Patrick Gaspard

And in New York City, there will be five yes or no questions on your ballot proposed changes to the city charter from Mayor Mamdani's Committee on Government Efficiency, COGE.

And we're actually hosting an event on those proposals at New York Law School on the morning of Tuesday, October 20th, featuring the chair of that Charter Revision Commission, Patrick Gaspard, and the commission's executive director, Ann Chang.

It's free and open to everyone, but RSVP, please.

So go to our site, citylandnyc.org, and find the RSVP form and join us for that conversation.

But the question that keeps coming up Is he simply getting in his own party's way? And joining me now to break all of this down is Center for American Progress senior fellow and former U.S.

ambassador to South Africa, Patrick Gaspard, and MSNOW political analyst and Republican strategist, Susan Del Percio.

It's great to have both of you with me on the assignment today.

So, Susan, I want to start with you and some new polling that I found very striking this week.

She was fully vetted by the bipartisan Senate Foreign Relations Committee and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

The ambassador remains committed to representing the American people with dedication and integrity.

I'm going to bring in my friend James Sample, Hofstra University law professor and Ambassador Patrick Gaspard and Susan Del Percio are still here at the table, too.

James, I got to start with you.

Oh, yeah

... related to this, and someone I'd love to ask about those, but we should have on the podcast for totally different reasons, uh, i- is, of course, uh, Patrick Gaspard, who has been-

Uh-huh

... hoping to lead COGE, uh, whi- which, uh, now has these ballot initiatives, um, that, uh, we'll get to vote on in November.

after he had been struggling emotionally with the cancellation of his TPS status and being forced to wear an ankle bracelet.

Joining me now is Patrick Gaspard, former U.S. ambassador to South Africa, former president of the Center for American Progress, and son of Haitian immigrants.

Patrick, you've been out in Ohio yourself trying to keep attention on what is happening to these families.

I want to get past the chance and the political talk for a moment.

Deeply problematic and driven, I hate to say this, but overwhelmingly by racial bias.

All right.

Thank you, Ambassador Patrick Gaspard.

Up next, if you want to make the world a better place, it's not enough just to talk about it.

Now, to be clear, enthusiasm at a political event won't determine what the outcome will be in November, but it does show where many, I think, pro-democracy, progressive voters are now, just weeks before they cast their ballots, or even when they're casting their ballot, since early voting has started in a lot of states.

Patrick Gaspard is former executive director for the DNC, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.

Abby Livingston is a reporter for Puck News, and they both join me now.

Abby, you were at the Texas Tribune for years.

Uh, and, and, and it's [laughs] really showing.

Uh, Donald Trump is having that same buyer's remorse himself every time he sees him on the stump.

Patrick Gaspard, Abby Livingston, thank you both.

Stay tuned.

We were just together in Ohio on Friday and Saturday.

Uh, we're gonna have a bunch for you on that at the end of the show, and then in segment two, we're gonna play a little bit from our live show in Dayton, my conversation with Patrick Gaspard, longtime Democratic operative.

Uh, his family is from Haiti and, and was really grateful he was able to come to Ohio to be part of it.

So, hey, Bill.

And I was like, "No.

Like, there are barely any big checks." So I was like, we just, we have an awesome community that really did step up, and hopefully it can temper, you know, some of the fascist bullshit that these guys are having to suffer in, in Springfield.

So anyway, stick around for a little bit more on that with Patrick Gaspard.

Bill, appreciate you.