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RYAN: “But let me just talk real quick to the previous question about real politics. We could talk about climate, we could talk about guns, we could talk about all of these issues that we all care about. We have a perception problem with the Democratic Party. We are not connecting to the working-class people in the very states that I represent in Ohio, in the industrial Midwest. We’ve lost all connection. We have got to change the center of gravity of the Democratic Party from being coastal and elitist and Ivy League, which is the perception to somebody from the forgotten communities that have been left behind for the last 30 years. To get those workers back on our side so we can say we’re going to build electric vehicles, we’re going to build solar panels. If you want to beat Mitch McConnell, this better be a working-class party if you want to go into Kentucky and take his rear end out. And if you want to take Lindsey Graham out, you to have a blue-collar party that goes into the textile communities in South Carolina —"
TODD: "Thank you, Congressman Ryan —"
RYAN: "All I’m saying here, if we don’t address that fundamental problem —"
TODD: "I understand.
RYAN: " — with our connection to workers, white, black, brown, gay. straight working class people, none of this is going to get done."