00:00I've spent the last three days in Michigan, starting in Traverse City and up the peninsula with the next congressman
00:07from the 1st District, Callie Barr.
00:11Yesterday I was with our wonderful nominee, the next congressman from the 4th District, Sean McCann, in beautiful Saugatuck.
00:21And I realize you guys have it all going on here. You've got the sunshine, you've got the beautiful beaches
00:28on Lake Michigan, you've got the weather, you've got the culture.
00:33So my question for you is, why does Mike Rogers live in Florida?
00:42In this momentous election, I came here to endorse Abdul Sayed for the United States Senate.
00:52And we need Abdul in the Senate because he's an epidemiologist, he's a renowned public health expert,
01:00he's the former director of the Department of Health and Human Services and Veterans Services of Wayne County, Michigan.
01:07He's the public health authority that we need to lead the fight against all of the special interests to pass
01:14Medicare for all in America,
01:16so health care will be a basic right for all citizens and not a high-priced luxury good for the
01:23wealthy.
01:26Abdul, we're counting when we make it happen.
01:30We're spending more on health care than any country on earth, $15,000 per person,
01:36double what they're spending in Canada or the UK, other countries, they're getting much better outcomes than we are.
01:43We are being outpaced on all of the critical measurements by other countries, other industrialized countries,
01:52including infant mortality, maternal mortality, life expectancy, chronic illness, you name it.
02:00We need Abdul, the Health and Human Services Director who started out right here locally in Wayne County, Michigan,
02:08to stand up for the public health against Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, okay?
02:16We need a real doctor in Congress because the Trump administration has a staph infection, okay?
02:25Do we have any medical students or pre-med students here?
02:29Any? Maybe they're not back in yet.
02:31We've got, all right, we've got a few.
02:34Well, who do you want leading public health policy in America?
02:37A graduate of the University of Michigan, the University of Michigan Med School,
02:42the Columbia Med School, who got lead out of Detroit public schools
02:46and got free eyeglasses to all kids in Detroit who needed them,
02:51or a guy who picked up a dead bear cub that had been hit by a car on the highway
02:58in upstate New York
02:59to bring it home and skin it for a family roadkill dinner, okay?
03:05Do you want a guy who's worked effectively right here in Michigan
03:09to immunize the population against all of the killer diseases,
03:14or a guy, the Secretary of Health and Human Services in Washington,
03:18whose deranged conspiracy theories are contributing to a shocking resurgence of measles from Texas to Pennsylvania?
03:27It's clear that we need Abdul.
03:30I'm proud to be a Democrat.
03:32We are a big tent party because we've got a lot of people in it,
03:36and more and more every single day.
03:38I want to thank my friend Haley Stevens for running a strong, vigorous campaign
03:44and then strongly endorsing Abdul for the U.S. Senate.
03:48And congratulations on your engagement.
03:53You know, I had a Republican colleague who said to me,
03:55the problem with you, Raskin, you're not a bad guy, but the problem with you is you're a liberal.
04:00And I said, you're damn right I'm a liberal.
04:01The heart of that word is liberty.
04:03And I'm a progressive because the heart of that word is progress.
04:06But my favorite thing to call myself today is a conservative
04:10because I want to conserve the land, the air, the water, the climate system,
04:15the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Social Security, Medicare, Medicare,
04:20between the Air Act and the Water Act, the Federal Labor Standards Act,
04:24the National Labor Relations Act.
04:26Everything that this party of nihilists and authoritarians and oligarchs wants to destroy
04:32is everything that we are going to defend together.
04:35The liberals, the progressives, and the conservatives are going to defeat
04:39the autocrats, the plutocrats, the theocrats, and the kleptocrats in Michigan.
04:45And of course, I know I know.
04:50So, I've got a slogan for you, Michigan.
04:55I've got a slogan for you in this momentous campaign where everything is on the line.
04:59And we teach it to the young people in Democracy Summer.
05:03We've got some Democracy Summer fellow kids here.
05:06Thank you for joining us today.
05:08Look, it's simple.
05:10Teach the young people this.
05:13Everything that you need to know about voting
05:16is everything you need to know about driving.
05:19If you want to go forward, you put it in D.
05:23If you want to go backwards, you put it in R.
05:26That's all you need to understand.
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