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INTERVIEW: Angie Nixon Talks Florida Senate Race, Universal Healthcare, Chuck Schumer, People Power + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Hold up.
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  Speaker 2: Every day I wake up.
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  Speaker 3: Wake your ass up. The Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 4: Y'all finished or y'all done?
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  Speaker 2: Morning, everybody.
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  Speaker 5: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We are
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  Speaker 5: The Breakfast Club. Lawla Rose is here as well. And
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  Speaker 5: also our assist, Miss Angela Rye. And we got a
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  Speaker 5: special guest in the building.
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  Speaker 3: And she pissing off the establishment.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Angie Nixon.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, y'all.
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  Speaker 6: What up?
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  Speaker 4: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: How you feeling this morning?
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  Speaker 4: Why y'all took so long to get.
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  Speaker 2: Me up here?
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  Speaker 3: We've been watching you up here.
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  Speaker 2: They said it was your schedule.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, it was?
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: My bad.
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  Speaker 4: My bad.
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  Speaker 3: You pulled off an upset in the Democratic primary.
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  Speaker 6: Yes. What did the political establishment... misunderstand about Florida voters
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  Speaker 6: that you understood.
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  Speaker 9: They misunderstood that I have been working in the state,
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  Speaker 9: organizing as a union organizer, as a community organizer for
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  Speaker 9: the past nearly two decades.
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  Speaker 4: And the fact that people are just pissed off right now.
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  Speaker 9: They are ready for folks who are going to put
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  Speaker 9: people over profit, people over politics, and even people over party.
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  Speaker 4: And so I am the people's choice, the people's candidate.
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  Speaker 3: I like that. That's pop. That could be pop. People
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  Speaker 3: over politics, people over profit, people over party.
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  Speaker 4: Pop, pop, pop.
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  Speaker 2: Pop, pop, pop.
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  Speaker 7: It's people first.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things I saw on your social media, Angie,
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  Speaker 1: you have, like most Floridians, I don't fit in this
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  Speaker 1: box or you can't put me in a box.
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  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: One of the boxes that folks keep trying to put
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  Speaker 1: you in is DSA. Can you talk a little bit about,
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  Speaker 1: for folks who are listening, DSA? Democratic Socialists of America.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: In any affiliation or is that a box you didn't
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  Speaker 1: ask to be in?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 9: So I actually joined the organization in addition to joining WFP,
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  Speaker 9: Working Families Party. I also became a lifetime member of
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  Speaker 9: the NAACP. And I don't believe that you should just.
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  Speaker 4: Label people, right?
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  Speaker 9: Folks don't really talk to me about those other organizations
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  Speaker 9: that I joined.
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  Speaker 4: And it's more than just Three words, right? It's about
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  Speaker 4: me wanting to ensure folks have access to quality health care.
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  Speaker 9: Wanting to make sure that our seniors don't have to
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  Speaker 9: ration their prescription drugs, wanting to ensure that children have
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  Speaker 9: a strong foundation so we have universal child care and
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  Speaker 9: they're not rerouted into the school to prison pipeline to
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  Speaker 9: make some of these big corporations richer. And so all
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  Speaker 9: of these organizations in some form or another work towards
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  Speaker 9: ensuring that people have what they need. And so right
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  Speaker 9: now we have a very unhinged man in the White
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  Speaker 9: House who, unfortunately, I am concerned. Right. He just went
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  Speaker 9: on this crazy rant the other day. And, you know,
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  Speaker 9: his hair, his skin, all these things look weird. But
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  Speaker 9: he has he's attacking our communities.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Like cruelty is the point right now for him.
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  Speaker 9: But he also has health care. He may not be
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  Speaker 9: using it right now, but he has health care. And
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  Speaker 9: so we should have. the same type of health care
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  Speaker 9: that he has and not worry about going bankrupt if
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  Speaker 9: we go to the doctor.
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  Speaker 4: And so these organizations fight for those things.
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  Speaker 9: Ms.
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  Speaker 8: Nixon, that was a good question. So how do we
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  Speaker 8: how do we change this?
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 8: So reading your story, you know, you talk about your
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  Speaker 8: mother worked two jobs.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: To make sure you and your brother had food and.
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  Speaker 5: You know, like me, had to take a bus across
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  Speaker 5: town because where we went to school, it just wasn't
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  Speaker 5: good enough.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't have books.
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  Speaker 8: They didn't have supplies. My first school had metal detectors.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 8: So when does it ever change? Because it seems like
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  Speaker 8: we're in.
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  Speaker 5: That same fight every year and it's just nothing ever changed.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing's ever better.
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  Speaker 4: For sure. So I think we really need to get
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  Speaker 4: money out of politics.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 9: So when you think about it, they are actively defunding
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  Speaker 9: public education programs. because they make more money off of
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  Speaker 9: our children being funneled in a school-to-prison pipeline, because they want.
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  Speaker 4: Them to— they' re.
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  Speaker 9: In these for-profit prisons. They want them to be exploited, right,
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  Speaker 9: and be free labor. Also, like, it's all about money.
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  Speaker 9: It's a massive shakedown. And so I think about health care.
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  Speaker 9: I spoke to a woman the other day, and her
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  Speaker 9: mom just gave up after— Being diagnosed with cancer, she
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  Speaker 9: was told that she had a life expectancy of five years.
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  Speaker 9: She got frustrated about arguing back and forth with the
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  Speaker 9: insurance companies. And so she gave up after three years
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  Speaker 9: and said, just put me in hospice. And so that's
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  Speaker 9: because Ashley Moody's, my opponent, takes campaign donations from these companies.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 9: And that's what's running this country right now. And so
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  Speaker 9: I believe that hardworking everyday people should get to shape
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  Speaker 9: what our communities look like and what our economies look like.
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  Speaker 9: I think we need to overturn Citizens United and we
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  Speaker 9: also need to lower the amount of money that people
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  Speaker 9: can even donate on campaigns. I believe like custodians and
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  Speaker 9: bus drivers should have the same. Type of political influence
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  Speaker 9: economically as billionaires have. And so if we lower the
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  Speaker 9: amount of money that people can receive on campaign donations,
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  Speaker 9: a lot of things would change.
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  Speaker 6: But if you're elected senator, you're going into an institution
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  Speaker 6: that's just flooded with corporate money and lobbyists, right?
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  Speaker 3: Like, how do you keep Washington from changing you?
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  Speaker 9: So, I mean, I am in one of the worst
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  Speaker 9: and most toxic state legislatures in the country, Ron DeSantis.
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  Speaker 9: The man had me arrested for standing up against the
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  Speaker 9: attacks on voting rights.
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  Speaker 4: I don't change. I can't change.
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  Speaker 9: I surround myself with organizers. I come from a union mother.
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  Speaker 9: I was a union organizer. I am a member of
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  Speaker 9: a union right now. And I just keep surrounding myself
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  Speaker 9: with everyday people. I also have an advisory committee made
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  Speaker 9: of residents across my district who actually help me. They
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  Speaker 9: inform me about policies that I should push for, policies
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  Speaker 9: I should vote against. And those are the people that
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  Speaker 9: I take my cue for. I need people to realize, like,
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  Speaker 9: that politicians work for you. It shouldn't be the other
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  Speaker 9: way around. And we need to demand this when we're,
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  Speaker 9: you know, building this new vision for the next 250 years.
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  Speaker 1: You just referenced this trespassing charge and arrest. And just
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  Speaker 1: days ago, you decided to take the fine and do
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  Speaker 1: the community service.
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  Speaker 4: There are some folks who are like, why didn't she fight?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: What's your answer to them?
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  Speaker 9: My answer is because I care about taxpayers money. I
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  Speaker 9: also didn't want it to be a distraction in the
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  Speaker 9: fact that I can, in fact, win this race. But,
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  Speaker 9: you know, I'm going to use those 15 hours. I'm
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  Speaker 9: going to step away from the campaign and actually continue
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  Speaker 9: to go into the community like I've always done and
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  Speaker 9: actually do my hours. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 9: if I had to do it all over again, I would.
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  Speaker 9: I probably would have a bigger bullhorn and it would
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  Speaker 9: be brighter pink.
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  Speaker 3: But it is.
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  Speaker 9: Not okay for politicians to be deciding who their voters are.
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  Speaker 9: It is up to the voters to decide who they
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  Speaker 9: want to represent them. And there is a concerted effort
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  Speaker 9: in this country right now for politicians to decide everything.
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  Speaker 4: It's so corrupt. Donald Trump is trying to create his
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  Speaker 4: own network. That's propaganda.
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  Speaker 9: That's communism, right? He's also like going after the oil
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  Speaker 9: in Venezuela. And so they want to come at me
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  Speaker 9: and call me names. And they are fearful. They're fearful
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  Speaker 9: that I am getting people involved who have been sitting
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  Speaker 9: on the sidelines for so long because I'm speaking so plainly.
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  Speaker 4: I don't miss my words. I am authentically who I am, right?
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  Speaker 9: And so they are worried that I am going to
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  Speaker 9: cause a group of people who have been feeling so
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  Speaker 9: hopeless to once again have hope and actually want to
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  Speaker 9: change this country around.
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  Speaker 6: When you talk about like Medicare for all, $ 25 minimum wage,
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  Speaker 6: you know, taxing billionaires, everybody says that sounds great.
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  Speaker 3: But who's going to pay for it?
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So let's be clear.
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  Speaker 9: Right. According to if you don't believe me, according to
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  Speaker 9: a Yale study that just came out, If we were
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  Speaker 9: to pass universal health care, we would save over a
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  Speaker 9: trillion dollars annually in addition to saving over 100,000 lives.
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  Speaker 9: Like we are right now spending the cost of universal
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  Speaker 9: health care, including you all having to pay deductibles, co-pays,
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  Speaker 9: coinsurance and all those things. And so the money is
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  Speaker 9: already being spent. Right now, people are using people who
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  Speaker 9: are underinsured or don't have insurance are going to emergency
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  Speaker 9: rooms as their primary care. And when you do that,
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  Speaker 9: that causes us to waste a lot of money.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 9: And so we can make sure that we are paying
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  Speaker 9: for that. We're paying for that already. And then when
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  Speaker 9: it comes to like universal child care for every dollar
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  Speaker 9: that we put into universal child care, that puts three
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  Speaker 9: dollars back into the economy. That's more disposable income. That's
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  Speaker 9: allowing parents to get to work. who also are part
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  Speaker 9: of the tax base. You're not trying to tax them
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  Speaker 9: more than you would tax regular working families, but that
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  Speaker 9: creates more taxable income. But what we also need to
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  Speaker 9: do is we need to tax these ultra wealthy billionaires, right?
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  Speaker 9: Donald Trump gave them all these tax breaks And meanwhile,
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  Speaker 9: there are people in rural communities in my state who
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  Speaker 9: have hospitals that are now closing. I spoke to a
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  Speaker 9: doctor from Pinellas, and she's told me that the majority
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  Speaker 9: of their funding comes from Medicaid. And that money has
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  Speaker 9: came from the federal government to Medicaid programs here in
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  Speaker 9: the state. And they have to cut programs. And she
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  Speaker 9: told me, frankly, she said, Angie, children are going to
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  Speaker 9: die because they don't have these programs anymore. And so
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  Speaker 9: I am not okay with that. These billionaires need to
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  Speaker 9: pay what they owe. And then they are the biggest
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  Speaker 9: welfare queens there are. The fact that we have some
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  Speaker 9: corporations that in their trainings with their employees, they train
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  Speaker 9: them on how to apply for food benefits, food stamps
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  Speaker 9: and Medicaid and all the things, but they don't want
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  Speaker 9: to pay them. And they don't pay them a living
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  Speaker 9: wage because they get a government kickback. They get tax breaks.
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  Speaker 9: So it's like, what is it? They're double dipping, basically.
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  Speaker 9: They're not paying people living wages and they're getting a
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  Speaker 9: tax break for hiring people who they won't pay them
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  Speaker 9: a living wage.
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  Speaker 4: A living wage. It's messed up. But again, if we
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  Speaker 4: get big money out of politics, we won't have to
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  Speaker 4: deal with a.
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  Speaker 8: Lot of this.
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  Speaker 10: Every politician always talks about this, right? And always says this.
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  Speaker 10: And then it's just, there's so much pushback and it
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  Speaker 10: doesn't happen. What is the real, how are you going
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  Speaker 10: to make that actually work Like if people have not
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  Speaker 10: ever been able to really do 100 percent of this
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  Speaker 10: health care plan that everybody knows that we need.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Like what makes this moment different?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: What makes this moment different is that we are witnessing
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  Speaker 9: a return.
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  Speaker 4: To the worst chapters of our history and we are.
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  Speaker 9: Witnessing our institutions actively being destroyed.
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  Speaker 4: Right. And people are fed up.
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  Speaker 9: And so right now we need an organizer who's going
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  Speaker 9: to hold the line and push back against Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, this is a special election.
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  Speaker 9: And so when I win, I'll have the opportunity to
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  Speaker 9: push back against the things that he's going to try
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  Speaker 9: to ram through these final two months before everyone else is,
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  Speaker 9: you know, sworn in.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 9: But then also we have to have an inside outside strategy.
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  Speaker 9: It is not just on the people in office.
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  Speaker 4: We need to. I love First Lady Michelle Obama. She
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  Speaker 4: will forever be my first lady. But she said, I
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  Speaker 4: didn't say that. When they go low, she said we
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  Speaker 4: go high.
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  Speaker 9: I say when they go low, you Charlamagne can.
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  Speaker 6: Go to hell.
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  Speaker 9: I am telling people they need to get loud.
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  Speaker 4: They need to get loud and push back.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 9: I am a student of history and I've had the
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  Speaker 9: opportunity to sit in workshops with political scientists, with historians,
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  Speaker 9: and they have stated that the only way throughout the
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  Speaker 9: history of the globe that people have been able to
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  Speaker 9: stop democracies from falling or overthrow authoritarian regimes is mass
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  Speaker 9: mobilization of people, right? Mass strikes, mass boycotts, and that's
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  Speaker 9: what we're going to have to do. And it would
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  Speaker 9: be great to have an organizer who understands the history,
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  Speaker 9: who has done that work on the inside as well
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  Speaker 9: to partner with the folks on the outside.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing that I would ask you, and I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate the hybrid nature of being a public servant and
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  Speaker 1: an organizer, when you go to the Senate, it's very different.
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  Speaker 1: The very thing that you got arrested nonsensically for, but trespassing,
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  Speaker 1: is the same thing they couldn't pass. So the House
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  Speaker 1: passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Act three times, went
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  Speaker 1: to the Senate every time it died. So on something
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  Speaker 1: that minuscule, to Lauren's point, talking about Medicaid for all
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  Speaker 1: or Medicare for all, Some of our elected officials can't
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  Speaker 1: even say that. One of them, he would be the
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  Speaker 1: Senate Majority Leader should the Democrats take.
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  Speaker 7: Over, is Chuck Schumer.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about the experience you've had with Chuck Schumer and
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  Speaker 1: how you get to the other side of something positive
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  Speaker 1: with someone who may see some of the political processes
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  Speaker 1: a little bit differently.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 9: So I think it's important to know that I have
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  Speaker 9: been in a legislature already. I have been able to
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  Speaker 9: move my caucus more to the left. And so I
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  Speaker 9: have not done that alone, right? I have organized within
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  Speaker 9: my caucus to push my members, but I've also organized
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  Speaker 9: outside in the streets to get the public pressure to push.
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  Speaker 4: My members as well.
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  Speaker 9: And so that is the same exact approach that I
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  Speaker 9: will be taking with the Chuck Schumers or whoever is
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  Speaker 9: in leadership is, At the end of the day, we
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  Speaker 9: need elected officials who are going to listen to the
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  Speaker 9: people and not these corporations. I believe that organized people
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  Speaker 9: will beat big money each and every day, which is
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  Speaker 9: one of the reasons that I was able to win
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  Speaker 9: after being out fundraised 18 to 1. And that is
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  Speaker 9: because I had the people and I organized the people
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  Speaker 9: to put pressure on other people to go out and
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  Speaker 9: vote for me, right? And so we have to do
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  Speaker 9: the same thing when it comes to navigating these.
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  Speaker 7: Policies, right?
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  Speaker 4: For a while, it took a while for us to
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  Speaker 4: get voting rights as black people, right?
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  Speaker 9: It took a while for us to get child labor
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  Speaker 9: protection laws, right? And I'm not going to say that
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  Speaker 9: this stuff is going to happen overnight. Like it's not.
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  Speaker 9: It never does. But we can't give up hope. We
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  Speaker 9: cannot continue to compromise.
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  Speaker 4: Our values away.
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  Speaker 9: We got to stay in firm and I will never
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  Speaker 9: compromise the values of my people.
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  Speaker 4: And so I'm going to go in there. I am
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  Speaker 4: going to stand firm.
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  Speaker 9: I got too many organizers that surround me that will
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  Speaker 9: hold me accountable and And I'm going to push them
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  Speaker 9: as far— and it's not even— I don't.
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  Speaker 4: Even want to say to the left or to the right.
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  Speaker 4: It's towards the people.
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  Speaker 3: The people.
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  Speaker 4: And what the people want.
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  Speaker 6: You got these establishment Democrats, right, who I clearly see
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  Speaker 6: you make feel uncomfortable, right? Because they believe you're too
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  Speaker 6: progressive to win statewide. Why does it seem like some
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  Speaker 6: Democrats would rather see you lose than have your style
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  Speaker 6: of politics win?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, because I would force them to do more work.
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  Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 9: I would force them to actually have to answer to
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  Speaker 9: the people. I mean, it's the same thing that happened
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  Speaker 9: in my state legislature, right? Like when you see someone
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  Speaker 9: who's having town hall meetings, who's not running away from them, right?
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  Speaker 9: When you see someone who has an awesome, amazing constituency
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  Speaker 9: services program because you are not answering or returning phone
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  Speaker 9: calls or emails to your constituents that are reaching out
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  Speaker 9: and I'm connecting them to the resources that they need,
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  Speaker 9: it's going to make.
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  Speaker 4: Them work even harder. Some people want... you know, the
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  Speaker 4: perceived power that they have.
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  Speaker 9: They want the status. And it's not about that for me.
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  Speaker 9: It's about actually improving the quality of life for people.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to die in this job. I don't.
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  Speaker 9: I want to help build more leaders who come from
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  Speaker 9: the people, who come from the community to actually, again,
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  Speaker 9: build a new vision for this next 250 years where
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  Speaker 9: every family has stability and Every worker has dignity and
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  Speaker 9: every young person has the opportunity to reach a true
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  Speaker 9: American dream.
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  Speaker 4: Like that's all I want. Too many people are stressed out.
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  Speaker 4: Like they don't even get to enjoy their retirement.
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  Speaker 9: They don't get to go on vacation. I talked to
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  Speaker 9: some young people the other day and they told me
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  Speaker 9: that it just feels like they're working and the gap
• 16:05
  Speaker 9: just keeps getting bigger. Like they don't even just get
• 16:08
  Speaker 9: to enjoy their life. People should be only working to live.
• 16:12
  Speaker 9: They shouldn't be living to work. Right now, people are
• 16:15
  Speaker 9: living simply to go to work. I didn't have kids
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  Speaker 9: to do that. I had kids to build a legacy
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  Speaker 9: because I wanted me and my husband were in love,
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  Speaker 9: all the things.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
• 16:25
  Speaker 9: And so I want to enjoy my kids while I'm here.
• 16:28
  Speaker 9: I don't want to have to continue to work.
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  Speaker 4: I miss my.
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  Speaker 9: Daughter's sixth birthday because I was on his campaign trail.
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  Speaker 9: But I told her, like, I miss her birthday because
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: I don't want any other parents to have to miss
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  Speaker 9: their children's birthday because they're working.
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  Speaker 4: We can have that here, but we have to elect
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  Speaker 4: the right people. who are going to put people first
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  Speaker 4: instead of these billionaires.
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  Speaker 10: So you mentioned missing your daughter's birthday. And then I
• 16:52
  Speaker 10: read an article where you were talking about you got
• 16:54
  Speaker 10: on the phone with Chuck Schumer and you asked him
• 16:56
  Speaker 10: to help you fund your race.
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  Speaker 7: And he said he'll look into it.
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  Speaker 3: What a waste of time. Why would you even waste
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: your time?
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  Speaker 1: Because she would be in the Senate, and that would
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: be the leader, which is why I asked the question.
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  Speaker 3: But isn't it sad when you got to fight your
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: own people? You got to fight Republicans and your own people?
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: It's questionable if he's your own people. It is. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I am going to always respect the process.
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  Speaker 9: However, I will also push to make sure that those
• 17:20
  Speaker 9: in leadership work to do the right thing.
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: But what is he looking into?
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: I think, because I think the reality of it is, Angie, you...
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: are running a formidable race. When we talked on my podcast,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: you were on, I heard all this bustling in the
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: background because they were mobilized, excited about going and door
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: knock for you. I haven't seen that in a long time.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: It's different.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer and establishment Democrats could benefit from that energy.
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: What is he looking into?
• 17:47
  Speaker 8: They should be.
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  Speaker 2: Standing behind you.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that is a question that you would have
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: to have for Mr.
• 17:52
  Speaker 9: Schumer.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Y'all should have him on your show, by the way.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: I don't know if he would come.
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: I mean, let's put out the ads. Ask him to
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: come and see what he says. And, you know, I'm
• 18:03
  Speaker 9: all about agitation. That is what an organizer does. At
• 18:06
  Speaker 9: the end of the day, whether or not he gives
• 18:09
  Speaker 9: me money or not, I'm depending on the people. This
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: is not even about if I'm going to win this race.
• 18:15
  Speaker 9: I need the people, all the listeners on this show
• 18:17
  Speaker 9: to know, like, this is about if you're ready to win.
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: Not even if you are, even if you're not in Florida, right?
• 18:23
  Speaker 9: If you are ready for someone who is going to,
• 18:25
  Speaker 9: you want someone to go to the U.S. Senate.
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  Speaker 4: Who has your back, who's.
• 18:29
  Speaker 9: Going to push towards ensuring that you have the life
• 18:33
  Speaker 9: that you deserve to live, that you should only work
• 18:35
  Speaker 9: one job and be able to afford to live in
• 18:37
  Speaker 9: this country. If you believe in that, then you should
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: join our People Powered campaign. Y'all can go to AngieNixon.com.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: We have over.
• 18:43
  Speaker 9: 140,000 volunteers that are knocking on doors, making phone calls, right?
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: We have a thousand neighborhood captains on the ground in
• 18:53
  Speaker 9: the state of Florida, knocking on doors, overseeing like hundreds
• 18:58
  Speaker 9: of volunteers. In addition to being those neighborhood captains, this
• 19:01
  Speaker 9: is a people power campaign. And so if the establishment,
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: if the billionaires don't want me, I believe the people
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: want me. So the people need to invest in me and,
• 19:11
  Speaker 9: You know, there are people who are donating 33 cents
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: to my campaign.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: That's all they have.
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: And I am very thankful for that, even more so
• 19:19
  Speaker 9: than the $ 3, 500 that some people can give me. Because
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: that's all they can give me. But if you have
• 19:25
  Speaker 9: $ 3, 500 to give me, please do that, right?
• 19:28
  Speaker 10: But seeing your passion here right now, though, it's just
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: sad because... Once you get on that floor, you're going
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: to need those people who are acting like because you're
• 19:37
  Speaker 10: a black woman, they don't want to do and say
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: certain things. And I saw you say that too about
• 19:41
  Speaker 10: Chuck Schumer and some people not supporting you possibly because
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: you're a black woman because Kamala didn't win, right?
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: How do you then move? You got your people. They're
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: here with you, but you need your counterparts.
• 19:52
  Speaker 9: And so I agitate them behind the scenes. And I
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: also work again in the streets to get my people
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: to agitate them as well. One thing about elected officials,
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: they don't like bad press. They don't like many phone calls,
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: calling them and bad emails coming their way. They don't
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: like to be bird, bird call, bird dog where people are.
• 20:11
  Speaker 9: They're going out to a meeting and somebody calls. You know,
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: protesting and yelling at them in that meeting.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: They hate that. And so if they.
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: Don't want that, right, like they need to do the
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: right thing.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: You know, I want to go back to the point
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: about Chuck Schumer, because, you know, the good brother Bakari Sellers,
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: he said that, you know, Democrats should not waste money
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: trying to flip a difficult state.
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: And I ran up on him, and he is now
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: helping to raise money as well.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Raise money for.
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: Angie at that.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: I don't think it was.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: A personal attack at all.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: I think he was just saying the quiet part out
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: loud because he knows that's how a lot of Democrats think.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: So what would you say to those people who would
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: feel like they're wasting money?
• 20:48
  Speaker 9: What I would say is that in the state of Florida,
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: we have the second largest black population in the country.
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: And if people really want to say that they care
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: about black people, then they need to make sure that
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: they invest in the South. all roads lead through the South, right?
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: All of the bad legislation that is crossing over to
• 21:07
  Speaker 9: other state legislatures comes out of Florida. All of the
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: bad legislation, the attacks on DEI, that came from Florida
• 21:14
  Speaker 9: with Ron DeSantis saying, stop woke and anti-DEI and all
• 21:19
  Speaker 9: of these that originated in the state of Florida. Florida
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: is ground zero. Donald Trump moved there, right? Like, And
• 21:26
  Speaker 9: so what way to send a big middle finger to
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: the man who is wreaking havoc on our lives than
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: to invest in me to push back against him when
• 21:36
  Speaker 9: I go to.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: D.C.? Absolutely. I see. And Angie really do be out
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: with the people. I saw you out at Duval Day.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying?
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: Shout out, little Duval.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: When they just try to pass you to J, you
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: didn't take it.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: I do not do that.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Well, tell them how they can donate once again if
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: they need to donate.
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: Yes, folks can go to AngieNixon.com. People should follow me
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: on Angie for FL, Angie for Florida. I'm super excited, y'all.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: We're excited.
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: We're going to make history. They can call me whatever
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: they want to call me. They can say whatever they
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: want to say. But come November 3rd, Ashley Moody and
• 22:08
  Speaker 9: Donald Trump will be calling me senator.
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it pisses me off when I hear people be like, oh,
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: Angie can't win. Well, yeah, she can't win if y'all
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: got that mindset that y'all not going to go down
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: there and help her.
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: Exactly, exactly.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: For a while, we didn't have voting rights.
• 22:20
  Speaker 9: For a while, we couldn't. We weren't free as a people.
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: And so we can win this thing. People just got
• 22:26
  Speaker 9: to get on board.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: Well, it's Angie Nixon. We appreciate you for joining us
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: this morning.
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: Thank you so much.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Thank y'all for having me.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: It's The Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Thank you.