Sen. Michael Bennet on High Housing Costs, His 38% Approval Rating, and Gov. Pol [18:07-23:08]

which is with the entire economy and the entire democracy at risk because of the failures of my generation. I feel moral obligation to my own three-dollar daughters that is no different from the moral obligation. I feel to the kids I worked for in Denver or to the kids who live all over rural Colorado whose parents want for them exactly the same thing that the parents in the Denver Public Schools want for their kids but who are divided from each other because of a political system that is serving only the interests of the politicians. And by the way, nobody, nobody can take a backseat to me. I don't think in terms of my anger at the National Democratic Party and the failures that led to the election not just to Donald Trump once but twice. I share that view. Yeah, I think we're here in your anger today for sure. But I think that you do know what Bree's talking about though this sense, like young people have this sense, we see him in this poll last month, Magellan Strategies, 44% disapproval for you among several of your peers, like Jared Polis, Hickenlooper, compared to 38% approval. We're seeing the numbers, it's not good numbers. Well, I think that I'm not, I stand by my public service and I stand by the arguments that I'm making in this election and people can make their decision about whether or not they think that what I'm saying is what I believe and what I'm saying is relevant to what they believe and what they think that's a choice they're gonna have to make. I feel very confident that if I somehow lose this election, it's not gonna be because people think I'm out of touch with them. There may be other reasons, but I don't think that will be the reason why. And I do think that a much more important question is why young people in America and in Colorado feel like they hate all politicians, they hate all political parties, they hate our political system and believe that our democracy won't work for them. And I understand completely why they believe what they believe. And my argument is that, you know, that is not to argue that we don't have a corrupt system. We do have a corrupt system. We do, it is corrupt. The question is, what do you do about that corruption? And I think that we have to find a way to be able to engage young people in a system that has not delivered for them. But it depends on them for our survival. The system of American democracy will not survive if people that are the age of my children do not grab the levers of this democracy. And that is a huge challenge. Here's a specific on this topic that's been in the news this week. Your main opponent in the Democratic primary just commented on this. He was the first statewide elected official, Phil Weiser Attorney General, to come out in support of an exceptional redistricting, congressional redistricting, to allow Democrats to send an additional Democrat to Congress to help retaliate against what Trump is doing in Texas and other states. I don't think you're on the record one way or the other on this. So we want it to know, do you support an exceptional redistricting to send more Democrats? And I've said, and I've said, I've said again, we shouldn't, we should at a moment when Trump is doing what's Trump doing, what Trump is doing. We should keep all our options open, we should keep all our options available to us. But our focus right now needs to be on 2026, not on 2028. Our focus needs to be on winning the House of Representatives. That is what every single elected leader should be focused on. That is what the people of this country need to be focused on. We have the eighth congressional district which we've lost in the last election, shockingly, to Donald Trump. We have to get that back. We have a congressional election we can win. And I think in El Paso County, and let's go and do that. Let's take on Lauren Bober. Let's make sure that we win. So I say, sure. Let's not take anything off the table, but let's not get distracted from the stuff that actually matters because if we don't win those elections, if we don't win that majority, it doesn't matter. So that's the most important thing that we can do. So just so I'm clear, you're saying don't take it off the table. I'm hearing that as a yes. You like the idea. I'm saying don't take it off the table. That's what I'm saying. Okay. Okay. I think we should talk about some of these other issues that Governor Polis has recently taken a stand on, just some issues that were hot topics in the legislature in the last year.