IHIP News: Trump's Supporters BAIL ON HIM in Mass EXODUS From MAGA as Dems Launch MAJOR TAKEOVER!

It's happening. Trump supporters are. finally realizing that he is a con man. that doesn't care about affordability, that his sole purpose is to protect his. fragile ego and to enrich himself and. his cronies. The New York Times said a. focus group on 2024 Trump voters popped. this up. A New York Times focus group found that. nine of 12 Trump voters regret. supporting him with many giving his.

second term failing grades. Asked how. they're feeling about the country in one. word, members of the focus group said. the following. Let's go to the next. slide. Worried, anxious, frustrated, annoyed, discouraged, surprised, and discouraged, concerned, apathetic, and betrayed. And. now we have gas prices that are hitting. four-year highs. Pop this up. New York Times gas prices in the US have. hit their highest level in four years. Tuesday's jump was the biggest increase.

in more than a month as negotiators. deadlocked over over reopening the. Strait of Hormuz. So here's the thing. Yes, everybody's anti-Trump. Nine out of. 12 Trump voters are anti-Trump. We have to be an opposition party that. is more than anti-Trump. We have to be a. party that delivers for people, that can. capture voters, that can capture back. the working class. And here to join me. today to discuss this is Congressman.

Greg Casar, the representative from. Texas' 35th Congressional District and. chair of the Congressional Progressive. Caucus with a major announcement. Congressman, how are you today? >> I'm doing well, Jennifer. Thanks for. talking about this today. >> All right, so tell us about what your. caucus is announcing today and how it. will make a difference in the lives of. American because Trump has only made. Americans' lives worse, far worse. >> Now, we are launching our new.

affordability agenda today. Like you. said earlier, we all know that Donald. Trump lied to his own voters, lied to. the country when he said he was going to. bring prices down when all he's done is. jack prices up and enrich himself. Now. he's calling uh making things more. affordable a hoax. And so now, as. Democrats, we've got to say we are. actually going to make things cheaper, make life more affordable for the. everyday person because yes, we've got. to be anti-Trump,

but we also have to be pro-working. person. So this agenda is what Democrats. could actually stand for. A lot of. people are are saying, "What are you. for?" And the agenda the Progressive. Caucus is laying out today is we're. anti-Trump, but we're also. anti-corporations screw you over, anti-rich folks that have made more and. more money by jacking up your prices. So. it's the kind of agenda that can lower. utility bills, lower your housing costs, lower your grocery bills, and say, "Let's stop cozying up to these special.

interests as a party and instead start. focusing on those voters that are. disappointed in Donald Trump, whether. they're Republican or Democrat.". >> Let's talk about how the Republican. Party for years before Trump, since. Ronald Reagan, has had this dismissive, demeaning. attitude towards working-class people. Um colleagues in in Congress have said, "Well, if you want, you know, better. insurance, get a better job or get a. second job." Or the um.

uh the person agriculture secretary is. like, "Yeah, we know eggs are expensive. Get you some chickens, poor people.". And it's really disgusting how for how. many decades the Republican Party has. treated working-class people, yet they. have captured them. They've captured. their vote because in this exchange for. yeah, you get to to poor, they also say. you get to be racist and they scapegoat. people. How do we have a progressive party that. comes back and recaptures. the working class and delivers for.

working class Americans and we get a. generational FDR-style. governance? >> Well, Donald Trump went out there and. painted immigrants painted high school. coaches and LGBT people as the villains. in the story. But Democrats. didn't have a villain to our story. Right? If you think about it, even. though he did good some good stuff, Joe. Biden famously told a group of wealthy.

donors, "Nothing will fundamentally. change." And that's a problem. We've got. to be out there and say, "It's not an. undocumented mom that is jacking up your. housing bill. It is corporate Wall. Street landlords and we're going to go. after them." It is not LGBT youth that. are jacking up your utility bill. It is. for-profit monopolies that are doing. that. And so with this new agenda of how. we're going to lower the cost of living. across 10 parts of your life, we are.

also saying to those corporate interests. that Democrats have kind of played. footsie with at the institutional level, "You know what? I welcome your hatred. because if you are jacking up on costs, we're going to go after you and I think. that is what's going to bring some of. those voters back to us.". >> Don't you think that the. They scapegoat people and it's based on. a lie. The Democrats it's not. necessarily scapegoating, it's pointing. out that um Elon Musk is just a total.

piece of I mean, just a complete. nutjob. Tesla hasn't paid any taxes. So, this this idea that these working class. people are moochers on food stamp, living off of this assistance, if you. really look at this billionaire class, we simply cannot afford them. Our. country cannot afford these. billionaires. They are too expensive for. us. >> You're right. We we we can't just be the. anti-Trump party. We've got to also be. the anti-billionaire party.

You know, we Yeah. When Repub- We've let. since the Reagan era the Republicans say. that we're all about just spending. money. But, the fact is it's folks like. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos who are taking. your money. And so, we don't have to tax. a working-class mom to drive down the. cost of child care. We just have to be. willing to tax the wealth of the Jeff. Bezos's and Elon Musks, and we could. have $10 a day child care for virtually. every family in this country. We could.

do that if we're willing to pick out and. point out to the villains in the story. Like you said, we don't have to. scapegoat. We just have to be willing to. tell the truth. And what I've been worried about is. Democrats just go out there and say. affordability affordability. affordability like a magic word. We. actually have to fill that in with the. policy that we would change. So, on gas. prices, these corporations are making. out like bandits right now in this war. The gas prices have shot up. They're. selling.

gas at over $4 a gallon all across the. country. They're making hundreds of. billions of dollars in profit. We should. take most of that, tax most of that. back, and send it back to the American. people in the form of a rebate check. And I know that Republicans in Texas, when I tell them that, they might say, "Look, Greg, obviously you're more. liberal than me on this or that, but I. can agree with you on that." And we have. to be ready to go and talk about that. all the way through November, and then. actually do it if we're elected into the.

majority. >> And I think we have to say we don't. think it's that liberal. We don't think. it's that radical to tell a billionaire. to stop bedwetting and threatening to. pack their toys up and leave this state. is going to tax you this much. Like, there was this video that Zoran Momdani. did where he called out a guy named Ken. Griffin cuz he owns like some ridiculous. $270 million penthouse. The best thing that Ken Griffin could do. would have been, "You know what? I'm. going to go sit down with the mayor. I. want all the cameras there, and I'm. going to write the check for my taxes to.

show that I have appreciation for this. government. I have appreciation for this. country that provided a system where I'm. so rich. I have a bank account account. that could choke a bull. But instead, there's this bedwetting enabled by. working-class people. Like, "Oh my god, the billionaires are going to move." Why. do you give a if the billionaires. move? Like, we have to capture the the. true narrative and stop letting this. propaganda that the Republican Party.

that "Oh my god, these poor rich people. Where Where are they going to go? They. create all create all these jobs, which. is total bullshit." Um Jeff Bezos, Elon. Musk, Apple, all these people are firing. people. It was never the immigrants that. were going to take your job. It was. always the billionaires and the robots. I just think we need to go full tilt. against these people because we. absolutely cannot afford these people to. live in this country. >> We've been told that we can't have these. bold ideas, but some of them, like you. said, aren't even that bold once you.

expose the truth. Let me rant about. utility bills for a second because. people all across the country have seen. insane increases in their utility bills. in the last few years. Some people have. 50% increase just over the last few. years. When you go look at what these. for-profit utilities do, is they charge. their private jets to you on your. utility bill. When they show up and say, "We've got to raise utility prices," and. get approval for that, sometimes they.

are charging their political donations. to you. And so, we've got to say, "Screw. that. We've got to just cap the insane. profit margins and that saves the. average American family 500 bucks off. the bat. And we now have members of. Congress from way more conservative. districts like Josh Riley leading the. charge on stuff like that to say look. this isn't radical stuff. It is the. basic everyday things that some. political party should do and I think.

it's the Democrats that should step up. and do it right now. >> So I think that the Democrats have to. walk and chew gum as we head to the. midterms and head to 2028. I think we. have to have affordability. We need to properly. bully the billionaire bed wetters for. what babies they act like what victims. they act like online how pathetic it is. how they suck off working class. Americans and avoid paying taxes and. just how disgusting that is and to quote. JD Vance have they ever thought about.

saying thank you thank you to the. country thank you to the American. taxpayers. But I also think we have to have a. component of our response to this. fascist takeover that is accountability. That is. yeah, when we get back in power it is. full tilt every investigation you can. imagine. It's hauling every MFer in. front of here for every lie every dollar. cuz basically Donald Trump is a dirty.

cop in the White House running a crime. syndicate. You can you can. buy a pardon. They completely diminished. all white collar crime. They're they're. not even investigating that stuff. anymore and then we have um. ICE and pop up the screen grab Kylie. about this ICE agent. The ICE agent who fatally shot unarmed. mother Renee Good in Minneapolis has. been quietly relocated.

and allowed to resume working in another. state punch up has learned. Senior Department of Homeland Security. officials have also told Punch Up that. agents Jonathan Ross has effectively. been shielded from ICE's own. accountability process because an FBI. investigation has stalled. This is. outrageous. And so I think another thing that we. have to point out other than the. billionaires are titty babies that bed. wet all the time is the Republican Party. is the crime party. This is a crime.

syndicate. They are not the party of law. and order. >> It is accountability and affordability. and we can do them both and they support. each other. We've got to be able to say. Donald Trump goes out and sells pardon. pardons to rich folks that got convicted. of screwing over their workers. He's. sold off part He pardoned the drug. trafficking convicted president of. Honduras. We have to be able to hit him for that.

I mean, come on. And then we should also. be able to pull forward you said these. corporate CEOs and billionaires who bent. the knee and thought they could make a. profit by doing crime with Trump and. say, "Hey, did you. come forward now if we're in charge as. Democrats? How did you get your merger? Who did you pay off? Where what meetings. did you have? And make sure that those. folks who think that they can. participate in the corruption in DC that. it's going to work out for the bottom.

line. They're If they get caught doing. that, there has to be a consequence. Just like there has to be a consequence. for. ICE agents that killed an unarmed. innocent American woman. And so it is. both accountability and affordability. because we need the American people to. know we're going after both and they're. all tied up in corruption. Cuz this is. the last uh. part of this affordability agenda that. isn't being talked about enough. We've. got how to reduce your prescription drug. costs. We've got how to increase your.

wages. But also, critical on the new. ideas, is a ban bill to end super PACs. Because at the end of the day, things. are more and more expensive in this. country because corporations can go buy. elections on the cheap, go buy. regulations on the cheap for them, and. then it costs you when you go to the. grocery store. It costs you at the end. of the month. And so part of our. affordability agenda is to root out. corruption and hold these guys. accountable who are making money off of.

you. >> All right, let's address cuz I think. there's a there's a through line here on. the bed-wetting. The billionaires are. bed-wetters. Donald Trump, look at his. Truth Social, bed-wetting all the times. a victim. James Comey hurt his feelings. Letitia James hurt his feelings. Jimmy. Kimmel hurt his feelings. Just. bed-wetting all over the place with. these {quote} {unquote} alpha MAGA men. And so now they are blaming. Democratic rhetoric uh for the um uh. incident uh the shooting incident at the.

White House Correspondents Dinner. And I. just think this is incredibly rich. When. you have a president that has called for. Liz Cheney to be shot, he's called for. uh. uh Mark Milley to be executed. I mean, he uh had that video of Joe Biden that. was like bound and gagged. It was some. AI thing. He has videos of him in a in a. AI videos of him in a jet dropping feces. on Americans. And so it's just incredibly rich to hear. these MAGA people talk about rhetoric.

coming from Democrats. What's your take. on all of that? >> I mean, Trump is the ultimate. gaslighter. Of course, uh we condemn. political violence of all kinds against. any person of any party, period, including against the president. But. he's such a gaslighter cuz he's the one. that gave out the pardon to January 6ers. on his very first day in office who. literally tried to kill people here in. this building in this capital.

Uh it's it is such gaslighting and to me. look when you talk about like what real. standing up for people really being. tough looks like and gaslighting against. them look at Alex Freddy who was trying. to defend a protester who was being. beaten down in the street. That is real. courage standing up and then he was. killed in plain sight unarmed on video. for it and they're trying to somehow. blame him for that. And so.

>> they called him a terrorist. >> Yeah, and they called him a terrorist. So I think that we all should not take. the gaslighting, continue to stand up. for our neighbors, continue to stand up. against violence of all forms from any. direction uh and not let uh Donald Trump. have us forget that he has been the. person that has stoked more political. violence in this country than any leader. that I can think of in my lifetime here. in America. >> I agree with that. So you're the chair. of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

How are you dealing with members in your. caucus who still support military aid to. Israel? And I think we need to diffuse. this whole myth that there is a. difference between offensive aid and. defensive aid. I think that's. There's no differentiation between uh a. missile that is defensive and like we. can trust Benjamin Netanyahu. He claims. everything he's ever done has been. defensive. So how are you dealing with.

this as the chair? >> Look that tide has been changing here in. Washington D.C. increasingly publicly. and then especially privately. More and. more members of Congress are saying I. just cannot fund the Israeli military. any longer. I haven't voted to send them. funding of any kind and right now, I. mean, they are dragging us deeper and. deeper into war. I mean, they've. committed this genocide in Gaza. They're.

continuing to bomb and invade places. like Lebanon and they're putting now. American service members at greater risk. in Iran. And so, I think that is. shifting. We're seeing more and more. members of all kinds sign on to the. Block the Bombs bill led by. Congresswoman Delia Ramirez. The. Progressive Caucus endorsed that bill. It's the first time a major caucus of. members in Congress has endorsed.

anything like this. And that's really. thanks to folks like the people that. watch your show, people at home reaching. out to their member of Congress. So, as. you keep on pushing folks to sign on to. Block the Bombs, part of my job is just like anybody else. that works to sit down with folks and. say, "Look, even if you had. a different position before, it isn't. flip-flopping. It is we got to give. people the ability to say, 'You know. what? I had one position before and now. I've seen what has happened and I'm. ready to get on Block the Bombs.'" And I.

think we should welcome those folks into. the movement because the Democratic. Party cannot, in my view, continue to send money to Netanyahu's. military that's done what they've done. and they're trying to do what they're. doing. >> I completely agree with you. I think. that we have to. allow people the time to clue in because. we we're we're Americans and we're very. ethnocentric in the way that we view our. news and the way we think. And the.

fundamental problem here is that you. have people that live in America that. taxes come out of their check or on. April 15th they mail their check off to. the IRS and that money is being spent to. carpet bomb and kill infrastructure, civilians, women, children, etc. And there has been a huge propaganda. campaign surrounding all of this stuff. for so long, and I fell prey to a lot of. it. And I over the last 18 months have. really opened my eyes up on the issue.

and evolved. And I think it's really. important as these wartime war crimes. continue. that we have to applaud people who say. Oh my god, this is. these are war crimes. This is horrible. I don't want our money funding this. And. we have to allow people the the grace to. jump on board and be anti-genocide. And Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump. are the number one killers of women and. children right now in the world. And it.

is just horrific when you think about. when I think about when I lived in. Oklahoma City, and I would drive my son, who was a basketball player, to these. rural towns. And there's Trump flags and. all this everywhere. And these. people were poor, no health care, no. wages going up. And you think about. those people that are told by this. government, I'm sorry, you can't have a. higher wage. Quit being lazy. And, you know, the government's going to. come after your guns. And they rope them. in into all this If you get. cancer, tough titties.

All those people are funding. the killing of all of these people. It's. so immoral. It just is such an awakening. for our party, such an awakening for our. country. And I'm just so grateful that. that we have a progressive caucus and a. leader like you who has moral clarity. and has had moral clarity when a lot of. us didn't, myself included, on this. issue. But I want to ask you, um, in. after the midterms, you know, progressive candidates are kind of. winning all over the place. Do you.

anticipate a big growth in your. progressive caucus? >> I think we're going to have a huge. growth in the progressive caucus, but. that's also based on folks voting in. these upcoming primary elections in the. summer. Almost everywhere, no matter. almost wherever you live, you probably. have primaries coming up. And very few. people vote in those primaries. Most. people come out and vote in November, where you determine whether the. Democrats or Republicans are in control. That's extremely important, obviously.

But if the Democrats are in control, who. the Democrats are. gets determined by the primary, a much. smaller election probably happening in. your home city this summer. And so the. progressive caucus endorses our. progressive candidates in those. Go out and vote for whoever you want to, but please take a look at. at our slate because what we're pushing. for is to be yes, an anti-Trump party, but also an anti-billionaire party, and. an anti-war, anti-genocide party. That. way we can be pro-democracy, pro-worker,

pro-peace, pro-human rights. Cuz those. folks you talked about in Oklahoma, a. lot of them got told by Donald Trump. that he was going to pull us out of. wars. And all he's done is start more of them. So we've got to be able to go talk to. those folks and say we are actually. building a party that's against war, which requires changing our own party. And so thank you so much, Jennifer, for. speaking out on this, letting us This is. my first live interview here. on this announcement today. And so you.

can check it out online. I'm at Greg. Casar on all the socials, and that's. where we have the the big list of bills. on how we'll drive down prices and take. on these. billionaire, as you said, billionaire. bed-wetters. >> That's right. We need to get that to go. viral. All right. Congressman, it's. always a pleasure. Please send me your. list of endorsed candidates so that I. can pass it on to my listeners and come. back anytime.