Rep. DeLauro Sees Cost of Living Fueling Democratic Gains
Channel: Bloomberg Television
Uploaded:
Duration not recorded
Read a transcript preview of “Rep. DeLauro Sees Cost of Living Fueling Democratic Gains” from Bloomberg Television, uploaded on 2026-11-01.
Transcript preview
Language: English (creator captions)
[0:00] Now one of the 435 seats under contention in Tuesday's midterms includes current Connecticut representative Rosa
[0:06] DeLauro, who is seeking her nineteenth term in the chamber. Quite a number.
[0:10] Nineteenth term. If victorious, she could end up chairing the appropriations committee once again, which would
[0:15] likely have a significant impact on the Trump agenda. We asked her about her plans for
[0:19] that to come to pass.
[0:21] I think that we're we're headed to a a a blue wave election and where the...
[0:27] Where we're looking at the trends have not stopped. You know? And every day, we keep...
[0:32] They're they're adding more and more seats that appear to be moving in a democratic, direction.
[0:40] I take nothing for granted. I think we have, what, three days left here, and we
[0:44] need to be... Continue to be focused like a laser on the issues that the American
[0:48] people care about, which is the cost of living, the issue of corruption, etcetera. But I'm
[0:53] I'm opt... I'm optimistic about November 3. This could be an election that gets us back
[1:00] to 2018 where we picked up 36 seats.
[1:03] Now you've been raising alarms about people living paycheck to paycheck for for years. But what's
[1:08] different this time around? I mean, what do Democrats have to do to kind of bring
[1:11] down the cost of living in this country?
[1:13] Well, look. First of all, I think... And and I think it's very important to note,
[1:17] you know, that Democrats understood. This is, you know, nationwide that, people were suffering. People are
[1:26] living paycheck to paycheck. They're strug