Amanpour interviews Congressman-elect Tom Malinowski (D flipped seat that was R since '81)

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In Tuesday’s election, Democratic candidate Tom Malinowski beat his Republican rival in a seat the GOP had held since 1981. A former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights under President Obama, Malinowski joins the program to discuss the midterms and President Trump’s foreign policy.

You can't really move around this country without hearing people on both sides of the aisle wherever they are talking about President Trump.

And yet, Leader Pelosi hoped, instructed, hoped that candidates would not focus on the daily Trump, would not get personal, would not get out of the box and sort of you know sort of diffuse the message there.

(Video and transcript at link)

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/congressman-elect-tom-malinowski-rlomln/

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1. Malinowski followed Pelosi's advice

Amanpour includes a clip of Pelosi outlining a plan for Democrats. Malinowski acknowledges and follows it -- wins a seat GOP has had for 38 years.

Seems significant to me, given all the ragging on Pelosi that's been going on.


(Oh, yeah, self-kick for night owls).

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4. Very Significant! Tell this to those

who question Nancy Pelosi's years of service as Speaker of the House.

The republicons demonize her because she's so effective and now Nancy's had a chance to shine helping to Win the House for our Democratic Party.

She must be so appreciative!

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6. She and Hillary wear a bullseye for being GOOD

If Nancy was so bad, Fox and the GOPers would be bragging on her.

Nancy is to Twitler what Patton was to Hitler.

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8. Oh Right They Do.. Strong Brilliant Women

who have kept right on fighting for Justice all their lives no matter how much they get knocked down.

And, not only did Nancy help win the House for our Democratic Party, she did it at the most crucial time in history imaginable.. given the bully dictator wannabe throwing his Fascist weight around the Planet.

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9. "most crucial time in history imaginable"

You got that right! There have been too many warnings from people who lived through 1930s Germany. That thing in our White House, aided and abetted by a power-mad GOP and a destructive Fox propaganda machine, was taking us straight into some kind of mutant fascism-Nazism era.

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2. Excellent

She led the campaign to concentrate on health care.

It is amazing how every Republican candidate was talking about "pre existing conditions."

Our governor elect - a Democrat - also was going after Trump as he started his campaign. And I posted on his Facebook suggested that he should not do this; that Trump was not in the race. And he thanked me and he did stop. Not taking credit, really, but two years ago a well known and respected state senator lost her election to flip a Republican congressman because she concentrated on Trump and by then he was only a candidate.

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7. thank you for speaking up

It's not reasonable for us to expect those in the middle of a battle to see everything clearly. TrumPutin loves to get into yelling contests. People might pay to watch that on pay-per-view events, but that's not what most want from their government.

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3. So that's another Flip to Blue from

a red District 7 in New Jersey! Wonder how many new seats do we have now?

Brilliant and Winning advice from Nancy Pelosi!

I think until the very end, this campaign was mostly run on health care, it was run on protecting kids from gun violence, building infrastructure in my state, in New Jersey.

I think the last couple of weeks I think Trump inserted himself into the campaign in ways that were terrible for the country but also bad for his party.

It was fear, demonization and conspiracy theories and in a district like mine, that did not play well, especially after the shootings in the Pittsburgh synagogue because we could link, very clearly, the president's words to one of the worst acts of violence, religious violence, hateful violence in American history and our positive message on practical issues like healthcare, infrastructure, gun violence, the economy, contrasted with fear, was very advantageous for us.

Thank You for this news, Hermit.. very enlightening piece!

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5. welcome!

I saw this on PBS while waiting for a high school football score; couldn't take all the commercials leading up to the segment, flipped the channel and there was Amanpour introducing the show. Never got back to the local sports report but got a text from my son for the one I wanted.

It caught and held my attention. The clip with Nancy's previous interview where she laid out her plan is what made me want to put it up here. There has been some Pelosi bashing around here lately that I don't agree with at all.

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10. kick, for daytime folks :)

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11. ...

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12. nobody here but us crickets

Chirp.

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13. Chirp..

It's a worthy OP that's still Kicking!

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14. smallest GOP delegation from New Jersey since 1912

Malinowski was part of a change in New Jersey:

Malinowski's 147,063-to-137,318 victory was part of a small blue wave in New Jersey that also saw Democrats Mikie Sherrill in the 11th District and Jeff Van Drew in the 2nd District win formerly Republican strongholds, and a larger tide for Democrats nationwide, who took control of the House of Representatives.

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Regardless of the outcome of the MacArthur-Kim race, New Jersey will send its smallest delegation of Republicans to Washington since 1912, when just one member of the GOP was elected.

https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/07/nj-7th-district-congress-tom-malinowski-defeats-leonard-lance/1902521002/?from=new-cookie

(I have to take joy in the changes in other states, as mine stayed backward and red).

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15. That's so Wonderful about New Jersey now!

Especially after all those years with chris Christy and his vicious gang of cutthroat pols.. Perps of the George Washington Bridge FUBAR.

I enjoy hearing about all the states who have been hit by the Blue Wave.. and their ensuing Good Fortunes. I've lived in a lot of them and visited many more. Of course Hawaii is Blue.. and may it stay that way forever more.

Sorry about your red state.. especially now a days.

So Andy Kim hasn't won yet.. darn!

Regardless of the outcome of the MacArthur-Kim race, New Jersey will send its smallest delegation of Republicans to Washington since 1912, when just one member of the GOP was elected.

Congratulations to Mikie Sherrill and John Van Drew for Flipping red seats BLUE in New Jersey!

Thanks for the article, Hermit!

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16. Elijah Cummings says he'll vote for Nancy Pelosi for House speaker: "Nancy Pelosi has been battle

Link to tweet

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17. the man doesn't mince words

Rep. Cummings speaks from tons of experience, so I tend to accept his assessment of "this fearless leader".

Nancy Pelosi told Democratic candidates to avoid the daily trumpisms and concentrate on health care.

Los Angeles Times Op-Ed on the 10th:

Democrats thumped the GOP on healthcare in the midterms. Can we finally move past ‘repeal and replace’?



Every federal election held since Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010 has been a referendum of sorts on President Obama’s signature healthcare law. Perhaps Tuesday’s election will be the last one.

It certainly should be. The law better known as Obamacare laid a solid foundation for expanding health insurance coverage to more Americans, improving the quality of care and slowing the growth of healthcare spending. But rather than building on that foundation and tackling the tough work still to be done on cost control, Republican lawmakers focused all their efforts on futile attempts to wipe the law off the books.

In giving control of the House of Representatives back to Democrats for the first time since 2010, voters sent an unmistakable message in favor of the ACA. A centerpiece of many Democrats’ campaigns was preserving the protections the law provides to people with preexisting conditions. And according to exit polls, more than 40% of those surveyed said healthcare was their top issue — far higher than any other topic.

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18. This was really important to a lot of People.

It certainly should be. The law better known as Obamacare laid a solid foundation for expanding health insurance coverage to more Americans, improving the quality of care and slowing the growth of healthcare spending. But rather than building on that foundation and tackling the tough work still to be done on cost control, Republican lawmakers focused all their efforts on futile attempts to wipe the law off the books.

And, while repubs did that in Congress.. they weren't the only ones trying to tear it down because it wasn't perfect in their heads.

Nancy Pelosi told Democratic candidates to avoid the daily trumpisms and concentrate on health care.

Of course! What's more important than our Health?

Mahalo, Hermit for this OPED from LATimes!

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19. socialized medicine is as silly as socialized defense

That line is my response to the Fox cultists around me. (Each time I have to explain that the Affordable Care Act is Obamacare). They sneer at "Obamacare" as socialized medicine and I tell them, "Yeah, socialized medicine is as silly as socialized national defense."

Right now, each of us who can afford health care (which more accurately should be called wealth care, with its current structure) already pays for every treatment performed in doctor's offices and hospitals, either directly or as a portion of health insurance. The problem is that we also pay the exorbitant costs of insurance companies and the doctors they pay to deny coverage, the executive mansions, the wondrous office skyscrapers, and all the other baggage of an industry that is very efficient at extracting resources from its prey and denying pay-out.

Insurance is supposed to spread catastrophic costs amongst those who are at risk, while excluding those who are not. Automobile insurance is not needed by anyone who doesn't own or operate an automobile. Likewise for home owners insurance, renters' insurance, etc. Who living is not exposed to the risks of catastrophic health care costs? Which citizens should be excluded from sharing a portion of that cost?

National defense is paid for by every citizen who is required to pay income tax. Why should basic health care be different?