A fiery political clash has erupted as Kamala Harris sharply criticizes Donald Trump over the escalating Iran conflict, calling it a dangerous and unnecessary war that risks American lives. In recent remarks, Harris accused Trump of dragging the United States into a conflict “the American people do not want,” intensifying the already heated political divide over the ongoing crisis.
The comments come as tensions surge in the Strait of Hormuz, where U.S. warships were recently targeted in missile and drone attacks—though U.S. officials say all threats were intercepted and no ships were damaged. Meanwhile, Trump has downplayed the escalation, describing the situation as a “love tap” while insisting that a fragile ceasefire with Iran is still holding.
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The comments come as tensions surge in the Strait of Hormuz, where U.S. warships were recently targeted in missile and drone attacks—though U.S. officials say all threats were intercepted and no ships were damaged. Meanwhile, Trump has downplayed the escalation, describing the situation as a “love tap” while insisting that a fragile ceasefire with Iran is still holding.
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00:00war in Iran, which the American people do not want,
00:04which was not authorized by conference,
00:07but even if it was, it should not have been initiated.
00:10He talked about obliterating, and then he said, oh, he didn't.
00:13It's all just...
00:15Bullshit!
00:17Bullshit!
00:21Where we're talking about gas prices going up,
00:25where we're talking about the American people's suffering,
00:29and for what?
00:31And that's, you know, this is part of how we have to understand
00:35how the irresponsibility.
00:38Vice President Harris, welcome back to the Battle Born State.
00:45Hi, I see many friends.
00:47You've been to Nevada many times over the years, though.
00:51You're no stranger to Nevada.
00:52No, Nevada's my first cousin.
00:56But let's catch up.
00:58Fill us in.
00:59How have you been, and what have you been up to?
01:01Oh, thank you.
01:02I am well.
01:03All things considered, I am well.
01:05Doug is well and sends his best to everybody.
01:10Our kids are well.
01:12I've been traveling a lot.
01:16And, you know, I've had this real need to just listen.
01:20And so I've been traveling our country and listening to a lot of folks.
01:24And that's been good.
01:27It's been good to do.
01:30You know, there's a lot of suffering, we know, and fear,
01:36and all of the emotions that one rightly feels when they see the brutality and the injustice
01:44of what we have witnessed.
01:46But I will tell you, in my travels, there's a lot that should give us hope also.
01:51And renew our faith in what is possible, especially when we, like we are doing this afternoon,
02:01sit together as a community of people who care and who love and who fight for what's right
02:09and who maintain an understanding that anything that we stand for is worth fighting for.
02:19And we stand for a lot.
02:20And we're up for a good fight.
02:31We've, you know, a few of us have been traveling the state and doing just that.
02:35And I think that's really important.
02:37Yeah.
02:38Well, you recently gave a speech where you said we need a post-Trump vision
02:43that specifically calls for a revival of the American dream.
02:47And you are speaking to my heart here.
02:49I am a die-hard believer in restoring the American dream because my family lived it.
02:56So can you talk to us about what that looks like?
02:59Well, let's start with this.
03:02Look, for far too many people in our country, the American dream is not real.
03:12And, in fact, for many people in their lived experience,
03:16it's what they would consider an American myth.
03:20And we have to be honest about that.
03:22You know, so in my travels, I've been spending a lot of time, for example, in the South.
03:27I was in Jackson, Mississippi.
03:31And what I've been doing is meeting with, in particular, nonprofits,
03:36and meeting with the folks that they serve.
03:38And so I met this woman, got to know her, and I went grocery shopping with her.
03:44She is a mother of three children.
03:49She receives SNAP benefits.
03:52She likes to do hair, but she needs a license, so she's putting herself through cosmetology school.
03:59Her weekly budget for food for the four of them is $150.
04:07We went grocery shopping.
04:09I went grocery shopping with her.
04:12At the discount grocery store, you know, the cart barely can move.
04:20She's picking out things, putting them in the cart.
04:23I then asked her, then this is a woman with grace and with dignity and poise.
04:28And I asked her, well, what's in the cart for you?
04:32And that was the only time she broke down to share that she will eat whatever the kids don't eat.
04:39She was explaining to me, you know, when we were kids, like the Chef Boyardee came in a can.
04:44It's now in, like, a red plastic cup.
04:46And she was explaining how it was, it's more expensive now than it was a couple months ago.
04:53It was all tariffs and all, right, all this ridiculousness.
04:57We then go and, and there, we go into the beverage aisle, and she's buying bottled water.
05:05Now, on that tight budget, she explained to me she's buying bottled water because, you see,
05:09the water that comes out of her tap is brown.
05:13And sometimes it's so bad she can't bathe her children in that water.
05:19And she looks at me and she says, you know, there are a lot of people like me.
05:24And this was the thing that was most poignant.
05:27And she said, don't they see me?
05:31When they're talking about the economy as this and that, don't they see me?
05:39And she's working hard.
05:42She's taking care of her children.
05:44She loves her children.
05:46She's putting herself through school.
05:48She wants a better life for herself and her family.
05:52So when I talk about the American dream for so many people has become an American myth, I'm talking about
06:00that.
06:00I'm talking about the woman I met who shared with me, she's documented.
06:05Her husband is not.
06:07Her children are born here.
06:09They are, obviously.
06:12And she's a housekeeper.
06:13And she was explaining to me how the building in which most of the folks that she knows, immigrants, live,
06:22an apartment building,
06:24it's like 30% occupancy right now.
06:26It never has been that way.
06:27Why?
06:28Because they know that these buildings are where the raids are happening.
06:32So families have moved out of those buildings and are now renting basically unfinished basements in people's house scattered out
06:43around the community
06:44so that they won't be a target.
06:47So paying more money than they should ever be paying for an unfinished basement.
06:53How women that live in her community are not going to the hospital to give birth for fear that their
07:02baby will be taken from them.
07:06These things are happening in America.
07:10So when I think about all of this and I think about the fact that right here in Nevada, because
07:16of what's going on, you know, we can talk about, you know.
07:22We can talk, we're going to get to that.
07:26We're going to get to that.
07:27But here in Nevada, it costs 20 more dollars at least to fill your tank than it did months ago.
07:35Here in Nevada, it costs $1,500 more a year because of all the tariffs, right, which we predicted.
07:46When you look at how many people are struggling, I just say that it is time for us, I think,
07:56to agree as part of our vision
07:58that not only are we going to deal with the crises of this moment and fight and march and organize
08:05and vote,
08:07but we also have to have a vision, and part of that vision in my mind has to be about
08:15a revival of the American dream,
08:20an American revival.
08:21And, you know, I'm talking about good old home, like, revival.
08:24You know, like, if any of you have been, like, at a church revival, you know, there's some shouting and
08:29some singing and some dancing
08:30and some, like, it can be good, right?
08:35But a revival, and what does that look like?
08:39Well, where if you work a 40-hour week, you can afford your rent and food on the table
08:49and maybe a vacation from time to time, not scraping to get by, praying you can get through the end
08:56of the month.
08:56What does that look like?
08:58It means affordable housing, affordable childcare, and not scraping to get by,
09:06when right now in America, childcare is, in some places, more expensive than rent.
09:14When we talk about caring about families, revival of American dream,
09:19where we have a tax code that's not just about benefiting vast wealth,
09:25but about benefiting hard work, a public education system, right?
09:34Revival of an American dream, where we have a public education system
09:38that is about preparing our young, bright minds for the workforce of the 21st century
09:45and not for a lifetime of debt.
09:48These are the things, right?
09:53And so that's what I'm talking about and thinking about and calling for,
09:59which is we know that when we have been at that state where we believe that hard work pays off,
10:09that being engaged in the community and being a responsible civic member, right,
10:19engaged in our community, that that pays off.
10:24Because right now there are so many people who don't believe that they can dream
10:31and actually achieve something.
10:36And I've traveled not only around our country, but around the world.
10:41And when you look at what is happening in our country in terms of our psyche right now,
10:48we've got some work to do.
10:50And it's going to be the work of all of us, by the way.
10:52I know it's the work of the people in this room.
10:54That's why we're all here together this afternoon.
10:56But it's got to be all of us, right?
11:01I mean, I think part of it is about a civic renewal.
11:05You know, I'm traveling, and people ask me all the time, what can I do?
11:11Well, you all know what to do.
11:12That's why we're all here together.
11:14That's why you're active in the party.
11:16That's why you're knocking on doors and organizing and reminding people of the power of their vote.
11:21You know, a civic renewal.
11:23People say, well, what does that mean?
11:24I said, well, you know, like they've been cutting all the benefits to all of these nonprofits
11:28who are taking care of the homeless, who are taking care of families who are in need.
11:34Volunteer, right?
11:36You'd be shocked, the number of nonprofits that if you call them up and say,
11:40hey, I've got ten extra dollars, can I send it to you?
11:43Or I've got one day a month that I can come in for a few hours, what that would mean.
11:47I'm like, heck, you know what?
11:49Do the things that are about the power of neighbor to neighbor, right?
11:54The power of the individual in a community.
11:56It could mean, you know, you're going to go on a Costco run,
12:00and then you tell that single father or single mother that, you know,
12:05hey, I'm about to run the Costco.
12:07Can I pick up anything for you?
12:10Because in this environment right now, people are feeling so unseen and heard,
12:18and they're feeling so alone.
12:20And when we try to think about how are we going to get through this,
12:25we cannot let these forces that are about brutality,
12:30we cannot let this administration that is the most corrupt, callous,
12:35and incompetent presidential administration we've ever seen.
12:44They cannot let them distinguish our spirit.
12:48They can't extinguish our spirit.
12:51We have, each of us, a light inside of us.
12:55We've known those moments where we enjoyed this so much.
12:59It was in each of us.
13:01Nobody gave it to any of us.
13:03It was in us, and we saw it in each other, that light.
13:08And in particular in moments of darkness,
13:12that light is most important.
13:16And so that's how I'm thinking about this moment.
13:19And when I talk about, you know,
13:22I'm calling for a revival of the American dream,
13:25it's about all of that.
13:27But it is about putting the power with the people.
13:30Right?
13:31Yeah.
13:32Thank you for that.
13:37I want to say thank you, because there were a couple of things you said.
13:41You know, you talked about Americans not believing, and I agree.
13:43I think they're facing a crisis of hope right now.
13:45And so thank you for fighting for restoring that American dream
13:48to make it a dream and no longer a myth.
13:50And you said you went grocery shopping with a woman.
13:55You met her where she was.
13:57You went out and you met the voters where they were.
14:00And you probably made her feel seen for the first time in a very long time.
14:06So thank you.
14:07Yeah.
14:12I have another question for you.
14:14So often here in America, we can feel isolated from the impacts of global issues.
14:21But right now, we aren't.
14:23We have gas prices soaring, and a lot of us look at what's happening with U.S. leadership
14:29around the world, and we are incredibly concerned and scared sometimes, too.
14:34You spent a lot of your time as vice president working to rebuild America's relationships.
14:40What do you think about what's happening right now, and do you think America's reputation
14:47can recover?
14:51So, you know, that's actually a great segue from where we were, because, like, a revival
14:56of the American dream includes that we as a nation agree that it is consistent.
15:04It is consistent with that dream and creating opportunity in our nation that we would have
15:10and invest in affordable health care and affordable housing and affordable child care, and not
15:15in a war that nobody wants, right?
15:20Billions of dollars.
15:23And so, you know, where we are, I'm very concerned, I must admit, but I think we can get on
15:32the
15:32other side of this, and I also believe it's going to take some time.
15:37As vice president of the United States, I've met with over 150 world leaders, presidents,
15:44prime ministers, chancellors, and kings, many of them multiple times, and I developed
15:50relationships with them.
15:51And I will tell you something, Donald Trump is the first president of the United States,
15:59of either party, Republican or Democrat, since World War II, who has thumbed his nose at the
16:08importance of America's relationships with our allies.
16:11Democrats, thumbed his nose at it, walked away from them, points fingers at them, calls them names,
16:19degrades them in the Oval Office.
16:21He's the first president of the United States, of either party, who has not assumed a responsibility,
16:30imperfect though we may be, to be a standard bearer around international rules and norms,
16:38such as sovereignty and territorial integrity, see what's happening in Ukraine.
16:43First one.
16:45And you know, these relationships, foreign relations, it's really like relationships in your personal
16:52life.
16:54So your friendships, the strength of a friendship will be based on, do we have mutually recognized
17:01the history of the relationship, where we've been, what we've been through?
17:05Is there truth and honesty in the relationship?
17:09Is there consistency in the relationship?
17:12Can I count on you?
17:13Are you present?
17:17And he has abandoned so many of these relationships.
17:22NATO.
17:24Understand.
17:25Listen, as vice president, I went and represented the United States of America at the Munich Security
17:32Conference every year.
17:33And I would speak in front of our NATO allies in Munich.
17:37And I'll tell you, the first time I went, I realized how much the 1930s are in their blood
17:48and bones as a memory of how things can go and how bad it can be.
17:57And not as much, I think, in our memory, of what tyranny and fascism and brutality and abuse
18:07of power can look like.
18:10You know, when I look at what's happening, in addition to all of that and because of it,
18:17we are losing, we are losing, we have become, America has become more unreliable.
18:25We've become unreliable to our friends.
18:29Unreliable as a friend.
18:30To the young leaders here, you don't want to ever be an unreliable friend.
18:36And we have also, therefore, lost our influence.
18:43And again, I will say, imperfect though we certainly are, whatever influence that we may have had
18:51to talk about issues like human rights, democracy, we're losing our influence.
19:01And what that will mean is extraordinary in terms of America's security and prosperity.
19:13Because, you know, let's remember, when America isolated ourselves, we have a history of this.
19:20And then Pearl Harbor happened.
19:24And then we decided, oh, we have to, we can't, we can't go it alone and disregard what's happening in
19:32the world.
19:35So, I'm, I'm very concerned about it.
19:37And, you know, the, the, when you look at this, this war in Iran, which the American people do not
19:44want,
19:46which was not authorized by conference, but even if it was, it should not have been initiated.
19:51He talked about obliterating and then he said, oh, he did.
19:54It's all just.
19:57Bullshit.
19:58Bullshit.
19:59Bullshit.
20:01Bullshit.
20:03You made me do that.
20:06I promise I'm not going to curse in public anymore.
20:11You made me do that.
20:15She was over here just saying.
20:19But, but what has, what is happening though is, is, is we are, we are not only losing our authority,
20:28we are, we are literally engaged, where we're talking about billions of dollars, where we're talking about gas prices going
20:38up,
20:39where we're talking about the American people suffering.
20:43And for what?
20:46And, and that's, you know, this is part of how we have to understand how the, the, the, the irresponsibility
20:52of, of this administration is profound.
20:55And by the way, back to the analogy about friendships.
20:58So as vice president, I also spent a lot of time in, with, in, in, in the context of the
21:03Indo-Pacific and in the Indo-Pacific.
21:06I, I, I traveled and spent a lot of time with the leaders of Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia.
21:15Because, you know, we here on this, this coast of the country, we know that our relationship to the Indo
21:20-Pacific is a direct one.
21:22And so I spent time with the leaders of those nations, understanding that where we can have and find common
21:29ground, we must.
21:32So, they, they, they have pretty much completely abandoned that focus.
21:37And as we all know, nature abhors a vacuum.
21:41So, guess who's moving on in?
21:43Somebody asked me recently, where does China fit into all this?
21:45And I kind of flippantly said, well, they're just sitting back eating the popcorn.
21:49But, but really what's happening is they're moving in to fill a void.
21:56I spent time as vice president working on re, the, changing the narrative between the relationship of the United States
22:04of America with the continent of Africa.
22:06That it should not only be about aid, but it should be about partnership.
22:10Understanding that by 2050, it is, it estimated that one in four people on earth will be on the continent
22:16of Africa.
22:18You know how he talks about African nations, our adversary Russia.
22:24You want to know who's the big winner on, on the Iranian war?
22:28Russia.
22:30Because, because of the oil issue, what has he done?
22:33He's lifted sanctions on Russia.
22:35You know what that means?
22:36They're making money to sell oil that otherwise they were prevented from selling.
22:40What else does it mean?
22:41We're sending artillery, ammunition, air defense that otherwise would be going to Ukraine.
22:48That's right.
22:50So the consequences are profound.
22:55You're talking about going, taking over Greenland, which is a territory of Denmark, which is a NATO ally.
23:03So, but anything, but he's not, he, I don't, I don't, I'm not going to dismiss him as being an
23:09idiot.
23:09He's dangerous.
23:12Yes.
23:12He's dangerous.
23:15And, and America's security and prosperity are on the, in the hands and on, on the line in terms of
23:26what he does and does not do.
23:29Greenland, anything we want and would have wanted, we could get diplomatically.
23:36And you're talking about, you know, Article 5 of the NATO, so I, I, I, I know y'all didn't
23:41want to hear all this, but I'm just going to share it with you.
23:43Look, the NATO alliance, right, it is, is the strongest military alliance the world has ever known.
23:54And there's a part of it, Article 5, which basically is kind of like all for one and one for
24:01all.
24:02If you are a NATO ally, if we are both NATO allies and you get attacked, I'm stepping up to
24:08help you.
24:08Article 5.
24:09Article 5, okay, so if we are talking about initiating a military action in Greenland, that would ignite Article 5.
24:19But the second point, probably more importantly to make, do you know the only nation of all the NATO allies
24:25who has ever benefited from Article 5?
24:28Article 5, us, when our allies stepped up to support us after 9-11.
24:38So it's going to take a while and I have traveled out of the country, you know, a couple times
24:44since the election and here's what I will say and then we can move on to another subject.
24:49But one of the things that I also know from my work internationally is the strength of the relationship between
24:59nations.
25:00Yes, it is dependent on all of the things we've discussed.
25:03Yes, it is also dependent on the relationship between leaders.
25:08And I do believe what fortifies it most importantly is the sense of the connection between the people of nations.
25:18And that's where we all come into play.
25:22That's where we all come into play.
25:24So we're talking about the midterms.
25:27People around the world watch what happens in our elections, obviously, and not only the election for president.
25:34So the work that we, the American people, do around these midterms will be part of what we signal about
25:42what we care about and who we are
25:44and that we have not, we in this room, have not abandoned our connection to our ideals and principles and
25:54values.
25:55Right?
26:01And speaking of the midterms, because you've referenced, you know, our NATO allies having, you know, memories of the abuse
26:08of power.
26:09And I'm hoping after these midterms, abuse of power becomes a distant memory when we win back the House and
26:15the Senate, right?
26:17But it's not going to be easy, guys.
26:19It's not going to be easy.
26:21They are throwing all kinds of obstacles in our way, that that decision from the Supreme Court on the Voting
26:27Rights Act.
26:29It's my next question for you.
26:30Oh, great.
26:31Yeah.
26:32So last week, the Supreme Court threw a devastating blow, right, hammering the Voting Rights Act.
26:39How do you think that's going to play into the midterm election?
26:42I think it's going to have a profound effect.
26:44You already have seen.
26:44Look, first of all, so I was interviewed recently, and they said the first question was, so, because it was
26:53the day of it happening.
26:55And they said, well, when you first heard about it, what did you think?
27:00And because I was in California, we're on Pacific Standard Time, it was really early in the morning.
27:08And, again, pardon my language, but so the first thing I heard about it was at the crack of dawn,
27:13and I was like, I thought this was going to happen in June.
27:18I didn't think it was going to, because normally a lot of the big cases come down in June.
27:24Okay, I'm not a conspiracy theorist.
27:26I just pay attention.
27:36So, part of, to answer the question, the midterms, why did they come down with this decision so early?
27:44To give all those states, you see what's happened, Mississippi, Tennessee most recently, Louisiana,
27:51so they could pull together what they need to do around redrawing their lines.
27:55You saw just what happened in Tennessee, to redraw those lines, to get those ballots printed for the midterms.
28:03Understand what's happening.
28:05I was in North Carolina.
28:07North Carolina, and let me tell you, I went to go visit a group of students,
28:11because I'd been reading about how they're organizing around voting.
28:14These students attend North Carolina A&T.
28:17It is the largest HBCU in America.
28:23These young leaders have been organizing, because the officials there took their polling place from the campus.
28:33So, whereas we raise our children, especially when they hit that age, college age, whether they're in college or not,
28:41where we want them to set up good habits, we know that that's the stage at which you will develop
28:48your patterns for what you'll do in your life.
28:52So we want, don't we?
28:54We want that our young people will have as part of their pattern that they vote every election, whoever they
29:00vote for.
29:01They took their polling place.
29:05And then, oh, and then when I met with them, they shared with me.
29:09So they organized and went up to the Capitol to go speak.
29:15And do you know what they were told in the chamber?
29:18You only have five minutes.
29:20I'm not finished.
29:22You only have five minutes to leave.
29:31The arrogance of the brutality of this attack on voting rights.
29:40And so we should, by all accounts, based on merit, win the midterms.
29:47But it is not going to be easy.
29:50People say to me, well, you think they're going to cancel the elections?
29:53No, I don't, because if you thought no king's rallies were a big deal, people will definitely take to the
29:59streets.
29:59I don't think they're going to do that.
30:01What they're doing systematically is making it more difficult for people to vote.
30:06Look at the SAVE Act.
30:08So the SAVE Act that they keep pushing.
30:11So what that would do is for new registrants to vote, to prove your identity,
30:16you'd have to have a birth certificate or a passport.
30:19Well, passports cost at least $100 to get.
30:23So can you say poll tax?
30:26Right?
30:28If you are one of over 60 million women in America who changed your name when you were married,
30:37the name then on your birth certificate is going to be different than the name on your driver's license or
30:43your ID.
30:44Have fun going through that bureaucracy to try and reconcile that.
30:49And it's already difficult enough to try and take time off, especially if you work in two or three jobs
30:54or you have two or three children.
30:56So this is what's at play.
30:59They're making it intentionally more difficult for people to vote because they know people are not stupid
31:08and are paying attention to the cost of gas and the cost of housing and the cost of this war
31:15and the cost of the brutality on vulnerable people who deserve to have a government that lifts them up instead
31:23of beating them down.
31:24So let's get ready for this.
31:28This election upcoming in Nevada is going to be so important.
31:33Aaron Ford winning for governor is going to be so important.
31:40You know, because you know, so much of what's been happening is about this shift of power around local and
31:53state government.
31:54So while we always pay attention to the presidential, which we must, these local races, these state races around the
32:04country,
32:04And I will say, candidly, I think that's where, you know, the Democratic Party could have done much better around
32:13paying attention to local and statewide elections and issues and supporting that.
32:23Because that's where this is all coming. It's bubbling up from a long-standing agenda that they've had to invest
32:31in those areas so that now you have these state legislators who are doing things like telling those students at
32:38North Carolina A&T, you have five minutes to get out.
32:43So we have work to do, but we know how to do that work. We know how to do that
32:49work. It's like, good, okay, so this is our fight? All right, I got it. Right? Just tell me what
32:57the fight is, and then I know what to put on. Right?
33:06Well, speaking of midterms, and what I see now is a room of fired-up Democrats. Ready, right? Ready?
33:16Thank you for firing them up. And we get a lot of people asking us, what can they do? You
33:23know, people are frustrated, and they want to know, what can we do?
33:27Well, you can vote, right? But we obviously have midterms ahead of us, and here in Nevada, we have reproductive
33:34rights on the ballot, I guess.
33:37It's the second time. We need to pass it this time. We passed it the first time, but we need
33:41to pass it the second time to codify it.
33:43So Nevada is a state that prides itself on protecting choice, and we've been doing that since Roe v. Wade
33:49was overturned, but we kept telling everyone, this isn't the end.
33:53They're going to keep coming after choice. They're going to keep coming after choice, and we saw that they just
33:58did again.
34:00So what would you tell people who want to get involved? What can they do right now in this moment?
34:09Well, part of it is, again, the power that we – you know, okay, let me just step back.
34:16There's so much about this moment that has made people feel all those emotions, from anger to sadness to depression,
34:25frustration for sure,
34:27but has also made people feel hopeless and powerless and alone.
34:38And let's speak to that for a moment.
34:41You know, there is nothing that makes you know your strength and your power more than – you know how
34:47it feels when you help somebody out?
34:49Oh, it makes you feel good, doesn't it?
34:53And there's so much good that we can do, just neighbor to neighbor, that is about that, to just remind
35:02us of our power.
35:05And, you know, when we do it, and when we all do it, what that means in terms of strengthening
35:11community around, as much as anything, around hope
35:15and a belief that we are being seen and heard.
35:20There is the work that we need to do around – first of all, everybody just check your voter registration
35:25status.
35:27Anybody you know in another state, remind them to do that.
35:30That seems like, oh, why would we do that? That's – we've never had to worry about that before.
35:34Well, with all this business of them purging the voter rolls, not to mention how they've been going and taking
35:40ballots from various states,
35:41remind people, check your voter registration status.
35:44Make sure you check your polling location.
35:46Part of the game that they're playing, again, to make it more difficult, is this shell game, closing voting –
35:51polling locations.
35:53So, you know, your parents and your grandparents always voted at that elementary school down the street.
35:58And then on election day, if that's the only day they choose to vote, they'll walk down there and it
36:02won't be there.
36:04So some of the basics, too.
36:06Just let's check those things.
36:08Volunteer to be a poll worker.
36:11Volunteer on a campaign.
36:13Figure out how you can support candidates.
36:16And in that way, it is really – it's, you know, I will tell you – okay, this is a
36:24total digression.
36:25But campaigns, I've been in a lot of them for myself and others.
36:30And campaigning is fun, right?
36:33You meet the best people.
36:35You meet the angels walking among us.
36:39Right?
36:42There are babies that have been born because of my campaign.
36:49Marriages and babies and all that.
36:53Now I see the young people.
36:56But, I mean, the bottom line is this, and I know we're running out of time.
37:01I firmly and strongly believe that when you feel powerless, you are powerless.
37:10And when you feel powerful, you are powerful.
37:14And we are powerful.
37:16And we are powerful.
37:18And so let's just show ourselves, each other, our power around the midterms.
37:26And every day, and every day that we are seen, we see each other, that this is our country.
37:34We love our country, and we are going to fight for its ideals.
37:38We are going to fight for the dream.
37:42We know that that fight can be difficult.
37:45But we're not going to let them get in our head and defeat us.
37:50Because there is so much at stake and so much good, so much good to be done.
37:56So thank you all.
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