00:00Donald Trump is the president of the United States.
00:03That's pretty bad.
00:05Why are we winning elections?
00:06And I think the answer is obvious.
00:09People are sick and tired of status quo politics
00:13and establishment politics and establishment policies.
00:18Hello, Minnesota!
00:20I want to say a few words about the election coming up this Tuesday.
00:26And let me start off with some very bad news.
00:30Donald Trump is the president of the United States.
00:34That's pretty bad.
00:35I think, as all of you know, he is an authoritarian,
00:39doesn't believe in the Constitution or the rule of law.
00:43He's a kleptocrat.
00:45He's made billions of dollars in wealth for his family since he's been president.
00:50He is a narcissist.
00:52This guy had his way.
00:54I suspect he'd worn half the buildings in America named after him.
00:58He lies every single day.
01:01He is at war with the working families of our country.
01:06Massive tax breaks for the rich through 15 million people off the health care that they had.
01:13And he has gotten us into this terrible, terrible war in Iran, which is, by the way, illegal and unconstitutional.
01:23That's the bad news, though.
01:26Here is the good news.
01:27The good news is that we as progressives are winning elections all across this country.
01:35We have won elections in New York, in New Jersey, in Colorado, California, in Washington, D.C., Seattle, Washington, in
01:45Ohio, in Montana, and a number of other places.
01:48And as I think most of you know, just the other day in Michigan, the progressive movement won two congressional
01:56elections and the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.
02:05Tremendous winning, tremendous winnings, three in a row in Michigan.
02:10So why are we winning elections?
02:12And I think the answer is obvious.
02:14People are sick and tired of status quo politics and establishment politics and establishment policies.
02:24They understand all across this country, in Vermont, Minnesota, Michigan, everywhere.
02:29They understand that our economy is rigged, that while working families struggle to put food on the table, pay for
02:36groceries, pay for health care, pay for housing, pay for everything.
02:40While they are struggling, the billionaire class, the people on top, have never, ever had it so good.
02:46They understand that we have more income and wealth inequality today than at any time in the history of the
02:54United States.
02:54Remember the Gilded Age, Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Jay Gould, all those trillionaires?
03:01What you got now is more inequality than existed during those days at the end of the 19th century.
03:08And the American people also understand that we have a corrupt campaign finance system which is allowing billionaires and their
03:17super PACs to buy elections.
03:19Bottom line, the working families of our country want change.
03:25They want real change.
03:28That's why progressives all over this country are winning elections.
03:33And that's what Tuesday's election in Minnesota is all about.
03:38Peggy Flanagan understands that we have a corrupt campaign finance system.
03:45And she knows that very well because she is experiencing it right now.
03:52Billionaires and their super PACs are spending a record amount of money against her in this election.
03:59Somewhere around $20 million in the state of Minnesota.
04:04And if you can believe it, Peggy is being outspent 7 to 1 in outside, from outside spending.
04:14You know, what Peggy believes and what I believe, we believe in democracy.
04:18You got an opinion that's different than ours? Fine, go out. Let's argue it.
04:21You want to run against me? You want to run against Peggy? Fine. That's called democracy.
04:26But we cannot continue a broken and corrupt campaign finance system that allows billionaires to buy elections.
04:34And that's something very high on Peggy's agenda.
04:37Peggy also understands that our current health care system is broken.
04:41It is dysfunctional. It is wildly expensive.
04:45And that we need to do what every other major country on earth does.
04:50Guarantee health care to every man, woman and child as a human right through a Medicare for All program.
04:59And Peggy understands that we need to raise the minimum wage nationally to a living wage.
05:05And that we must demand that the billionaires in America finally start paying their fair share of taxes.
05:14Peggy understands that we're never, never going to support cutting Social Security when so many of our seniors are struggling
05:23today with inadequate incomes.
05:24And rather we have to expand Social Security by lifting the cap on taxable income.
05:30And she understands that we cannot allow Elon Musk and Zuckerberg and Ellison and Altman and other multi-billionaires to
05:44push their AI, their artificial intelligence policies, their robotics policies, through without strong safeguards.
05:53In other words, we've got to make AI and robotics work for working families, not just for the wealthiest people
05:59in the country.
06:01And unlike the President of the United States, Peggy understands that climate change is not a hoax, but that it
06:10is real.
06:11And that we can create millions of good paying jobs transitioning away from fossil fuels and toward energy efficiency and
06:19sustainable energy.
06:21Bottom line, or as all of you know, what Peggy is fighting for, what I am fighting for, what all
06:30of us are fighting for, is a government that represents all of us, not just the 1%.
06:38But in order to make that happen, we need Peggy in the United States Senate.
06:45So please, in the next few days, do everything that you can to see that Peggy Flanagan wins the Democratic
07:00Senate primary and that she becomes, in November, the next U.S. Senator from Minnesota.
07:09This is an enormously important election.
07:12Please, in the next few days, do everything you can to help Peggy.
07:16Let's win this thing.
07:17Thank you all very much.
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07:27Bye behind you.
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