How do you feel about paid family leave?
>> Speaker 2: I think there should be more of it, especially during pregnancies and
maternity leaves, things like that, yeah, definitely.
>> Speaker 3: While speaking to Trump supporters at a Trump rally in
South Dakota.
The majority of people who were willing to speak to our very own Michael Shure
seemed to be very supportive of the idea of paid family leave,
which is unsurprising, considering the economic populist message, which is
pretty much a facade that Donald Trump likes to champion during his campaigns.
So let's take a look at more of the answers that we got from these
Trump supporters, and then we'll give you more details on what others had to say.
>> Speaker 1: Paid family medical leave, where do you stand on that as an issue?
>> Speaker 4: I think, I'm all for it, I think it's important.
I raised my kids without it, I was self employed, so
I had to go to work every day.
But I do definitely support paid family leave.
>> Speaker 1: Do you have an opinion on paid family leave, whether the government
should help people out when they have medical reasons not to be at work?
>> Depends on what it is.
What kind of medical reason?
Where did it come from?
Did it come from work or what?
>> Speaker 1: Well, work or catastrophic health emergencies,
paternal leave, maternal leave, things like that.
>> Speaker 5: Yeah, that's okay.
>> Speaker 1: What do you think of paid family leave?
>> Speaker 6: I like it,
that's where I think this populist realignment is coming from.
I think the pro worker is the future of the GOP of MAGA.
It's almost like a third party in the GOP that's trying to take it over.
>> Speaker 3: And there are certainly Republican politicians who are using
certain rhetoric to appear as though they are in favor of the economic
populist policies that alot of these Trump supporters are in favor of.
Now, keep in mind that of the people that Michael Shure spoke to,
six of these individuals said that they are in favor of paid family leave.
Three of them were on the fence, two of them said no.
So let's take a quick look at the people who are not in favor of paid family leave,
and then we'll discuss.
>> Speaker 1: Where do you stand on the government providing paid family leave?
>> Speaker 3: I don't think the government should provide everything for everybody.
>> Speaker 1: But what about that specific thing?
>> Speaker 3: That's up to the businesses, in my opinion.
>> Speaker 1: Where do you stand on the issue of paid family leave?
>> Speaker 3: I'm not in, as it stands right now,
it's just another handout that defeats the purpose of business.
>> Speaker 3: So I think, Cenk, you see the split in the Trump base,
even in the Trump base, between the economic populist and then the individuals
who are more concerned about the success of businesses, right?
So, and I thought it was really fascinating that the two individuals who
are against paid family leave, in this video at least, were two women.
I thought that was a really surprising result, yeah.
>> Speaker 7: But overall that leads us to the same exact result that you see in
the polling.
Polling shows that 74% of Republicans want paid family leave.
And out of the eight people that had a clear opinion, 75% of them,
six out of eight said they wanted paid family leave, okay?
We didn't rig it at all, that was just their natural and we talked before about,
we don't know what they're gonna say.
Make sure that you're asking it in a fair way.
We want their real opinions, right?
Cuz a lot of media pushes out their opinion pretending to be that it's
the voters' opinions.
No, we're trying to get their actual thoughts on this.
And so, that last guy is totally right the young guy,
we showed you him in a different video where he said he used
to be a Bernie supporter and now he's supporting Donald Trump.
And cuz he wants the Workers' Party an outsider party, populist party,
anti establishment party, and paid family leave makes corporations pay for
some number of weeks off, twelve weeks off, when someone has a baby.
So if you're a populist, you want moms to be able to take care of their baby for
twelve weeks.
It's not too much to ask for, right?
And so that's why the populists say yes.
The corporatists go, I don't want my beloved corporations paying for
a single day off.
No way, back to the mines and back to the assembly lines.
But even the super MAGA guy, the old guy with a hat.
>> I know.
>> Speaker 7: And he's like, once he hears it,
he's like and Michael didn't even frame it as mom's needing time off.
He just said someone who was really sick and he's like, well, that's okay.
>> Speaker 3: No, I know,
I did not expect that because he seems super skeptical at first, right?
>> Right.
>> It depends on for what, what are we gonna do, just let people be bums and
just pay them for doing nothing?
I think he had that kind of thought process.
But once Michael gave him a very simple description,
which I agree wasn't particularly complimentary or
favorable toward the policy, it was just straightforward, he was in favor of it.
So look, I think that there is a clear divide in the, I wouldn't even say,
there is a divide even among the electorate in the Republican side, right?
But I do think that the majority of Republican voters do in fact favor
these economic policies,
which would provide a little more financial stability in their lives, right?
Which would allow for them to feel comfortable starting a family, knowing
that if they start a family, they will not be retaliated against by their employer.
They will not have to worry about losing their livelihoods for
X number of weeks when they're recovering after having a baby.
You know what I'm saying?
Like they favor these things because they're humans.
They know what it's like to live.
They know what it's like to be worried about your personal finances.
But what's really fascinating is the disconnect between the Republican
electorate, which as it stands today, overwhelmingly supports Donald Trump and
then the policies that Donald Trump has championed and
is planning on championing if he wins president again.
So I wanna tell you a new report by Politico that shows that,
some of the closest allies to Donald Trump are currently
devising a plan to lower corporate taxes even further.
Trump lowered corporate taxes from 35% to 21% back in 2017.
That was highly unpopular.
The majority of voters didn't like that.
But his advisors are now patching up a plan
to lower the corporate taxes from 21% to 15%.
Initially, that is what Trump wanted, but then he eventually settled on 21%.
Now the current corporate tax rate is 21% with the deductions and
corporate tax loopholes in place.
Remember how Trump tried to sell it to us?
This is gonna be a middle class tax cut.
It ended up being largely a corporate tax cut and a tax cut for the richest.
There are some middle class individuals who might have experienced a little bit of
a tax cut, but it was nothing compared to the bulk of the tax cuts which
impacted corporations and the wealthiest.
And get a load of this, allegedly to offset the tax cuts, trump is
allegedly considering a 10% tariff on all imports into the United States.
You know what that would mean, right?
The tariffs wouldn't be swallowed by the corporations.
No, they would pass that on to you.
So not only would the corporations get a massive tax cut,
if they implement the tariffs to offset this, you would essentially be
paying the money that would offset the tax cuts for the rich.
>> Speaker 7: Now, that's a great point by Ana, okay?
So honestly, I had not connected those two things, and so think about it, guys.
They're literally saying we're going to raise the money from the tariffs to pay
for the tax cut.
Well, she's right, they're gonna pass all those costs on to you.
So that way, technically, they're not raising your taxes, but in reality,
they're transferring billions, maybe trillions of dollars in taxes
from corporations onto the middle class in America.
And so, look,
I get the con that the Republican Party has been running their whole lives and
that Donald Trump has put on steroids, which is, we're for the average American.
And meanwhile, they're taking the money out the back to the rich,
the corporations, et cetera.
Literally what the Republican Party was designed to do, okay?
They've always been the pro business party, pro corporation party,
pro rich party, okay?
And everybody knows this.
>> Speaker 3: That hasn't changed.
>> Speaker 7: That hasn't changed at all.
>> Speaker 3: Rhetoric might have changed, but the actual policies and
the actions has not changed.
>> Speaker 7: And even with so called populist, Donald Trump,
he cut taxes for corporations more than any other Republican, okay?
But the Democrats, look at them willingly giving away elections.
Paid Family leaves at 84%, 74% with Republicans.
If they campaigned on it, they'd get a ton of voters,
raising corporate taxes, raising taxes on the rich, polls at 76%.
Three quarters of the country again, and then every once in a while,
Biden will mention it.
But then, did he actually raise the taxes when he had a chance to?
No, e left the corporate taxes exactly where Trump had him.
Golly gee there was nothing I could do about that.
I passed bills that helped corporations, like the semiconductor bill.
I found a way to get $54 billion to my donors.
But when it came to raising their taxes, golly, gee, there was nothing I could do.
Paid family leave?
Nothing I could do.
Public option?
Nothing I could do.
Higher wages?
Nothing I could do.
Okay, why?
If they ran on those, they win easy.
They already have 50% of the country that despises Donald Trump.
All they need is just a little extra more, and
they could easily get it with these proposals.
But no, serving their corporate donors is more important to
the Democratic Party than winning election, fact.
Also, guys, there is something you can do about it, we try to empower you and look,
we try our best, not everything works.
But if we keep doing things together, we're gonna break through.
So we're asking you to sign a paid family leave petition, and
a lot of you have already signed it.
So go to tyt.com, slash petitions, sign this one.
And I'm asking, by the way, right wingers to sign this, too.
Cuz right wingers agree with us, the whole country agrees with us.
Pass Paid Family leave, and then if you want,
take it to Trump, take it to Biden, take it to anyone you like and say,
why aren't you doing something that the overwhelming majority of your voters want?