Former Democratic mayor Rahm Emmanuel faced some heat on the “I Had It” podcast on Tuesday, as he dismissed the transgender issue as the value of the core party.
The discussion began later Host Jennifer Welch He called on Democrats to fight back more against President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Emmanuel, who has been considered a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, agreed that Democrats need to stand up to their party, but added that they need to remember issues that are important to people.
Rahm Emmanuel infuriated Jennifer Welch “I had it” by dismissing the issue of transgender bathrooms. (Screenshot/”I had it” podcast)
“We have some of these arguments and we’re just saying that we look strange,” Emmanuel said. “We had the luxury of being a superpower. We have a flirty discussion of things that are not important to people. We are not a party built in a culture of acceptance and in my view it was not just the core.
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He went on to explain that Democrats “really went south” with “the family room issue,” but Welch opposed “100 million percent” and attacked him to “sold out” in the “Maga” story.
“The only room we’ve done really well was the bathroom. It’s the smallest room in the house,” Emmanuel said.
“It’s such a bull –,” Welch fought back. “It’s the perfect Bulls. It’s shopping for right-wing media stories. I’m so tired of Democrats who say this sold out. Do you know you’re talking more about trans people than anyone? Maga.
Emmanuel claimed he addressed the issue of bathroom and marriage equality at the time as mayor of Chicago, but emphasized that it was not his core issue at the time. Welch went on to insist that Emmanuel and the other Democrats will continue to lose by not targeting “gender-obsessed eccentrics.”
Emmanuel is among several candidates pondering the 2028 presidential election. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool, File)
“We see a politician who appears to be a Democratic leader buying into a story that defines us instead of saying, ‘You’re the weird thing that’s obsessed with it.’
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She added how people need to live with the consequences of the person they like being in red. Seeing her grinning at her comment, Emmanuel joked, “If you want to move, there’s u-haul.”
He said, “I just say this. In my opinion, there is a set of issues, and these are secondary issues. They are not the core, not the core of what we believe in.”
Emmanuel also called for the party to pinned down niche issues like trans bathroom policies in March’s “Real Time and Bill Maher.”
Rahm Emmanuel joined “Real Time and Bill Maher” in March to discuss his party. (Screenshot/YouTube)
“I don’t want to hear other words about the locker room. I don’t want to hear other words about the bathroom. I’d better start focusing on the classroom,” Emmanuel said.
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