Ami Bera Floats Democrats Going To Red Districts For Town Halls

3/13/2025

During Wednesday's House Democratic leadership press conference, Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) spoke about Democrats going into red districts for town halls.

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00:00Thank you so much, Congressman.

00:03Any questions?

00:04Yes, sir.

00:05Good morning.

00:06I want to ask about mobilization.

00:07Can you say you want to get people mobilized, get people to understand what this would mean

00:18for them?

00:19So much leading up to the last election was also about that mobilization, trying to get

00:22out the vote.

00:23What have you been able to learn since then that would provide different results?

00:28So when I talk about mobilizations, particularly around Medicaid, it's getting doctors back

00:32in their home districts, getting doctors that in many ways are supporters of these Republican

00:38members of Congress, hospital administrators, sitting down with them one-on-one saying,

00:44look, if you kept Medicaid, here's what it's going to do to our emergency rooms.

00:48Here's what it's going to do to our ability to stay open.

00:51Here's what it's going to do to our community clinics.

00:53So it really is – it's great for us to mobilize in Washington, D.C., but we want

00:57this message in their districts, from their constituents, from their supporters.

01:01And they've already said that they're not going to do the town halls that they saw

01:04maybe a month ago.

01:05Does that change on how you would respond and try to get out that message as well?

01:09I mean, we might be going into their districts doing town halls of – you know, it's hard

01:13to win elections if you're not talking to your constituents.

01:15So I could see a number of Democrats, if Republicans are not doing in adjacent districts, going

01:22in and saying, let's have a town hall with hospital workers, with doctors, with others.

01:27We've got two months to do this.

01:28We've got two months to make the case.

01:30A lot of the Republicans understand that this would hurt their districts, this would hurt

01:34their constituents.

01:35Again, 400,000 Medicaid recipients in David Valodeo's district.

01:40We want to make sure that if he takes that vote, he understands he's hurting the people

01:44that he works for.

01:45And just one question on China for you.

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