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Pissing me off udivisa own face and growing backlash after giving Donald Trump the royal treatment. Last week, the network hosted a very friendly, our long exclusive interview with Trump that his son in law, Jared Kushner helped arrange.
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I don't know what's more shocking that Univision gave Trump a softball interview or that Trump led a Latin guy into his house. How did that happen? What did he think he was there to mow the lawn. But yeah, Journalist Enrique A. Sevedo interviewed Donald Trump for Univision Now. For decades, Univision has been the channel that Latinos have trusted for news, whether it's news about the world or news about a sexy lady.
Minrd Willing took off against the most powerful woman in town for a more.
And don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with Univision interviewing Trump. In fact, I thought it would be opportunity to confront him on his hardline anti Latino policies.
But instead of.
An interview worthy of Univision, we saw this ca Camerda in New York Times.
Senapole came out this week. It has you with forty two percent of Latino voters support. That's some president for our Republican candidate. What do you think that the message voters are sending with his numbers?
It's a forty two percent.
Like I was saying, unpresidented for a Republican candidate. What do you think voters are responding to your message? Do you think the vorder is now more secure because of that relationship and the partnership You've been able to build with Mexico. More and more Latinos are identifying themselves as conservatives.
Why do you think that is? Wait?
Wait, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but those are your questions to the guy who might be the next president, mister Trunk.
Why why are you so beloved by the Latino community? I mean, I was.
Expecting this guy's follow up question to be is it true that to look upon your penis it will be like, I don't know, gazing into the very face of God.
I mean, no tearity, how big is it? Tell them? Tell me what to start, Tell me to start?
And you know, just to be clear, we Latinos are not a monolith. There are some of us that do support Trump, and my family we refer to him as the crazy uncle who doesn't get invited to Thanksgiving. But that's just my house. But as a news organization for the Latino community, Univision has a responsibility to fully report what a second Trump presidency could mean for them, and the truth is that that shit is mad scary.
We have learned so much more about Trump's proposal for a twenty twenty five agenda, particularly when it comes to immigration. It's plan would essentially call for building detention camps for migrants who are rounded up around the country to be held at until they are deported. This is an extreme escalation from what we saw in twenty sixteen.
Among his promises mass deportations, ending birthright citizenship, and denying entry to legal immigrants based on their ideological beliefs.
We will begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.
And nobody has any idea where these people are coming from.
And we know they come from prisons, we know they come from mental institutions, insane asylums, we know they're terrorists.
It's poisoning the blood of our country.
Wait wait, wait, what Latino immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country?
Mother, what are you talking about?
Your blood is ninety nine percent big mac. Also also wait, did he really say immigrants are coming from insane asylums. That's not what getting granted asylum.
Means, moron.
And by the way, birthright citizenship is in the Constitution, just so you know. Oh, and I know most Republicans stop reading after the Second Amendment, but stick around because that fourteenth m That shit gets good. So the question is why would Univision avoid asking Trump about the radical twenty twenty five agenda, and more disturbingly, why did the network cancel ads from the Biden campaign that was set
to run during the interview? Oh yeah, and why did it cancel a separate interview it had planned with Biden's Hispanic media director. I mean, canceling opposing views is bad enough, but canceling ad revenue that's down.
That's down right on American.
And I don't know all the answers, but maybe it has something to do with Univision's new co CEO, Bernardo goo Mez, being close friends with Jared Kushner, Trump's son in law and the only man with the skin of a flower tortilla.
Look, I don't know.
I'm just asking the tough questions. Unlike Univision's interviewer. The point is, though Univision has got to come back to its core values. I'm not saying they shouldn't have Trump on the air. I'm just saying, if you do decide to sit down with a lying insurrectionist who wants to bring back interment camps like it's freaking nineteen forty two, you might want to point it out in the interview
because there needs to be honest journalism and parody. The Latino community needs you to step up because the stakes for us.
In twenty twenty four or two damn high.
You need to expose the truth and not just about Trump, but also about how they are not those iber Madre is samotashing is forbidden. Love with Emilia Rastam.
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Our guest tonight is a former prosecutor and veteran serving his first term in Congress. He represents North Carolina's fourteenth Congressional district and he's running for Attorney General in North Carolina.
Please welcome Democratic Representative Jeff Jackson, Corow.
Congress and Jackson, thank you for being here.
Thank you so.
Excited to have you. You are an incredibly successful politician, but most people know you from your TikTok videos. You do these incredible explainers that distill down pretty complex issues in a really clear, digestible way. Is the intent to simplify these issues for people and get that engagement? Are you really just posting foot picks?
Every consultant in DC told me to go the foot direction. Yes, I said, that's not what I'm about.
No, you're a hands guy, we know you are. I love a good hand, TikTok, Oh, show me that that Vogue arrow, give me some of this. Lauren Bolbert had a great hands video a few months ago. Great great, is that what you're talking about.
I'm a kitchen table guy, right, I have a kitchen table. I put a camera on the other side, I look into it, I say, here's the most interesting thing that happened to me in Congress this week, and then I posted to a bunch of different social media platforms. I have been really surprised by the level of interest in this political environment where everyone is yelling at each other
all the time. To be able to speak in a normal tone of voice and try to convey some of the complexity and some of the nuance that there would be broad interest for that, I think is really encouraging.
I think it's a good signing now.
I feel though the platforms that we have our conversations on dictate the types of conversations we have, and TikTok is a short attention span platform, Like, what does it say about our democracy that this is where the conversations are happening.
I've been surprised. I wouldn't have expected that, So I post to TikTok, but also Facebook, readit Twitter. The place where most people view is TikTok. When I'm home in my district, constituents come up and they say, hey, I appreciate what you posted on TikTok. I would not have predicted that. I will tell you I've got seven hundred and sixty thousand some odd constituents. My senses, about three hundred thousand of them are on TikTok.
No.
I know TikTok's got all kinds of issues, but I think that reaching my constituents where they are is also something of real value. It should be normal and expected that your elected officials try and use social media to keep you posted about what they're doing.
It should be part of our job. You think.
You think half of your constituents are on TikTok. How many high schools do you have in your district?
You know, I've got a lot of young people, but look, there are people of all ages on all of these social media platforms. And every once in a while you meet a grandma who comes up and says, I really love you on TikTok.
Sweet.
Usually they mentioned Facebook, but sometimes TikTok.
So you were talking about some of the issues with TikTok. Nikki Haley has just openly spoken about banning TikTok and the security concerns. Do you have those concerns?
Yeah, those concerns are all legit. Look, I have a phone that has one app on it, and that app is TikTok, and that's how I handle that.
And that's because you fear what could happen.
I mean, because the overall threat is that essentially the Chinese government has access to your information and can influence the discourse because of it.
Those are all absolutely credible concerns. As long as roughly half of my constituents are there, I'm gonna try and use it for good and keep them posted about what I'm doing.
I want to talk about some of the people you work with. You called out on your famous TikTok videos that a lot of the people in Congress you sense, are faking this outrage, that what we're seeing at home is essentially a bunch of people faking it. Who would you put on blasts? Who are you talking about?
And does it rhyme with Schmerjorie, Schmahler, Schmid.
All I will say is this It's not George Santos.
Never he's not faking it. Never a false word from that gentleman. I'll tell you this.
I've been in committees and I have watched when the camera turns on, people's personalities change completely right before your eyes. It's really jarring. It is literal theater. And you've got a handful of people there who are in competition with each other every day to be the most outrageous, which is why it feels like when you look at Congress, they're on this escalator that's just increasingly crazy and angry.
It's because they're playing a very specific game to try and get the attention of a very specific group of people, and it's awful and exhausting. Most of people up there aren't playing that game. The people we keep getting served up, they're playing the outrage Olympics every day. That's how they treat their job in Congress as the day we tryouts for the outrage Olympics.
Now I find it interesting because you have found the success. You don't seem like the outrage kind of guy.
You always seem like you're at like an even five.
It's about it.
You got like a nice energy, good den.
Like I'm not gonna drink with you, but I will pick you up if you drink too much.
Yea, I will, no questions, ask give me a call, right, I'm that guy. Yeah yeah, why.
Do you think.
Let me tell you something else? I think right now, that's the dat American needs.
I could also say, kind of a tipsy uncle who can whip this country back into shape?
To an all, we're dangerously close.
Yeah, it's just like uncle is going to turn on us. We better shape up.
What does boil your blood? Does anything get you going?
Outright?
Political corruption? For example, my state, North Carolina a horrible history with jerrymandering. Jerry Mandering is just letting politicians draw their own districts, because when you do that, they're all going to cheat my party. When my party had the ability to draw the districts in North Carolina, they always cheated. When I was in the state legislature, the first bill I ever filed was to end jerry mandering, and they sent it to a committee that hasn't met in twenty years.
We can't let politicians draw their own districts because they screw the voters every single time. No more jerry mandering across the entire country.
Yeah, a huge it's issue. But how do we fix this cancer on political discourse? How do you solve that?
Don't vote for anyone who isn't explicitly committed to independent redistricting. Independent redistricting is how you solve jerry mandering. If there is any elected official or a candidate who says, well, I don't know if i'm forward, maybe maybe not, uh huh, we should just have a bright line. Jerry mandering is unethical. There is never a defense for drawing districts to favor one party or the other. Don't vote for anyone who would ever engage in that behavior. That's how we solve it.
Now, well, you've been in Congress for eleven months now, and you're you're planning on getting jerry mandered out, and you're running for attorney general.
Attorneys general, attorneys general.
It's very awkward, don't know.
Could you do an explainer on why it's attorneys general and.
Short TikTok length because it's easier to understand, and also I think I would get bored.
More for more than thirty seconds about it's a bad decision that someone made a long time ago.
Oh okay, well you're welcome, but even your new role that you're running for right now, would you be able to address jerry mandering?
Absolutely? Look, the Attorney general's job is standing up for people. It's sort of the opposite of what you see a lot of in Congress. It's not about the theatrics. It's not about the left or the right. It's just about doing what's right, standing up against political corruption, against business corruption, especially when consumers are getting screwed, and organized crime. We got a huge fentanyl problem in North Carolina. We got it across the entire country. The Attorney General gets to
be directly involved in handling all of that. It's a really wonderful job.
Wow. Well, thank you staring.
On with us.
You seem like the perfect guy for the job, that's for sure. Give it up for representative.
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