Rahm Emanuel
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“Candor, authenticity and strength,”
Rahm Emanuel · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-25
Emanuel pointed to three things that separate him from the pack in an interview at the Texas Tribune Festival.
“knows what to do on day one.”
Rahm Emanuel · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-25
Emanuel insists that if elected president he knows what to do on day one.
“I'm not gonna tell you what you'd like to hear. I'm gonna tell you what you need to know to make some of the tough decisions ahead,”
Rahm Emanuel · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-25
Emanuel said he would tell people what they need to know to make tough decisions ahead.
“We don't have time anymore. We're at a tipping point in the country. I think we've wasted a lot of time in the last 12 years trying to restore, as I said, a past that's not coming back. We better think about a future that includes everybody. We don't have a person to waste or a community to overlook and make the investments that make this country stronger.”
Rahm Emanuel · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-25
Emanuel said the country is at a tipping point and needs to think about a future that includes everybody.
“And so I'm gonna be honest about it. And I think I bring a level of experience at multiple levels of government that actually, on day one, you start getting the job done. Because we don't have a day to waste,”
Rahm Emanuel · said date not stated · reported 2026-09-25
Emanuel added that he brings a level of experience at multiple levels of government to get the job done on day one.