Colorado congressman on midterm election

(CBS, KYMA) - Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) spoke with Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation Sunday about the upcoming midterm election.

Brennan brought up a CBS News poll, which said Democrats are on pace to have a narrow majority of about 11 seats, with most voters backing them saying their motivation is about stopping President Donald Trump and GOP policies than advancing other policies.

When asked if that is how he thinks his party will govern the house in opposition, Rep. Crow said:

"You know...politics is really interesting. There's a lot of weird things about politics in this job. But one of the weird things is when, you know, the political class comes out with polling and they're like, 'Hey, Americans want to be able to pay their bills and afford health care and afford housing and groceries.' I mean, that's just it always has been true, always will be true. It always will be the primary thing people are concerned about. It's actually what we're running on. As the battleground chair for House Democrats, I have recruited and mentored this battlefield of candidates. It's what they're running on, it's what we're going to win on, and it's what we're going to address when we get into power in January."

In the same poll, 57% of voters said they don't think Democrats have a clear plan to do all the think the congressmen laid out.

In addition, former President Barack Obama, who was in Michigan, said, "We can't just be against something. We got to be for something. We got to start showing what a future on the other side of this administration can look like."

This prompted Brennan to ask the congressman if Democrats do win the House, how will they move any of the affordability platforms if Republicans control the Senate, to which he said:

"Here's the honest truth: we're running against Donald Trump, we're running against MAGA extremism, we're running against corruption, but we are also running against our own history to some degree, right? It is true. I mean, I couldn't sit here in front of you and tell you otherwise. It is true that we have not addressed the issues that we needed to address in years past and in cycles past, and that's why we've lost, right? We've lost 90% of U.S. counties in fall of 2024. That is not a governing coalition. And we have to prove otherwise. We have to go to Americans, we have to go to working class and rural folks in particular, who haven't voted for us in cycles and said, hey, we have learned our lesson. We get it. We're going to be relentless about addressing your issues, rebuilding America's middle class. That is our charge and our responsibility, and it's our candidates that I am working with who are going to come in and they're going to lead that charge for us, and that's how we're going to have to govern."

To watch more of Brennan's interview with Crow, click here.