'This Week' Transcript 11-12-23: White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Gov. Wes Moore, Rep. Mike Lawler and Rep. Jared Moskowitz

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Well, the energy was real. And -- and -- and people were -- were motivated, not by the -- not by the -- the -- the -- the -- the partisan issues. They were motivated by the issues of actually things getting done in a bipartisan way. And I think that's what we saw in Virginia, where we were able to, you know, have now the first African American speaker of the House, a complete repudiation of the type of things that -- that Governor Youngkin was talking about, about which week should you do an abortion ban.

They were talking about things like jobs, and infrastructure. And it resonated with the people. And I think that's the message that is going to be continued to push and why I think we're going to continue seeing how the people will continue to resonate with these kind of messages.

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I mean I know there's still, you know, there's still the idea and the handwringing of what polls look like a year away from election day. And, you know, I'm -- I'm not a pundit, you know.

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I'm -- I'm not. I mean I think about where the polls were for my race a year before election day. I was polling a little over 1 percent.

By Election Day I ended up winning with more individual votes than anyone who's ever run for governor in the history of the State of Maryland.

I think, when -- when you're looking at polls a year out, they are worth the paper that they are written on. And I think, when you continue looking at the work that's being done and the product that's being produced, just this past week, we saw how over $7 billion of investment was coming to the State of Maryland for infrastructure. We announced a couple weeks back that, you know, a quarter of a billion dollars going towards broadband and Wi-Fi construction. We are actually rebuilding things in a bipartisan way. And when you think about what people are asking for, bipartisan leadership, and you can get things done, the PACT Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure act, that's President Biden. And I think that will show up in the -- in the election for next year.

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I would say President Biden has already made the decision. He's...

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... running.

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He is running for re-election. And, listen, I think about -- I think about what's happening in our state, right, where we are -- we have now literally announced billions of dollars of infrastructure that's going to be happening. We're now, for the first time, going to be putting east-west transit within the Baltimore region, which is going to be monumental when it comes to economic growth within the State of Maryland.

We're looking at the fact that now we've been able to -- now Maryland has the lowest unemployment rate in the entire country, right? We are moving fast, and we're making sure that we're leaving no one behind in the process. But that's being done because we're working in partnership with the Biden administration.

So I would just -- I would just -- and we'll continue to make sure that people remember. This is about performance, not personalities, and that's why his performance is the reason that I believe deeply that the American people will give him a second term.

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My message to -- to Joe Manchin is, I thank him for his service. I think he's had a year -- a career of distinguished service, both as a governor...

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That's right, both as a governor, senator. I would urge him not to mar his legacy by getting involved in something so foolish.

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Because, if you look at what No Labels is, No Labels literally has no plan, has no path, has no policy platform. They don't even have a candidate. What No Labels is, it's a -- it's a -- it's a configuration made up of dark money that won't disclose its donors but is frankly just going to simply hand an election off by -- by being able to not actually come up with a solution but just continuing to throw wood into this flame of disillusionment. It is not real.

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No. Because I think what -- what President Biden is going to continue to show is that results do matter. You know, it's -- it's one thing to say we're going to rail against the system, and it's another thing to actually work to make systems better. And that's what I think President Biden has continued to show.

You know, when you think about the bills that he has passed, the work that he has done all throughout this country, in urban, rural and suburban parts of this country, about economic growth and economic upliftment, about being able to make sure that people's freedoms are actually protected and everybody is seen in everyone's conversations and not just some, that's what President Biden has been able to push on; that's what he's been able to get done, not rhetoric, not hand-wringing, not fist-banging, but actually real, productive results for the people of this country.

And so I think all the other things will just sound like noise, while President Biden's results will sound like actually what they are, real, productive momentum for the people of this country.

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Thank you. Thank you.

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