California Democratic congressional candidate Hans Keirstead speaks with ABC News

Hans Keirsted is running as a Democratic in California's 48th Congressional District
3:38 | 06/05/18

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Transcript for California Democratic congressional candidate Hans Keirstead speaks with ABC News
Doctor Kay said thank you for doing next now my pleasure. Right so even Democrats will say that this one district is the most likely of all the Lawrence county district. To potentially end up without a Democrat on the ballot in the fall hasty Democrats to get totally boxed out. So if that happens could you be to blame. No. If anyone's to blame it's let's see it's probably either the teacher posse for coming in and shaking things up and endorsing summoned the size of California Democratic Party endorsed candidate. Probably even before that would be the dams that stayed in the race. Despite dropping out after registration so their names are on the ballot taking votes away from the Democrats who are actually running. The what does it say about the Democratic Party here they could not coalesce around one candidate. While the Democratic Party here did coalesce around one candidate. The California Democratic Party endorsement process is an extremely informed and rigorous process. So they endorsed me York's county Democratic Party endorsed me and virtually every democratic club in the entire district. That's different than the. Little and late coming in and meddling in a race and so meddling in the race you've pointed fingers now at their national party there in DC. You told me yesterday dynamite and better day just stayed out entirely is that feeling here on the ground that Washington should have just been hands off. You know. You know I'm very appreciative that they came in. And hit Scott Bob revealing his negatives that's fantastic when they're Republican town one of the Republican challengers who's in third place in every hole third party or my own says that its Meehan Rohrabacher. With Scott bought nip and in my heels. In a we've got to push that down and elevate coalesce around one Democrat or we could get locked out. Touchy big picture about the Democratic Party. Is there are certain kind of Democrat that can win here in Orange count me that might not apply to the rest the country should there be. A brand for the Democratic Party. National League nation why a single message. I think that the Democrat. The party has done every Lee pour job frankly of vision and leadership in vision sorry. Within a freak for job and branding and and sticking to a vision for the party and I think that we've got an opportunity here to. Help that California is in a position where it has led the country. Democrats here are by and large moderates and here we are in a red district where we will win this thing. We are going to have a democratic congressman. The very first in the 48 and it's a chance for us to lead help brand the party draw towards a more cohesive vision where were issues. In front of politics he did that's a future of the Democratic Party a more moderate centrist luck. I think that that Democrat. Democratic vision provides a nice balance against a Republican vision and the back and forth is not a horrible thing for our nation. It's it's modern received but we can't be swinging from pole to pole like we have. Well predictions for tonight. How many votes meaning the percentage. Boy that's I'm a scientist are asking scientists to predict in the very non scientific. Gain here. I think that will probably land on 20% of the votes in the violence again thank bullied each year campaigning thanks again thank you very much it. They.

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