At a House Democratic leadership press conference after the election, Ted Lieu says Trump spent the day before the vote at the Reflecting Pool talking about putting his name on it. Lieu says voters answered by flipping the House and Senate, and that Democrats will pass bills to reverse the Republican Medicaid cut, restore the ACA tax credits, stop Trump's tariffs and stop the Iran war.
The receipt
- Who
- Ted Lue
- Where
- briefing - House Democratic leadership post-midterm press conference at the DCCC
- Original footage
- GBS · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 57 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 6 on Instagram
Read the transcript
What was Donald Trump doing the day before the election? He was standing in front of a Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, talking about how they should change the name of that reflecting pool, which he messed up to the Trump reflecting pool. And the American people said, enough. Stop the insanity. Stop the corruption and focus on lowering prices and under leadership of this amazing leadership team, Democrats listened and that's why the American people flip the House and flip the Senate and when Democrats are in control we're gonna focus on affordability. We will pass a bill to reverse the largest Medicaid cut in U .S. history enacted by Republicans. We will pass a bill to restore the ACA tax credits. We will pass a bill to stop the stupid Trump tariffs jacking up prices on Americans and we will pass a bill to stop the Iran War and on the subject security I just want to know
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.