GOOD IN DALLAS AND FIRED UP BUT COULDN'T MAKE FARMFEST HERE IN MINNESOTA.
>> I DON'T KNOW, IT STARTS TO LOOK MORE AND MORE LIKE IDIOCRACY THE REALITY SHOW TO ME, THERE'S NOTHING ABOUT IT THAT'S REAL.
WE'RE DEALING WITH WAR, MASSIVE FEDERAL DEBT, INFLATION AND NONE OF THAT IS BEING DEALT WITH N ANY KIND OF HONEST WAY AND AMERICAN VOTERS KNOW IT'S NOT HAPPENING.
>> Cathy: THE REPRESENTATIVE SAYS HE HAS NO PLANS TO MOVE UP IN HOUSE LEADERSHIP, WANTS TO REMAIN AS WHIP BUT DO YOU BELIEVE THAT?
>> OH, I ACTUALLY DO THINK I BELIEVE THAT.
I THINK THAT TOM -- I MEAN, TOM EVEN FROM HIS TIME IN THE MINNESOTA HOUSE WAS A LEADER.
BUT LWAYS HE ALSO LIKES KIND OF THAT LIKE BULLY PULPIT IF YOU WILL.
IT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT SUITS HIM.
SO I THINK AS SPEAKER THAT'S KIND OF A DIFFERENT TYPE OF LEADERSHIP.
I THINK TOM IS RIGHT WHERE HE WANTS TO BE.
>> Cathy: I'M WONDERING HERE, HE DID SAY THAT DEMOCRATS HAVE NO LEADER, NO MESSAGE.
DEMOCRATS DON'T SEEM TO HAVE A CLEAR LEADER, AND WHAT'S THEIR MESSAGE >> I THINK THAT THERE'S A LEADER, I EAN, YOU KNOW, HAKEEM JEFFRIES IS THE LEADER IN THE HOUSE AND HE'S PRETTY CLEAR ON WHAT HE WANTS TO DO.
SCHUMER IS THE LEADER IN THE SENATE AND WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE ELECTION.
I THINK THEY HAVE A LEADER AND I THINK THE ISSUES ARE -- AND I THINK THE ECONOMY IS THE MESSAGE.
I THINK IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT THEY GOT TO FABRICATE, ALL THEY GOT TO DO IS WAKE UP EVERY DAY AND THE COUNTRY IS IN PERIL BECAUSE OF IT.
>> I THINK CANDIDLY ONE OF THE BEST THINGS THE REPUBLICANS HAVE GOING FOR THEM THIS GO AROUND IS THE FACT THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE MUCH FOCUS OR LEADERSHIP ON THE PART OF THE DEMOCRATS AND THE BRAND NATIONALLY SUFFERED A LOT FROM THE CONTROVERSY AND FIGHTING THAT'S GONE ON INSIDE.
IF THEY WERE MORE UNIFIED THAN THEY ARE RIGHT NOW I THINK REPUBLICANS WOULDN'T EVEN BE THINKING ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE SOME DECENT CHANCES IN THIS IDTERM AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY IN TERMS OF HOW THEY CAN CORRECT THAT BECAUSE I THINK THE FIGHT IS PROFOUND AND SYSTEMIC RIGHT NOW INSIDE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
WHAT THEY HAVE GOING FOR THEM OF COURSE IS IT IS THE MIDTERMS AND THE PARTY IN POWER PERCEIVED TO BE THE REPUBLICANS OF COURSE IS GOING TO UFFER AND SO THEY'VE GOT THAT ADVANTAGE, THEY JUST DON'T SEEM TO BE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF IT ENOUGH.
>> Cathy: REPRESENTATIVE WINKLER.
>> REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP IS SHOWING THEY CARE ABOUT EVERYTHING EXCEPT WHAT VOTERS SAY THEY CARE ABOUT WHICH IS AFFORDABILITY, THEY DON'T LIKE THE WAR, THEY'RE WORRIED ABOUT ALL OF THE FOUNDATIONAL ELEMENTS OF THEIR HOMES, EVERYTHING ELSE BEING ERODED BY WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE ECONOMY.
THE SAME THING THAT REPUBLICANS USED AGAINST DEMOCRATS IN 2024 AND THEY'VE DONE NOTHING ABOUT IT, IN FACT THEY'VE MADE IT WORSE AND I THINK THERE IS GOING TO BE A RECKONING.
I DON'T KNOW THAT DEMOCRATS ARE READY TO THROW OUT A WINNING MESSAGE FOR 2028 RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE TO GET THROUGH 2026 BUT I THINK IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THE ECONOMY, HOW A POPULIST REVOLT AGAINST BIG TECH COMPANIES, AGAINST SKY ROCKETING HEALTH CARE, ALL OF THOSE THINGS ARE RIPE AND FERTILE TERRITORY FOR DEMOCRATS.
>> Eric: $68 MILLION THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP'S PAC SENT TO REPUBLICANS AROUND THE COUNTRY DIDN'T INCLUDE ANY MONEY FOR REPUBLICAN, HOUSE MEMBER IN MINNESOTA OR SENATE CANDIDATE OR THE GOVERNOR CANDIDATE.
WHEN YOU POLITICAL PROFESSORS LOOK AT THAT -- PROFESSIONALS LOOK AT THAT SORT OF SITUATION DOES IT MAKE YOU THINK THEY'RE SAVING IT FOR LATER OR ON'T THINK THEY SHOULD WASTE THE MONEY?
WHAT DOES THAT TELL US IF ANYTHING IS >> ELL, I MEAN I THINK THAT, FOR A LONG TIME IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF HAS ALWAYS HAD AN EYE ON MINNESOTA, VERY EARLY ON, 2016, -- BY THE WAY IF HE SPENT ANY TIME HERE HE WOULD HAVE WON, HE WAS RIGHT ABOUT THAT.
SINCE THAT HE'S HAD AN INTEREST IN THAT AND I'VE WORKED ON POLITICAL SENATE, STATEWIDE PAINS SINCE THEN AND FOLKS AROUND THE PRESIDENT JUST ARE REALLY PRETTY STRONGLY AND STAUNCHLY SAYING THAT, YOU KNOW, MINNESOTA IS NOT THE PLACE TO PUT HEIR MONEY.
BUT I THINK IT WOULDING, I THINK IT'S AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT IF THEY WOULD AND I WOULD ALSO WITH THESE CANDIDATES THAT REPUBLICANS HAVE ON THE BALLOT WHICH IN MY MIND ARE THE STRONGEST CANDIDATES WE HAVE HAD IN TWO DECADES IT IS A MISTAKE THAT THE NATIONAL REPUBLICANS COULD BE MAKING TO NOT SPEND ENOUGH TIME OR MONEY OR ATTENTION HERE IN MINNESOTA.
>> Eric: WHAT'S THE MATH FOR STATEWIDE CANDIDATE OR DEMOCRATS?
A COUPLE OF HUNDRED THOUSAND OR 300,000 VOTE MARGIN OUT OF THE TWIN CITIES AND THE REPUBLICANS CAN'T MAKE HAT UP OUTSTATE?
WHAT'S THE MATH?
>> YEAH, I THINK IT'S THAT.
WE SAW A LITTLE BIT OF IT IN THE PRIMARY AND THE KIND OF TWIN CITIES, FOURTH AND FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
I THINK THE SECOND CAME IN WITH A LOT OF VOTES FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR FLANAGAN.
I THINK ROCHESTER AND THAT AREA, PART OF CD1 IS REALLY FRUSTRATED, THERE'S SOME REAL BATTLE IN THE EFFICIENT CONGRESSIONAL ISTRICT.
SO I MEAN I THINK IT'S THE TYPICAL MAP FOR THE STATEWIDE CANDIDATES BUT I THINK LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES THERE SEEMS TO BE A LOT OF FOLKS THAT WENT TO THE PRIMARY THAT WERE DEMOCRATS, THEY, 200,000 MORE PEOPLE THAN REPUBLICANS.
>> I THINK WHAT'S REALLY GOING TO BE INTERESTING AS USUAL IS WHAT'S GOING TO BE HAPPENING IN THE SUBURBAN AREAS.
THE SUBURBAN DISTRICTS IN PARTICULAR.
AND HOW THE ECONOMY IS GOING TO PLAY.
HOW THE FRAUD ISSUE IS GOING TO PLAY, THAT'S NOT OING -- GOING AWAY AND THE STATE ISSUES.
HOW THAT ALL IS GOING TO GET MIXED TOGETHER AND HOW THAT'S GOING TO IMPACT THE VOTE.
YOU CAN EXPECT THE CORE CITIES TO DEPENDABLY SHOW UP AND GO BLUE.
THEY -- THE BLUE ZOMBIES WE LIKE TO CALL THEM, THEY'LL SHOW UP.
AND THE OUTSTATE RED AREAS WILL STAY PREDICTABLY RED.
THE PLACE TO WATCH WILL BE IN THE SUBURBS.
>> I THINK THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS NOT BEEN DOING THEMSELVES A FAVOR.
THEY HAVE GONE DECIDEDLY FURTHER LEFT IN THE PRIMARIES.
WE HAVE ALL SEEN THAT AND I THINK IT'S AN INTERESTING PLACE FOR BOTH THESE PARTIES, RIGHT?
BOTH PARTIES ARE IN A TRANSITION WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT FOR THEIR KIND OF THEIR IDENTITY AND THEIR LEADERSHIP AND REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN AHEAD ON THAT WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP AND MAGA AS SORT OF THIS BIG PERSONALITY BUT THE DEMOCRATS ARE GOING THROUGH IT TOO.
AND A LOT OF THAT MESSAGE DOESN'T RESONATE WITH THE AREAS THAT FRITZ IS TALKING ABOUT, THE SUBURBS, KIND OF THOSE MODERATE INDEPENDENT VOTERS, WHEREVER THEY LIVE, ROCHESTER, WINONA, DULUTH, WHEREVER -- >> YOU HAVE TO HAVE A REASON TO VOTE IN THE MIDTERM, RIGHT?
THERE'S A CERTAIN NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO VOTE IN EVERY ELECTION THAT USED TO FAVOR REPUBLICANS AND THAT HAS SHIFTED AND NOW FAVORS DEMOCRATS AND THEN ON TOP OF THAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE A REASON TO SHOW UP.
REPUBLICANS RIGHT NOW DON'T HAVE A LOT OF REASON TO TURN OUT AND VOTE.
THEIR PARTY IS NOT DOING WELL, PRESIDENT IS NOT DOING WELL, THE ECONOMY'S NOT DOING WELL AND DEMOCRATS ARE ANGRY AND MOTIVATED TO SHOW UP AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
>> Eric: BUT FRAUD RAUD FRAUD TWO OR THREE TIMES A WEEK STILL THERE'S FRAUD.
>> FRAUD FRAUD FRAUD AND IT MATTERS, I MEAN, THIS ISN'T SOMETHING THAT'S JUST KIND OF SLOWLY DRIFTING INTO THE BACKGROUND.
PEOPLE ARE STILL VERY ANGRY ABOUT IT AND AS MUCH AS IT GETS DEFLECTED, OH, WE'LL TAKE CARE OF IT, THAT KIND OF ISSUE, LIKE IT JUST ISN'T GONNA GO AWAY.
>> YEAH, WELL, YEAH, I MEAN, I THINK IT'S THERE BUT THE SYSTEM IS WORKING, THE SYSTEM DIDN'T WORK -- THE FOLKS THAT, THE BAD GUYS WENT AND DID THE FRAUD OF THE SYSTEM NOW WE'RE BEING ADJUDICATED.
THAT'S HOW OUR SYSTEM WORKS, RIGHT?
AND I THINK WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IS THOSE FOLKS GOING THROUGH THE SYSTEM, THEY WERE CHARGED, THEY'RE BEING SENTENCED, GOING TO JAIL.
I THINK THAT THAT'S HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS.
ON THE FLIP HAND SIDE PEOPLE ARE NOT FORGETTING HOW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAME INTO THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS AND SNATCHED UP THEIR KIDS AND SCARED THE LIVING YOU KNOW WHAT OUT OF PEOPLE.
THAT'S STILL IN PEOPLE'S HEARTS, AND KILLED MINNESOTANS.
>> THEN I HAVE TO ASK IS WHY SENATOR KLOBUCHAR'S VERY FIRST AD WAS TALKING ABOUT FRAUD?
I JUST HAVE TO -- I HAVE TO SAY IF THAT'S -- IF THAT'S TRUE, JEFF, I MEAN, THE VERY FIRST AD THAT CAME OUT FROM SENATOR KLOBUCHAR HERSELF WAS ABOUT FRAUD AND GETTING INTO THE SYSTEM AND DOING AN AUDIT.
WHY?
BECAUSE THAT'S REALLY I THINK ACROSS THE STATE WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT.
>> THAT'S RIGHT.
>> I REALLY DO.
>> Cathy: SAY -- >> -- SHE'S RIGHT TO DO THE AD.
>> Cathy: SENATOR KLOBUCHAR STAID TO THE STRIB TODAY IF WE SHE WON FOR GOVERNOR SHE WOULDN'T RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2028.
>> OH, WHAT A RELIEF.
>> WE NEED A GOVERNOR STEPPING UP AND ADDRESSING THE ISSUES, FRAUD IS ONE, STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT HAS NOT BEEN GOING WELL, HOUSING AFFORDABILITY AND ECONOMIC ROWTH, AND GOVERNOR KLOBUCHAR WHEN SHE BECOMES SWORN IN HER ADMINISTRATION IS GOING TO BE FOCUSED ON DELIVERING RESULTS.
RADICAL PRAGMATICISM, MILITANT COMPETENCE, WHATEVER IT IS LIKE THERE IS A NEED TO GET A HANDLE ON STATE GOVERNMENT AND MAKE THINGS HAPPEN AND SHE WILL BE DOING THAT.
>> RYAN I AGREE COMPLETELY THAT THERE IS ALL THAT NEED AND THOSE THINGS HAVEN'T BEEN MET BUT WE'VE HAD EIGHT YEARS OF A DEMOCRAT AS A GOVERNOR AND THAT'S WHEN ALL THAT HAPPENED.
SO THE REAL QUESTION VOTERS ARE GOING TO ANSWER IS WHETHER OR NOT AMY KLOBUCHAR IS SOMEHOW GOING TO BE DIFFERENT.
I WOULD ARGUE NOT AT ALL.
AND OR WHETHER THEY NEED A CHANGE LIKE LISA.
AND I WOULD THINK THAT LISA WOULD BE THE KIND OF CHANGE THEY WANT.
>> LISA HAS BEEN THE SPEAKER, SHE'S BEEN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SAME DIVIDED GOVERNMENT THAT HELPED DELIVER THIS MESS AND SENATOR KLOBUCHAR HAS BEEN IN WASHINGTON GETTING BILLS PASSED.
>> Eric: TICKET SPLITTERS?
SOMEBODY GOES -- >> OH, YEAH.
>> TAFOYA AND KLOBUCHAR AS AN EXAMPLE?
>> WELL, I HOPE NOT.
BUT, YEAH.
I THINK THAT YOU MAY SEE A RETURN OF THAT KIND OF -- CERTAINLY AMONG THE STATEWIDE CAPPEDATS I EXPECT FOR EXAMPLE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL RACE IS A POSSIBILITY WHERE YOU WOULD SEE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE GOING FOR THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE THAT WOULD NOT VOTE OR KEITH ELLISON.
>> YEAH, I'M NOT SURE ON THE STATEWIDE RACES.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WE JUST SAID WE KNOW WHAT THE MAP LOOKS LIKE AND WHERE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GO.
I DON'T THINK YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT ON THE STATEWIDE RACES, I DO THINK LEGISLATIVE RACES IN PLAY AND REALLY TRYING TO FIGURE THAT OUT.
>> Eric: WE'VE BEEN -- A LITTLE BIT TOO LONG TONIGHT.
TUNE IN NEXT WEEK AS WE CONTINUE COVERING THE LEAD UP TO THE MIDTERMS, JUST ENOUGH TIME FOR SOME SHOW-ENDING MUSIC.
THIS WEEK BACK IN 2014 JOHN VEZNER STOPPED BY THE STUDIO TO PREVIEW THE 13TH ANNUAL GRAND MARAIS UNPLUGGED MUSIC FESTIVAL.
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