Congresswoman Lucy McBath
Appearances
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
TDS Time Machine | Mother's Day
Well, thank you, Trevor. I'm so excited to be with you, and I have to be honest with you. My youngest sister is your biggest fan, and my family has always said, you know, when are you gonna be on a show? Once you're on a show, you've really made it. So thank you for validating me.
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TDS Time Machine | Mother's Day
Georgia is changing. Uh, Trevor, as I've been seeing for years now, that this is the new South. And I think the resistance that we've seen is just that, the resistance to the new South. And just the amazing movement building that's been done, the strategizing that's been done, the grassroots organizing that's been done, I knew we were going to be a top tier battleground state.
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TDS Time Machine | Mother's Day
And so I'd been telling people all along, please invest in Georgia. You know, the best is yet to come. And we've we've shown that, you know, we made President Trump a one term president and we've actually been able to be a deciding state for, you know, president elect. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
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TDS Time Machine | Mother's Day
So, yes, the South is changing, and I'm glad that this peach state has the ability to be on the front lines of that.
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TDS Time Machine | Mother's Day
As mothers, as women, we're the central focus of our homes oftentimes. We're the protectors. We're often providers. And we want to make sure that when we send our family out the door, when we send our children out the door, that they come home safely. We do everything that we can.
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TDS Time Machine | Mother's Day
And so building this grassroots coalition of mothers and also survivors is really indicative of what we need to do, what we'll have to do to make sure that we are providing safe spaces for our children and our families in our own communities. And that's what we've been doing.
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TDS Time Machine | Mother's Day
And over 90% of the Americans across the country believe in gun safety legislation, common sense legislation that really will provide safety nets for our families and also making sure that law abiding gun owners are using their guns in a way that is providing a safety net as well when they're using those guns.
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TDS Time Machine | Mother's Day
I've always reached across the aisle to find some common ground with my Republican colleagues that we could work upon. Because when we don't work together, we end up in the mess that we've been in for so long now, because we've not been working together for the sake of our constituents that are really depending on us in Washington every single day to create value for them.
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TDS Time Machine | Mother's Day
Our constituents all have the same needs and wants, and let's work together to provide the best of what America says they deserve.
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TDS Time Machine | Mother's Day
I wish, of course, we'd been able to pick up more seats for the House. But, you know, you have to find what works within your own community. That's what I have said to my colleagues all the time, is that what I say or what I represent to my community might be completely different from another community, from another one of my colleagues.
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TDS Time Machine | Mother's Day
I would love for us to be able to hold on to some of the seats. Some of my colleagues that came in with me, my freshman colleagues, I was very pained by the fact that they won't be returning with us. But there again, I think that each of us has been able to just really speak very candidly to our own constituents. All of our demographics are different. But as I said, you know,
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TDS Time Machine | Mother's Day
There are a lot of different voices in this caucus and that's what makes us so unique.
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TDS Time Machine | Mother's Day
Well, thank you, Trevor. And I just want to say this. Thank you so much for having such a deep conversation with me, because it reminds me of all the conversations I used to have at the kitchen table with Jordan. So thank you for that.
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TDS Time Machine | Mother's Day
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