Inside the Tightest Race in the Nation: Adam Frisch on Challenging Extremism

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Adam Frisch, a Congressional candidate from Colorado’s 3rd District, is a small business owner and former city council member who ran one of the closest congressional races in 2022 against Lauren Boebert, losing by just 546 votes. In this episode, Adam reflects on his drive to build a "pro-normal" coalition of common-sense voters across party lines. He highlights his dedication to western and southern Colorado, focusing on representing the region's farmers, ranchers, and small businesses. Adam also emphasizes his independence from national politics, advocating for pragmatic solutions to real-world problems in his district. Email [email protected] to hear your questions answered by Andrew on our upcoming Q&A episode! Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jfjQrI0Ev3o Follow Adam Frisch: https://adamforcolorado.com/ | https://x.com/AdamForColorado Follow Andrew Yang: https://andrewyang.com | https://x.com/andrewyang Get 50% off Factor at https://factormeals.com/yang50 Get an extra 3 months free at https://expressvpn.com/yang Get 20% off + 2 free pillows at https://helixsleep.com/yang code helixpartner20 Get 20% off your first order at https://ashanderie.com/ code yang ---- Subscribe to Forward: Apple — https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1508035243 Spotify — https://open.spotify.com/show/25cFfnG3lGuypTerKDxKia To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on forward.
0:04.0	We're pushing back against what our mutual friend Dean Phillips talks about, which is this anger-tainment industry.
0:10.0	And the real impetus of running was trying to push back against that.
0:13.6	Western and Southern Colorado have been ignored enough that are really wanting to focus on
0:17.6	what real representation looking like.
0:19.4	The people want common sense approach for the 95% of the people that are not spending their whole life
0:25.1	on cable news networks and Twitter people just want real solutions by real people. It is my pleasure to welcome to the podcast congressional candidate in Colorado's third district, the man who has already run Lauren Bobert out of town.
0:51.0	Adam Frisch for Colorado. Welcome Adam. Hey buddy, nice to see you
0:56.1	Andrew. Good to see you too. So people who are thinking, hey I might have
1:00.7	heard this guy's name before, It might be because you ran the closest
1:04.8	congressional campaign in the entire country two years ago against someone people
1:09.9	have heard of named Lauren Bobort. And people thought Lauren was untouchable because it's kind of a
1:15.3	reddish district but you saw and felt something different last cycle in 2022 so what did you see
1:22.4	and what got you into that race?
1:24.0	Thanks Andrew and it's great to be back with you.
1:27.0	Yeah, you know, there's this political industrial complex out there that doesn't put a lot of weight on what I would call with
1:33.9	humility candidate quality and that's either on the good side or the bad side and
1:38.1	to remind everyone even though we are looking forward to revisit where we were in
1:42.4	2022 there were some comments made in the summer are looking forward to revisit where we were in 2022.
1:43.6	There were some comments made in the summer and the fall of 2021 by Representative
1:47.8	Bobart.
1:48.8	I spent a lot of time with my son Felix and my wife Katie and my daughter
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