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INTERVIEW: Jasmine Crockett On Her Senate Loss, The Democratic Party & Black Political Power · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Hold up.
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  Speaker 2: Every day I wake up. Wake your ass up. The
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  Speaker 2: Breakfast Club. Y'all finished or y'all done? Morning, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha Guy.
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  Speaker 2: We are The Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 3: Our sis Angela Rye is with us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. It's election day, and we got another special
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  Speaker 2: guest in the building. We have Jasmine Crockett. Welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, good morning. It's election day.
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  Speaker 2: Uh-huh. How are you feeling?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. I am so worried for this election
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  Speaker 3: to be over. I think everybody's tired. But I think
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  Speaker 3: that it's going to be a really good night. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if it's going to be as good as
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  Speaker 3: the polls think it's going to be, but it's definitely
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  Speaker 3: going to be a good night if you're a Democrat.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Texas got one of the most closely watched
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  Speaker 4: Senate races in the country.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: For everything you've experienced this election cycle, what are you
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  Speaker 4: feeling this morning?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think that Texas is going to be
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  Speaker 3: closer than what everybody thinks it's going to be, what
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  Speaker 3: the polls are saying. But looking at the turnout, listen,
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  Speaker 3: it's the theory that I put out there. I said
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  Speaker 3: that we're a majority minority state right now. People of
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  Speaker 3: color are leading the way in the turnout. I said
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  Speaker 3: that we had the votes. We just needed to turn
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  Speaker 3: people out. We have so many new voters right now.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that Texas is doing what it needs
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  Speaker 3: to do. So I think it's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: really good night. It's still Texas. But I think that
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  Speaker 3: if Republicans stay home, stay home, I think it'll be
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  Speaker 3: an even better night.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that I have been fascinated with
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  Speaker 1: over the last couple of days is Haley Stevens, your
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  Speaker 1: colleague in the house.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to bring it up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to bring it up because you caught a
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  Speaker 1: lot of flack for endorsing James Tallarico, not appearing with
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  Speaker 1: James Tallarico, though. And Haley Stevens said, hold my beer.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go ahead and endorse the Republican show
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  Speaker 1: up to perfecting church where he couldn't get a standing ovation.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about Mike Rogers. She showed up to endorse
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  Speaker 1: Mike Rogers, who is running against Abdul El-Sayed.
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  Speaker 3: What do you say to that?
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  Speaker 1: And if you were seeing Haley Stevens today and anybody
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  Speaker 1: who would be influenced by her, what would you tell them?
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  Speaker 3: Listen, first of all, I think that Haley did Abdul
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  Speaker 3: a favor, honestly. I will tell you that there have
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  Speaker 3: been reports that there have been some issues specifically within
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  Speaker 3: the black community with Abdul, but I think that this
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  Speaker 3: is actually going to give him a boost. So I
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  Speaker 3: think when he wins tonight... He may need to call
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  Speaker 3: Haley and say thank you. He had an infusion of
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  Speaker 3: cash of over two million dollars in 24 hours at
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  Speaker 3: the very end of a tight race. That's the kind
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  Speaker 3: of day that you want. And I think that a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people were frustrated in the role that Haley
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  Speaker 3: attempted to put the black church in in this. She
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  Speaker 3: could have went out, endorsed him, got on her social media,
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  Speaker 3: left that at that. I still take issue with it
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  Speaker 3: as a Democrat. I don't think that you can say
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  Speaker 3: that you're a team player and you were running to
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  Speaker 3: run against that particular person. And then you say, never mind.
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  Speaker 3: I would rather it be the Republican. And the reality
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  Speaker 3: is that, listen, Mike works with us. We know his
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  Speaker 3: voting record for everybody that is upset because their insurance
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  Speaker 3: premiums are up, which is basically everyone. They should feel
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  Speaker 3: like this is a problem for every single black woman
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  Speaker 3: that is out of work right now because of what
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  Speaker 3: this administration has done. They should feel like this is
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  Speaker 3: a problem. And for everyone who wanted just Congress that
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  Speaker 3: was going to stand up for them as it relates
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  Speaker 3: to this war and hopefully keep some money in your
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  Speaker 3: pocket as it relates to gas, they should all be upset.
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  Speaker 3: So here's the reality. I think that Haley is done
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  Speaker 3: with politics or she's decided she wants to be a
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  Speaker 3: Republican going forward. And we will see what happens when
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  Speaker 3: we get back into Congress next week. about how the
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  Speaker 3: caucus decides to deal with this situation.
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  Speaker 1: Even though you're not going to be in the House anymore,
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  Speaker 1: you're not deciding to become a Republican.
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  Speaker 3: So for folks at home in.
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  Speaker 1: Texas who are saying, I still don't know about James Tallarico,
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  Speaker 1: what's the closing speech you would give to encourage people
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  Speaker 1: to go and vote for James Tallarico over Kim Baxter?
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  Speaker 3: Listen, I think here's my issue. You know, we have
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  Speaker 3: had a problem on the Democratic side, whether it's Texas
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  Speaker 3: or otherwise, where we are looking for perfection. And one
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  Speaker 3: of the things that I say all the time as
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  Speaker 3: I'm out on the trail is stop looking for perfection
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  Speaker 3: in your preachers as well as your politicians. You will never,
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  Speaker 3: ever find it, right? So the thing is, like, it's
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  Speaker 3: the 80-20 rule, right? Like, forget focusing on, say, the 20%
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  Speaker 3: they don't have. Focus on the 80% that they can't provide. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this may not be your favorite. This may
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  Speaker 3: not have been your pick, regardless of where you are
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  Speaker 3: in this country, including Michigan. Right. This may not be
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  Speaker 3: your favorite. This may not have been your pick. But
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  Speaker 3: I promise you, you're going to get 80 percent and
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  Speaker 3: you probably need to just say we can roll with it.
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  Speaker 3: And the final thing that I'll say is that when
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  Speaker 3: I'm on the road, I usually tell people all the time,
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  Speaker 3: I say, listen, you know, so many of y'all decided
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  Speaker 3: that y'all would get married for life and you don't
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  Speaker 3: agree with your spouse on everything. So we just asking
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  Speaker 3: for two years, four years or six years. And if
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  Speaker 3: you don't agree with us, you can dump us.
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  Speaker 2: Now, you said the polls might not reflect the outcome.
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  Speaker 2: What's your concerns with that? There's a reason.
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  Speaker 3: The polls have been completely off. They're completely off. They
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  Speaker 3: don't make sense. And Democratic states, the numbers are so tight.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm like, how is it we flip in Republican
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  Speaker 3: states and at the same time in Democratic states like
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  Speaker 3: they're running tight? When you look at Minnesota, which I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't say is solidly blue, obviously is more purplish. That
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  Speaker 3: is a tight race. They're saying that the Minnesota race
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  Speaker 3: Senate race is super tight in the Texas race is
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  Speaker 3: wide open. Like that doesn't make sense. So ultimately, I
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  Speaker 3: think that, you know, for me, I've looked at more
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  Speaker 3: so the demographics of a state and looked at whether
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  Speaker 3: or not the state was participatory. I think one of
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  Speaker 3: the reasons Mississippi is at play, it is 40 percent black.
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  Speaker 3: There is no reason that Mississippi should not be a
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  Speaker 3: blue state except for the fact that they are not voting.
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  Speaker 3: Same thing in Texas. It's a non-voting state, but we
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  Speaker 3: have the demographics there. And when you look at South
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  Speaker 3: Carolina right now, people think South Carolina may or may
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  Speaker 3: not be in play. Here is the reality. I talked
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  Speaker 3: to Jamie yesterday, Jamie Harrison, and he told me that
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  Speaker 3: African-American participation right now is at 28%. That is higher
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  Speaker 3: than the percentage of black folk that they have in
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  Speaker 3: that state. They're at about 26%. That is huge.
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  Speaker 2: A million early voters, too.
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  Speaker 3: Right, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: 1.1, I believe.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they're hidden historic numbers. But I will tell
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  Speaker 3: you that something that most southern states did that nobody
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  Speaker 3: really talked about Is they had they had tickets that
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  Speaker 3: were reflective of the people. Right. So you have Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Jermaine Johnson, who is a black man who is running
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  Speaker 3: for governor. And then you have Annie Andrews for the
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  Speaker 3: Senate position. Same thing in Georgia. You have John Ossoff
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  Speaker 3: that is running. But then you have Keisha Lance Bottoms
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  Speaker 3: that is running for governor. Same thing in Florida. You
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  Speaker 3: have Angie Nixon that is running for the Senate, and
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  Speaker 3: then you have David Jolly that is running for the gubernatorial.
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  Speaker 3: We can go on to Tennessee. Same thing. Black woman
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  Speaker 3: running for Senate. You've got a white woman that is
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  Speaker 3: running for governor. I think that the best thing specifically
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  Speaker 3: for Southern states to do is to actually look at
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  Speaker 3: how can I maximize bringing out every single part of
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  Speaker 3: the demographic. And no matter what happens, if we end
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  Speaker 3: up with, say, Annie Andrews going, which is what people believed,
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  Speaker 3: and Dr. Johnson not, which I honestly think Dr. Johnson
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  Speaker 3: may be the stronger candidate of the two, if I'm
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  Speaker 3: being perfectly honest. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: it will be because Dr. Johnson was on that ballot,
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  Speaker 3: and he was able to bring out black folk. If
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  Speaker 3: David Jolly, which they keep saying David Jolly is doing
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  Speaker 3: better than Angie, if he wins, it will be because
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  Speaker 3: Angie Nixon was on that ballot. And so I think
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  Speaker 3: that we need to start thinking about that more strategically,
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  Speaker 3: specifically in the South, and almost every Southern state figured
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  Speaker 3: out how.
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  Speaker 2: To do that.
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  Speaker 4: What did the Texas primary teach you about Texas politics
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  Speaker 4: that you didn't fully understand before?
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  Speaker 3: How scary Democrats can be and how much they try
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  Speaker 3: to project what a Republican will do. You know, even
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  Speaker 3: when you look at the editorial boards that endorsed against me,
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  Speaker 3: they didn't endorse against me because of qualifications, because of
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  Speaker 3: my platform, because of my experience. They endorsed against me saying, well,
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  Speaker 3: she's crazy because she's not going to go after MAGA. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that the story that will be written
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  Speaker 3: in Texas will be about MAGA. I think the story
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  Speaker 3: that will be written in Texas will be that the
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  Speaker 3: diverse coalition that exists in our state actually came together,
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  Speaker 3: which was my theory. But that is not what, you know,
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  Speaker 3: those over the media believe is the winning answer. And
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  Speaker 3: I think ultimately, when we look again, when we look
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  Speaker 3: at South Carolina, when we look at whatever happens in Mississippi.
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  Speaker 3: It will be talking about the diversity. It doesn't mean that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, specifically diverse candidates are not going to speak
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  Speaker 3: to everybody because they we always govern for everybody as
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  Speaker 3: a sitting member of Congress. I govern for every single
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  Speaker 3: person that's in my district, regardless of their political affiliation.
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  Speaker 3: But I think that we have to have specifically a
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  Speaker 3: conversation with the Democratic Party. about making the investment specifically
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  Speaker 3: into black folk. This election cycle, we saw, whether it
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  Speaker 3: was in Michigan, where Mike Rogers was spending all kinds
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  Speaker 3: of money. He had his wife out at the gas
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  Speaker 3: stations with gas cards handing out money. He was running
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  Speaker 3: ads specifically to black folk trying to peel them off.
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  Speaker 3: Byron Donalds is doing the same thing down in Florida,
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  Speaker 3: trying to make those investments into black communities and peel
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  Speaker 3: black folk off. So stop looking at black folk and saying, well,
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  Speaker 3: they're going to show up. Yes, we will show up
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  Speaker 3: those that will and we will do the right thing.
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  Speaker 3: Every candidate, if they win on the Democratic side, is
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  Speaker 3: going to have the best numbers out of a demographic
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  Speaker 3: known as black folk. That is true. But to pull
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  Speaker 3: out more black people, stop playing with us, stop ignoring
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  Speaker 3: us and going after people that truly look at being
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  Speaker 3: a Republican as an identity. It's like looking at me
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  Speaker 3: and saying, yeah, you black, but pretend you not. And
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  Speaker 3: when you go deep south, a lot of them, it's
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  Speaker 3: an identity. The other thing that I'll finally say is
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  Speaker 3: I don't want Democrats to be disillusioned with this idea
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  Speaker 3: that once they win today, it's because people love the Democrats. No,
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  Speaker 3: that is not true. What they are is they're frustrated
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  Speaker 3: with the Republicans. And so you are going to have
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  Speaker 3: to deliver. I mean, heavy is the head that wears
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  Speaker 3: the crown. You are going to have to deliver for
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  Speaker 3: the American people an agenda that makes them say, you
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  Speaker 3: know what? I do mess with the Democrats. And I
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  Speaker 3: think that that may be the biggest challenge. That is
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  Speaker 3: where the Republicans kind of went wrong. They delivered, but
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  Speaker 3: all they delivered was harm.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think some of the issue is we spend
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time talking to black folks as consumers,
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  Speaker 1: like business talk to us as consumers and not as
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  Speaker 1: you know, shareholders in an economy. When you consider how
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  Speaker 1: we're talked about in the political process is black voters.
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  Speaker 1: It's not, you know, black electoral power, black overall civic engagement.
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  Speaker 1: It's part of the problem that we like start and
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  Speaker 1: stop every election.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think that that's a problem just generally with the Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: We don't stay engaged. One of the things that happened
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  Speaker 3: down in the valley that people don't understand in Texas
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  Speaker 3: is Republicans actually set up these like centers where And
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  Speaker 3: these centers were providing diapers and doing all kinds of
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  Speaker 3: stuff year round. So they were consistently engaging with the community.
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  Speaker 3: We don't do that. Right. Like everybody knows as soon
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  Speaker 3: as the politicians show up to the black church, they like, oh, oh,
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  Speaker 3: it's election time because they like all coming through.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, the reality is that people think talking
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  Speaker 3: to the average black person, you can say the same
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  Speaker 3: thing and you're going to get. You know, all the
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  Speaker 3: black people, it's not true. Black people, just like everybody else,
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  Speaker 3: we're not a monolith. But right now, I want to
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  Speaker 3: say that black wealth and black equity are the things
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  Speaker 3: that we're striving for the most. And honestly, most politicians
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  Speaker 3: are not even talking about how we can put black
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  Speaker 3: folk into a better situation as it relates to wealth
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  Speaker 3: and opportunity. We're not having the conversations around what do
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  Speaker 3: these contracts look like? And do we have people that
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  Speaker 3: are in position that are saying, you know what? 20%
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  Speaker 3: of the taxes that we're getting in, they're coming from
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  Speaker 3: Black folk. But how much of this governmental money on
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  Speaker 3: the city, the state, the county, or the federal level
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  Speaker 3: is then going back into their pockets to create generational wealth?
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  Speaker 3: We're not having those conversations. We're not talking about the
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  Speaker 3: fact that folk are unable to get their home loans,
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  Speaker 3: unable to get their business loans. We just simply ignore
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  Speaker 3: that entire conversation. And I think specifically when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to Black men, that is one of the things that
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  Speaker 3: is most frustrating. Because they're saying, yo, we want opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: Not don't tell us about how you want to raise
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  Speaker 3: the minimum wage, because that's not what we're trying to
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  Speaker 3: go do anyway. Like we want to build our own
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  Speaker 3: for our families. And to be perfectly honest, the best
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  Speaker 3: way to really build black wealth in this country looks like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: you know what? Let me make sure that this black
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  Speaker 3: person has a black business, because guess what? They are
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  Speaker 3: more inclined. The numbers show it. They are more inclined
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  Speaker 3: to hire black folk.
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  Speaker 2: So Jasmine Crockett is here, right? That's right. But she
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  Speaker 2: wants everybody to go out and vote all throughout the country. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely in Texas.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, yes. Hey, hey, hey, hey, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Vote the entire ticket. I am so tired. Vote the
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  Speaker 3: entire ticket. You know, and this is everywhere. One of
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  Speaker 3: the reasons everybody's nervous in Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: But Jasmine, when you say vote for people at home
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  Speaker 1: who don't know what vote the entire ticket means, describe
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to vote for every Democrat on the ticket.
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  Speaker 2: I need you to go all the way down.
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  Speaker 3: You see what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: Like that's not.
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  Speaker 3: No, go all the way down because, you know, people
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  Speaker 3: look at Georgia. When you look at Georgia, they have
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  Speaker 3: only gone Democratic for federal races. They've done it for presidential.
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  Speaker 3: They've done it for Senate. And the reason that Georgians
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  Speaker 3: are not getting the full love that they need is
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  Speaker 3: because they've not changed that governor's mansion. And for all
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  Speaker 3: of y'all talking about Ossoff or what not need to
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  Speaker 3: be president, you're going to need a Governor Keisha Lance
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  Speaker 3: Bottoms to make sure that she can appoint whomever, if
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  Speaker 3: for some reason they both run, one of them runs.
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  Speaker 3: I know Senator Warnock is absolutely saying he's looking at it.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to need, if one of them is successful,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to need a governor, Keisha Lance Bottoms. Don't
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  Speaker 3: wait until after the fact and be like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 3: now we got a Republican as a senator, right? When
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  Speaker 3: we looked at the redistricting efforts, it wasn't me that
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  Speaker 3: got to say so in what my district would or
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  Speaker 3: would not look like. It was the state level. And
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  Speaker 3: if people think this redistricting fight is done, it is not.
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  Speaker 3: They are now going to go into the state houses,
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  Speaker 3: your county positions, your school boards, your city. They're going
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  Speaker 3: to do it everywhere because as this president has said,
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  Speaker 3: he has said, vote, vote, vote. But if that don't work, cheat.
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  Speaker 3: They are not above cheating. He has told them to
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  Speaker 3: do it. And so you have to start playing the
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  Speaker 3: long game, y'all. Stop just being like, okay, well, we
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  Speaker 3: showing up for this one and then we done our work.
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  Speaker 3: We have to stay in it. They stayed for 50
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  Speaker 3: years to get rid of Roe v.
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  Speaker 2: Wade.
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  Speaker 3: We have to be committed and we know that there
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  Speaker 3: is a 2028 election that is coming up. We know
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  Speaker 3: that we have to change the party that is in
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  Speaker 3: the White House. And so y'all got to keep this
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  Speaker 3: energy up. In fact, I want bigger and better energy
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to the presidential in 2028.
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  Speaker 2: We got to wrap. So Jasmine Crockett, we appreciate you
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  Speaker 2: joining us. But tonight. We're doing a People's Election Night.
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  Speaker 2: Break it down on what's happening and if people can
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  Speaker 2: still pull up on us.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. So the People's Election Night.
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  Speaker 1: And since you're welcome, I don't know if you're hopping
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  Speaker 1: to another state before the end of the night, but
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  Speaker 1: 8 p.m. to midnight Eastern, we are going to be
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  Speaker 1: live in New York City. To register, you have to
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  Speaker 1: RSVP at peopleselectionnight.com. At that point, we will share the
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  Speaker 1: address for security reasons. And then we have a breakfast
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: club will be joining us for part of the program.
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  Speaker 1: Fat Joe, Nick Cannon, Janae Nelson from LDF, which is
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: the legal defense fund who argued the Supreme Court case
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  Speaker 1: on redistricting on voting rights.
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  Speaker 3: And tons of other guests.
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  Speaker 2: Gordon, Bacari Sellers.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, keep naming them, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about the people with range.
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  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, and I'm so sorry that it feels
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  Speaker 1: like people don't have range, but I think we have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people with tons of different experience that matters,
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  Speaker 1: and that is your everyday lived experience as well as
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: your political experience.
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  Speaker 4: I do want to ask you, Daphne, so when you
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  Speaker 4: lost the Senate primary, what hurt the most? Was it
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  Speaker 4: losing the opportunity? Was it the way things unfolded or
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: was it the criticism that.
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  Speaker 2: People gave you?
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  Speaker 3: I think what hurt the most was the lies. Like,
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  Speaker 3: dealing with, you know, Republicans lying on you is one thing.
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  Speaker 3: But having your party literally just make up stuff when
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  Speaker 3: it's like you have receipts, you've been out there, you know.
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  Speaker 3: It was the lies that people put out there simply
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  Speaker 3: to seemingly propel my opponent. I think that that's what
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  Speaker 3: hurt the most. And then I think after the fact...
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  Speaker 3: Just believing that or putting out this rhetoric that basically
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  Speaker 3: I'm a sore loser. And I'm like, bro, that's not
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  Speaker 3: even the case. Because if you are going to run
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  Speaker 3: for an office like Senate in a state like Texas,
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  Speaker 3: before you enter the race, you have to say, you
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  Speaker 3: know what, there's a chance I could lose. Like, you
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  Speaker 3: have to say that, right? So I accepted that before
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  Speaker 3: I even ran. And personally, you know, there are people
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: that want to stay in politics forever because they feel
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: like they need a title that's never been me. I
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  Speaker 3: always needed change. That was the only reason I engaged
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  Speaker 3: in politics. Like, if you can run a million pieces
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: of tape on me where I'm like, I hate politics, right? Like,
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: I do. I still do. But I'm in love with
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: the opportunity to create better for people. So when people
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: are like, oh, she a sore loser, so she won't
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  Speaker 3: do this or that. No, what y'all need to understand
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  Speaker 3: is that none of y'all have ever run any elections.
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  Speaker 3: Number one. Number two, you definitely run a winning election
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  Speaker 3: in Texas. And number three, when you choose a nominee
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  Speaker 3: for whatever position, you have to trust them to run
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  Speaker 3: the game that they ran.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Like he was selected because he said that he was
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  Speaker 3: going to go after Republicans. That is what they said
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  Speaker 3: that I couldn't win. which also there was a lot
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  Speaker 3: of racism in it, just like, oh, well, she can't win.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: And it was all because I was black and or female, right?
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  Speaker 3: But also just this idea of, okay, my idea was
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  Speaker 3: to go after kind of the people that nobody ever
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: talks to. That was my idea. That's where I wanted
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: to zhuzh up the voter turnout. And for those that
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: haven't studied the numbers, you know, I got more votes
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  Speaker 3: from black folk than Barack Obama got in 2008 in
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  Speaker 3: raw numbers.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 3: That is not, like, to win that primary, I should
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  Speaker 3: have needed maybe 500,000, 600,000 votes. I did about twice that, right? So, like,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't, so people were just saying stuff like, oh,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: she ran a bad campaign. No, I was going to work,
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  Speaker 3: but I was still coming back, and I was working
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  Speaker 3: super hard, working throughout the entirety of the state. So
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  Speaker 3: it was just, like, the lies and the mischaracterization of,
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  Speaker 3: and the demonization, and it wasn't coming from Republicans. I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to be perfectly honest. The best ads, the ads
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  Speaker 3: that I felt like were fair, were actually the Republican ads.
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  Speaker 3: So I didn't anticipate that the Republicans and the Democrats
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: would attack me at the same time. Most people don't
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: have to worry about that in the primary, right? But
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  Speaker 3: we had millions that was spent by our governor against me.
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  Speaker 3: But their ads were fair. The racist ads were coming
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  Speaker 3: from the super PACs. On behalf of my Democratic opponent. So,
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: you know, that was kind of the thing. But overall,
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: I think after the fact, a lot of my hurt
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  Speaker 3: came for the down ballot candidates because when Beto ran,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: he ran really, really hard with the down ballot. And
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: he doubled down on being a Democrat. And he came
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: like the closest, right? Like he was like, let me
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  Speaker 3: go get all these Democrats. He went all across the
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  Speaker 3: state so that everybody could hear from him. But he
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  Speaker 3: swept in, you know, like 12, 13 state house representatives,
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  Speaker 3: including James Tallarico. We flipped three court of appeals. We
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  Speaker 3: were able to make real change in our state because
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: it was bigger than just kind of that one position
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  Speaker 3: possibly getting over, which is something that we've seen in
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  Speaker 3: Georgia where it's like, yeah, we've got the top that's
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: gotten over, but we've not seen the change below.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why you chose to focus on the down battle.
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  Speaker 3: Correct. We've even seen in Tarrant County specifically, which is
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  Speaker 3: our third largest county, in Tarrant County, we know that
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Beto won that county, but nobody won countywide. We know
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: that Joe Biden won that county, but nobody won countywide.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: So then next thing you know, it was in the
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  Speaker 3: national news that they cut on today one third of
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  Speaker 3: their polling locations. They cut almost 100 polling locations. That
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  Speaker 3: decision was made by the county judge.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And so, you know, when we're looking at this state
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  Speaker 3: not having the numbers that we should have, it is
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  Speaker 3: voter suppression. It is a bit of voter apathy as well.
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  Speaker 3: But it's these games that are run by people that
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  Speaker 3: are lower down. And even when you look at cutting
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  Speaker 3: out my seat or chopping and screwing the seats up
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  Speaker 3: in general, that came from. the state level. So like
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: we gotta be bigger than it's just one race and
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: we've got to get people to vote the entire ticket,
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  Speaker 3: which is why I've been stressing that. But if we're
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  Speaker 3: really going to see change in a state like Texas,
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  Speaker 3: we absolutely have to get some of these down ballot
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  Speaker 3: candidates across the finish line. And you know what? I
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: can honestly say that I may not have been successful
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  Speaker 3: on the Senate race. Ultimately in the end, because I
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  Speaker 3: honestly would have been doubling down on Democrats. I would
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  Speaker 3: have been focused straight up on Democrats and running with
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  Speaker 3: my down back.
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  Speaker 2: You know a lot of people are against what you said,
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  Speaker 2: vote the entire ticket, right?
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  Speaker 4: Because it goes back to the day where you vote
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  Speaker 4: what your mama voted for, you vote what your grandmother
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  Speaker 4: voted for, Democrat, Democrat, Democrat, Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: And people are against that because they're saying... Maybe one
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Democrat might be for you, but there might be a
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  Speaker 2: Democrat on that line that's not for you. So a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people are against this.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of racist white people do that, too, though.
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  Speaker 4: They'll go vote for John Ossoff and be like, I'm
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  Speaker 4: not voting for Keisha Land.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's a real thing. But I will tell you that, again,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: this goes back to us understanding how this works, right?
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  Speaker 3: So you may love, like, for instance, when I was
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: in North Carolina, I kept saying, you may love Roy Cooper,
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: and I want you to love Roy Cooper, and I
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: want you to send Roy Cooper to the Senate. But
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: even when I went into North Carolina, the whole coordinator
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: was like, hey, we really want you to focus on
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  Speaker 3: the down ballot. Everybody else understands the power of that
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: because Roy Cooper can't do nothing by himself. It is
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  Speaker 3: a team sport. And even if he gets the numbers
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  Speaker 3: in the Senate, you still need something to happen in
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  Speaker 3: the House. And they gerrymandered those districts in North Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: That was another one of the states where they're trying
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  Speaker 3: to take more seats away. So he's going to need
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  Speaker 3: a partner. Same thing with Federal dollars, like most people
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  Speaker 3: don't realize, yes, we go off to D.C., but the
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  Speaker 3: only reason that we know that you need roads and
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  Speaker 3: bridges and whatever it is that you need is because
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: the person on the city level, the county level, the
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  Speaker 3: state level says, hey, give us this money. When we
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: look at a state like Texas, and as I brought
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  Speaker 3: up Tarrant County, Tarrant County is not pulling down on
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  Speaker 3: federal dollars. If they end up electing a Democratic candidate,
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  Speaker 3: county commissioner's court, even if they don't rock with those candidates,
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  Speaker 3: I promise you that county hospital, they may be looking
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  Speaker 3: to close because they're not going and getting those dollars
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  Speaker 3: on the federal level. They will now. So you have
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: to look at it and say, if I want my
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  Speaker 3: favorite to be successful, my favorite needs a real big team.
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  Speaker 2: Needs some backup.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: You know, one thing that you mentioned, you talked about
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  Speaker 1: chopped and screwed seats. For those at home, you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about redistricting. Texas was the testing ground. Correct. For what
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  Speaker 1: the Republicans did to Louisiana, Alabama, what they attempted in Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: attempted in Mississippi.
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  Speaker 3: What they did in North Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: What do you wish they— What they tried to do
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  Speaker 3: in Missouri. What do you wish.
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  Speaker 1: They would have— that folks would have learned— from what happened
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  Speaker 1: in Texas. State legislators left the state like you did
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  Speaker 1: when you were in the state legislature to avoid that
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  Speaker 1: vote at all costs. They sent a sheriff after former
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: colleagues of yours that tried to prevent this redrawing of districts.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: What do you wish folks at home knew and what
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: could we have done differently or better?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that right now, this is your chance.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I want people to know is that you've
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: got to vote every single... When it comes down to U.S.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: reps and House reps on the state level, we're voted
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  Speaker 3: in and out every two years. So we've got to
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  Speaker 3: stay focused on that. We know that the census is
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: coming up in 2030. The normal time that we go
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: through redistricting would then be we get new seats for 2032.
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  Speaker 3: And so it is important for us to get these
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: gubernatorial mansions. You know, a lot of people are not
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: talking about Nevada, but we need to be talking about Nevada.
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  Speaker 3: As well. And some of these other black, yeah, some
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: of these other black folk that are running for governor
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  Speaker 3: because when, even if they don't have the numbers in
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: the House and the Senate, we need somebody that's looking
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: at these seats and saying, you know what, I'm not
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: going to do this because it's racist. And when we
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: looked at the data afterwards, there were a lot of
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: allegedly white folk, according to polling, that said that they
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: wasn't really tripping about what was happening to these districts.
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  Speaker 3: And the reality is that When black people are in power,
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  Speaker 3: I promise you, it helps everybody. When I fight, my
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: fight is for the most marginalized. Everybody benefits. And so
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: I want people to just stay diligent, to make sure
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: that they know who their state reps are, make sure
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: that they know who their state senators are, and that
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: they specifically are voting those races. The final point that
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: I'll make is that, you know, as I've been stressing
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: the down ballot, down ballot, down ballot, it is very
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  Speaker 3: personal to me. I came from the down ballot. A
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: lot of people are like, where Jasmine come from? I
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: was here the whole time. Been the same person the
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: whole time. It was just less cameras on me. But
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: there is so much talent as everybody's like, oh, well,
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: where's our talent? Even for the entire country that is
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: gone like Talafico crazy. He came from the down ballot.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Like y'all got to understand that like this is a
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: great training ground. for your current and your future leaders
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 2: It's great.
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  Speaker 4: When you talk about the black people on the ballot,
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: the black effect is real, right? And not even just
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: the black effect, the brown effect. Because I think if
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: there was no Jasmine Crockett, Tyler Rico controversy in Texas,
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: if there was no Dr.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, if.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: There was no Angie Nixon in Florida, if there was
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  Speaker 4: no Jermaine Johnson in South Carolina, no Keisha Lance Bottoms
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  Speaker 4: in Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: Even though people like Ossoff, I don't know if people
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  Speaker 2: would care about them in terms of the way that
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  Speaker 2: they do.
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  Speaker 3: I absolutely agree. I think that we really need to
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: better understand what black folk bring to the table. And again,
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: and you're saying black and brown, and I'm not hating
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  Speaker 3: on brown whatsoever. We know that the numbers are going
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: to be there when it comes to black folk, right?
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: Like we know that the average Democrat should walk away
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: with no less than 80%. Most of them should get
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  Speaker 3: about 90%, which is why when they did go after
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: the seats, they specifically went after black representation. That is
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: where they targeted because they know what black folk do.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: And listen, what black people do, it's not to say
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: that black people are in love with the Democrats, because
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to say that whatsoever. But black people,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: as I've heard over and over and over, they vote
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: for harm reduction. And that is what they do. So like,
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: we don't have the privilege of being like, well this
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: person on this one issue unless that issue specifically is
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: blackness we like okay we just don't have to deal
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: with it like that's what we do because we understand
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: that making some progress is a lot better than regressing
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: um but i agree with you in the sense that
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: people are going to have to give their due respect
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: to the black folk that are on the ticket's In
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: these southern states.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Charles Booker in Kentucky. Charles, all of them.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Scott Colon.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Scott Colon.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and I don't... Jamie.
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  Speaker 1: Davis in Louisiana. I think a lot of people are
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: sleeping on him. Common sense farmer that, like, has blown
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  Speaker 1: my mind.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Jamie, listen, I thought that there was a lot of
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: opportunity in Louisiana because of the Kalei decision, right? Because
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: it came right there out of Louisiana. And black folk
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: went to the state house. They were fired up. They
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: were pissed off. So I was like, okay, cool. And
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: they had a... a recall effort, and the recall effort
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: didn't really go the way that I really wanted it
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: to go. And I thought, this is the organizing tool.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: If they organize this recall, then we're going to be
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: in really good shape. But black people are showing, again,
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Louisiana is another one of those states where literally about
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: one-third of the state is African American. They should have
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: two congressional seats in that state. They should have two
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: congressional seats in Alabama. They had them in Louisiana. They
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: did have them, and they eliminated it. Same thing in Alabama,
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: where they're trying to get rid of Shamari Figures. I
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: think Shamari Figures is going to overperform. You also have
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Doug on the ballot. I think that it's going to
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: be interesting, and the story of the night is really
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: going to be about black folk. And as I've gone out,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: I said, forget the candidates on the ballot. Forget whether
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: or not you love them. Be in love with yourself.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: This election has to be personal. It has to be
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: deeply personal. Going to vote has to be about yourself
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: because right now we have been personally attacked as black folk.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: We know that we were targeted as it relates to
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: job loss. We know that we were targeted as it
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: relates to our representation. In Congress, we know that we've
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: been targeted as it relates to our access to education
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: as they've brought in this anti-DEI movement. We have been
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: on the receiving end of everything this administration has tried
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: to deal out. So right now, this needs to be
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: personal and it needs to be about your get back.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: That is my deal. So forget the names. This has
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: to be about you and what you deserve and sending
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: a message to this administration and any future administration. If
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: you want to play in our faces, we're going to
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: show you that we can play back.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: What is Jasmine Crockett doing after January 3rd?
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Making money!
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Woo!
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Making money! Listen, y'all forgot, you know, I mean, listen,
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: I can't play the Trump games, you know what I mean? Like,
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: he's out here breaking every law and should be under
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: every jail you can find. You know, we know specifically
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: as black folk, like, I'm not finna cut outside the lines, right?
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: And so it is a financial difficulty. I mean, I
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: remember talking to my pastor who was going to take
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: my seat in Congress, and I told him.
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  Speaker 2: Freddie Haynes.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Freddie Haynes. I said, You shouldn't do this. I didn't
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: want my pastor to run. Y'all are getting this exclusive.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: I still vote for Freddie Haynes. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying that.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: I just want to make sure it don't become a thing.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Trust me, I've been in some stuff this week. No,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: because my deal is, you know, I love my pastor.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: And my pastor is older, established, and most ministers make
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: money off of going and speaking, right? Like, they go,
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: we can't get paid to speak. Every speaking engagement we do,
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: we have to do it for free. So there's I mean,
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: and he's a dynamic speaker. So he got to cut
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: all that out. He has to cut all that out.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: So you're reducing your income. Yet you got to add
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: a crib.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: So now you have to add a second crib. And
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  Speaker 3: so I'm just like, it's not worth it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: at this age to kind of rearrange your entire life.
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  Speaker 3: For me, being single, being childless, like, yeah, I took
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  Speaker 3: a dip in money, but it wasn't really impacting like
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: my child. It wasn't impacting my husband. And I had
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  Speaker 3: not built bills around, you know, something more extravagant.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Not to mention just the, you know, having to potentially
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  Speaker 3: be back every Sunday. It is a lot like it's
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  Speaker 3: just a lot of strain on you. And so to me,
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  Speaker 3: if you love somebody, you're going to be real about it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, to be clear, I told Christian Menefee not
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  Speaker 3: to run. And I tell him, you know, I told
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  Speaker 3: everybody as I was out there campaigning for him on
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: the trail. And my deal with Christian was different because
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  Speaker 3: Christian had little kids.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And so I was like, OK, sometimes people get an
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  Speaker 3: attitude when you bring your family to D.C. But you
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  Speaker 3: spend more time in D.C. than you don't. And like
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: not being there with your little kids as they're growing up.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: So to me, I look at quality of life. And
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: I really try to counsel people in a very real
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  Speaker 3: and honest way so that they understand what they're getting
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  Speaker 3: themselves into. For me, I still want to help out
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  Speaker 3: as much as I can. I have traveled just this
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  Speaker 3: cycle without me being on the ticket to Nevada, to
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Oregon, Mississippi, California, Alabama,
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  Speaker 3: New York. That's all I can think of at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: But I have traveled, like, all around. And I fully anticipate, as,
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  Speaker 3: you know, some of the presidential hopefuls have reached out
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  Speaker 3: to people around me, trying to figure out what I'm
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: going to do. I anticipate I'll be traveling and working
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: the country again on behalf of the next presidential. But
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: we will see. Tonight I won't be there because I'll
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: be broadcasting live. So there are some news outlets that
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: are trying to talk to me. So I fully anticipate
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  Speaker 3: possibly doing.
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  Speaker 2: You can write books. You can get paid to be
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: a political pundit.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: All the things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But I still I mean, I love this country and
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: I am grateful that God saw fit that a part
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  Speaker 3: of my story would include time in politics in a
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  Speaker 3: different way. There are so many young people. I was
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: at Johnson C. Smith here recently and the students were
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: telling me, I mean, it is mind blowing when I
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: meet a student who's like, I'm a poli sci major
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  Speaker 3: because you made me pay attention to politics and I
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: want to go to law school and I want to
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  Speaker 3: do the same thing. And I think that that's probably
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: the most beautiful thing that I can kind of leave
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  Speaker 3: Congress with.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Get your money, Jasmine. Why not? Jasmine Crockett, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for joining us this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Travel safe.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: All right. And you want to tell them again what
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: you're doing tonight? One more time on Netflix, please. We're
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: doing what we're doing.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Yes, we are doing the people's election night. You can
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: sign up to register to view on YouTube at people's
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: election night dot com or to be in person. If
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: you're in New York, we have a ton of amazing
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: guests and partners. Y'all shout it out, Bakari Sellers. We
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: have Native Lampad with Breakfast Club.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Ed Gordon.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Yes, we have Fat Joe. We have Alfonso David, Rashad Robinson,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Monique Presley. We have a ton of partners. Regina Wallace-Jones
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: is going to join us from Illinois, from Juliana Stratton's
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: election watch night event, which we know is going to
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: be successful. We have April Verrett, who's the international president
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: of SEIU. A ton of really amazing guests. Maria Teresa Kumar,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: poster Joshua Doss, and Garrison Hayes will be at the
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: results desk. We're going to be calling races live.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: You said Ellie Mistel?
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Ellie Mistel is going to be there.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: The great Ed Gordon?
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: The legendary Ed Gordon will be working the crowd with
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Mimi Brown. And if they can't be there, how can
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: they watch? On YouTube, on all of our YouTube channels.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: We're going to be streaming live, so definitely tune in, y'all.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: All right.