Interview Only w/ Congressman Troy Carter - What Should Democrats Do With The Majority?

Louisiana Congressman Troy Carter joins the Chuck ToddCast to talk about a state whose bipartisan political culture — he worked productively with Mike Johnson in the statehouse — has been steamrolled by a president who's made clear he doesn't want to work with Democrats at all. Carter notes the irony that a majority of Johnson's own district is Medicaid-dependent in a state that never expanded Medicaid, and that the One Big Beautiful Bill cut it anyway. He argues Democrats lose working-class voters by refusing to speak plain American, that Bill Cassidy would have been tough to beat had he run as an independent rather than losing his primary, and that impeachment without the votes is a fool's errand even as rampant corruption demands answers. Plus: why progressives struggle with Black voters, the flawed SCORE Act, Jeff Landry's LSU mess, and Carter's bill requiring watermarks on AI video.

 

Timeline:

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00:00 Congressman Troy Carter joins the Chuck ToddCast

01:00 Louisiana's bipartisan culture and a president who won't play along

06:00 Medicaid, the OBBB cuts, and government that fails to deliver

12:45 How Trump wins working-class voters — and how Democrats lose them

18:00 The House map, surprise flips, and the Cassidy what-if

22:45 What Democrats should do with a governing majority

26:45 Oversight, impeachment, and the limits of both

35:15 Progressives, Black voters, and building a broader coalition

39:30 Procedural rules and Carter's reform wish list

45:45 College sports, the SCORE Act, and the LSU fight

54:00 AI, watermarks, and what Congress has to figure out 

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