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A new group has been formed, bringing together Democrats and once hard-right conservatives with a common goal: To take down extremist members of the Republican Party in future elections. The group has set their sights on a handful of targets, but the most vulnerable target they have is Lauren Boebert. Farron Cousins discusses this new group and how they can have a massive impact in the 2024 elections.
*This transcript was auto-generated. Please excuse any typos. A new political action committee has been formed called Mission Democracy Pack, and it has members from the Democratic Party. It has the, uh, uh, uh, Marcus Flowers who ran against Marjorie Taylor Green, unfortunately lost this last November. He is a co-founder and another co-founder. By the way, this man by the name of Denver Riggleman. Now Denver Riggleman is a Republican. He is actually a former member of the House Freedom Caucus. He no longer serves in the United States House of Representatives, but he was, you know, one, one of one of those people that Freedom Caucus freaks. But he joined forces and other Republicans with Marcus Flowers and other Democrats to form this bipartisan political action committee that has one goal and one goal only. Getting these nutjob lunatic, fanatic fringe Republicans kicked out of office in the next election, and they've got lofty sites. Folks, this group plans to raise hopefully 18 million so that they can take on people like Marjorie Taylor Green is on their list. Matt Gates, Jim Jordan, Scott Perry, Paul Gosar, and of course the biggest fish of all Lauren Bobert. Now, the problem with their list of people, with the exception of one of those people is that you're talking about taking on deep red districts. Marjorie Taylor Green beat Marcus flowers by 32 points, you know, spending $2 million and, and flowers, by the way, raised $17 million. But most of that obviously came from out of state because Marjorie Taylor Greene is very much hated outside of her district. Um, so the money doesn't mean anything. Like, it doesn't matter if you go to her district and spend a couple million dollars, it's a Republican district, they're gonna vote for Republicans. I'm in Matt Gaetz's district. You could come here, spend a hundred million fighting Matt Gaetz. You're not gonna unseat him. So, I don't know. Same thing with Paul Gosar, obviously Jim Jordan, Scott Perry. Like, I want y'all to take them down and I want y'all to, to at least, you know, damage them a little bit in the election, but I don't think you're gonna be successful with it. And that is of course, with the exception of the one person, and that one person is Lauren Bobert Bobbitt's district. After her 2018 election was of course, or excuse me, 2020 election, it was redistrict, right? Because we had the census. So they redrew the lines. It became more Republican than it was when she first won her election. So 2022, she's in a district that became more Republican and she won by what, 546 votes, I think it is. That's it. 546 votes. So Lauren Bobert is vulnerable. Lauren Bobert is in danger. And Republicans in that district this year, since she's been reelected and sworn in for a second term, have already said they're tired of her. We hate the way she is. We don't like this. She's not helping us. She's helping herself. She just wants to be famous and be on tv. And of course, we've got her now with her 17 year old son about to make her a grandmother at age 36. Like, you've got some, you know, really weird family things happening that don't sit well with traditional Republican voters and even moderate Republican voters. It's kind of one of those, like, fix your own house before you tell us how to fix ours. But even that aside, like I don't even think that's that big of a deal. Her behavior, her extremism does not sit well in that district. So this group mission Democracy, if I can offer you a word of advice, I I support, like I said, a hundred percent what you're doing. I say forget Marjorie Taylor Green right now. I know, I'm sorry. I hate to say it, but forget her. Forget Matt Gates. The people here love him, especially since he's not gonna be charged, um, in the, that investigation. Like, don't even, don't even waste your money down here. Like, forget about us, save yourselves, move on. Maybe Paul Gosar. I wouldn't abandon that one yet. I also, I think he could do Scott Perry, but focus your resources on Lauren Bobert. That is the individual that is most vulnerable. That is the place you can have the most impact because the voters are sick of her. They almost got rid of her last time. And with a little more effort, I think you can get rid of her in 2024.
