#BlackVotesMatter Election Night 2025 | #RolandMartinUnfiltered - #RolandMartinUnfiltered

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Folks.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Is the election Night twenty twenty five. We got the
blackest show out of here. We're gonna break down all
the different races one hundred and ninety.

Speaker 9 (02:58):
Elections taking the place all across the country. Golomatory races
in New Jersey, state wide races in Virginia, Will Democrats
control the House in Virginia plus the Senate? And will
they have a trifecta in the state plus New York
New York City mayor race, mayor race in Detroit, Seattle,
locally lectures, Supreme Court races in Pennsylvania, constitual amendments in

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Texas plus Prop fifty in California.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Lot to cover.

Speaker 9 (03:22):
It's time to bring the funk right here on the
special edion Roland Mark Unfilcher on the Black Study Network.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Let's go see elections all across the country. This is

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the map right here and again you got Virginia, New Jersey, Texas, California, Seattle, Detroit,
all sort of races happening all across the country.

Speaker 9 (04:40):
And this is a huge election. Of course, the midterm
elections are next year. What I've been saying to everybody
since last year's election, stop talking about twenty twenty eight,
stop talking about twenty.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Twenty six, and focus on what's coming up next. And
so we're going to be covering all of these important races,
telling you exacintely what's going on.

Speaker 9 (04:57):
Can Democrats regain their mojo? Old maga be shut down
all across the country. In Virginia, uh, they of course
have a unified victory party at the convention Center there.
Our own Brittany Noble is live in Richmond, Virginia. Let's
go there, Brittany Gibbons a sense of what's happening there
at the Democratic victory Party.

Speaker 10 (05:21):
Well, Roland, we are starting to see the results of
one of the most closely watched elections in a commonwealth's
history at the gilst vanburgers of her justice winner of
the governor's race here in Virginia, and it offers a
window into the minds of voters across the country since
pregant Donald Trump returned to the White House.

Speaker 11 (05:40):
This is also home two hundreds of thousands.

Speaker 12 (05:42):
Of federal workers who have been impacted by the one.

Speaker 7 (05:45):
Going government shutdown.

Speaker 9 (05:46):
So for a few other reasons why it.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Is one of the few.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
I can't hear whip Bam.

Speaker 6 (05:58):
Is this shot.

Speaker 9 (06:06):
I can't hear her, and of the growing anti.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Trump energy in the country when a.

Speaker 13 (06:19):
Women's healthcare rights and to restore quote decency and stability
to politics, she went tonight, which again she's a projected winner.
She would not a major win for Democrats nationally who
hoped not just to turn Virginia blue, but ultimately hope
they'll be able to ride dissatisfaction with President Trump all
the way back to control of Congress and the White House.
Her opponent was a States current Lieutenant governor, Republican Winsome

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Earl Sears.

Speaker 14 (06:43):
She's a Marine Corps veteran.

Speaker 13 (06:45):
Who was the first black woman ever elected statewide in Virginia,
she would have to become the first black woman in
US history ever elected to the governor's mansion. It's also
fitting that the first black woman governor could come from
here in Virginia, since it's Virginia that elected the country's
first elect governor following reconstruction. Virginians are also choosing their

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next lieutenant governor, their attorney general, and holding elections for
all one hundred seats in the State House of Delegates tonight.

Speaker 15 (07:16):
I will continue following.

Speaker 13 (07:18):
These races here from her election camp, and I will
continue to bring you the latest results from Richmond, Virginia
back to Europe.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
All right, Brittany, So first of all, we see right
now that folks are going coming on the stage there.
We've seen some folks. So are they calling this race?
These are the top Democrats? Come into the microphone there,
So what's.

Speaker 9 (07:39):
Actually happening right now in the stage behind you?

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Brittany? Can you hear me? Brittany? Can you hear me?
All right? So, all right, so here's the whole deal.
Let's try to find out what going on.

Speaker 6 (08:01):
Again.

Speaker 9 (08:01):
We're seeing some of the early lecture results coming in
and it looks like the top Democrats are gathering on
the main stage there, and so we're gonna go live
to them in just a moment. To of course, here
from folks who are gathering on the stage, we had
a lot of folks who.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Are in studio.

Speaker 9 (08:17):
We got guests who are gonna be coming on the
show join us right now is Natasha Brown, co founder
of Black Lives, Black Voters Matter. We don't have Natasha,
all right, so let me know again we have Natasha.
And so again as you can see is go back
to Richard, Virginia. You see right there, they're all coming
on the podium there and as I look at them

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coming up again, we're already looking at some of the
exit polling data. It looks like differently in the governess race,
it's gonna be a big blowout Abigail Spanberger against Winsome Seers.
The numbers are there showing white voters, black voters, women
voters going for Democratic candidates compared to the Republican candidates.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Also, also we're already.

Speaker 9 (09:03):
Seeing right now, folks in Georgia, what are we talking
about in Georgia? We said how critical these races are.
Two Public Service Commission seats that deal with utility rates.
Democrats apparently are winning both of those commissioner seats in Georgia.
Republicans have been winning statewide across Georgia, so already we're

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seeing results there, and so that is a huge, huge
night for Democrats in Georgia winning those two seats. We're
gonna be looking at a lot more of these other
election results to break down exactly you know what's going
on right now. I want to go over here to
folks who have gathered in our studio. We're gonna be
breaking down the election results all night. So let's go

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to them, and so let's start talking about what's happening again.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
We're looking at.

Speaker 9 (09:51):
These results and so be gone over here.

Speaker 16 (09:55):
So, folks, what's happening?

Speaker 17 (09:57):
All right?

Speaker 3 (09:58):
I'll get you. They're not sponsoring up no tense off
the table, that's right. We all well gabies.

Speaker 9 (10:09):
Around this showIn ain't no freebies at all. So let's uh,
let's get right into it here.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Of course, a lot of folks here, let's hang out.
Let's stop an lead former Senior.

Speaker 9 (10:20):
Advisor Revironmental Justice, the e p A who's joining us
right now, of course, Uh, Eugene Craig, Uh X Factor
Media with us as well in Soul Long, Victoria and
Burke Black Virginia News and then PAO and resident of
Kylevin Carter.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Uh.

Speaker 18 (10:39):
Figure of that.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Whole thing out uh.

Speaker 9 (10:43):
Is going on, and so I'm gonna actually, uh, they
choose everybody else in the second we first do this here, Lauren,
I'm gonna start with you give us a sense you've
been coverings happening in Virginia, a sense of what this
race has been like.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
Uh, In leading up to tonight, the races.

Speaker 19 (11:00):
It's been topsy turvy because of the Attorney general situation.
Jay Jones with regard to the text messages, really the
suspense for this race is his race, which of course
is tightening. I would just remind everybody the last report
in the Commonwealth of Virginia is Fairfax County, which is
one of the bluer counties that'll report really late, and
that would be good for Jay Jones. He is head

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by a little bit right now. But I think it's
a surprise for everybody to see what a beat down
this has been so far in terms of Abigail Spamberger's
race being called seventeen minutes after seven o'clock.

Speaker 20 (11:32):
With the polls closed, that was just over. The Spamburger
race is over right immediately.

Speaker 19 (11:38):
As somebody who worked for Lieutenant governor justin Fairfax, we
had to wait all night for that, aylarly kind of
very I think the Democrats be very happy to see
that sort.

Speaker 20 (11:47):
Of quick result.

Speaker 19 (11:48):
Lieutenant Governor's race also looks like it's pretty much over.
That State Center Gazalah Hashmi versus John Reid, that looks
like it's over as well.

Speaker 20 (11:58):
So everybody's waiting for the Jay Jones race.

Speaker 19 (12:00):
I went to a Spamburger event on Sunday in Norfolk, Virginia,
and it was kind of quiet. This has been kind
of a weird race, kind of boring, not particularly exciting,
but quite frankly.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
A win is a win.

Speaker 19 (12:13):
Abigail spanbg Burger showed a lot of message discipline and
if she prevailed, it.

Speaker 9 (12:18):
Has been quite hilarious to watch these right wingers, especially
the last forty hours.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
So here is here is win. Some seers on Fox News.

Speaker 9 (12:28):
Whining and complaining about former President of Barack Obama not
endorsing her for governor of Virginia, and y'all want to
see stupidity and roling.

Speaker 16 (12:42):
This is the president.

Speaker 21 (12:43):
But remember Obama was supposed to be the president of
hope and change.

Speaker 22 (12:47):
Whatever happened to all that?

Speaker 23 (12:49):
Where is the hope, mister president?

Speaker 24 (12:51):
Where is the change?

Speaker 21 (12:52):
President Obama? Of course we know it's all hypocrisy. And then,
of course last year this time, he told everybody to
vote for the black woman. Well, Charlie, here I am,
here I am, And now he's singing a different tune.

Speaker 7 (13:07):
Hypocrisy all the way.

Speaker 21 (13:09):
But the Virginia voters are seeing through that because we
are for common sense and my opponent, Abigail Spamberger is
for nonsense.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
All suddenly like being called black, you know, I mean,
these isn't amazing that they were like, oh I do
need politics? And now why isn't he endorsing me?

Speaker 6 (13:26):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (13:27):
How about because your hands crazy? Well?

Speaker 25 (13:29):
Or or better stated right, maybe she should have supported
the black woman against Trump in twenty twenty or supported
the black woman last year against Trump in twenty twenty four,
and I read black.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
Against the hell hounty. Well this is just badly.

Speaker 6 (13:44):
I'm like, are you on, Craig?

Speaker 25 (13:46):
So apparently now you know the likes of Winsom series
and Winsom some nice lady personally, but when it comes.

Speaker 26 (13:51):
To the politics.

Speaker 25 (13:52):
You know, she she's going on for pocerpsy. Crazy as hell.
I got kicked out of the group up for lightening
up a couple of years ago.

Speaker 20 (13:58):
You know, crazy, I was on trans she's up there, She's.

Speaker 25 (14:02):
She's not Mark Robinson, robbers She's okay, first of all,
Mark Robinson.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
I mean, yes, that is so the crazy. I mean,
I mean.

Speaker 24 (14:10):
She's not.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
She's but no, but it is crazy.

Speaker 6 (14:16):
But the thing is that they're not.

Speaker 25 (14:18):
The thing is this right, and this is later in
the night, get into this. But Black Republicans are gonna
have to make a decision, right. I made my decision
last year when I've not ran Black Republicans for Harris
Right and what I'm going to stand on in this
Maga transition to Postmaga world, people like Winston Sears are
going to have to make the decision on what they
want to do, what they want to be in this.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Political world calling forward.

Speaker 25 (14:38):
You cannot get on Fox News and play to a
racist audience, because that's what Fox News has at this point.
You're quote unquote race card. You know, your your own
DEI card. If you can't even say when one more time,
if that's what you wanted to do. In twenty twenty four,
you could have supported the black woman against a literal tyrant.
Or in twenty twenty you could have supported the black

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woman that would have been vice pres against a literal ty.

Speaker 9 (15:01):
Lawn did did did Winstom show up to the public
meeting at the LACP Virginia?

Speaker 24 (15:07):
She did not?

Speaker 3 (15:09):
No, has she does? She dropped by any HBCU doing
a campaign. Where does she go?

Speaker 20 (15:15):
She went to Norfolk State. She did get food.

Speaker 19 (15:17):
She made made an unfortunate mistake of being the person
before Bobby Scott also she got food and then Bobby
got you what.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
Here's my whole point.

Speaker 9 (15:26):
Has has Uh the wisdom seeds offered anything of an
agenda that black people say, you know what, I'm down
with that.

Speaker 19 (15:33):
No. Unfortunately, she spent the entire campaign talking about trans
bathroom issues.

Speaker 20 (15:37):
That was a massive, massive mistake.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
But I'm just telling you she thought trans was gonna win.
I was gonna do for her like it did for Trump.

Speaker 19 (15:45):
Big mistake, big mistake, and so nobody cares about that.
When you looked at the polls, the major polls, the
Washington Post, the Washington Poll, and you ask voters. What
they cared about is education, healthcare, saving democracy. Trans is
way down the list. That made absolutely no sense. She's
not a bad she really isn't a bad person. I
had to deal with her on a transition team from
justin Fairfax to win some sears. She really isn't I

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was actually surprised the Republicans effectively did a film and
Louise and drove the car off the clip, okay, because
I thought they were gonna switch candidate out quite frankly
and give her, you know, commandant of the Marine Corps
or something like that and the Trump administration. But they
ran her and they got the result that I really.

Speaker 25 (16:22):
Keep her and something they'll have a good relationship anymore.

Speaker 6 (16:25):
They don't.

Speaker 7 (16:26):
He called, she called Trump.

Speaker 19 (16:28):
See she said that the party should move on from
Trump as a Trump hates her.

Speaker 22 (16:32):
She's really a she's sort.

Speaker 19 (16:33):
Of a throwback black Republican. She's not a Santus Magar.

Speaker 25 (16:36):
Yes, she's played the fifties. She's been Yeah, I guess
she's trying to jump back over and jump.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Back and jump back over. I guess what.

Speaker 9 (16:42):
Now, she got a lot of free time, and I
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Speaker 3 (16:52):
In greg had the call for America studies. Howard University
of Julian Mavo of course being in college. Uh Uh.

Speaker 9 (16:58):
President Emerita ben In colle Uch economists as well, of
course also joining us right here, Marcus back to the
National Book Director.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
People put the American way. And of course we got
gumbo queens sitting here in no brain none, Georgetown University
School of Farm Service, got everybody here in the house.

Speaker 9 (17:15):
We got other folks are gonna be joining us, Tiffany Lofton,
we got Latasha Brown. A lot of folks are gonna
be hanging out.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Uh. But let's first talk about his Virginia raised. I've just,
first of all, I've been I've literally literally been laughing.

Speaker 9 (17:28):
I have been cracking up the last week looking at
all of these crazy, deranged mag of people.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
You had John Fredericks, the radio show host. He's like,
it's closing, it's getting tight. He's getting tight. It's right.
I think we're gonna have an upset. All these folks.

Speaker 9 (17:46):
They, I mean, they have been feeding the algorithm.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Elon Musk Elon Musk was just hitting her drop. I
swear I was seeing post after post after post misstofa
and I'm sitting there going, y'all know she's gonna.

Speaker 6 (17:59):
Get at.

Speaker 22 (18:01):
Without a doubt.

Speaker 27 (18:02):
You know, people are tired of performative politicians. They want
reparative politicians. And that's the reason that they're losing across
the country because they know, we got forty million folks
who are.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
Living in poverty.

Speaker 6 (18:12):
We got over a half five.

Speaker 27 (18:14):
Hundred thousand people go to bed every night in this
country unhoused. We got over three hundred thousand people who
are dying prematurely from air pollution every year. You know,
we got one in three Black children and head start
and you know now they're trying to take that away.
So the performative politics is no longer something that people
are interested in. This is hopefully a new day. Two

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hundred and forty nine year old republic will see if
people actually want real change, and it looks like folks do.

Speaker 3 (18:41):
But Macha, where is Black republics and publics going to realize?
If you allow usself with Maga, we ain't fucking with you,
We ain't listen.

Speaker 9 (18:53):
This ain't light, Okay, a black rebubl get running fifteen
to twenty years ago.

Speaker 6 (19:00):
It would brook black.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Republicans to do like this.

Speaker 28 (19:03):
No, you're right, you're absolutely correct. It's going to take
a minute. But I think what's so interesting to me
tonight is what the independent numbers look like. We know
where Dems are going to be, we know where Republicans
are going to be. We're independence in New Jersey, Virginia, California,
even though California will probably go the way that my party.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Would like it to go.

Speaker 28 (19:24):
But the independent numbers, seniors, young people. That's why the
New York City race is important. Not necessarily the winner
or a loser. We know kind of who's gonna win,
But what do those numbers look like as well relative
to the splits between young people, seniors, and independents.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
The thing here again that I'm just laugh with that.

Speaker 9 (19:45):
Grig is these bag of folks because they got so
caught up saying, ooh Trump, he did so well with
black people, we're increasing our numbers, and so now with her.
Of course, Birah Donald's he thinks black people are going
to be running the his side next year. I'm sure
he gonna all of a sudden be touting uh the
HBCU he went to. Uh even though when you look

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at black stuff, they are absolutely against so many different things.
They ain't never called down Trump out, never put him
into check. And so I hope black folks in Florida
next year do what they did to win some serious
tonight in Virginia because basicbly on one edgent pole, it
shows that ninety percent of the black people Virginia voted
against win.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
Some seers, yes, sir uh as the current president of
Florida and him.

Speaker 8 (20:28):
Strike strike again here at the famiy football game. Black
people in Florida got more's just becauseially black.

Speaker 6 (20:34):
Don't we need to get a vote?

Speaker 3 (20:35):
So hopefully get into the Trumps Uh.

Speaker 29 (20:37):
You uh uh you call Laura. I don't know what
burned Downald holding boy.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yeah he did pat him on the back of his
head when they were voting for Speaking of the House.

Speaker 9 (20:54):
Interested you might see the turnout, see how this thing
breaks down.

Speaker 30 (20:59):
I mean, according to or Time as a couple hours ago,
nearly two million people, including early mail in voters, have
cast ballots in the mayoral base. That's the most number
of the New York City since nineteen ninety three. People
are people are tired of it. And you know, this
is not going to be a good night for the Republicans,
but more importantly, it'll.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
Be a good night for human beings.

Speaker 30 (21:19):
He made sure unless he cast the mail in ballot,
that will be the last time they change the votes
on this side of the earth.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
And that's probably going to balance a good thing.

Speaker 30 (21:27):
But Donald Trumps should be concerned now. He should be
concerned because you've got everything from New Jersey was probably
go to Democrats.

Speaker 26 (21:38):
In Minnesota.

Speaker 30 (21:39):
They got a one vote majority in the legislature in Minnesota.
That's probably going to whole firm. You've got the judges
in Pennsylvania Supreme Court looks like they are going to
run the table. They're maintaining their five two majority of
the Democrats. And I don't know if this time may
even lift a vote like Jersey City did y'all see what.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
It came out and said, I'm again American. Try to
get the head offen Jim McGreevy.

Speaker 30 (22:01):
Jim McGreevy, apro mayor of Jersey City, even you might
get elected. This pretends poorly for the midterms, I think,
and you know, Maga, Michael.

Speaker 9 (22:12):
Greg O Pack one second We're gonna go live to
Richmond to Brittany Noble, Brittany, go ahead.

Speaker 15 (22:41):
Tanis hmm, thank you, Yes, We're I think you here.

Speaker 17 (24:10):
All so much.

Speaker 31 (24:18):
This is to give the nice, nice fellow Virginius.

Speaker 15 (24:37):
Tonight we sent a message.

Speaker 32 (24:50):
We sent a message to every corner of the Commonwealth
a message.

Speaker 11 (24:59):
And fellow Americans the country.

Speaker 32 (25:08):
We sent a message to the whole world that in
twenty twenty five, Virginia chose pragmatism over partisanship.

Speaker 14 (25:23):
We chose our commonwealth over chaos.

Speaker 32 (25:32):
You all chose leadership that will focus relentlessly on what
matters most, lowering costs, keeping our communities safe, and strengthening
our economy.

Speaker 7 (25:45):
For every Virginian.

Speaker 32 (25:51):
Leadership, leadership that will focus on problem solving, not stoking division.

Speaker 7 (25:59):
You chose.

Speaker 32 (26:00):
He chose leadership that will always put Virginia first. In Virginia,
I cannot wait to get to work for you. Tonight
returned a page. We turned that page by listening to

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our neighbors, focusing on practical results, laying out a clear agenda,
and leading with decency and determination. To everyone who helped
us achieve this win, from the bottom of my heart,

(26:49):
I thank you.

Speaker 14 (26:58):
I thank you for the trial that you have placed
in me, and it is the.

Speaker 32 (27:04):
Honor of my lifetime to be elected the seventy fifth
governor of I would like to thank my opponent for

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a hard thought race. The Lieutenant Governor's story, her military
service and her years of service here in Virginia deserve
our respect and our gratitude, and I asked that you
join me in wishing her and her family well. I

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also know that those who were supporting my opponent are
disappointed today, and to those Virginians who did not vote
for me, I want you to know that my goal
and my intent is to serve all Virginians and that

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means that I will listen to you, I will work
for you and with you. That is the approach that
I've taken throughout my entire career. I have worked with
anyone and everyone, regardless of political party, to deliver results
for the people that I serve.

Speaker 11 (28:50):
And that's because I believe in this idea that there
is so much more that.

Speaker 32 (28:55):
Unites us as Virginians and as Americans than divides us.

Speaker 24 (29:07):
And I know, I know in my heart that we can.

Speaker 32 (29:11):
Unite for Virginia's future and we can set an example
for the rest of the nation. Our founders understood this
from the very beginning. They didn't choose to call Virginia

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a commonwealth by accident. They chose it to signify that
our government would be based on the power of the
people united for a common good, not for a political party,
not for a president, not for a monarch, but for
a common good together. And tonight, Virginia proved that that

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tradition is alive and well. We are still a commonwealth
in every sense of the word. We are built on
the things we share, not the things that pull us apart.

Speaker 24 (30:10):
And I am proud that our.

Speaker 32 (30:12):
Campaign earned votes from Democrats, Republicans, independents and everyone in between.

Speaker 11 (30:24):
That's the Virginia I know.

Speaker 32 (30:25):
That's the Virginia I love, and that's the Virginia I
will have the honor of serving as.

Speaker 24 (30:31):
Your next governor.

Speaker 32 (30:49):
I want to thank so many people for the support
that they have given to our campaign. Thank you for
your work, thank you for your support, to our tireless volunteers,
to those who believed in me, thank you. Thank you

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for devoting your time, your energy, and your conviction to
this campaign.

Speaker 22 (31:18):
Thank you for braving the weather, the heat.

Speaker 14 (31:21):
And then the cold, and then the rain, and then
the sun.

Speaker 24 (31:25):
It's Virginia after all.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Thank you.

Speaker 32 (31:29):
Thank you for talking to your neighbors about the importance
of this race. Thank you for recognizing that when we
went person to person engaging, that we could bring people
not just into supporting our campaign, but into engaging in
our democracy.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
Thank you.

Speaker 32 (31:49):
We won this race because of you.

Speaker 14 (31:59):
To our campaign team, You're the best in the country.

Speaker 32 (32:10):
Every single member of our team, every single one of you.
You work tirelessly for the change, the progress, the policies,
the connection and the respect that you want to see
in our communities. Thank you for working so hard. Thank
you for giving people hope. Thank you for knocking on

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doors in the sweltering heat. Thank you for showing kindness.
Thank you for showing up in every corner of Virginia.

Speaker 24 (32:40):
Thank you for diving deep on policy.

Speaker 32 (32:43):
Thank you for capturing moments and the essence of our campaign.
Thank you for reaching voters everywhere. And thank you for
believing that Virginia could and would send a hopeful and
joyful message tonight. Thank you for giving everything everything to

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this campaign and then some.

Speaker 7 (33:14):
And thank you to my.

Speaker 11 (33:15):
Family, to my husband Adam, my partner, and everything.

Speaker 24 (33:38):
I love you with my whole heart.

Speaker 33 (33:40):
I am grateful for you, and it is very strange
to declare my love for you in front of millions
of people, but every adventure we have ever been on
has been worth it because you have been by my side.

Speaker 34 (33:58):
I love you, I'm grateful for you, and I cannot
wait to see what the next couple of years bring.

Speaker 32 (34:23):
To my daughters, Claire, Charlotte and Catherine, you inspire me
and motivate me every single day.

Speaker 15 (34:31):
Everything I do.

Speaker 32 (34:37):
I do to build a better future for you and
for all of Virginia's children, and I am so.

Speaker 14 (34:43):
Proud of you every single day. I am lucky to
be your mother.

Speaker 22 (34:50):
And Catherine, you did not clean your room.

Speaker 11 (34:52):
Today as you promised me.

Speaker 20 (35:00):
Working on it.

Speaker 22 (35:00):
If I was working on it, we wouldn't have won
this election.

Speaker 6 (35:02):
Okay.

Speaker 22 (35:14):
To my sisters, my dearest and earliest.

Speaker 11 (35:18):
Friends, I love you, I love you, I love you.

Speaker 19 (35:25):
I love you.

Speaker 32 (35:27):
To my friends who have traveled from around the world
to be here with me today, thank you. Thank you
for making me who I am, and thank you for
always believing in me.

Speaker 14 (35:44):
And to my parents, I love you.

Speaker 32 (35:47):
Thank you for leading by example every day, and I
know that today is a day.

Speaker 14 (35:56):
That you all could have never imagined.

Speaker 32 (36:00):
But you taught me the importance of service to others
and relentless hard work.

Speaker 11 (36:07):
And Mama, when I think about your life.

Speaker 32 (36:11):
And the time spent in Foster Care to putting yourself
from nursing school and the challenges along the way, you
made clear to.

Speaker 11 (36:19):
Us that to who much is given, much is expected.

Speaker 32 (36:33):
And you have given me so much one of your
own struggles and your own challenges, and I know much
is expected. And Dad, thank you for your example of
service and tireless devotion to family and country. Nothing has
made me prouder than to follow in your footsteps so

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many steps along the way.

Speaker 17 (36:56):
I love you.

Speaker 32 (37:02):
I've I've talked a lot throughout this campaign about the
importance of service and how it shaped my life and
my approach to public office, and that all came from
my parents.

Speaker 35 (37:14):
Well.

Speaker 9 (37:15):
In Virginia, Governor Abigail's Spanburg or former of Inboro Congress,
she blows away with some sears almost seven percent of
the bows in fifty Yeah, that constitutes an absolute blow
out in Virginia. It was, like I said, it was
hilarious watching Republicans talking about all this is closing as closely.

Speaker 6 (37:36):
I think we got a shot.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
I think we got a shot. And not only that,
you also have the other races there.

Speaker 9 (37:42):
Uh, they really were saying that they were going to
pick up the attorney general race. Well, guess what it
looks like Jay Jones going to pull it out to
become the first active American Attorney general in Virginia history.
That race flipped a big time when these text messages
came out where he was talking to.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Another Republican about wishing death upon a.

Speaker 9 (38:05):
Candidate to get their attention when it comes to guns
and children. Democrats abandoned j Jones, but there were people
like sim Luise Lucas Conresce and Bobby Scott and others.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
Who said, no, we're gonna stand with that brother.

Speaker 6 (38:20):
Preacher.

Speaker 9 (38:20):
See, we're still standing with that brother, and it looks
like he is going to win that race. That's also
a huge, huge race a lawn. Democrats want to control
of the House. They wanted the house two years ago,
Don Scott became the first black Speaker of the House
in Virginia.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
What are they looking like? Are they expanding their lead
in the House.

Speaker 20 (38:38):
They're definitely expanding. And the question is by how much.
It's really hard to tell us.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
They were up one.

Speaker 19 (38:47):
Underseed House of Delegates in Virginia fifty one forty nine.
Don Scott, Dan Helmer, as you know, have put a
ton of effort and raised a record.

Speaker 20 (38:55):
Amount of money, and Don Scott.

Speaker 19 (38:58):
Has done an unbelievable job to get them positioned to
win at least six or seven seats.

Speaker 9 (39:03):
One of the statsuff you talked about, we had her
at Virginia State, Kimberley Pope Adams.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
She lost two years ago about fifty three votes. Black
folks in Petersburg did not turn out. What happened to that?

Speaker 19 (39:14):
Looks like she's winning comfortably, very very comfortably.

Speaker 20 (39:17):
And she's not the only one.

Speaker 19 (39:19):
I mean, there's several seats here that typically are very
close that they're comfortably winning. Again, a lot of credit
is going to go to the historic first black Speaker
of the House in Virginia, Don Scott.

Speaker 9 (39:29):
Right, and as real clear, uh, Don also forced Democrats
in Virginia to change.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
He said, I'm the speaker. How you raise money, how
we're gonna spend money, how we're gonna and he challenged
a whole bunch of folks who are complacent, who said,
it's not gonna be business as usual.

Speaker 36 (39:46):
Right.

Speaker 9 (39:47):
There was one of the cannons we had her on
yesterday from Chesapeake Casey Carnegie.

Speaker 7 (39:51):
What happened there?

Speaker 19 (39:52):
Carnegie is not Chesapeake Carnegie, Suffolk. Looks like she's winning.
That's it was an open seat that was a Republican
to retire. The disappointment right now is the Virgil Thornton
A c. Cardoza seat in Hampton, which ac Cardoza is
a black Republican, the only black Republican in the entire

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General Assembly. It looks like he's winning right now, not
all the precincts.

Speaker 3 (40:15):
In Hampton and Hampton.

Speaker 24 (40:17):
What's happened?

Speaker 20 (40:18):
Remember you had Virgil on right.

Speaker 25 (40:21):
I know if the lines are like now, but I
think there's some over it's satinly, some overlap between that
seat and when win some serve.

Speaker 20 (40:28):
I think she had part of this right right proposing.
It's a kind of a weird seat.

Speaker 19 (40:32):
But in a wave year you would think that that
would have been one of the ones that flipped. But
you know a lot of these seats you're going.

Speaker 24 (40:38):
To take two or three days. But still you can
already see.

Speaker 19 (40:41):
A lot of credit has to go to speaker Scott,
A lot of credit has to.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
Go to him.

Speaker 19 (40:44):
They raised a phenomenal.

Speaker 20 (40:46):
Amount of money and unheard of amount of money.

Speaker 19 (40:49):
All of the talking about other people who raise money
in Virginia for years, you're hearing about Terry for Callifree,
the uber fundraiser that the crown goes on to the
head of Don Scott in terms of fundraising in Virginia.
He is the new king of fundraising in Virginia. They
and he should be to me in charge of all
strategy when you pull off a win like this at

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a time when you see such a wave Democrats right
now now he's causing a wave in the.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
Other Well, first of all, what he does also Slido
five power when Cody. Here's the thing right there that
we're looking at. Here you have this race.

Speaker 9 (41:23):
Here, you have Cheryl who was in frankly an awful
candid in New Jersey. There were a lot of black
folks who were like, yo, we didn't even hear from
this woman.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
Right now, it's fifty nine thirty.

Speaker 9 (41:35):
Nine the republic Kans we're talking about how see it's
a real jack.

Speaker 3 (41:38):
See it's relative somehow just win that state.

Speaker 9 (41:41):
They were hyping him up as well, looks like he's
getting his ass.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
Well, this is the thing right here, what you're seeing here,
you're seeing a lot of Democrats who sat on their asses,
who were frustrated and upset with Biden. In this age,
folks did not want to.

Speaker 9 (41:55):
Support Kama Harris. They probably learned their lesson. This is
what happened when you sit your ass at home and
don't vote. And so when you look at Virginia, you
look at New Jersey, you look at these down ballot races,
when you look at the pickup of those two statewide
seats in Georgia, that's huge as well. I think, I
really believe also part of this and the Democrats finally

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getting a spine in this.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
Shutdown cause folks to say that finally y'all are showing
some fight.

Speaker 9 (42:22):
And now you're seeing the results of what happens when
folks organized on the ground and they also show some fight.

Speaker 37 (42:28):
I think, can I see finally show up to the
party and I'm excited to see that.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
I think when we see.

Speaker 37 (42:35):
Democrats show up, when we see young people show up,
which is what we've been seeing in this election, we're.

Speaker 38 (42:39):
Seeing results types of results we're seeing tonight We're seeing
pretty much.

Speaker 37 (42:42):
A sleep in Virginia, probably going to be a sleep
in New Jersey, and a.

Speaker 16 (42:46):
Sweep in New York City as well.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
And what that says is that there is going to
be a sleep in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 37 (42:51):
And so when you see young people show up to
the party, when you see Democrats show up and wake up,
I think that we see winning and.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
I think that's the inspiration does it? I'm party has
been lacking for the last few years, Marcus.

Speaker 9 (43:03):
When in Texas when Renny gets rigular goun seventy or
thirty hundred, do not vote.

Speaker 3 (43:09):
What you see happening in New York City.

Speaker 9 (43:11):
That Kate can see when the numbers come in in
the primary, massively number of young voters. That's also what
happens when you learn how to communicate on the issues.

Speaker 23 (43:21):
All these democratic visions.

Speaker 16 (43:22):
You've been cracking on zoronamm Donnie, to me.

Speaker 20 (43:25):
They're stupid.

Speaker 3 (43:25):
Well, they sure have been.

Speaker 39 (43:26):
Doing it, studying how he ran, how he communicated, and
how he message to a population that set out elections,
and they're sharing what happens when you talk their language, they're.

Speaker 7 (43:37):
Going to batter.

Speaker 40 (43:38):
The words for tonight are compassion, and ambition, and that
is what the voters have been looking for forever. They
want somebody who's going to fight for them and somebody
who has a plan. And Zora Mom Donnie from day
one of his campaign has demonstrated that I've got a plan.
I know specifically what i want to do, and I
know who I want to fight for.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
I want to fight for you.

Speaker 40 (43:57):
I want to fight to make sure your cost to
lord and make sure you're r is lower, to make sure.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
Your kids go to school in a safe neighborhood.

Speaker 40 (44:03):
Those are the things that everybody wants, and the voters
responded to that. And I think you also saw even
from a more centsrius lean candidates in Virginia and New
Jersey also pick up that tenor. We're going to focus
on the bread and butter issues. We're going to say
that we're good managers, that we have ambition to do
good for the people, and I think the results bear that.

Speaker 16 (44:22):
No next couple of days, we're.

Speaker 9 (44:23):
Going to be talking about the Institute studies that came
out with these Democrats who were Franklin pitchon DLC on
oh about centrism and centrism, and here's what they don't.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
Understand David Asterod, David Pluff and the.

Speaker 9 (44:36):
Rest of these people, and that is this here you
there's no one way to run as a Democrat. You
have to run based upon your district, based upon your state,
and that's how you do it. The reality is, Mom,
Donnie is not the future of the Democratic Party. He's
going to be the mayor of New York City. Span
Berger is not the future Democratic Party. She ran her

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race a certain way in Virginia. How did share all
the same way? I think it is stupid when you
listen to these silly ass largely white strategists who talk
about this rouncle my dentity politics.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
And these things. Don't understand.

Speaker 9 (45:12):
What you need are candidates who are effectively communicating with
their base, and they turned their base out.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
That's how you win.

Speaker 9 (45:21):
Stop trying to chase folk who ain't voting for you.

Speaker 41 (45:24):
Absolutely, second going no look hold on every election is local, right.
And what spam Berger did, especially in Virginia.

Speaker 14 (45:33):
Two things that I want to say.

Speaker 41 (45:34):
I want to shout out Natalie Porter, who is Louise
Lucas's granddaughter, who put that work in. And when I
say to you that black women stumped for Abigail Spamburger
one thousand percent. That is what was happening in the background.

Speaker 22 (45:48):
You may not see it every.

Speaker 41 (45:49):
Day, you may not hear it every day, for black
women were in the background doing that work for Abigail Spamburger.
And then secondly, you have her running in Virginia, you
have Quanico, you have Blangley. You were talking about a
woman with a deep national security bench, with the CIA background.
And I know Greg, he gonna wins and he gonna
do all them things over there.

Speaker 14 (46:11):
But my point is, but my point is she understood.
My point is she understood the assignment in Virginia.

Speaker 22 (46:21):
Was it a little boring, was it.

Speaker 14 (46:22):
A little quiet?

Speaker 41 (46:23):
But was she saying the things that are happening regarding
national security and foreign policy in our country are crazy?

Speaker 14 (46:29):
These are not how things are done. You know, in
terms of that centrism.

Speaker 41 (46:34):
Do you want a governor who has access to a
huge infrastructure of national security in Virginia that is going
to be able to have her kind of hand on
the steering wheel a little bit? Obviously she's not the
President of the United States, but it is one of
those situations where the national security community is saying, okay,

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we want someone who is thinking logically. We don't want
someone who's doing extra judicial killings in Venezuela. You know,
we want someone who's thinking carefully about not only what's
happening domestically, but in the rest of the world.

Speaker 9 (47:07):
Here, but here, but here going to do about but
he's But here's the thing here, Julian, when we talk
about again, we talked about Virginia, Doge the cuts huge Republicans. Look,
they followed Donald Trump down down this path, and they're
going to overheel. It impacted the economy in Virginia, It's

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impacted the economy in Maryland. And the bottom line is
when you start talking about jobs, you're screwing up homes,
you're talking about You're talking about so many different factors.
And so Donald Trump and their stupid decisions in the
first in the last first nine months, they actually made
it a lot easier for Democrats the campaign to beat

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Republicans in New Jersey, in Virginia, and I think you're
going to see his showing up other states as well.

Speaker 22 (47:57):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (47:58):
I mean, we haven't I paid enough attention to the
economic reverberations of this shutdown, to the one point five
million people who are either furloughed or don't have jump
or have checks. Not only that, this man came in
saying what he's going to make life easier for people.
You know, I've got to make a trip next week,

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and I'm can I get on the plane with the
plane there. People are making those kinds of decisions all
the time. The folks just called me and said, you
want to do it via zoom, but we ain't gonna
pay you.

Speaker 7 (48:27):
I said, no, I'll be there.

Speaker 4 (48:30):
But in any case, the other piece is the younger
people do not care about the labels that older people
are using. So when Republicans don't get their way, they
call you a communist. But there are no such thing
as communists in the United States. It's not even a
Democratic Socialist Party.

Speaker 6 (48:46):
I mean there is.

Speaker 4 (48:46):
DSA is an organization. So you don't get your way,
you start calling people.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
Listen, even if you are the most conservative Democrat, they
still gonna call your communists. Precisely, it don't even matter.

Speaker 4 (48:57):
But you know, younger people don't care about that. If
you old and white, you are you eighty and you white?
The word communists all shoot, the Russians are coming right.
But if you're thirty and you say communists, it's like whatever.

Speaker 9 (49:12):
You have, but you have to but you have to
speak to again affordability, housing, jobs, healthcare.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
Those are the critical issues. And again I think the
learning the learning OC curve here.

Speaker 9 (49:22):
Again, I'm going to keep saying this because trust me,
I guarantee you all these white Democratic strategies gonna running
their mouths on CNN, MSNBC, Box News and the rest
of them coming up with all kinds of other reasons
talking about oh it.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
Was centrism, centrism.

Speaker 9 (49:36):
No, you have to look at each individual way race
in a completely different way, and how does a person
appeal to those voters? And I still say you have
to drive base voters. This election, this election right here
is about base voters. And I think what happened was
of these candidates realized, you know what, if I don't

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pay attention to who our people are, then I definitely
don't have a shot. Spamburger ain't the most exciting candidate
in the world, but you're right, discipline campaign, the discipline campaign.
Then when you look at how the campaign was run
in terms of what touch points, what touch points you
have there? Now, in the case of Ryl she's went

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in the head.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
New Jersey is a very blue state.

Speaker 9 (50:20):
But the caution there is you still are gonna have
to fix some problems that she have there because what
you don't want to do is act like you could
ignore black voters and others because next year in the
midterm election, you're gonna need a bigger turnout next year because.

Speaker 19 (50:34):
You got you got to do a lot of This
is Trump though this is a twenty seventeen side of course.
I mean, so there's a twenty seventeen cycle once again,
when when Virginia swept in twenty seven, well.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
Is Trump but also Trump policies.

Speaker 20 (50:45):
It hits with Trump big time, Yeah, big time.

Speaker 25 (50:48):
The thing is this black folk one Virginia to knighte
four of those candidates Spamberger. I'm looking to exit poll
that it's probably nothing network. Spamberger lost sixty three percent
of white men, only white women, but carried eighty five
percent of black men and ninety almost ninety four percent.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Of black women.

Speaker 20 (51:06):
Exactly that turned the.

Speaker 25 (51:08):
Black votes, got black vot's trying to be through the roof.

Speaker 6 (51:10):
You know, to all sets.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 26 (51:12):
Massive, But as a.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
Deal, what you just described there, what you just described
there is exactly what how Obama won. You're not going Listen,
white men are going to vote for Republicans.

Speaker 9 (51:24):
They're going to vote for Republicans. White women fifty are
going to vote for Republicans.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
But the way to win is you pick up.

Speaker 9 (51:33):
You have got to do eighty five, ninety percent Black men,
black women. You've got the lord the Republicans numbers when
it comes through Hispanic voters. That's actually the Obama coalition
the real problem. And everybody keep talking about, you know,
the how Kama Hairs lost.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
The bottom line is this here. She lost that race.

Speaker 9 (51:52):
Because Joe Biden wouldn't get his ass out of the race.
I mean, and the people around Joe Biden just could
not accept the fact that the president also.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
Means being physical.

Speaker 9 (52:03):
It means that watching you as a candidate, and so
they prolonged that it made it much more difficult.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
I think what you're gonna see is you're gonna see
what happened tonight. You're gonna see I think.

Speaker 9 (52:14):
Even stronger because this is gonna put win behind the
sales of a lot of the candidates running next year,
and they're gonna understand how you have to run. One
of the folks who spends lots of time on the
ground on these very issues. It's Latasha Brown, co founder
of Black Voters Matter, Latasha. When you look at the
results tonight, when you look at black turnout in Virginia,

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we're looking at numbers in New Jersey, We're looking at
court of course, we'll be looking at the Supreme Court
retention races in Pennsylvania. Andre Dickens reelected as mayor of
Atlanta tonight. We're also looking at those two, uh, those
two statewide seats in Georgia won by Democrats as well.
Just your thoughts of what you're seeing tonight, specifically with

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black voters.

Speaker 7 (52:56):
You know, I think that I think that black voters
are coming out. What we're seeing coming out in high.

Speaker 42 (53:02):
Numbers in an election that is not necessarily like in Georgia,
and the ticket and the state election in Georgia, the
top of ticket, there.

Speaker 7 (53:09):
Were two public service commission.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
Like the most unknown, most unsexy.

Speaker 7 (53:14):
Position in terms of run that those were leading the tickets.
People came out. Why because they did.

Speaker 42 (53:21):
There was a connection around the utility bills have gone
up thirty three percent in the last in the last
five years, and that those seats that are traditionally been
held by Republicans.

Speaker 6 (53:31):
Both of those.

Speaker 7 (53:32):
Seats are flipping.

Speaker 42 (53:33):
That the state of Georgia actually flipped those seats, which
is a big deal, particularly in a race and an
election where you don't have a real competitive state wide ticket.

Speaker 7 (53:43):
I think what you're seeing in Virginia, I.

Speaker 42 (53:45):
Think the fact that the majority of black women overwhelmingly voted,
I think you're absolutely correct around when we're looking at
this election cycle. I think it's a precursor of what
we can see and what will happen in twenty twenty
six if we continue to actually keep the momentum. While
some of this, I do believe are about some of
the issues that people are facing, because right now it's

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pretty intense. We've got forty two million people around the
country that don't have access to snap right and snap benefits.
We have people, we've got hundreds of thousands of people
who are laid off just this week for what many
of us know as good paying jobs. That are three
hundred thousand black.

Speaker 7 (54:22):
Women who have been laid off federal jobs and others.

Speaker 42 (54:26):
And so what you're seeing is there's a certain level
I think of economic anxiety that is going on that
is making people really think about kitchen issues, kitchen table issues.
They're thinking about costs, they're thinking about the economy. But
let me also say that the right always goes too far.

Speaker 7 (54:42):
They always take racism a step too far.

Speaker 42 (54:45):
That remind people like I think, in their effort to
be the doulg whistle, what they're not understanding is we
also hear that whistle too, and.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
We have to respond.

Speaker 42 (54:54):
And I think what we're seeing the night is we're
seeing people respond. I think a couple of things. I
think the theme of the night is people want change,
and I think people are not as stupid as folks
think that they are. You know, when you're looking at
the tax we saw all kinds of attacks across the board.
You know, even in Virginia, folks had the nerves and
audacity to actually talk about that race as in some

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way I heard some Republicans in some way that this
black woman wasn't given the given a right chance, when
the fact of the matter is the black community just
held her accountable.

Speaker 7 (55:26):
She got held accountable.

Speaker 42 (55:27):
That if you're going to align yourself with MAGA, if
you're going to align yourself in a moment that we're
seeing federal contracts by black businesses be cut.

Speaker 7 (55:35):
Off when you're aligning yourself.

Speaker 42 (55:37):
What we're seeing HBCUs and other black institutions being attacked,
then what we're going to do is we're not going
to support you. That It also, I think gives them.
I think it also sets in tone that black voters,
and we say this often, are far more sophisticated than
what white units believe that we are.

Speaker 6 (55:56):
We're very clear.

Speaker 7 (55:58):
Around voting and when we vote, the part of.

Speaker 42 (56:00):
The reason why we voting the block, not just because
someone is black. We saw that in Virginia tonight. We
actually saw that in one of the people that lost
in Republican. One of the people that lost in Georgia
was a black.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
Man, Lata Natasha, Latasha. You're talking about the Georgia races.

Speaker 9 (56:14):
This is the first statewide win for Democrats in any
non federal race since two thousand and six.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
That's big, That is significant.

Speaker 7 (56:28):
I mean, I think that that is also a reflection.
It's a reflection on the voters, but it's also a reflection.

Speaker 42 (56:32):
Of you know, I heard one of one of your
guests say earlier, like, we've got to get outside of
these boxes. We're looking at politics like people are in
a big Super Bowl game that you're on the blue
team or you're on the red team. No people are
on the how I'm to take care of me and
my family team, That's what people are on. And so
I think we're going to start seeing some changes, and
I do think that young people. What I'm really excited

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about is that all across the board, we're actually seeing
numbers that young people came out to vote across the board.
I think that's a I think of what we're going
to see in the outcome in New York tonight and
some of the other races.

Speaker 7 (57:05):
So it's key and critical for us.

Speaker 42 (57:06):
To understand that as we go forward one that we're
going to have to keep on the issues and we'll
have to organize the issues too.

Speaker 7 (57:14):
It doesn't matter what candidate that you have a candidate
that people can connect to. But then the third thing
is I do believe.

Speaker 42 (57:20):
That there is a refrimendum around and a message around
this MAGA has gone too far that people are also frustrated,
upset and responding to that. I can't go to the
grocery store without people stopping me in the our ask
me what can I do?

Speaker 3 (57:35):
What can I do.

Speaker 7 (57:36):
And so I think this is a moment that people
are starting to pay attention.

Speaker 42 (57:39):
And I believe this is only the beginning of what
I am hoping will be a series of wins where
people push back on what is happening.

Speaker 9 (57:46):
Absolutely, Natasha Brown copund a Black Voice Battle, we appreciate
you joining us.

Speaker 3 (57:49):
Thanks a lot. Thank you for having me appreciate it.

Speaker 9 (57:53):
An's other thing, folks, that I think that we cannot
ignore when you see the actions of these thug ice folks.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
When you see when they.

Speaker 9 (58:04):
Drag this woman out of her car where they crashed
to her car in Chicago, drag her out of her
car by her feet, arrest her and now trying to
charge her and they.

Speaker 3 (58:14):
Caused the accident.

Speaker 9 (58:15):
I think when you see all of those videos, when
you see that, it's a cutive effect of overreach. And
when Donald Trump says I could send the US Navy
into a city, he said, I could do whatever I want.
I think to the point Latasha just made there, I
believe that also impacts voters. Let's saying all of them,
you know what, we got to stop these some of

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the bitches because they have truly lost their minds.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
And I think that those actions have.

Speaker 9 (58:42):
Woken up a lot of folks who were dormant and
who would making excuses, who now realize, you know what
the other side they gonna vote.

Speaker 3 (58:51):
We better get off our behinds and vote to you.

Speaker 4 (58:53):
Knowing that these Republicans would take a page out of
Dick Cheney's book.

Speaker 20 (58:58):
You know, I hated him. I talked about him like
a dog.

Speaker 4 (59:02):
But he basically redeemed himself when he endorsed Kamala Harris.

Speaker 9 (59:05):
Well, first of all, he didn't redeem himself. I'll get
that he died, he died today. I get him credit, but.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
He didn't redeem himself. But it was the one I
appreciate what he did.

Speaker 9 (59:15):
I appreciate what he said about Trump, but I ain't
forget that he was dog vain a.

Speaker 17 (59:19):
No, no, he was.

Speaker 4 (59:20):
He was definitely dark fader, and he was a horrible
human being from a policy perspective.

Speaker 6 (59:25):
However, his endorsement clock is right twice.

Speaker 4 (59:28):
Well, go ahead, But his endorsement of Harris should remind
little Mike Johnson that there's something bigger than his fealty
to that man.

Speaker 3 (59:39):
But but but the thing here, number might say again,
when I see, we're just gonna blow up votes, damn
really knowing whether or.

Speaker 9 (59:46):
Not the folks the drug dealer, we just gonna blow
up because we can't. We're gonna see it ice because
we can't. We gonna see a natural guard because we can't.
That to me is whether overreach comes in. And I
think a lot of people going on this is a bullshit,
but that's what Janey read at the bolt.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
But this is rightly. Those social media videos over and
over and over again are saying, oh, so you think
you can do whatever you want. So these statewide.

Speaker 9 (01:00:10):
Republicans, the local Republicans, oh, y'all breing with that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
Okay, y'all gonna get the priceis with So that's the thing.

Speaker 41 (01:00:17):
So it's so funny to me because when I think
about how these people in the administration probably thought they
were going to be the cool kids, and once again,
to their chagrin, you.

Speaker 14 (01:00:28):
Are not the cool kids.

Speaker 24 (01:00:29):
Right.

Speaker 41 (01:00:29):
So you think that you can go out into the
world and you can do the thing that you want
to do and people are going to go along with.

Speaker 14 (01:00:34):
It, right, that is not what's happening. It is the
complete opposite of that.

Speaker 41 (01:00:39):
You not only have domestic pushback, you have global pushback.
You have the UN making its first statement actually calling
it illegal, and that is important. Although the Trump administration
does not care about procedures and laws and norms, there's
a large swap of the world that still does. So
the UN wading and then they said this is illegal.

(01:01:02):
So it's not just democratic congressional folks.

Speaker 14 (01:01:05):
It's not just folks like me. The UN has said
these killings are illegal. We need proof. We had a
situation where.

Speaker 41 (01:01:13):
Dems weren't even welcome into the briefing so they could
get information about these killings. Like everything about this is
shady as hell, right, And the last thing that I
want to say that we're talking about all of these
bad ass, ridiculous policies. I want people to understand when
Kamala laws black women, we went, we kind of like

(01:01:33):
went internally and we said what are we going to do?

Speaker 14 (01:01:36):
How are we going to do it?

Speaker 41 (01:01:37):
I need people to understand that Abigail Spaanberg and winning
tonight was strategic.

Speaker 14 (01:01:42):
I need people to get that right.

Speaker 41 (01:01:44):
I need people to understand that black women are moving
very differently. You're not just going to get our boat
out of duty. We are moving more like a lobby.
What are you going to do for us, And how
are these three hundred thousand plus black women going to get.

Speaker 22 (01:01:55):
Back to work?

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
Michael.

Speaker 9 (01:01:56):
The things that again, when I look at drumze actions
of the administration, when Trump says, Alma withhold money from
Democrat states and it's going to red. His actions against
Canada are destroying Las Vegas, destroying tourists. Aaron Ford, a
brother who's attorney general, is running for governor of Nevada.

(01:02:18):
If I'm Aaron Ford, I'm saying every day Donald Trump
killed the economy of this state.

Speaker 3 (01:02:24):
Nevada voted for Trump. My deal is nex year the
states that voted for him. Look at Iowa. There's a
reason Joni earnst ain't running for reelection.

Speaker 9 (01:02:34):
They even look their economy has been tanked because of
the tars of other policies. And so to me, this
is he's handing you a gift by his crazy policies.
And the problem is every Republican has to defend his
policies because they're afraid to piss them off. That's the
opening for Democrats to win. We see it tonight. I

(01:02:55):
think we're going to see it next year.

Speaker 28 (01:02:57):
Well, when our Republican friends do their posts more them
over the next few days. Their conversations are going to
be quite interesting because I get what Stephen Miller and
JD jd Vance wanted to do was get as much
done as possible before the midterms. That was a goal
because they were worried because history says you're going to
lose the House or potentially the Senate.

Speaker 26 (01:03:15):
And so but.

Speaker 28 (01:03:16):
As you and what's the black voter lady's name, Natasha
my cousin sorry, had mentioned that, Look, when you do
that kind of overreach, which they did, you're going to
pay a price. And that's what's showing up tonight and
it's going to show up in twenty six. It doesn't
matter how much redistricting people do. This race in twenty

(01:03:36):
six is going to be redistricting proof proof. So because
of that, it's not really going to matter. And when
you always talk about our party, my party, where the leaders,
this is all about the people now. They're not waiting
for leaders to tell them what to do. People are
doing stuff on their own. That's why races are all independent.
Everything politics are local and people are running their race

(01:03:58):
what's best for them.

Speaker 9 (01:04:00):
Again, when I look at I look at issues, uh
to Michael's point Republicans were thinking, let's get all of
them for the midterms.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
Here's the problem.

Speaker 9 (01:04:08):
After tonight, they're gonna say, we're gonna need to pull
back on some stuff because what they do not want
is a wipeout a year from now. You're talking about
potentially they can lose the Senate seat in Maine Osoft
after this race tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
Osoft is stronger. In Georgia.

Speaker 9 (01:04:27):
They couldn't even convince Brian Kemp to run the governor
against him.

Speaker 3 (01:04:32):
You've got Democrats could win.

Speaker 9 (01:04:33):
That seat in Iowa. Okay, retain the seat in Nevada.
Guess what if Paxton. If Paxton beats if Paxton beats
Corner in the primary in Texas, they are vulnerable in
the primary. And all of Poland shows jac.

Speaker 3 (01:04:49):
Tell Rico is great.

Speaker 9 (01:04:50):
I sent his ass a test a couple of months ago,
said bro run for governor. He chose run for Senate.
He can't beat Jatman Crockett.

Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
Okay, so you're gonna have that interesting race.

Speaker 9 (01:04:58):
And for all these Democrats who keep shitting on Aspen,
Crockett hugely popular. Her polling numbers are on an Obama
level among black people.

Speaker 3 (01:05:06):
Black folks don't vote in Texas. Then you talk about.

Speaker 9 (01:05:08):
Roy Cooper, the former governor in North Carolina. Democrats could
pick up three to four United States Senate sees, could
win anywhere from fifteen to twenty seats in the House.
And so I think Republican gonna step back and say, yeah,
we may want to like pull back on a lot
of this stuff because the last thing they want to
do is get absolutely wiped out next year.

Speaker 27 (01:05:28):
Well, let's just first say that Jasmine is real and
authentic and a fighter, and that's what people are looking for.

Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
People are also sick and tired of being sick and tired.
We heard Fanny lou Hamer say that when.

Speaker 27 (01:05:38):
You see black children being zip tied in Chicago on
the corner in the middle of the morning.

Speaker 6 (01:05:45):
That resonates with folks.

Speaker 27 (01:05:47):
Right when you see folks who are struggling to be
able to eat, that resonates with folks. It also feeds
that blue wave that we see playing out tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:05:56):
And you know, when we see folks who don't have.

Speaker 27 (01:05:57):
The healthcare that they need or the insurance that they need.
All these things are cumulative, as you talked about earlier,
and they begin to make that push. So if Republicans
don't get their act together, it's going to be a
very difficult.

Speaker 3 (01:06:10):
Time for them.

Speaker 22 (01:06:11):
And I'm not concerned with that.

Speaker 27 (01:06:13):
I am concerned with about the accountability for the Black community,
for the new folks.

Speaker 3 (01:06:17):
Who are coming in. So we have to push folks
yep to actually do the right thing.

Speaker 9 (01:06:21):
I want to go to Virginia Britney Nobles Stadium there
at Richmond, Virginia.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
Brittany, you have, Brittany, you have of course.

Speaker 9 (01:06:29):
Spanberg winning governors race, Jay Jones winning the attorney general's race. Lauren,
what about the Lutina governor race?

Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
What is that looking like? Okay, so Democrats all those races.
So now what you have, Brittany. Democrats have a prefecta.

Speaker 9 (01:06:46):
They control the House, they control the Senate, and they
control the governors mansion in Virginia.

Speaker 3 (01:06:50):
I take it.

Speaker 9 (01:06:51):
The folks right now at that convention center feel real
good tonight.

Speaker 12 (01:06:56):
Oh the party got started here very early. And the
race for attorney girls considering one of the most competitive
here in Virginia. It features a coment Republican Jasoniers hoping
the enosphere the challenger Democratic challenger Jay Jones, who has
seen his campaign undermined.

Speaker 22 (01:07:13):
By that leak of text messages.

Speaker 13 (01:07:16):
Everyone here celebrating with Abigail's Spanburger. It's a historical night
here in Virginia. Of course, she is the seventy fifth
governor elect of the state. Svanberger said tonight that voter
sent a message to America about what voters want the most.

Speaker 11 (01:07:32):
She thanked her family, her parents.

Speaker 13 (01:07:34):
She said that they taught her to whom much is given,
much as required. She also thanks her opponent, the states
Lieutenant Governor, Winston Earl Sears. She would have become the
state's first governor, actually the first black woman in US
history ever elected to the governor's mansion. Democrat, Abigail's Fanburger
is the wife and the mother of three. She's a

(01:07:55):
three term congresswoman and a former CIA officer. She campaign
on the growing anti Trump energy all across the country.
Key to her platform are vows the lower living cause,
to protect women's health care rights, and to restore quote
decency and stability that politics. Virginians are also choosing their
next lieutenant governor, their next attorney general, and holding election

(01:08:18):
for all one hundred seats here in the State.

Speaker 11 (01:08:21):
House of Delegates.

Speaker 14 (01:08:22):
Svamburger said that this is all.

Speaker 11 (01:08:25):
About what comes next, working to improve.

Speaker 13 (01:08:28):
The lives of Americans, lowering book costs, and keeping everyone safe.
She said she will not stand by while workers in
her states are being attacked, so we will continue following
all things that are happening here at Spamburger's election headquarters.

Speaker 11 (01:08:44):
Like I said, the party got started here early.

Speaker 13 (01:08:46):
You can see that people are actually starting to trickle
out of this area because of course they've been celebrated
with Spamburger.

Speaker 3 (01:08:55):
Brittany Brittany, can you hear me?

Speaker 9 (01:09:00):
Okay, all right, so let me know when I can
talk to Brittany Brittany.

Speaker 3 (01:09:03):
I appreciate that. Thanks a bunch folks.

Speaker 9 (01:09:06):
We have been looking at again, uh, these other races,
let me go here.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (01:09:12):
We know there also was was an election in Houston,
of course, via the Governor of Texas being the asshole
that he is, would not call for a special electure
to the death of Congressman Sylvester Turner, who replaced, of course,
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.

Speaker 31 (01:09:27):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (01:09:27):
And so the problem there is, uh, nothing was, nothing
was happening in that particular race, and so uh so
we're so we're looking looking at that one. Uh, to
see what's going on.

Speaker 4 (01:09:39):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:09:39):
And and again that special election.

Speaker 9 (01:09:41):
Uh, you had a number of candidates who were running
in that particular race, and so we'll be we'll be
looking at that in just a second.

Speaker 3 (01:09:48):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (01:09:48):
Let me also uh, let me also look at of course,
we're going to be looking at a couple of races
out of Mississippi. There were a couple of special elections there.
Republicans were ordered by federal courts to change the maps
in Mississippi, and so you may have a couple of
African Americans win seats Mississippi as well. So it's a
whole lot that we're looking at the moment. We're going

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to be drawned by Melanie Campbell, National Coalition of Black Participation,
Glenda Heights, Glenda Carr, how our Heights is going to
be joining us as well. There's a lots we're going
to break down for let's do this here. Let's go,
let's go to a quick break. You're watching us our
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Speaker 1 (01:11:03):
In this country.

Speaker 18 (01:11:04):
Right now, you have people get up in the morning
and the only thing they can think about is how
many people they can hurt you. And they've got the
power of you. That's the time for morning, for.

Speaker 6 (01:11:14):
Better or worse.

Speaker 44 (01:11:15):
What makes America special, It's that legal system.

Speaker 6 (01:11:18):
That's supposed to protect.

Speaker 3 (01:11:20):
Minorities from the tyranny of the majority. We are at
a point of a moral emergency. We must raise a
voice of.

Speaker 45 (01:11:30):
Outrage, We must raise a voice of compassion.

Speaker 46 (01:11:35):
And we must raise a voice of unity. We are
not in a crisis of party versus party. We are
in a crisis of civilization, a human rights crisis, and
a crisis of democracy itself.

Speaker 17 (01:11:49):
And guess what, You've been chosen to make sure that
those that would destroy, those that would hate, don't have
the final say, and they don't vote them as.

Speaker 22 (01:12:01):
They win hatred on the streets.

Speaker 32 (01:12:04):
A horrific scene white nationalists rally that descended into deadly violence.

Speaker 3 (01:12:11):
White people are moving their their mind.

Speaker 47 (01:12:15):
As an agree to Trump mat storms the US Capital
or six show.

Speaker 3 (01:12:19):
We're about to see the lives where I call white
minority resistance.

Speaker 9 (01:12:22):
We have seen white folks in this country who simply
cannot tolerate black folks voting.

Speaker 48 (01:12:29):
I think what we're seeing is the inevitable result of
violent denial.

Speaker 7 (01:12:34):
This is part of American history.

Speaker 48 (01:12:35):
Every time that people of color and progress, whether real
or susbolic, there has been the Carold Anderson at every
university calls white rage as a backlash.

Speaker 9 (01:12:45):
This is the wrath of the proud boys and the
boogaloo boys America.

Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
There's going to be more of this.

Speaker 7 (01:12:52):
This country is getting increasingly racist in.

Speaker 47 (01:12:55):
Its behaviors and its attitudes because of the fear of
white peopp the fee.

Speaker 9 (01:13:00):
That they're taking our jobs, they're taking our resources, they're
taking out women.

Speaker 49 (01:13:05):
This is white field at.

Speaker 9 (01:13:42):
Blackstar Network Election Night twenty five coverage, Go to my iPad.
We've been watching the eighteenth congressional race in Houston UH
and Harris County Attorney Christian Menifee is on top.

Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
Let's go to my iPad. Let's go okay, Well, I'm
looking at it right here. Christian Menefee thirty two point
four percent.

Speaker 9 (01:14:03):
Amanda Edwards former council form a, former council member. You
know she's run multiple times for this twenty five point
two percent. Set Representative Jelana Jones eighteen point nine percent.

Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
Uh, this is a huge upset.

Speaker 9 (01:14:18):
Because Jones, well known, former Hihtree school board member, former.

Speaker 3 (01:14:27):
Former city council member, State rep. Very popular, got lots
of time. Uh when they when they.

Speaker 9 (01:14:35):
Walked out of the Texas Chamber on the ground, very
active involved again coming in third, I mean in third,
that is, I mean that is very surprising in the
eighteenth Congressional district. Uh, and you're talking about Menufee. It's
said with twelve thousand fire ninety nine votes. Aman Itwards
ninety seventy sixty nine, Jones seventy three forty two. Now,

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remember this is the eighteen district. They're only going to
serve only for one year. Well, depending upon the Supreme Court,
likely it's going to allow Texas to have those maps,
and so that means this district gets completely obliterated. Next
year they move Congressman Al Green moved his home literally
into the eighteenth district, so he'll probably be running for
this seat. So this person only gonna serve for the

(01:15:17):
next year. That still is a huge upset coming out
of Texas. They also, of course have a number of
they have a number of other statewide, statewide races.

Speaker 3 (01:15:29):
You got school races, school races going on there as well.
And then of course that is interesting.

Speaker 9 (01:15:35):
You've got these HISD school races, but the state controls
the actual the state controls the school districts, so it's
not like they're actually going to be in control of
the school district. Plus you've got some constitutional amendment happening
in Texas, so we can look at some other states
as well.

Speaker 1 (01:15:50):
Go ahead, he still has to get fifty to avoid
to runoff.

Speaker 9 (01:15:55):
I like I said, yeah, but the fact that many
fee and Edwards are wanting you again that I can
tell you right now, that's.

Speaker 3 (01:16:02):
An upset right right there.

Speaker 9 (01:16:04):
We're looking at again other races that are coming down again.
I told y'all what's coming was happening out of Mississippi. Uh,
let's let me give me a second.

Speaker 3 (01:16:13):
Let me see what's happening.

Speaker 9 (01:16:15):
Uh in Detroit, you've got Mary Sheffield.

Speaker 3 (01:16:18):
Who is girl?

Speaker 42 (01:16:19):
Stop?

Speaker 14 (01:16:21):
What's she doing that? What's going on with Mary?

Speaker 9 (01:16:25):
Carry and fom himself down here we go to my iPad.
Detroit gets his first black female mayor.

Speaker 3 (01:16:31):
Mary Sheffield will be the mayor of Detroit.

Speaker 17 (01:16:34):
Of course.

Speaker 9 (01:16:35):
She is the granddaughter of crowning Pastor Horace Sheffield, very
well known there her father Horace Sheffield as well, So
I'm sure he is ecstatic tonight about that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:46):
Y'all.

Speaker 9 (01:16:47):
Be sure to double check to see if you're live
from her victory party to see if we can hear
from here from her as well.

Speaker 25 (01:16:52):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (01:16:52):
And so that race, as I said, uh, in Atlanta, Uh,
it was it was an easy, easy win, uh for
Andre Dickens elected.

Speaker 3 (01:17:02):
Oh my god, that was a blowout. First of all,
hold on, second, don't go to me just yet. Let
me click Atlanta elections here. But yeah, that was a blowout. Yeah,
that was a blowout. Down look at this here, y'all.

Speaker 9 (01:17:20):
My god, Andre Dickens got eighty five percent of the vote.
Eddie Meridith got six percent of the vote. That's that's
an absolute blowout in Atlanta right there. As well, a
matter of fact, if you combine the second, third, and
fourth candidates, they barely get six thousand votes, and he

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got thirty seven thousand fire and thirty six out of
forty four thousand votes.

Speaker 8 (01:17:46):
Where's it you got to turnout? I mean, rather the percentage,
that's load number of people voting.

Speaker 9 (01:17:51):
Well, if we talk about when you talk about Atlanta,
what you've seen over the last over the last remember
you had a run off for Keisha Lan's bottoms in
the last race, Dickens.

Speaker 3 (01:18:02):
Won and you had turnout that went n here from
sixteen to twenty five percent. And of course that's one
of the issues there. Atlanta.

Speaker 9 (01:18:11):
Also we talked about, you know, the story came out
no longer being in a majority of black But I
think that's also frankly a miss knowman. People need to
understand because we talk about the metro area. The reality
is black folks have completely changed the other counties beyond
Fukland County. And see that's the thing that everybody keeps
focusing on in Atlanta. Changed to me is very what

(01:18:34):
happened to Atlanta is very similar to here in Washington,
d C. And so you can say Washington d C.
Was Chocolate City. But black folks who were here in Washington,
d C. Have changed Prince George's County, They've changed Montgomery Counties,
and so they've changed Loudon County. They've changed of the
counties in Virginia. And so that's something that you got

(01:18:55):
to look at in terms of now black folks are
winning and the other counties beyond the Cab County Melanie Campbell,
National Coalition of Black Participation right now, this has been
uh this, this has been an interesting year. Uh No,
only for a lot of black organizations.

Speaker 3 (01:19:12):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (01:19:13):
There were a lot of people who obviously were frustrated,
uh and upset with what took place last year and
uh no limited upon early in terms of how people
were moving. Uh as well, people were asking, well, the
black folks the know King's rally, and black people like, well,
white folks, y'all need to show up.

Speaker 3 (01:19:33):
We ain't got always show up at the rallies. Just
your assessment. We showed up at the ballot box. What's
my whole point, my whole point of them.

Speaker 9 (01:19:40):
Everybody kept saying, well, whether at the rally, we're like
now we'll be.

Speaker 3 (01:19:44):
That November third. We ain't got to the name of
that little that's trying to be the previous sun. Just
just give us a sense of what you have been.

Speaker 9 (01:19:51):
Seeing, hearing, feeling this year all across the country. One
of your folks have been saying.

Speaker 3 (01:19:56):
Well, it's been a hell of a year.

Speaker 38 (01:19:58):
It's just straight up, you know, it's been a heavily
black folks to catch in hell in a lot of ways.

Speaker 45 (01:20:02):
But we also were being strategic and for black women.

Speaker 20 (01:20:06):
I heard your sister talking earlier.

Speaker 22 (01:20:07):
You know we kind of retreated.

Speaker 7 (01:20:09):
We weren't.

Speaker 3 (01:20:09):
We didn't stop strategizing, we just changed how we were
doing it.

Speaker 38 (01:20:13):
And so when you look at the Virginia race, I
can't wait to get to where you break down those
numbers when they say ninety percent of black people voted
for the new incoming governor, break those numbers down right,
and and you're gonna see that gym, the gap between
black women and white women. And I can pretty much

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tell you predict what that's gonna look like.

Speaker 3 (01:20:41):
So when it comes down to what.

Speaker 38 (01:20:42):
The Democrats need to look at, and now I'm gonna
heard you talking earlier, it'll get real serious about Okay,
we showed up, and you're gonna have to show up
for us, and we're gonna have to really really play
a different kind of a game some of the things.

Speaker 6 (01:20:57):
That happened earlier in Virginia.

Speaker 3 (01:20:58):
You know, I lived in common with from Virginia. You know,
we're gonna have to address.

Speaker 38 (01:21:04):
Some things, okay, because how these folks got in office
tonight and the fact that there's a lot of folks
abandoned Jones, you know, totally abandoned him and the attorney
general race and for the Democrats and understand that you
need the attorney general' see if we don't know that

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over the past year, how important attorney state attorney general
him for.

Speaker 3 (01:21:31):
Him winning He got four years to say, y'all gotta
kiss my ass.

Speaker 7 (01:21:35):
Well, you know the think the thing about it is
you ain't gotta say it.

Speaker 3 (01:21:39):
You ain't gotta say it. We say it for him.

Speaker 6 (01:21:45):
At the end of the day. Hold on for Bob.

Speaker 9 (01:21:47):
So going on, Uh the this is out of Pittsburgh.
H the Republican mayor Tony I'm sorry, Uh, Corey O'Connor
elected mayor there beating Republican Tony Reno in Pittsburgh. So again,
it's a rough night for MAGA all across the coundry.

Speaker 3 (01:22:06):
Yeah, yeah, you know follow it.

Speaker 8 (01:22:08):
Looking at New York, it's interesting because the race soldiers
responded apparently to Donald Trump's call. They have abandoned Curtis Sleeve. Why, uh,
ma'm donnie does have fifty percent of the vote were
we got about seventy percent at the vote in the
race soldiers in Stanton Island. Of course they're going to
do what they do. But ma donnie looks like he's
going to win. But maybe that last call did because

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they they have they desperate men. Yeah, but here they
left Sleeve wand I went to toe over better.

Speaker 3 (01:22:33):
Here's the deal here.

Speaker 9 (01:22:34):
But when you look at these numbers right here, go
to my iPad, mc donnie seven hundred and eighty two
thousand and four hundred and three votes Cuomo six hundred
and four to six thousand, nine hundred and fifty one
a slow up one hundred, twenty thousand and four and
seventy six. From the percentages alone, mcdonnie winning almost eight
to nine percent.

Speaker 3 (01:22:52):
So that's actually in line with what the polly was at.

Speaker 9 (01:22:54):
It is weak, remembering about and twenty other things of
this here, mac donnie has has been on a vicious assault.
You literally had a Republican from that that racist Andy
Ogo of the Arizona's who posted a video of planes
flying into the Yeah, yeah, saying don't both of them do?

Speaker 22 (01:23:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:23:14):
I mean they, I mean they wouldn't know the attacks
on the way.

Speaker 9 (01:23:20):
They called him nominist socialists. Uh, they said he's gonna
bring Seria long. I mean, you had that Billionaires Bill
actin they all. I mean, he has faced withering assault
since winning the primary, and they've been doing everything and
he's sitting and going.

Speaker 3 (01:23:36):
But I still be talking question cancer.

Speaker 8 (01:23:39):
I mean, do they have another play? Oh, the Republicans,
And I'm saying that for this reason. I mean, no, well,
I mean, now the ain't got no Tonsa said it
was very true. They have overplayed their hand, but they've
also said if you're not with us, not only you
are a communist or so they said.

Speaker 3 (01:23:56):
You're a Democrat. Why are you talking?

Speaker 8 (01:23:58):
I mean the whole idea that people say, I'm not
a Democrat, but I'm not with y'all.

Speaker 3 (01:24:01):
I'm a Democratic woman, not wondering.

Speaker 9 (01:24:03):
We're gonna go live in Virginia in the second because
Jay Jones as well as Lieutendant Governor Canaon and then
they coming to the States to get their victory speeches
as well, and soldiers, let y'all know that.

Speaker 3 (01:24:13):
But here's the deal. What the Republicans are trying to
do is they're trying.

Speaker 9 (01:24:18):
To position and they tried it. But here's why it's
not gonna work. They've spent the last seven months saying
Donnie is the future of the Democratic Party. It's gonna
be hard now to say that on the same night
that Cheryl wins, the Svanberger wins, that the Democrat in
Pittsburgh wins, that Dickens win. So if tomorrow, if I'm Schumer,

(01:24:41):
and if I'm Jeffries, if I'm Ken Martin, if I'm
any Democrat, first of all, what I'm saying is I'm
saying that Tom Suosi and the other Democrats.

Speaker 3 (01:24:52):
Shut the fuck up. That's right, shut up.

Speaker 9 (01:24:56):
And what you say is you ral off every Democrat
who has won all around the country and say so
and so so and so so and so so and
so and so and so that's the future Democratic Party
because we're gonna they want to put on one person
trying to brand it. To me, that's how you count it,
and say, no, look at all these wings.

Speaker 3 (01:25:16):
The problem country. It's a Democratic Party.

Speaker 14 (01:25:19):
Is the versat five right, What we're seeing here, that
is the underlying thing.

Speaker 37 (01:25:23):
Christian NiFi thirty seven years old, Right, Fondami thirty four
years old, Mary Scheffel thirty seven years old.

Speaker 3 (01:25:30):
We're seeing youth is taking.

Speaker 16 (01:25:33):
That and reinvigorating the Democratic Party.

Speaker 14 (01:25:35):
So there is no one way that the Democratic Party looks.

Speaker 37 (01:25:39):
We see Spamberger one, she was a moderate. We're seeing
Mondammie's gonna win. He was a liberal if they want
to call him.

Speaker 3 (01:25:44):
A socialist, et cetera.

Speaker 37 (01:25:46):
But what we are seeing is that young people are
reinvigorating and are the lifeblood of the Democratic Party, and
that's what needs to continue.

Speaker 3 (01:25:55):
But here's the people stop again. I'm talking about from
a stress standpoint.

Speaker 50 (01:26:01):
If I'm Ken Martin, if I'm sure, if I'm Jeffrey's.

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
New York is the media capital of the work. Okay,
so it's real easy to yell over the.

Speaker 16 (01:26:11):
National shows in New York.

Speaker 3 (01:26:13):
But if I'm Ken Martin, what I'm doing right now,
I'm putting out graphics saying this is the future of
the Democratic Party.

Speaker 16 (01:26:22):
Sheffield, this is the future of the Democratic Party, so
and so, because.

Speaker 3 (01:26:26):
Again, where that's gonna be their play. Oh hell, you
get a republic the Republicans because their whole deal is
they have to steer white people. You think the Democrats
are gonna go? And yeah, I mean Shumor did not
endorse that, Bob. I'm just saying, you think you think
the New York Everyday want they smart? Pretty stupid.

Speaker 7 (01:26:45):
I ain't saying they're smart.

Speaker 3 (01:26:46):
What I'm saying is what I'm saying. What was I
gonna come back to you? The thing is, you do
this because if you show these are all our wins,
you're enforcing we want here, here, here, here, and here here,
here's in We need just wait one they all waits
on Tuesday night. We want tea bass on Tuesa night.

Speaker 27 (01:27:05):
Yeah, you're showing folks that everybody has a seat in
the Democratic Party. Whether you're a moderate, centrist, progressive, no
matter who it is, there's a place for you here.
And that's power because everybody then can see themselves, based
upon their set of values, finding an on ramp into

Speaker 3 (01:27:25):
All right, right now the stage. First of all, we
got our feed, we got do we have it?

Speaker 22 (01:27:32):
Speak of the House.

Speaker 3 (01:27:33):
John Scott if a GMAIL speaker.

Speaker 51 (01:27:35):
Go on Democratic Calcus work with else to make this happen.

Speaker 6 (01:27:41):
I have to think the leader of.

Speaker 17 (01:27:42):
Our campaign team, Dan.

Speaker 6 (01:27:43):
Hilmore there, Dan Helmer helped deliver tonight. Not only did
we keep the majority in the House.

Speaker 52 (01:27:52):
Tonight, well, I think we had fifty seven seats.

Speaker 3 (01:27:56):
Right now.

Speaker 52 (01:28:00):
And we're not done counting. We're trying to keep going
and keep going and keep going. As y'all know, when
you do this, you never do it alone. I want
to thank the great partners that we had from across
the country who came in and helped us raise money
and speak to voters. I want to thank my friend

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romy Manul, the former chief of staff to President Obama.

Speaker 6 (01:28:26):
I want to thank the.

Speaker 52 (01:28:27):
Governor of Maryland who came in and spent founds hours
here Westmore, Governor Westmore. I want to thank all of
the organizations that work with us DLCC and the State's project.
I want to thank labor who came out and knocked
doors and did the work for us. And finally, I

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want to just say, you know, only in America can
someone like me, who came from my background raised by
a single mom, had my ups and downs like many
of you, bounce back and end up being back as
the Speaker in the House here in the coming with
of Virginia and we're going to continue to do it.

Speaker 6 (01:29:07):
I want to thank you all.

Speaker 3 (01:29:08):
Y'all have a great night.

Speaker 51 (01:29:10):
Let's get to work now. Let's get to work, folks.

Speaker 3 (01:29:21):
As Scott on, the first black po of the House
in Virginia, a huge, huge win. When we talk about
I love it.

Speaker 9 (01:29:28):
If you're talking about future stars, feature stars stars, that's
one right there.

Speaker 16 (01:29:33):
We talked about somebody Texas a and I graduate he.

Speaker 18 (01:29:36):
Plays the mighty hymn.

Speaker 6 (01:29:42):
Might have one that you know, might.

Speaker 3 (01:29:49):
I'm aware of the chapter. I'm aware of the chp.

Speaker 53 (01:29:51):
Sy chapter that produced my brother and myself is one
to let you know, I'm very very That's what it is.

Speaker 3 (01:29:59):
Michael, just if you know Michael, but again again if
I am, if I'm Ken Martin, this is what I'm saying.
I'm saying tomorrow that here you had the.

Speaker 54 (01:30:11):
Speaker of the.

Speaker 16 (01:30:12):
House in Virginia who went to.

Speaker 9 (01:30:15):
Federal president, served time for drugs, got his rights back, became.

Speaker 3 (01:30:22):
A lawyer, and came back to become the Speaker of
the House. I'm saying that's the future Democratic Party. I'm saying,
Mary Sheffield, that's Whuture Democratic Party. I'm saying on Common
in Pittsburgh, that's Future Democratic Party. I'm rallying those names off.
It would be dumb, and then I would say, guess
what people who won last night?

Speaker 30 (01:30:41):
Centrist one, Liberals one, progressivest one.

Speaker 3 (01:30:46):
You RELI, you go, and yeah, because they can be
what you are. Dall ain't gonna pigeonhole may We're gonna
come back a new one.

Speaker 16 (01:30:53):
Here is the Lieutenant Governor elect of Virginia speaking right now.

Speaker 3 (01:31:08):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 55 (01:31:11):
You look amazing tonight, Virginia.

Speaker 56 (01:31:15):
Looks amazing tonight.

Speaker 54 (01:31:20):
Well, good evening, Virginia.

Speaker 6 (01:31:23):
Tonight.

Speaker 55 (01:31:24):
Together we have pared a new historic path tonight, tonight, Virginia.

Speaker 54 (01:31:35):
We have pointed our compass in a direction that guides
us to the future while also building out our roots.
On our collective embrace of decency, dignity, and dedication. Virginia
has chosen leadership that lifts up people instead of tearing

(01:31:59):
them down. And together we have proven that Virginia. In Virginia,
a child's name, a family's personal struggles, and a community's
identity are not barriers too belonging. I am so incredibly

(01:32:21):
honored and humbled to stand before you as Virginia's Lieutenant
Governor elect. But as we all know, as we all know,
this moment of success is not mine alone. It belongs

(01:32:43):
to every Virginian who believes that our politics must be
more hopeful, more inclusive, and focus on solving problems instead
of scoring points on the backs of other people's pain.
It belongs to every parent who aspires to strong educational

(01:33:06):
opportunities for their children.

Speaker 6 (01:33:08):
It belongs to all of our.

Speaker 54 (01:33:10):
Workers whose labor deserves respect and dignity.

Speaker 6 (01:33:18):
It belongs to.

Speaker 54 (01:33:19):
The countless young people who refuse to sit on the
sidelines and instead are charting a path forward through talent
and skill, ingenuity and determination. My own journey from a
young child landing at the airport in Savannah to now
being elected as.

Speaker 6 (01:33:41):
The first Muslim woman to achieve.

Speaker 57 (01:33:44):
State high off, the first Muslim woman to.

Speaker 54 (01:33:54):
A chief statewide office, not justin Virginia, but in the
entire country.

Speaker 6 (01:34:04):
And this was possible because of the.

Speaker 54 (01:34:07):
Depth and the breadth of the opportunities made available in
this country and in this commonwealth. And I want to
reflect just briefly on that journey from a childhood in
Georgia to an educator's life in Virginia's college classrooms to

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state government, representing the Richmond area in the state Senate
and now the state White position.

Speaker 6 (01:34:38):
I first was compelled to run.

Speaker 54 (01:34:40):
For office because I wanted to respond, rather than quietly
observe the targeting and the scapegoating of marginalized communities. I
decided to run for public office because no.

Speaker 6 (01:34:53):
One in this country should be made to feel as
though they're not welcome in their.

Speaker 54 (01:34:59):
Neighborho both are in their own communities. Now I know now,
I know that many of us feel as though the
nation is in the midst of challenges that are much
deeper and more intense than those we have faced before,

(01:35:19):
and that it will take us generations to repair. But
let us not forget that the challenges we endure today
are not entirely new, and.

Speaker 6 (01:35:30):
They can be navigated.

Speaker 54 (01:35:33):
We have been grappling with profound questions of our national identity,
our nation's history, and its complex legacies for centuries.

Speaker 11 (01:35:43):
This nation has not merely endured, but it has.

Speaker 54 (01:35:47):
Risen from every crisis through introspection, resolution and determination, and
tonight taking another step forward tonight Today's elections and the
voices of hundreds of thousands of voters tell us that

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we are ready to define a new path. We are
investing in the future. We're building a commonwealth in which
every child receives a high quality education and is able
to build a life and a career right here in Virginia.
And we're charting a path forward to ensure we have

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access to affordable healthcare, childcare, and housing.

Speaker 57 (01:36:38):
And we will have to buck.

Speaker 14 (01:36:41):
Okay, so you know.

Speaker 6 (01:36:45):
Both very had a.

Speaker 16 (01:36:47):
Huge willow to the governor.

Speaker 3 (01:36:49):
Comes out missus mccamb.

Speaker 16 (01:37:00):
Folks who don't know a launch, there's a little background
of the sister.

Speaker 3 (01:37:03):
Who just wanted to the governor of Virginia.

Speaker 24 (01:37:05):
She was born in India.

Speaker 19 (01:37:06):
She was a teacher, very nice person. She's the state
centator out of Ridgiment. She's kind of like the mild
manner like. She calls herself the mild manner at the
school teach.

Speaker 20 (01:37:15):
She's very mild mannered.

Speaker 19 (01:37:17):
But she will make a very stable lieutenant governor.

Speaker 20 (01:37:20):
They need that vote.

Speaker 19 (01:37:21):
It's a twenty one to nineteen Senate, very close Senate
right now. They come up in two years the Virginia Senate.

Speaker 20 (01:37:27):
Frankly, it's very unusual, I have to say, to see
these people.

Speaker 19 (01:37:30):
Coming out separate. You know again, I worked for Lieutenant
Governor justin Fairfax. We were all on stage at Georgia
Basin University when everybody won. To me, this is a
duplication of the twenty seventeen cycle.

Speaker 20 (01:37:41):
Everybody's out there on stage this evening. We have a
separate situation.

Speaker 3 (01:37:46):
You saw, you know.

Speaker 19 (01:37:47):
Obviously Abydale comes out first and then disappears, and then
we have you know, Lieutenant Governor, and I'm sure we'll
have Jay Jones at some point. This is a reflection
of theism that happened in October third when the text
messages came out. Quite frankly, the party abandoned Jay Jones,
which was stupid. Okay, we're watching black Hawk helicopters land

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on buildings in Chicago. You need an attorney general that
understands due process and the Constitution. So text messages are
no text messages. People need to understand the bigger picture
of these moments, of the historic moment we find ourselves in. Well,
I don't have a problem with seeing these people coming
out separately when they.

Speaker 20 (01:38:29):
Should be all together.

Speaker 19 (01:38:30):
They all won, so there's no reason they're all have
to marry out on Broad Street in Richmond. So this
is a very interesting thing, but at a rate that
was a long answer for the Gazala.

Speaker 3 (01:38:42):
I mean, I get a kick out of I get a.

Speaker 9 (01:38:44):
Kick out of these Fox News people who always got
something to say.

Speaker 3 (01:38:49):
One of the dumbiest, I mean, one of the wet
I got it.

Speaker 25 (01:38:53):
I got it.

Speaker 6 (01:38:54):
You know you blocked my camera.

Speaker 37 (01:38:55):
I got it.

Speaker 3 (01:38:56):
Okay, I got it. I know what he's doing.

Speaker 7 (01:38:59):
I saw Michael was Mike.

Speaker 16 (01:39:01):
I see everything I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (01:39:05):
I'm going on.

Speaker 3 (01:39:06):
I've got Michael about you. The position by man, So
Joe Consi is one of the most dumb ass people
on the fostermans. Uh. He's a fifth rate hack y'all.

Speaker 16 (01:39:15):
And so uh this he goes here, that'stally an obvious
question here.

Speaker 9 (01:39:19):
How could any woman hear what Jones said about wanting
his opponent's wife and.

Speaker 3 (01:39:23):
Young children dead and still both of this person? Uh?

Speaker 16 (01:39:26):
And I responded, folks, Joe Connor's the dumbass.

Speaker 3 (01:39:28):
How did he vote with Trump?

Speaker 16 (01:39:30):
He said he grabbed for diamond women go to hell, Joe.

Speaker 3 (01:39:33):
See, that's that's the whole deal here.

Speaker 9 (01:39:35):
First of all, the comments that Jay Jones maiden was
in relation to school shootings.

Speaker 3 (01:39:42):
How Republicans respond to right, Okay, should he said that?

Speaker 17 (01:39:45):
Hell no?

Speaker 3 (01:39:45):
Even damn? What six about mine? Is that? That's what
the context on a discussion was.

Speaker 19 (01:39:49):
What would it take for Republicans to change their mind
about shootings? Didn't take Sandy hook, No one take Uvalde.
That's the broad discussion with a close friend in a
private text. Now who in here has written something in
the text that you would not necessarily want to come
out publicly in a political campaign, which is probably all
of us?

Speaker 5 (01:40:09):
Right?

Speaker 16 (01:40:09):
Yea, that is true.

Speaker 3 (01:40:11):
I mean they don't have a signal text.

Speaker 19 (01:40:13):
I don't know, rightcuting the office, Okay, all good?

Speaker 6 (01:40:16):
Whatever.

Speaker 19 (01:40:17):
The Democratic Party needs to understand how to message.

Speaker 20 (01:40:24):
They can argument an argument party party.

Speaker 3 (01:40:27):
Not not missing. Democratic Party has to get.

Speaker 6 (01:40:33):
Right, democredit party.

Speaker 3 (01:40:34):
For Al Frank Ran of the city right because of
a photo. He didn't even grab a risk, right, grabbing
a brisk right a brand? They all right, you got
Republicans who paid for amortions the duty Tennessee's right, right,

(01:40:55):
they steal there, Ryan, you got crazy and Randy fyrone
down in blog who replaced crazier Matt Gates?

Speaker 7 (01:41:03):
Because what are bout do their?

Speaker 3 (01:41:05):
He really is power, absolute power, and so that's where
they screwed up. And so I guarantee you right now,
Ja Joel is feeling real good at he hits the
state right.

Speaker 57 (01:41:16):
Now in Virginia.

Speaker 58 (01:41:41):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Thank you, Virginia. Let
me first start by thanking Jason Miaris for a service
to our commonwealth in the weeks they had. I look
forward to sitting down with him to talk about where
we can work together to do what's best for this commonwealth.

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I also want to thank my family. Thank you to
my rock, Davis Jones. I would not be standing here
tonight without her.

Speaker 6 (01:42:18):
And to Charles.

Speaker 58 (01:42:22):
And baby Zachary, who should be asleep, Please know that
your father loves you with everything that I have.

Speaker 6 (01:42:30):
To my campaign manager Rachel.

Speaker 58 (01:42:36):
And the entire campaign team, the best campaign team in politics.

Speaker 6 (01:42:42):
I say thank you.

Speaker 58 (01:42:46):
To everybody who knocked on doors, who helped get out
the vote, who gave their time and their money and
their effort to support this campaign. To everyone who didn't
give up on this campaign.

Speaker 6 (01:42:58):
I say thank you.

Speaker 58 (01:43:03):
And to the folks who stood by us every single
step of the way.

Speaker 6 (01:43:07):
Labor, we love you. To the environmental community, we love
you too.

Speaker 58 (01:43:15):
And to the folks who want to protect abortion in
this commonwealth, we love you too, And I want to
thank every Virginia tonight who's placed their trust in me.
The weight of that trust is not lost on me
at all, nor is the history that led us to
this moment right here. My ancestors were slaves. My grandfather

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was a civil rights pioneer who braved Jim Crow. My father,
my mother, my uncles, my aunts endured segregation. Also that
I could stand here before you today, my father was
one of the first to integrate classrooms in Norfolk, Virginia,
even as the Attorney General of Virginia tried to shut

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those same schools down. I know that I walk in
the footsteps of those generations before me who fought and
bled to guarantee the freedoms that we have in this
democracy right now. And I know that it's because of
all of them and all of you tonight, that I

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am honored and ready to be your next Attorney General
of Virginia, the first black person bestowed with this awesome responsibility.

Speaker 6 (01:44:40):
And the history of this commonwealth.

Speaker 58 (01:44:46):
Now you all know this was a hard fought campaign,
but at the end of the day, this election has
never been about me, wore my opponent. It has always
been about every single one of.

Speaker 6 (01:44:57):
Us and the future of Virginia. And this election, this
victory is for you and for every Virginian.

Speaker 58 (01:45:07):
Who is lying awake right now, not because they're following
along with these election returns, but because they're worried about
their future for themselves and for families just like mine.
We have big fights ahead of us. Our commonwealth and
our country will continue to be tested. But tonight I

(01:45:28):
make this pledge to every single Virginian. I will never
ever stop fighting for you. I will defend the rights
of every single Virginian. I will protect our jobs, our healthcare,
and our economy from Donald Trump's attacks. I will take

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on those big corporations that have controlled our politics for
far too long and lower costs for Virginians once and
for all. And I will always work to keep our
families and our communities safe.

Speaker 6 (01:46:04):
And I will always work to protect.

Speaker 58 (01:46:06):
A woman's right to an abortion here in Virginia. Donald Trump,
MAGA and those corporate special interests believe that Virginia's government should.

Speaker 6 (01:46:18):
Be beholden to them.

Speaker 58 (01:46:20):
But tonight we send a loud message to them into
every single person across this country. Virginia belongs to the people. Together,
we stand firm against the people who would.

Speaker 6 (01:46:32):
Take us backward.

Speaker 58 (01:46:34):
We will use tonight as a springboard to reject the
politics of divisiveness and division, and we will build a
brighter future for every single Virginia. That is our mission,
that is our charge.

Speaker 6 (01:46:49):
Thank you so much. I look forward to the future
with every single one of you. I appreciate you.

Speaker 58 (01:46:54):
Make God bless every single one of you in this commonwealth.

Speaker 6 (01:46:57):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 57 (01:47:06):
Oh y'all.

Speaker 3 (01:47:06):
J Jones most black Jill in Virginia. I think I
think Ja Jones, Uh, I should have walked out there.
Uh and literally just you know, channeled del.

Speaker 9 (01:47:22):
Nuts, kissed my entire ants because he's a bunch of folks.

Speaker 3 (01:47:29):
If I'm him, I'm listen for me.

Speaker 25 (01:47:33):
It would have been first off, your click and the
crew you claim and I would have I would have
named names from the first two minutes down from the door,
the first donor that walked to the first and Dorsey
that walked back, and I said, listen, have fun deal
with me for the next four years.

Speaker 6 (01:47:50):
I think I think that that.

Speaker 5 (01:47:54):
Right.

Speaker 19 (01:47:55):
I mean he got I mean nobody he owes no
one nothing. And let me tell you, Bobby Scott really
stood with them. There's a few people really Lucas uh,
skylevan Valkenburg, his buddy in the Senate. Uh. But Bobby

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gets a big, bigigh five. I mean, it's it's amazing
you find out. It's that the Liz Taylor quote about
you find out who your friends are in christ and
he just found out big time who his friends are.
Because that was crazy, okay. I mean, mistakes are made
during campaigns.

Speaker 20 (01:48:33):
All of the time. People make mistakes. You have to
adjust and move on.

Speaker 19 (01:48:37):
This is where I think the Democrats could actually learn
from the Republicans a little bit. They put their head
down and they drive through like nobody.

Speaker 40 (01:48:46):
Right is not just unfortunately a Virginia issue. I mean,
the unfortunate part is you're not going to see Keem
Jeffries or Chuck Schume on.

Speaker 3 (01:48:54):
Stage exactly right, exactly right, and so the fact that
his supporter don't want them on.

Speaker 40 (01:49:02):
But my thing is, I think we talked about earlier
how a big tent is an advantage for the Democratic Party,
and my thing is, we as a party have not
figured out how to tolerate that big tent yet. We're
too eager to throw each other on either ends of
the spectrum under the bus r whereas the Republican Party
has already painted themselves into a very narrow corner.

Speaker 19 (01:49:22):
Rather righteous and lose right then and push forward and win.

Speaker 3 (01:49:29):
And we got to and we've got a super majority of.

Speaker 37 (01:49:32):
The think what y'all talking about is a question of
respectability politics, right, And that's an issue with the old guard,
particularly within the Democratic Party.

Speaker 49 (01:49:40):
The Republicans have far far.

Speaker 37 (01:49:42):
Abandoned respectability politics. They haven't been respectable years and so
what we're seeing now is that we kind of have
to start emulating the tactics of the winners, whoever they
might be. So Jay Jones his victory tonight, I think
that should be a signaling to the rest of the
Democratic Party wide. We cannot continue to abandon young black

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people who are taking the lead of this country, whether
they're in the right or the wrong. This is opportunity
for mentorship, right.

Speaker 38 (01:50:13):
Because about Latisia James, right, and he needs to follow
Latsia James, and he has to be strong, just like
a lot of other ags are doing, to fight this
fight because when for next year, it's gonna matter who's attorney.

Speaker 6 (01:50:28):
General, who who's who's controlling.

Speaker 38 (01:50:31):
These elections because the seconds I'm not gonna go away
quietly well, and they're gonna look for any opportunity to
I'm not protisan, but particular, and.

Speaker 3 (01:50:42):
That that's the that's part of the reality.

Speaker 38 (01:50:44):
And if the Democrats don't get it, folks gonna make
him get it right. That's that's why you know I
don't have to right, No, no, James right, I'm saying
with Hackeen, if he wants to be the speaker, mm hmm,
he has to also see what happened tonight and understand

(01:51:04):
what they have to do if they're going to.

Speaker 3 (01:51:06):
Be leaving this party into the future. You're talking about
this otherwise politics about.

Speaker 23 (01:51:15):
Here the deal.

Speaker 3 (01:51:15):
I saw clip last night.

Speaker 9 (01:51:16):
It was an old clip with John matt when he
coached the Raiders. He goes the Raiders, y'all said, he
played dirt and.

Speaker 6 (01:51:27):
They let me what he said, and so the whole.

Speaker 9 (01:51:30):
Clip was showing the Raiders close lining cats, hitting them out.

Speaker 53 (01:51:33):
Of bounds, punching them in the broth as they got
a name, and John Mann was like, we want now
you can sit here and say let's play nine.

Speaker 1 (01:51:43):
This is the right thing.

Speaker 16 (01:51:45):
I can't say this belongings.

Speaker 9 (01:51:47):
Democrats are playing a political game with they set up rules.
At the other side, they are saying, we're gonna box
with gloves and the rule both just like you.

Speaker 3 (01:52:01):
Hear me that two by four and that crow bar,
keep your head with a trash can. They don't break
any rules. And so that's the whole deal. Michelle Obama
and I disagree with you. Moment she said it, when
they go low legal high, I was like, no, no, they.

Speaker 9 (01:52:16):
We go to Hey, they hit you lord, pump, stay
as lord, and you hit them harder.

Speaker 16 (01:52:22):
That's what actually has to happen.

Speaker 3 (01:52:24):
A couple of things have happen. We're gonna do this year.
We're gonna quickly go to New Jersey. I'm gonna take
a little bit of Mickey Chierrol her speech in New Jersey.
She's one tonight.

Speaker 9 (01:52:33):
And also Christian Menefee, who came in first in the
eighteenth race in Houston.

Speaker 3 (01:52:39):
He's holding right now. So give me a couple of
minutes of.

Speaker 16 (01:52:44):
Cheryl uh and then we're gonna come to minutfee go.

Speaker 59 (01:52:47):
It makes it impossible for you to feed your family,
to get a good education, or to get a good job.
So in this country that shouldn't be too much to ask,
but right now all of it seems at risk.

Speaker 11 (01:53:00):
Governors have never mattered more.

Speaker 59 (01:53:08):
And in this state, I am determined to build prosperity
for all of our citizens.

Speaker 22 (01:53:17):
And I've heard from.

Speaker 32 (01:53:18):
Thousands of you about what liberty and prosperity mean to you,
what it's going to take for your.

Speaker 11 (01:53:24):
Family to thrive.

Speaker 24 (01:53:26):
So I hear you Newark.

Speaker 59 (01:53:28):
I'm going to work with communities from the ground up
so all of our neighbors thrive. I hear you, jam So,
I'm going to declare a state of emergency on day
one to drive down.

Speaker 6 (01:53:42):
Your utility Hoot.

Speaker 11 (01:53:47):
I hear you, Westfield.

Speaker 59 (01:53:48):
So I'm going to make sure our kids are safe
online and schools have the resources they need to address
the mental health crisis.

Speaker 11 (01:53:57):
I hear your Jersey City.

Speaker 4 (01:53:59):
So I'm in a whole.

Speaker 59 (01:54:00):
Government accountable, balancing individual liberty with collective responsibility, ensuring people
are safe, healthy, educated, and.

Speaker 24 (01:54:08):
Free to pursue their dreams. I hear you, New Jersey.

Speaker 59 (01:54:13):
Good government doesn't just manage problems, it solves them. So
I'm going to continue to listen and work with you
to move our State forward because I have learned so
much as I've traveled our state. Our innovations, our businesses,
our inventors and entrepreneurs have amazed me. But it's the people,

(01:54:38):
the people that have left the biggest mark, especially those
who are fighting for prosperity for their entire communities. I
was moved during my blockwalk in Trent with Shanique as
she spoke so passionately about the promise of our city
and her neighbors despite the challenges. I love the group
of young men from Monroe who've been hard at work
on this campaign. They want to seated at the table

(01:55:00):
and they're ready to fight for their future.

Speaker 3 (01:55:02):
All folks.

Speaker 9 (01:55:03):
That's college woman Sharyl. She is the government lets in
New Jersey. The public is said he's got a great
hit for a pickup site. Texas Governor great and have
it refused to call especially electric After the death of
Congressman that's a turner the eighteenth Congressional District. That's a
seat that was held by a congress woman, Shuter Jackson Lee,
also Craig Washington, Mickey Leland, Barbara Jordan.

Speaker 3 (01:55:28):
One of the most historic seasons in the country.

Speaker 9 (01:55:31):
And tonight you'll see that the top two vote getters
in that race, Christian Menifee, the Harris County attorney and
former countwoman Amanda Edwards thirty two point four percent of
Menefee Amanda Edwards twenty five point for her Menefee Jonas
Right now, Christian, congratulations. Does your race go to a
run off or is it going to take off?

Speaker 23 (01:55:54):
It goes to a runoff.

Speaker 35 (01:55:55):
Texas is one of those states that historically had racist
practices and acting a runoff system to ensure that black
folks couldn't get elected to office with our white folks
supporting them.

Speaker 23 (01:56:05):
So we're in a runoff state. But we're feeling good.

Speaker 46 (01:56:08):
Man.

Speaker 35 (01:56:08):
We are seven points out on the next closest contender,
and that's just after early vote, and we think we're
going to be stronger after election night. And I think
it just shows that we have a groundswell of support,
a broad, diverse coalition of people who are rocking with
the campaign, and you know, we're gonna kick it to night.
But I'm looking forward to tomorrow morning getting.

Speaker 18 (01:56:26):
Back to it.

Speaker 3 (01:56:28):
Here we come back, by man, Christian. It was a
lot of folk running in this particular race.

Speaker 9 (01:56:33):
That's yet I had to zoom all the way out
to get everybody on screen.

Speaker 16 (01:56:38):
And based upon a different poland, folks thought that Texas
state of Jeana Jones was gonna win this running away.

Speaker 3 (01:56:46):
How were you able to come out on top in
this race?

Speaker 35 (01:56:52):
Yeah, A lot of respect for a state representative Johanna Jones.
She's been a long time public servant. I think has
shown herself to be a fighter. We ran a campaign
focused on both being a fighter, but a fighter has
delivered results and my time is kind of attorney. I
have stood up to Greg Abbott, to Compaxton to Donald
Trump and beat them in court to deliver real results

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to our community. And what I'm hearing from folks when
them at their door is that they want someone who's
going to fight, but they want someone that's going to win.
And that's something right now that we have seen across
the country at the Democratic Party is lacking.

Speaker 23 (01:57:25):
You know, you got folks who want to talk a lot.

Speaker 35 (01:57:27):
I want to write a lot of letters, but not
want to step up and really engage in whatever hand
to hand combat is necessary to at the end of
the day, get the win and bring it back to
your community. So when I go to Congress, I plan
to be one of those members is going to be aggressive,
either servant on the oversight Committee or whatever avenue that's
available to me to hold Trump accountable, to bring wins

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back to my communities, and to bring a backbone to

Speaker 3 (01:57:52):
What is the runoff? What's the date?

Speaker 23 (01:57:56):
The governor has to schedule it.

Speaker 35 (01:57:57):
So, because the seat became vacant upon the passing the
late representative Selvester Turner. Uh, state law kicks in, the
governor called the first round on a very delayed timeline,
and so he now calls the special election.

Speaker 23 (01:58:10):
And my guest says it'll be in January.

Speaker 35 (01:58:12):
But he has not called it yet and he probably
won't until the voters finally camp.

Speaker 9 (01:58:16):
Well, Hill, I hope he calls it before the new Congresses,
before Congress is won.

Speaker 23 (01:58:20):
In look, I mean, if he doesn't, you can bet everything.

Speaker 3 (01:58:28):
Oh so we lost his feed there.

Speaker 9 (01:58:31):
Uh so, uh well again, let me know we get
many feed back. We'd love to hear that particular answer.
Also holding right now, Cliff Albright, he's the co founder
of Black Voters Matter. Cliff, always glad to have you
on the show with Latasha earlier. Just your thoughts of
what you saw tonight.

Speaker 26 (01:58:50):
Yeah, thanks for having me.

Speaker 6 (01:58:51):
Roland.

Speaker 26 (01:58:52):
Hey to everybody in the room.

Speaker 3 (01:58:54):
So you got my system.

Speaker 9 (01:58:57):
That's the cliff Hold on one second. We got many
feed back. I wanted to finish that comment. Welcome back
to you, Chris.

Speaker 3 (01:59:03):
To go ahead.

Speaker 9 (01:59:03):
You're finished making your comment about what you plan to
do with the governor delays calling this runoff, I'm going to.

Speaker 23 (01:59:11):
Be as aggressive as possible.

Speaker 35 (01:59:13):
Back when the governor was delaying called on the runoff,
I was the only canon in the race who called
on the governor of.

Speaker 23 (01:59:18):
The state of Texas to call.

Speaker 35 (01:59:20):
The first election to take place in June because he
had done so in Republican district because he said that
they needed the federal.

Speaker 23 (01:59:26):
Representative when hurricane season approached.

Speaker 35 (01:59:28):
Now, I'm from Houston, and it ain't no place out
there that's getting hit harder by hurricanes in the state
of Texas than Houston. But he told the black and
the brown folks in this district that we have to
languish without representation. But I called on him to call
that election in June, and I told him that if
he did not call the election, I was going to
sue him. Fast forward. You see the leader of the
party in the House, Hakking Jefferies made a similar comment

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and it kind of sparked a national conversation about how
aggressive we need to get with these governors. So if
the governor doesn't call it and we have any legal
basis to sue, you can bet every dollar in your
bank account. I'm gonna find a way to sue. Is
that so that we can hold them accountable and we
can ensure that we get representation to a district that
is languished without representation.

Speaker 26 (02:00:06):
Promise a year?

Speaker 9 (02:00:07):
All right, Christian Manife, congratulations, we look forward to the
run up between you and a Man Edwards.

Speaker 23 (02:00:13):
Thank you very much for having me on.

Speaker 3 (02:00:14):
I appreciate it. Ro I appreciate it.

Speaker 9 (02:00:15):
Thanks a lot, Cliff fall right, let's go to you, Cliff,
just your thoughts, your assessment. Huge, huge win across the
board for Democrats all over the country.

Speaker 50 (02:00:29):
Definitely, before I talked about the big wins, I do
have to you know, I don't want to be Debbie
down if I got to give the cautionary note about
what you just talked on with Christian. You know, what
have we've seen recently. We've seen the District eighteen in Texas, right,
that seat that she was just talking about, which was

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already which has already been delayed because the governor refused
to hold the election. We've got the grave seat in Arizona, right,
she's over thirty something days now where she won that seat.

Speaker 26 (02:01:02):
Mike Johnson refuses to see her.

Speaker 50 (02:01:04):
And so while we celebrate these electoral victories that were
happening tonight, we still got to be clear minded about
the threats that we're basically right that we've got some
folks who who out of their own mouths, are saying
they no longer believe in democracy, right that say, oh,
this isn't a democracy, it's it's a republic. And you know,
so anyway, I just want to give that questionary note

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before we talk about the actual electoral wins. You know,
your your your band at the bottoms of the black
folks matter, and I think that's part of the story
that we're seeing tonight. Right, we're seeing historic winds, and
we're seeing them in places where black voters have been
a big part of the story.

Speaker 26 (02:01:42):
Just when these psc racists in Georgia.

Speaker 50 (02:01:45):
I don't know if y'all talk about it already, but
these huge Public Service Commission.

Speaker 26 (02:01:50):
Wins in Georgia.

Speaker 50 (02:01:53):
State wide racist districts that really should not be state
wide district Right, that's a whole story ended up itself.

Speaker 26 (02:02:00):
But in spite of that, we're seeing these two huge wins,
I mean not even closed.

Speaker 50 (02:02:05):
These are like fifty one forty ninety eight, Like they're
looking at like sixty percent of the vote above sixty
percent in.

Speaker 26 (02:02:13):
Both of these districts. Black voters got a lot to
deal with that.

Speaker 50 (02:02:18):
But you also got to look at like even in Virginia,
like we know what happened with the statewide races, but
they're looking at I think they may have won like
eleven extracits or something crazy like that in Virginia. Some
of those are in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia,
a part of the state that doesn't get a whole
lot of ellectual attention, but you got a significant black

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population and talking about places like Hampton and Virginia Beach,
both down down in that area, and you saw some
major victories there.

Speaker 26 (02:02:47):
And in central Virginia you got three black women that
have won.

Speaker 50 (02:02:52):
Legislative seats, and so that doesn't happen without hard like
turn out. So you got to look at not the results,
but look at the role that black voters have played
in these results. And I remember the General mentioned Mississippi
where you also see some special elections because of.

Speaker 26 (02:03:08):
The Voting Rights Act.

Speaker 50 (02:03:10):
And I don't know what the final count is, but
there's a possibility and enough of those in Mississippi. We're
talking about Mississippi, right, we're enough and one there to
break the super majority that.

Speaker 3 (02:03:22):
Right as you go.

Speaker 9 (02:03:24):
Also you're the Democratic And comment from mayor in Cincinnati
beat jd Vance's half brother, Corey Bowman, so in a blowout.

Speaker 19 (02:03:33):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (02:03:34):
The the trifling swimmer Riley Gaines, who only gained popularity
because of a swimming gainst someone who's transgender. She tweeted
twenty five minutes ago. We've got a lot of work
to do to make sure midterms are a disaster. I said,
old trusty, Riley, You've been able to swim in mageteers
this time next year.

Speaker 3 (02:03:51):
Yes I am, king petty, Yes I am. And again
the thing here, I really.

Speaker 9 (02:03:58):
Do believe, Cliff that when you look at when you
pull these things together, I think what you saw was one.

Speaker 3 (02:04:07):
All these poles kept talking about how awful.

Speaker 9 (02:04:09):
Democrats polling was nationally. That's because they were so fixated
on Washington DC.

Speaker 3 (02:04:16):
I think what you're seeing.

Speaker 9 (02:04:17):
Are folks who are saying we're not taking our.

Speaker 3 (02:04:20):
Cues from Washington DC.

Speaker 9 (02:04:22):
The people who should really be concerned tonight are these
trifling as white democratic strategists. Because what's gonna happen after
tonight You're gonna see a whole bunch of folks have
any sense, they will say f you to the strategists
by saying, your stupid, normal centrist that's appeal to the
white suburban women.

Speaker 3 (02:04:43):
Don't go after the base voters.

Speaker 9 (02:04:45):
Let's have these generic, lackluster, warm milk as proposals as
opposed to being smart, being aggressive, being real, being authentic.

Speaker 3 (02:04:55):
To me, that is I think what you all saw
going to see.

Speaker 9 (02:04:58):
And so I'm gonna be try those high paid assholes
a lot over the next few days.

Speaker 26 (02:05:05):
Yeah yeah, but what you're gonna see them doing it.
And this is why when you were talking earlier, I
had a friendly amendment what you were saying when you.

Speaker 50 (02:05:13):
Were talking about kind of democratic to tell a story
about this spectrum of candidates, right, the reality is this,
they won't hesitate at all to talk about Ryl and
Spamburger and some of the moderate candads that you don't
have to worry about whether they're going to talk about them.
But what's gonna happen is that they're going to bury
the story around mound. They could act like you don't

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even exist, like New York what never heard of it? Right,
any progressive candidate or the role of any progressive voters,
like life voters, and some of these elections, you're gonna
ignore that. So they've always got a wide open tent
as long as that tent is only more like center
right within the party.

Speaker 3 (02:05:55):
But they are.

Speaker 50 (02:05:56):
Constantly trying to ignore the role or be the progressive
candidates or a Lotija said, a progressive base. And so
part of what we got to do on why your
soul and this forum is so important is got we've
got to tell a story about black voters.

Speaker 26 (02:06:11):
We got to make sure that they see that.

Speaker 50 (02:06:13):
This election wasn't about the triumph of moderation, the triumph
of democratic mediocrity, right, but that this is a story
about a base that made itself heard about a base
that wants to see more progressive policies, a base that
wants to see a focus on affordability, a base that
wants to see people that are willing to fight back,

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like we've got to tell a story of the importance
of focus gros.

Speaker 26 (02:06:38):
Those same consultants that you talk about.

Speaker 50 (02:06:41):
They're going to continue to do their thing and shake
the narrative that they want to say and then attract
of money.

Speaker 26 (02:06:48):
It goes with that.

Speaker 50 (02:06:50):
Narrative and our communities to find themselves under resource in
spite of the victories that we that we just we
don't want. In a few communities, we're always in a
situation where we're dan with them if we don't.

Speaker 26 (02:07:01):
If you lose an election, they look at us and
try to blame us.

Speaker 6 (02:07:04):
Right if we win.

Speaker 50 (02:07:06):
An election because of our enthusiasms, turnout, they try to
act like it didn't exist. It was really just because
white folks trump folders just basically flipped. So in either situation,
we get ignored and then we don't get the investors
that we need to go the next site.

Speaker 9 (02:07:22):
Well, that's why I think what the responsibility of black
organization and activists and others is to say, we're not
gonna let y'all.

Speaker 3 (02:07:31):
Define the terms of victory.

Speaker 19 (02:07:34):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (02:07:34):
And what I've said every every CDC member that's come on,
I said the director to Center Raffia Warnock. I sent
it to Jefferies, I said to Schumer, I said it
to Ken Martin. Y'all asses are They're gonna have to
cut some bigger checks. You have to spend more time,
more resources. You have to stop expecting black folks to
volunteer and I pay them on campaigns.

Speaker 3 (02:07:57):
Because the fact of the matters this here.

Speaker 9 (02:07:58):
They are going to need a mad said black turnout
in the black belt of North Carolina for Roy Cooper
to win next year. They're gonna have to need a
massive black turnout in Georgia for Oldsoft to win next year.

Speaker 3 (02:08:09):
If Kid Packs is the nominee in.

Speaker 9 (02:08:11):
Texas and Conris won and Jasmin Crockett is a Democratic nominee,
They're gonna need a massive turnout of black folks in Texas.
And so this is where we've got to tell these
black politicians stop being weak, stop being soft, stop being afraid,
and they gotta be willing to walk into those rooms
and throw down. But I'm telling you right now, I'm
already making it perfectly clear House majority Pack sitting majority

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Pack future forward. All y'all packs, I'm telling you right now,
I'm gonna be putting your names and your faces on
the air if you're not returning the phone calls and emails,
because see, we ain't gonna play this game again if
they always playing.

Speaker 3 (02:08:52):
And so again this is where black folks don't we
ain't wait until September in October to say hey, what's up.

Speaker 9 (02:09:00):
We're we're gonna we gotta be calling folks out Wednesday
and Thursday and next month in January, because that's what
it's gonna take, because we there's a massive effort by
Magna to defund Black America. And so tonight was black
folks playing offense, not defense, and we gotta we gotta
run up the score next year as well to seeing

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them the biggest signal possible that if y'all want to
sit here, you want to.

Speaker 3 (02:09:26):
F with our future, we got something to say about it.

Speaker 50 (02:09:31):
That's what's up, and we're ready to do the work,
but we can't do it with no budget. And that's
just real call, right, And so you know, again, thank
you for everything that you do, for telling our stories,
for saving the narrative, from highlighting the organizations and the
organizers that that that you just working, from highlighting our issues.
At the end of the day, that's how we get

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to turnout is by focusing on the issues that impacts
our communities.

Speaker 56 (02:09:57):
Right.

Speaker 50 (02:09:57):
I was out today on the lection day here in Georgia.
I was the agency, the University Center. We had seen
students marching from Morris Brown, Morehouse, Spell then Mark Marketing
to go vote. And they weren't marketing just because somebody
died for them to vote, right, they were marketing because
they recognized that our issues aren't the ballot. They recognized

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that their utility bills were on the ballot. That's what
we used to talk to folks to get them motivated
to vote in something that's not a sexy election.

Speaker 26 (02:10:25):
Who sits around the kitchen.

Speaker 50 (02:10:27):
Table talking about the public service convension, But we had
to connect it to the issues that people were dealing
with on a daily basis.

Speaker 3 (02:10:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 50 (02:10:33):
When we do that and when we have the resources
to tell that story, our folks show up and show out.

Speaker 3 (02:10:38):
That's what happened today, clip Ball Bright. I appreciate the
brother facts a lot. Thank you, Michael Brown, your famal
comment before I.

Speaker 28 (02:10:46):
Bring the kid last, you know, insensing the We were
talking earlier about conversations that party leaders have to have.
Prime example, and Melanie, you know this, professor, you know this.
I know doctor Melvau, No, I know you. When there
were a whole host of folks running for president on
the Democratic side in nineteen ninety two, you had serious

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Democratic candidates that could all raise a lot of money
from Rockefeller to GIP part you name it.

Speaker 1 (02:11:14):
My father was chair.

Speaker 28 (02:11:15):
He said to Bill Clinton, do you want to be
right or do you want to win that part? And
Bill Clinton was the only one that said, I want to.

Speaker 3 (02:11:22):
Win GIP parts.

Speaker 28 (02:11:24):
I Oh, we got to bring everybody to the table,
bring make sure everybody so. And he said to the
governor at the time, We're going to give a whole
lot of money to black folks in the street.

Speaker 3 (02:11:34):
I'm just telling you what the rules are.

Speaker 17 (02:11:35):
Going to be.

Speaker 28 (02:11:35):
So don't come saying, oh, we need more money.

Speaker 1 (02:11:37):
In the Bible Belt, but we need more money here.

Speaker 28 (02:11:40):
The money was spread everywhere, but black folks got money,
black contractors, black polsters, as you know, black organized.

Speaker 3 (02:11:48):
You won Georgia exactly. So there that's what earlier. Not
to be afraid.

Speaker 28 (02:11:53):
Thank goodness, my father wasn't afraid to say that to
white men, especially at that time called Reagan democrats. Those
where democrats. Oh, should we go after him, should we
leave them alone? No, we'll definitely campaign, but let's make
sure we take care of our folks.

Speaker 9 (02:12:08):
And this also was a difficult, this dec fault again,
these two reports that came out.

Speaker 3 (02:12:13):
This is the next version of the DLSC and that
they're trying to bring back again because.

Speaker 9 (02:12:17):
They want to push this whole thing of no citrus
centrist again. That only works in certain places. It doesn't
work everywhere. And next year is not a presidential race.
Next year a series of statewide races. You incided statewide
cogressional is seven hundred and ten thousand every thousand people.

Speaker 3 (02:12:37):
Those are individual races, so you've got to be looking at.

Speaker 16 (02:12:40):
Those races a lot different folks.

Speaker 9 (02:12:42):
We got lots of more talking about we're going to
go to a break right now we come back, particularly
Laughton down the States Student Association to be showing us
sharing her thoughts and perspective on this din.

Speaker 3 (02:12:52):
They hear from Glenda Carver higher Heights as well.

Speaker 9 (02:12:55):
Folks, y'all watching the Black Suplical show tonight the Mother Networks.
Y'all know y'all going to y'all al crane your neck,
don't to do it on this show.

Speaker 3 (02:13:04):
We'll be right back right here rolling my unfilter on
the black.

Speaker 22 (02:13:06):
Sid hatred on the streets.

Speaker 32 (02:13:36):
A horrific scene, white nationalists rally that descended into deadly violent.

Speaker 3 (02:13:44):
White people are losing their their.

Speaker 28 (02:13:47):
A's a angry pro Trump Mark storms to the US
Capital st We're about to.

Speaker 3 (02:13:52):
See the rise of what I call white minority resistance.

Speaker 9 (02:13:55):
We have seen white folks in this country who simply
cannot tallow rage black folks voting.

Speaker 48 (02:14:01):
I think what we're seeing is the inevitable result of
violent denials.

Speaker 7 (02:14:06):
This is part of American history.

Speaker 48 (02:14:08):
Every time that people of color have made a progress,
whether real or symbolic, there has been but Carold Anderson,
every university calls white rage as a backlash.

Speaker 3 (02:14:18):
This is the right of the proud boys and the
boogaboo boys America. There's going to be more of this.

Speaker 47 (02:14:23):
The prod this country is getting increasingly racist and its
behaviors and its attitudes because of the fear of white people,
the fear that they're taking our jobs, they're taking out
our resources, they're.

Speaker 3 (02:14:36):
Taking out women. This is white beeple.

Speaker 18 (02:14:54):
If in this country right now you have people get
up in the morning and the only thing that can
think about is how many people they can hurt and
they've got the power. That's the time for morning, for
better or worse.

Speaker 44 (02:15:07):
What makes America special, it's that legal system that's supposed
to protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority.

Speaker 45 (02:15:15):
We are at a point of a moral emergency. We
must raise a voice of outrage. We must raise a
voice of compassion, and.

Speaker 46 (02:15:26):
We must raise a voice of unity. We are not
in a crisis of party versus party. We are in
a crisis of civilization, a humans rights crisis, and a
crisis of democracy itself.

Speaker 3 (02:15:41):
And guess what.

Speaker 17 (02:15:42):
You've been chosen to make sure that those that would destroy,
those that would hate, don't have the final say, and
they don't ultimately win.

Speaker 36 (02:15:54):
They said the quiet part out loud. Black votes are
a threat, so they erased them. After the court gutted
the Voting Rights Act in twenty thirteen, Republican legislators moved
fast new voter id laws, polling place shutdowns, purges of
black voters from the rolls. Trump's Justice Department didn't stop it.

Speaker 3 (02:16:14):
They joined in.

Speaker 36 (02:16:16):
In twenty eighteen, his DOJ backed Ohio's voter purge system,
a scheme that disproportionately erased Black voters, their goal, erased
black votes, and political power. Yeah, that happened. These are
the kinds of stories that we cover every day on
Roland Martin Unfiltered. Subscribe on YouTube and download the Blackstar
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Americans and the issues that matter to our community.

Speaker 9 (02:17:35):
Coming back to hours of lots of network specially coverage
of the twenty twenty five election, I am there's a
lot of time we be looking at. I'm gonna be
looking also at a lot of the local races. We're
gonna be pulling up folks at Bolts Magazine really has
a great breakdown.

Speaker 3 (02:17:53):
A lot of these local races. But I'm gonna go
to here. This is this is whole right here.

Speaker 9 (02:17:57):
The Washington Post agency instance fod cash up the Americans
signal rising costs could be Trump's men and ache Chaer
who said they blamed Trump for the current rate of inflation,
all of those fifty Democrats of ninety two independent of
the sixty six.

Speaker 3 (02:18:12):
The Post is here's the deal. He ran on these issues.
He ran talking about this these points here, and now
it's coming back on them. Here's what he did, ticking
Lobson Don Temp kept saying, I'm gonna fix the stay one.
Well it's been ten months.

Speaker 9 (02:18:28):
Uh and sou and again, now that you're sitting in
the seat, you're not gonna get to blame and you're
gonna get the credit.

Speaker 19 (02:18:33):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:18:34):
And he keeps going on TV, lying saying that.

Speaker 9 (02:18:36):
Oh, no, prices are down, everything is down, lying, just
fled out lying when Fox News.

Speaker 3 (02:18:41):
Are telling truth, you know something is going wrong. Uh
And I and I do believe, and I really and
I really hope that.

Speaker 16 (02:18:49):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:18:49):
And we saw these poets talking.

Speaker 9 (02:18:50):
About how these young voters gen Z becoming more conservative,
especially these.

Speaker 3 (02:18:54):
Young white men.

Speaker 9 (02:18:56):
Uh And I really hope that all these young folks
who voted for Trump in twenty twenty four now realize, damn,
we got played.

Speaker 60 (02:19:07):
While I'm trying to figure out in the polls that
you just put up who the Republicans think is responsible
to blame for the prices going up?

Speaker 3 (02:19:13):
On what's going on?

Speaker 60 (02:19:14):
So yeah, of course Biden and Obama, right, and you
like who are just trying to figure out and pointed
people they just trying to figure out and pointed people
on who to blame. And so I'm trying to figure
out where the other ninety two percent is looking at
and what they're looking at, what they're paying attention to.

Speaker 24 (02:19:26):
White young boys have always been more conservative.

Speaker 60 (02:19:30):
Students of color, young people, educated folks, black young women, millennials,
women of color.

Speaker 24 (02:19:37):
Et cetera.

Speaker 60 (02:19:37):
Have always been on the right side of history when
it comes to the majority of midterm elections presidential elections,
and we've seen the trends of young people go up
every year. I come to this show and we have
an election and people say, not here, but people on
Fox News and MSNBC, CNN and everything.

Speaker 20 (02:19:54):
Where are the young people?

Speaker 3 (02:19:55):
Where are the young people? Where are the young people?

Speaker 60 (02:19:56):
And then the results always come out by circle by
tough and they say young people have.

Speaker 14 (02:20:01):
Turned out and recon members.

Speaker 60 (02:20:02):
So I'm tired of us asking that question of where
they are.

Speaker 24 (02:20:06):
Roland, you always invite me to the show, and.

Speaker 60 (02:20:07):
I always talk about organizing, as you know, and I
was just here back in March where your incredible audience
and this entire team supported our national Grassroops solders that
have conference and raised over one hundred and seven thousand
dollars from two thousand small donors who are watching.

Speaker 24 (02:20:22):
Your show to build an organization to move power.

Speaker 60 (02:20:25):
And so when you ask the question who are they
listening to?

Speaker 24 (02:20:29):
Who are they responding to?

Speaker 60 (02:20:30):
My question is always going to be in response to that,
how are we organizing these young jolks on the ground.
It's not just communications, it's not just messaging. They have
to have organizations where.

Speaker 3 (02:20:39):
They can live, not just political homes.

Speaker 24 (02:20:41):
We got enough political homes.

Speaker 60 (02:20:42):
Everybody here in the circle is a part of political home.

Speaker 24 (02:20:44):
How many people in this room?

Speaker 60 (02:20:45):
How many people are we working with that are getting
ready to prepare for twenty twenty six and are registering
people in mass numbers and training young people on ground.
And I'm not going to say I'm the only person
doing that, but we are doing that in a really
big way.

Speaker 3 (02:20:56):
At us to say the first what I kill?

Speaker 9 (02:21:00):
I kept saying this, and people all, everybody, it was
here election night last year.

Speaker 3 (02:21:06):
I said, then that was a lot of fun. I
kept saying, I remember, I.

Speaker 9 (02:21:10):
Need folks to stop focusing on twenty eight and stop
focusing on twenty six. What I was focused on two
days after Common loss was the next election. I think
it was like in March, and then it was the
Constitution members in.

Speaker 3 (02:21:24):
Louisiana, and then it was the Supreme cour rac Wisconsin.

Speaker 16 (02:21:29):
That's the one that was in March.

Speaker 3 (02:21:30):
And I think people keep making a mistake. They keep
trying to go twenty eight. I was somewhere of the
other day somebody said your thoughts, I said, don't as
They're like, yeah, but no, I said, I'm not even
talking about twenty eight. I said, because that's the mistake
that you're making. But I understand what you have to
understand that that it's a thing called momentum. And all
we have also been talking about is organizing, immobilizing.

Speaker 9 (02:21:52):
Bishop William Barber, I'm talking about this all the time, organization, mobilization.

Speaker 3 (02:21:57):
I get the keynote speech of the National PANELMIC Council
Friday in Houston, and I said to them, I said,
y'all think, y'all do a whole lot.

Speaker 9 (02:22:06):
You still are not doing enough, I said, because we
have to be able to truly understand our numbers. I've
said to Prince Hall Mason, I need to see you
outside of your lodges.

Speaker 3 (02:22:16):
I said to Eastern Star. The linksays well. And I
think that people have to understand is that it is
not going to change. Just hoping people turn out. Now
we literally have.

Speaker 9 (02:22:28):
To go back to a very intensive micro strategy grad
and the micro strategy is again not hoping they turn out,
but pulling d pulling pre seint data, pulling block data
to say, pulling street dat to say how many people

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in this precinct are eligible to vote, how many people
are readership to vote, then how many actually vote it.
But the key is look at the number, how many
didn't vote, and now focus on those people to turn
at least fifty percent of them out.

Speaker 6 (02:23:11):
For the next election.

Speaker 3 (02:23:12):
We know if all of a sudden you see an
uptick of two, three, five, ten thousand votes, that can
completely change the statewide results. And that's where we have
to be locked.

Speaker 9 (02:23:27):
And loaded as a black community between now and election
night next year.

Speaker 8 (02:23:33):
I'm worried though that I mean seeing an is reporting
this all week, but that they're getting close to a
deal to open the government up again, and the progressive
people in the Senate are screaming bloody murder. The Democrats
never miss an opportunity, to miss opportunity, And you heard
Cliff say it.

Speaker 3 (02:23:51):
They're absolutely gonna bury my Downing. They're going to bury j.

Speaker 8 (02:23:54):
Jones, They're gonna bury everything they can, and the question
is will that break this momentum?

Speaker 3 (02:23:59):
Because you know, we have to be very clear about this.

Speaker 8 (02:24:02):
This is a white nationalist country and the Democratic Party
is for the soft white nationalist. Chuck Schumer needs to
be replaced yesterday, and so that's not gonna happen tonight.
But tonight's victory if in the next two or three
days they reopened the government and say, well, they promised
us they'll.

Speaker 3 (02:24:17):
Have a vote on healthcare in January? What the hell?

Speaker 6 (02:24:20):
What did y'all just do?

Speaker 8 (02:24:22):
I agree that we need to ignore the Democratic Party
leadership completely. We've seen this show before. We saw in
the wake of the Jackson campaigns when they put together
their soft white nationalist DLC with Joe Biden and Bill
Clinton and everybody else. We've seen this show many times.
But our lives are at stake now. The Democratic Party
is a delivery system. We should ignore internal base inside

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baseball politics.

Speaker 3 (02:24:45):
And I'm not a llwless to the.

Speaker 8 (02:24:46):
Damn Democrat Party. The Democratic point for real ten toes down.

Speaker 3 (02:24:50):
Fuck them. The bottom line is ignore them and move forward.

Speaker 8 (02:24:54):
On Fox News, the white nationalists they're gonna they're making
masks with or Donnie's head, and they're gonna put it
on everybody that one tonight spam Burger. They're gonna put
it on all of them. Mickey Charell. We've got to
take advantage of this momentum and ignore them, act as
if they don't exist. I don't know where this money
gonna come from, but we need to get you some money.
We need to get Clip from the Ties some money,

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and we need to just ignore these people.

Speaker 3 (02:25:18):
Well, I think that first of all, what you're seeing,
you are seeing folks no hate to lose.

Speaker 9 (02:25:32):
You're seeing I think individuals who now realize that it
might be pretty stupid to ignore podcasts, digital shows like
this because people are not watching MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS,
and you have to go whether people are they're all
bought anyway. But again I think, well, you see what

(02:25:53):
happens with the right wing CBS. But again, I just
did a simple thing for our people. We have to
be the every black organization that claims they have g
O TV efforts need to be re examining their GEO
TV efforts, how much money they're spending, and what they

(02:26:14):
should be saying is why are we doing all separate
individuals siloed GEO TV efforts and say, how do we
then mobilize together, pull resources poor people to be able
to hit more folks.

Speaker 3 (02:26:30):
Please wait in get out the vote, mobilize the vote,
show up. They'll know what that is.

Speaker 60 (02:26:39):
I think because some of my people didn't even know
elections were.

Speaker 24 (02:26:42):
Happening right now.

Speaker 3 (02:26:43):
That's the people in Kentucky. A people in Kentucky who
were calling the state saying, hey, what's type of polls?

Speaker 9 (02:26:48):
But they were like, we don't vote to share.

Speaker 3 (02:26:54):
Or you know, you know, I just uh.

Speaker 38 (02:27:04):
Took a moment and let my friends celebrate that I've
been in this, in this in this organization thirty years
and before I got here. You know, when I was
listening to Michael talk about his father around Brown, that
I lived in Georgia before I moved here, and in
the difference in how we dealt with politics, especially in
the South. And so if we don't change how we

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do this in a moment where we know that our
lives are truly under threat, and more importantly, our children's
lives are under threat.

Speaker 20 (02:27:37):
You know, my generation will.

Speaker 38 (02:27:39):
Be okay, and the ones behind older than me will
be okay, but our.

Speaker 3 (02:27:42):
Kids won't be okay because you ta you have the
kinds of attacks that are going on. That's why you know,
in this.

Speaker 38 (02:27:49):
Moment, I'm really excited about what happened for the moment,
but knowing that tomorrow those same people.

Speaker 49 (02:27:57):
Are not going to stop.

Speaker 38 (02:27:59):
They're not going to stop because they had a bump
on the road. And so if we don't change us,
I'll talk about black people.

Speaker 3 (02:28:07):
If we don't change how we do.

Speaker 38 (02:28:08):
You know, I set up a unity table every year
and that we can find.

Speaker 3 (02:28:14):
A way to share share.

Speaker 38 (02:28:15):
I will say a lot of our organizations are working
more closer together.

Speaker 20 (02:28:19):
You know, Lash I was were working close together.

Speaker 38 (02:28:22):
I think what's going to be critical and I go
back to what you talked about. It really has to
do with the investment in really divesting in the young people,
not just the vote, but in young people. When we
were winning and doing a lot of winning a lot
of a lot of ways, there was real investment. You know,
you at US say that the USS saying, the USA.

Speaker 3 (02:28:45):
The let's say, and if we don't, this is where
we got to put our energies.

Speaker 38 (02:28:51):
Look coalitions that invest in the young leadership to.

Speaker 3 (02:28:59):
The right drop one. I understand this here in the
last seven years, the right dropped one point six dealing
up on young folks.

Speaker 9 (02:29:16):
We did that when Prager You launched New York Times,
the story was twenty twenty. New York Times did a
story prager you wants to do a billion views on YouTube.

Speaker 3 (02:29:29):
That was the story. The first year they launched.

Speaker 9 (02:29:32):
The race, twenty two million. Second year they launched twenty
five million. Charlie Kirk's turning point. USA budget is seventy
two million a year. They broke down how much money
they've been spending because what happened. They were scared to
death of what happened two thousand and eight.

Speaker 3 (02:29:49):
That's everybody kept Everybody kept.

Speaker 9 (02:29:51):
Saying, all Democrats are going in for the next thirty years.
The young both at Obama coalition, so they said, well
we have to do.

Speaker 3 (02:30:00):
It's reached the hearts and minds of young people. And
what they did was.

Speaker 9 (02:30:05):
They utilize digital media, they utilize podcasts, and they took
all their messaging and they attacked everything.

Speaker 3 (02:30:14):
And so you have these folks, these young, these young
white boys.

Speaker 24 (02:30:17):
They also changed policy college campus huh.

Speaker 60 (02:30:19):
They changed policy on college campuses. They changed policy on
the statewide and local level. They took off the pillars
that allowed students to use their student fees to continue
to organize, have lobbyists in Washington, DC, have lobbyists at
the Capitol, et cetera. It was not just twenty four,
only eight years old these folks, and as you said,
from the last election, these folks been able to fundraise,

(02:30:40):
and they fundraised hell of money after he got killed,
sorry to be able to so I got distracted to
be able to invest in and support.

Speaker 24 (02:30:49):
Now do they have the political power that I think
that we have.

Speaker 3 (02:30:52):
I don't think so. I'm just gonna say that because.

Speaker 60 (02:30:54):
I stn't think we got the power. But they do
have the resources and finances to be able to do that.

Speaker 20 (02:30:57):
And you're right any of this thing.

Speaker 24 (02:30:59):
Let me say one more thing.

Speaker 60 (02:31:01):
In twenty twenty eight, young people under the age of
twenty nine, it's going to be half of the electric anyway.
So I need the party and the organizations and our
people to get serious about organizing the voters who just
turned out tonight, putting them in organizations so they can
do work, and continuing to do that, like Melanie said,
for the next three dconds and on.

Speaker 3 (02:31:20):
Their issue and on their issues.

Speaker 40 (02:31:23):
I mean, it's not just about right organizing among young people.
I think what Zora Mom Donnie is also showing is
that young people have real issues. Right, Millennials like us
Gen Z, we've been through two or three economic crises,
the climate crisis.

Speaker 20 (02:31:39):
Right, pandemic.

Speaker 3 (02:31:39):
Right, the pandemic. Right, we are waiting for relief. Right.

Speaker 40 (02:31:43):
We are also about to care for our parents, which
will be the largest group of seniors in American history. Also,
we don't have the resources to do it, but we're
not looking for right fensis.

Speaker 9 (02:31:54):
Yeah, We're also about to have the largest transfer generation
of wealth in American history in terms of Baby.

Speaker 3 (02:32:01):
Boomers to Gen X millennials in gen Zy for the corner,
for the corner. It is for the corner of that.

Speaker 9 (02:32:09):
No no, no, no, no no no no hold up,
hold up, I'm trying the reason I'm saying that Gen
X was the only demo.

Speaker 3 (02:32:20):
We're a majority vote for Trump.

Speaker 17 (02:32:22):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 9 (02:32:24):
You have to factor that economic piece in again. Baby
boomers are passing away. They're about to transfer the largest
amount of money to the next two generations in American history.

Speaker 3 (02:32:38):
So we're talking we're talking trust, we're talking.

Speaker 9 (02:32:43):
Businesses, we're talking any number of things that's actually happening.

Speaker 3 (02:32:47):
So the economic peace is real. But the thing that
I still believe that has to happen and what the
right has done the right way, I keep going back.
You can't hope people show up.

Speaker 9 (02:33:02):
You literally have to invest in infrastructure because there has
to be a cond it.

Speaker 3 (02:33:11):
So if you take where you're.

Speaker 9 (02:33:12):
Building again, and I'm gonna use Turning Point as an example,
when you're creating Turning Point chapters, you're creating a conduit
to organize when you're setting up thirty forty to fifty
campus tours through that infrastructure.

Speaker 3 (02:33:30):
That's infrastructure.

Speaker 60 (02:33:32):
It's not going to happen just loosely because people are mad.

Speaker 3 (02:33:36):
No, So that's the piece there.

Speaker 9 (02:33:38):
You have to take those people, those young folks who
will say I want to do something.

Speaker 3 (02:33:43):
And say go here for training for the work development
LEA should develop all of that, yep, selector.

Speaker 9 (02:33:52):
So talk about why you've got to invest in infrastructure
and not just broad let's hope they come out one second.

Speaker 60 (02:34:03):
This is a different This is a part of the
thing that I've been arguing roll in for the last
few years. We have been on our side, whatever we
call ourselves. Our side has been for the last few
years organizing around issues and not creating the infrastructure to
move that conduit. And I'm gonna be very honest. Media

(02:34:23):
media or is it yes, does make a list because
that list is gonna be what we need to build
for the next few years.

Speaker 24 (02:34:28):
We talked about Black Lives Matter, We.

Speaker 3 (02:34:30):
Built an organization, uh huh.

Speaker 60 (02:34:31):
We had Movement for March for Our Lives, built an organization,
and we had the Women's March, and we had an
organization in there haha, and it fell apart. We need
to have an organization, a conduit like you said, where
we have constant development of new leaders who are then
the folks who take over our jobs, who run for office,
who then build media like you said, who were able

(02:34:52):
to do all of data in the research, we were
able to be the poll workers, who were able to
be the staffers for these candidates who are running for
office and run these electoral issue.

Speaker 24 (02:35:01):
And candidate campaigns. We need to be able to have
all of those pieces.

Speaker 60 (02:35:04):
But if we can't find those people because we're not
operating like a party. We can't find those people because
we don't have the funding and the resources.

Speaker 24 (02:35:11):
We can't find those.

Speaker 60 (02:35:11):
People because we're deciding that that we're not in a party,
we're actually only supporting eighty five year old Nancy Pelosi
and Chuck Schuger and Hackeen Jeffries, that we are not
actually we are. We don't want to win, period, don't
want to win.

Speaker 7 (02:35:23):
What I'm building at us to say.

Speaker 60 (02:35:24):
Is simple, we are building the conduit. We are turning
eighty years old next year. We did have a little
bit of a hiatus. I wasn't a part of that,
but if we need to have I'm just being honest.
I was at the NAACP we need and I built
there too, so we need to thank you, markin So
we need to have we need to have an organization
where leadership development happens and these young people can get

(02:35:45):
the experience and the training and the practice and most
importantly for me, the community of relationships to then be
able to move the party forward.

Speaker 9 (02:35:53):
One second, I'm gonna go to one second, I'm going
to I'm go live, me, go live to Brittany, Brittany, Brittany.

Speaker 3 (02:36:00):
Noble Brittany. Guys, you if you tell me to go.

Speaker 9 (02:36:03):
To Brittany and now you tell me to hold on, okay, fine,
get her ready, but don't tell me we need to
go to her in the next thirty minutes before they
get to get kicked out. Get them ready, Eugene, gonna
make your point.

Speaker 25 (02:36:18):
Decade and a half and I went back to twenty ten.
They built an ecosystem. It wasn't one organization, was the
two or it was the ecosystem. So I'm I'm gonna
lay out something here.

Speaker 3 (02:36:26):
Okay, I'm a real funded millions eleven thousand.

Speaker 25 (02:36:33):
I'm at Bowie State University right at the time, I'm
running a Students for Liberty organist organization, which is non partisan,
just the libertarian based principle. I'm a YALLO chapter president,
which kind of back on the Students for Liberty turn
the point approaches to say hell no, yeah, approaches to
hell no.

Speaker 1 (02:36:48):
Because we just weren't that conservative and whatnot.

Speaker 25 (02:36:50):
At the time, I also owned the Bulldog Collegiate, which
was at the time the only active student newspaper on campus.
I broke a story about how Bullie had handled the
health insurance perm at the time, which won for fifty
bucks about seven hundred and fifty dollars. I broke the
story within me breaking this is how the ecosystem worked
within me breaking the story.

Speaker 1 (02:37:07):
Okay, Tucker Cross.

Speaker 25 (02:37:09):
At Vince congo Lease or matter of student conference that
that irl into collegiate institute whatever have funded sent to
south of Dallas Fort Worth, whenever a bunch of other
student owned newspapers in which you know, networking, X, Y
and Z and I just said, I'm working on the
story of you know how my university is. You know,
that's amount the helper starts planned in the wake of Obamacare,
trying to like push students into the exchange. When the

(02:37:32):
story published, all right, Tucker Cross and Vice Congolease and
the third party who the name I forget, you know,
they push it up. But then two days Kat Tiff
who's now at Fox News, who over at the time
with like campus reform, comes out the campus. That's when
the infamous video gets shot from there two days later.
This is the power of the ecosystem. That's what you

(02:37:52):
guys have to build. I didn't just have the top
math I drudge. I had the top math I Drudge
and helping to pulse this same time duel both sending
all this traffic to bulld All Collegian, which then also
filtered back in the campus reform or whatever else. That
ecosystem is what they decided to use to help build
Turning Point. Turning Point has been it's been a little

(02:38:15):
bit longer than eight years.

Speaker 24 (02:38:17):
Website.

Speaker 25 (02:38:17):
Well that's what their website. It's been a long and
long than eight years. The issue is this, right, how
is it that in an organization? Because Turning Point in
issue was a simply media organization. They were hey guys,
you know they were they were trying to compete what
was rare at the time with Jack Hunter of Opposite
of Freedom, Works of regular politics, for Francesca Chambers, who
that White House correspondent. They were competing with them, and
they started as a media correspondent, a media entity, and

(02:38:39):
then built out actual physical presence entity. But their building,
their physical presence entity was actually building.

Speaker 23 (02:38:46):
Through the yals sfls and yeahs.

Speaker 25 (02:38:49):
They will come in and say, hey, you know you
already have this on the ground, Just go fillow paperwork
to start a Turning Points after and then we'll give
you the funding and we'll.

Speaker 20 (02:38:56):
Get its heritage.

Speaker 1 (02:39:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:39:03):
But the thing is this, The thing is this, it's.

Speaker 1 (02:39:08):
A it becomes a feeder organization.

Speaker 3 (02:39:12):
And that's okay.

Speaker 9 (02:39:13):
When you lay out and go, you know, leave want
a second when you when you lay out, just to
just see the matrix, if you will. Okay, it all
ties together. That's why it's called an ecosystem. The reality is,
and I'm gonna go back to what Howard Dean was
cheer the Democratic Party, Paul mcgalli, James Carville.

Speaker 3 (02:39:32):
Ronniey Manuel.

Speaker 9 (02:39:33):
Their whole deal was hey, enough, fifty state strategy, ship
national national National. Dean was like, no, you have to
build a fifty state strategy.

Speaker 3 (02:39:44):
I'm gonna take Texas. There are two hundred and fifty
four counties in Texas. The Democrats only have a county
party in eighty.

Speaker 9 (02:39:50):
One between fifty four. You can't win the state when
you don't even in So it's ecosystem. If you, if you,
if you went to Democratic donors.

Speaker 3 (02:40:03):
Or went to the politicians and said, hey, what do
you think is your progressive ecosystem to reach young voters?
I literally couldn't name the lead organization they blew off.

Speaker 9 (02:40:19):
I mean I was talking to a white media strategist
who said, one Democratic meta strategist said to him last year,
this was a quote, don't come to me about spending
some fucking money with podcasts and that guy and that
guy hit his ass in December went how did that
work out for you?

Speaker 3 (02:40:40):
So again seventy one percent.

Speaker 9 (02:40:42):
What was what was the pack that they were funding
if you wanted to support Commond, they said, go Priorities.

Speaker 3 (02:40:48):
Forward, Forward Future.

Speaker 9 (02:40:51):
For seventy percent of their media ad dollars was on
linear television.

Speaker 3 (02:40:57):
So so the deal what the right did was the
right said on the space.

Speaker 9 (02:41:01):
The right said we need think tanks for research, we
need young we need media that they understood the different lane.
Democrats would think that, oh, no media, we got MSNBC
New York Times. If you are no, you don't because
those are not they allow pink progress.

Speaker 3 (02:41:21):
To go under. So we can go on and on
and on.

Speaker 9 (02:41:23):
So what you're dealing with now is, to Tiffany's point,
if you have an ecosystem, the person who's eighteen, he's
gonna eventually.

Speaker 3 (02:41:32):
Be thirty five.

Speaker 9 (02:41:33):
They gotta be able to go somewhere. Then when they
turned fifty, they're gonna transition.

Speaker 3 (02:41:38):
Out of that group. Then they got to go somewhere else.
You literally don't have that, and they're now having to
build it on the fly.

Speaker 9 (02:41:46):
And so this is where all the people who got
mad at me when I criticize Obama and Obama for America,
and I told them the problem there was that gentity
was for him.

Speaker 3 (02:41:56):
They did not build the party.

Speaker 9 (02:41:58):
The party didn't also work with us to build the
apparatus around it. And what is in United came in
which allowed for corporations is being party became irrelevant. Now
you can go raise five hundred million dollars or a
party and that becomes infrastructure.

Speaker 3 (02:42:14):
So the battle right now is with.

Speaker 9 (02:42:17):
These white strategists will control campaign dollars and don't want
to put money.

Speaker 3 (02:42:22):
On boots on the ground.

Speaker 9 (02:42:23):
They want to buy TV ads because their salarymradicated on
TV bids. One second, No, so I loved everything that
that you to Brittany go as.

Speaker 1 (02:42:39):
Baby.

Speaker 3 (02:42:39):
It's called it's called direct as a person, as.

Speaker 41 (02:42:41):
A person who's been on a campus my entire life.
Two words that I hear students saying over and over
again motivation, inspiration.

Speaker 14 (02:42:52):
They're not motivated and they're not inspired.

Speaker 41 (02:42:54):
Being a Democrat isn't a lifestyle like being Maga or
being a Republican.

Speaker 14 (02:42:58):
It's not really an ideology.

Speaker 41 (02:42:59):
You vote and you go home, right, And I think
that's one of the problems that we haven't solved is
to figure out you know, there's a huge gap between
how Republicans do things and how we do things before
a reason. It's not because Democrats just don't know how
to do things.

Speaker 14 (02:43:14):
You vote and you go home. You don't wear a hat,
you don't wear a T shirt. You know what I'm saying,
Like you just that's not what the bibe is.

Speaker 3 (02:43:21):
Right.

Speaker 41 (02:43:22):
So, as I sit here as a trained political scientists,
I'm sitting here because of Dutch morial growing up in
New Orleans, Louisiana as the first black mayor.

Speaker 24 (02:43:30):
Because I was inspired.

Speaker 41 (02:43:32):
I was motivated, and every single time when I talk
to students, when I talk to young folks, those are
the two words. Yes, we need infrastructure. I think on
the back end, what they inspired?

Speaker 3 (02:43:46):
Inspired? Are they inspired?

Speaker 9 (02:43:48):
This was a critical Are they inspired by candidate or
inspired by issue?

Speaker 14 (02:43:53):
By candidate? They're waiting for an Obama.

Speaker 3 (02:43:55):
That's it right there. Here's the thing with Republicans. It's
like song Republicans infrastructure it was built on issue.

Speaker 9 (02:44:03):
It was Roby Wade, it was it was constitutional amendments,
it was it literally was We're gonna build around his issues.
Judges depend upon who you were, taxes or whatever. Here's
why that's so awesome. That ship had got nothing to
do with personality. That's an issue. The greatest mistake for

(02:44:23):
young people who are progressive is to be focused on personality.

Speaker 41 (02:44:27):
But you can't call it a mistake that no, no no,
when they go to a concert money, it is.

Speaker 3 (02:44:33):
A person.

Speaker 40 (02:44:36):
We're talking about talking about the biggest demoogue.

Speaker 3 (02:44:40):
Who no, no, no, remember, But that's not not don't
remember Kirk. What Kirk was a personality who was speaking
to issue.

Speaker 24 (02:44:54):
Kirk people on our side making a boogiey.

Speaker 56 (02:44:59):
Just said that to him in the.

Speaker 8 (02:45:03):
Cell with a damn that's what.

Speaker 14 (02:45:09):
It's boogieyman, it's not the issue.

Speaker 3 (02:45:13):
Let hold up, let me even let me explain why
I'm saying it.

Speaker 14 (02:45:18):
Since I wasn't able to finish my point.

Speaker 9 (02:45:19):
No, no, you're gonna finish the fourth, I'm gonna explain
you why I'm saying it's.

Speaker 3 (02:45:23):
What they did was they said, this is what's happening
to you. Person.

Speaker 9 (02:45:29):
That's an actual issue, really is to build eco organization,
you do need the parismatic leader.

Speaker 3 (02:45:35):
You need somebody who they can rally around.

Speaker 9 (02:45:37):
But if he was an empty suit talking about nothing
he could resonate.

Speaker 3 (02:45:42):
It was a set of issues.

Speaker 9 (02:45:44):
The beauty of issues is that when it's your issue,
you care about it.

Speaker 3 (02:45:50):
From eighteen to thirty five to fifty to sixty five,
it's a continuum.

Speaker 9 (02:45:55):
Democrats, let's be real clear. Obama is a in a
rational talent. Who was the Democratic generational talent before Obama?

Speaker 3 (02:46:10):
Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton.

Speaker 60 (02:46:13):
Champion Jimmie Obama's eight that's the press of my buddy
Kennedy was win. So y'all gotta sama ment Kennedy who
was before Kennedy.

Speaker 18 (02:46:32):
And like Eddy.

Speaker 6 (02:46:36):
Not even y'all.

Speaker 3 (02:46:38):
He's selected in thirty two, Teddy Kennedy in sixty Obama
in eight. So what you as don't do in the
thirty years, which is my point.

Speaker 9 (02:46:50):
So so when you get locked and loaded on personality
and not issue on the sudden, well they don't excite me.

Speaker 3 (02:47:00):
That's what. Uh the issue? How many how many republic
Well that I forgot the little girl name she was?

Speaker 9 (02:47:06):
She said, h y'all sitting here, But I forgot the
little girl that gray whatever name is u, y'all sitting
here the Supreme Court?

Speaker 3 (02:47:16):
Ain't that really important? With the Hillary running for the Republicans.

Speaker 17 (02:47:21):
That ship was.

Speaker 23 (02:47:22):
Court, the court, the court, the court, that was the issue.

Speaker 9 (02:47:26):
They didn't even damn they pound that ship in the
heads of young people, middle ages older.

Speaker 3 (02:47:31):
They said, we win, win the court. Guess what happened?
They went Trump got three, got three damn picks.

Speaker 14 (02:47:42):
One hit Hitler.

Speaker 6 (02:47:45):
That's the problem.

Speaker 40 (02:47:46):
The problem is when folks on the left throat and
issue right, we have powers of Democrats coming up to say, oh,
that's not possible.

Speaker 3 (02:47:54):
Right, it wasn't It was not from wait it was
It was not Donald.

Speaker 40 (02:48:02):
Trump in the Oval office, right, like, oh, cancel the
rent is not going to be possible.

Speaker 6 (02:48:06):
It was Abigail's.

Speaker 42 (02:48:10):
Wait.

Speaker 40 (02:48:10):
Wait, my thing is to the extent to which right
we we focus in on the issue?

Speaker 23 (02:48:16):
Right we focusing on issues.

Speaker 3 (02:48:17):
That people care about.

Speaker 40 (02:48:19):
And then right, we have this broad coalition that can't
agree on what we're.

Speaker 3 (02:48:25):
Corporate Wait wait, ain't finished.

Speaker 6 (02:48:31):
But but no, if we don't want you to calm down,
go no.

Speaker 40 (02:48:35):
But if we don't decide what we if we don't
decide what we're willing to fight for, that's the problem.
I mean, the Republicans, after they got thrown into the wilderness,
after Clinton, they put a very simple proposal. Together, we've
got a contract with America. If you elect us, we're
going to do these ten things we can agree.

Speaker 3 (02:48:51):
On one the clip on what you're saying is will
you get power?

Speaker 1 (02:48:55):
Do something?

Speaker 3 (02:48:57):
Do something?

Speaker 6 (02:49:00):
You can't come up with. We can't.

Speaker 3 (02:49:02):
We can't, we can't.

Speaker 9 (02:49:03):
And what Trump has just shown you is fuck the rule.
That part forget run the movie. I don't give a
damn like always say, Democrats could be two thousand yards.

Speaker 3 (02:49:14):
In the line to say in the stoppa, we can't
get close to the line. They two thousand yards away.
Trumps on the side said what y'all doing over there?
So he is now shown what he is now shown,
he is the next Democratic candidate has to literally say
fuck the rules. And that is and I'm serious, in

(02:49:35):
order to win.

Speaker 60 (02:49:36):
Well, yes, I agree with everything you're saying, but there's
one thing that I want to make sure listeners and
not forget missing. And there was something in front of
that that I think you said, which is really important.

Speaker 24 (02:49:44):
It's not just fuck the rules, get up.

Speaker 6 (02:49:46):
And we've been I've been.

Speaker 60 (02:49:47):
Saying that let's bunk the rules, let's just for education,
like let's just do it. Why not But what I
heard you say, and what I agree with what you said,
is that we have candidates who will.

Speaker 24 (02:49:58):
Come out with those issues.

Speaker 60 (02:50:00):
People will be inspired and motivated to both of them.

Speaker 24 (02:50:02):
But the party and the people and that.

Speaker 19 (02:50:10):
And now there's a head that's a corporate battle and
the Democratic Then wait a second, when Corey Bush and
Nina Turner show.

Speaker 20 (02:50:22):
Up, who stopped coming?

Speaker 8 (02:50:24):
Damn that Democrat was It was Jim clen No question.

Speaker 19 (02:50:34):
The model is there is It is the corporate money
in the party that is holding up these things.

Speaker 24 (02:50:40):
That's what Donald said anything about.

Speaker 19 (02:50:43):
That's why.

Speaker 9 (02:50:45):
The only corporate money is to win. And then say
we're gonna go after.

Speaker 24 (02:50:53):
Fired all the.

Speaker 3 (02:50:56):
I'm going to know, I'm going to bring you go.

Speaker 41 (02:50:57):
And here's the part where Democrats are like, okay, Brit
my Republican colleagues, and they're doing this and they're doing that,
and they're like, okay, well, why can't we make change
and why can't.

Speaker 24 (02:51:05):
We get paid to.

Speaker 6 (02:51:08):
Hold hold hold on?

Speaker 24 (02:51:12):
Keep going?

Speaker 11 (02:51:13):
Okay, don't stop not going.

Speaker 14 (02:51:15):
You know, my point is, Jesus, keep going. My point.

Speaker 56 (02:51:22):
Cut he going.

Speaker 14 (02:51:24):
I know, but it's just concerning, and it's my point
is you have two different systems.

Speaker 41 (02:51:32):
You have two different types of people that vote different
types of ways, and we're trying to say copy and paste. Well, Republicans, okay,
but Democrats aren't Republicans and Democrats democrats aren't, you know.

Speaker 14 (02:51:45):
Vice versa.

Speaker 41 (02:51:46):
And so it's very challenging and convoluted for young people
to understand that a politician will always vote as a politician.
The politician's goal is to be re elected. Right, It's
very challenging. It's very challenging for young folks to understand
that what you want from your politician isn't what's your politican.

Speaker 15 (02:52:09):
Sorry, I don't want to shout out.

Speaker 60 (02:52:14):
Another candidate that we have not supported. The party did
not support with Gary Chambers on Louisiana.

Speaker 24 (02:52:18):
He just said me and getting on a head.

Speaker 17 (02:52:20):
I got it.

Speaker 3 (02:52:21):
Hold on a second, hold on, hold on, because they're
gonna be kicked. Don on the second, Brittany Noble to
run them out. So Brittany Noble is live.

Speaker 9 (02:52:31):
At Richmond, Virginia. It is a huge, huge night there
in Virginia. Democrats sweeping statewide, racist expanding their lead in
the House. Uh, they now have a trifecta in Virginia.
And so I know folks are getting drunk and having
a great time tonight there in Richmond, Brittany.

Speaker 13 (02:52:53):
They're having a great time, but voters who celebrated earlier
the night are leaving.

Speaker 22 (02:52:58):
You can see that it is.

Speaker 13 (02:53:00):
It's quite empty here at the headquarters right now. But
it was a very, very fun night. The party got
started earlier with Abigail Spamberger when she took the stage
to celebrate her win as the seventy fifth governor elect
of Virginia. She's also the first female to serve in
that role. Don Scott took the stage. He's the Speaker
of the House of Delegates here tonight, and he said

(02:53:21):
that the state sent a love letter to the world.

Speaker 22 (02:53:24):
That Virginia is moving forward.

Speaker 13 (02:53:27):
Gobla Hashami is the governor I'm sorry, is also celebrating
she's the first Muslim woman to achieve a statewide office.

Speaker 14 (02:53:37):
Thank you in the entire country.

Speaker 13 (02:53:39):
She said she ran for office because no one in
this country should be made to feel like they are
unwanted in their own community, and she promises to continue
punching holes into darkness. Jay Jones will be the first
black person to be the Attorney General here in the Commonwealth.
He says his ancestors were slaves, his family endured segregation,

(02:54:01):
and he walks in the footsteps of so many generations
that came before him. His campaign was undermined by the
leak of text messages from three years ago about a
joke about committing acts of violence against a Republican member
of the state House of Delegates.

Speaker 22 (02:54:17):
Yet he was able to pull out fifty two percent
of the votes.

Speaker 20 (02:54:20):
Again.

Speaker 13 (02:54:20):
Spanberger is the first female governor of Virginia.

Speaker 22 (02:54:24):
She thanked her parents, and she thanked her opponent.

Speaker 13 (02:54:27):
She is the wife and mom of three, and she's
a congresswoman, three term congresswoman, former CIA officer. She campaigned
on the growing anti Trump energy across the country.

Speaker 3 (02:54:39):
Yep, pet Her.

Speaker 13 (02:54:39):
Platform are vows to lower living costs, protect women's healthcare rights,
and to restore decency and stability. So I will send
things back to you in the studio for now, we're
wrapping things up here at the Spanberger headquarters here in Richmond, Virginia.

Speaker 9 (02:54:58):
Arolan Grittan, we've preached. Yeah, thank you so very much
doing on my iPad, Henry. We're waiting for results out
of Prop fifty out of California.

Speaker 3 (02:55:09):
Did y'all please relax. So excited, very much excited.

Speaker 9 (02:55:14):
This from the LA time they showed this here, which
I think is great that you want to know how
major this vote was. They were showing that it was
so many folks who were voting post closed at.

Speaker 3 (02:55:25):
Eight at seven pm with the hour left, thirty eight
percent of the countities. Two hundred and fifty vote sitters
in LA.

Speaker 9 (02:55:31):
Had wait times of at least forty six minutes seek
see what happened.

Speaker 3 (02:55:36):
We y'all let me hope the show stuff you didn't
know at fifty five centers. The estimated waytime was more
than an ourum.

Speaker 9 (02:55:45):
Clearly of folks were energized by saying, all right, text
is mixus y'all want to sit here? Screw Gavin Newsom
made the right movie.

Speaker 24 (02:55:55):
Five more seats.

Speaker 9 (02:55:59):
Also so Also a little bit earlier, Kansas announced they're
abandoning their jerry mandering efforts.

Speaker 3 (02:56:07):
Uh, they don't have the votes.

Speaker 9 (02:56:08):
That were still gonna see but in the end initially said.

Speaker 3 (02:56:11):
They didn't have the voters. I think, uh, maybe I
trust me after the night also also had that first
follow here.

Speaker 9 (02:56:22):
Uh, it was a huge, huge election retention rates seats
in Pennsylvania for Supreme Court. MAGA wanted to take these
three judges out because they were ruling positively for expanding
voting opportunities. Guess what the mob had all three all
three win, All three of those Democratic justices in Pennsylvania win.
That is a huge, huge, Keep telling y'all. State supreme

(02:56:45):
court races are critically important. Also, Republicans were doing all
they could.

Speaker 3 (02:56:50):
Uh in Maine to screw voters there.

Speaker 18 (02:56:53):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:56:54):
And one of the.

Speaker 9 (02:56:54):
Things that they were doing in Maine, uh, they tried
to put it on the ballot voter I d in
early voting and putting some other onerous rules in Maine
said nah were good, voted that bullshit down.

Speaker 3 (02:57:06):
And they also Maine has yellow flag laws.

Speaker 9 (02:57:09):
They approved tonight red flat laws, so they beat back
right wing efforts there as well. Glinda Carr joins us
right now higher heights, Bleinda, how you doing when we
look at the numbers in New Jersey in Virginia, we can't.

Speaker 3 (02:57:24):
Wait to see some of these local races.

Speaker 9 (02:57:26):
Black women showed up and showed out. I had this
right winger let me find his punk ass, right wing,
this punk ass on Instagram.

Speaker 3 (02:57:36):
He posted something.

Speaker 9 (02:57:37):
Because I had a shirt vote like black women. So
he thought he was gonna criticize me or somebody sit
me on Instagram what he had to say.

Speaker 3 (02:57:44):
So y'all know I'm petty.

Speaker 9 (02:57:45):
So I went to his page and commented my domn
self and I said, fool, when I water shirt vote
like black women, I said, that means they vote at
a higher rate than any of the group in the country.
But you're too stupid to eve understand that. But it's
no shot that post bag up but showed out to
all across the country.

Speaker 3 (02:58:03):
Glinda, Yes, we certainly did.

Speaker 34 (02:58:08):
Do you hear a lot of noise because I'm actually
here in Houston, Texas at Amanda.

Speaker 24 (02:58:14):
Edwards for congress her election night party.

Speaker 9 (02:58:18):
Good good, good, Go tell Amanda. I'll see her text
and then you respond to my text. We're trying to
get on the show.

Speaker 3 (02:58:23):
But go ahead, Glenda.

Speaker 34 (02:58:27):
So it's a little I stepped out, but a little loud.

Speaker 24 (02:58:30):
As you are aware.

Speaker 34 (02:58:31):
Not only did we have the statewide elections in New
Jersey and in Virginia, uh, but we also had mayoral
elections across the country. New York, All Eyes was on
New York but for higher heights, the political home for
black women, All Eyes for us were in Detroit where
Mary Sheffield became the first woman and black woman to serve.

Speaker 20 (02:58:52):
She will be the first woman and.

Speaker 34 (02:58:53):
Black women to serve as mayor of that city. That
race has been called. She has already hit the stage.
Here in Houston, as you're aware, we have a historic
seat the Congressional District eighteen that was held by Barbara
Jordan Sheila Jackson Lee who passed away in office.

Speaker 20 (02:59:13):
A special election was called.

Speaker 34 (02:59:15):
The former mayor of Houston, Sylvester Turner, won that special
election and then died the day after.

Speaker 3 (02:59:22):
The State of the Union.

Speaker 34 (02:59:23):
And so the residents of the Congressional District eighteen here
in Houston has not had representation since March and so
it is likely that this race will go to a runoff,
which has not been called, by the way, a date
and so a tactic where they will continue to punt
and hold the residence of Houston, both Republicans, Democrats and

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Independence and Blanks not having representation in Houston. But what
we found is that black women continue to do what
we do. We not only vote, we are multi issue voters.
This would have been this is the one hundred and
sixth day of the one hundred and seven day storic
campaign of Kamala Harris.

Speaker 24 (03:00:02):
And what you found in this cycle is that people.

Speaker 22 (03:00:05):
Are taking back signaling that we want.

Speaker 34 (03:00:08):
To take back our government and that the very cities
that are under you know, may uh got this loud
background uh military occupation from this administration. UH, resources that
are being taken away from our communities. That people are

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running towards not only their leadership on the ballot, but
we are running towards taking back this government by voting.

Speaker 9 (03:00:38):
Well, Blinda, a huge, huge Wednesday night. And this is
the thing that I always say, the folks, uh enjoy
the night, enjoy tomorrow will come Thursday. The focus is
on the next race because this is about taking back power.

Speaker 3 (03:00:53):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (03:00:53):
MAGA is trying to defund every aspect of Black America.

Speaker 46 (03:00:57):
UH.

Speaker 9 (03:00:57):
And if we went hard tonight, we gotta go twice
or three times harder next year.

Speaker 7 (03:01:06):
Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (03:01:09):
Well, look I know y'all are going to be doing that. Folks.

Speaker 9 (03:01:12):
We always talk about supporting our organizations and when it
comes to raising money, Glinda, if people want to support
a Higher Heights telling where to go, yep.

Speaker 34 (03:01:20):
So Higher Heights is your political home for black women.
We help black women to vote run winning lead at
higher Heightsforamerica dot Org.

Speaker 3 (03:01:27):
All right, Glenda, we appreciate it.

Speaker 9 (03:01:29):
Tell Amanda the textman back, I will, I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (03:01:34):
Thanks a lot. Here we go to my iPad, y'all.
These numbers are unbelievable. This is new this is New Jersey.

Speaker 9 (03:01:42):
A thirteen almost a thirteen point win with nine to
five percent the vote in Virginia. Almost fifteen point win
in Virginia. California. That is a twenty two point back
when in California. That says a whole lot about the
base of voters.

Speaker 37 (03:02:04):
I feel like we're feeling a lot differently tonight about
our last big election night in November. Quite frankly, it
was depressing, and so I think we're being invigorated right now.
I think the most exciting part about this is seeing
the young people really take this and move this Democratic
Party forward. I think we're going to see a lot
more of that coming up. But I think we can't

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forget to get away from the partisans of it all.
I think that's what has put us in this cesspool
to begin with. I think when you think about what
happened in the New York City mayoral election, you saw
a third party candidate, albeit at Cuomo, get forty one percent.
That is major, that's unprecedented. What that says is that
you don't have to be a Democrat or Republican to

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win races. So I would really urge young people to
continue to focus on the issues and stand up for
what you believe in and bolster this country forward.

Speaker 3 (03:02:53):
Thank your way.

Speaker 9 (03:02:53):
To hear for Zian Mamdani giving his speech in New
York City.

Speaker 8 (03:02:57):
Great, But to say, I was just going to say,
it looks like uh Dupree, who was the mayor of
Hattiesbury losses let he he flipped one of the two
Senate seats in Mississippi necessary to break that Republican supermajority.

Speaker 3 (03:03:09):
I don't know what the other one is.

Speaker 8 (03:03:11):
We can look it up, Dupree and uh, yeah, I agree,
and boso has uh entered the chat.

Speaker 3 (03:03:16):
President Trump weighed in.

Speaker 8 (03:03:18):
He said Trump wasn't on the ballot and shut down with.

Speaker 3 (03:03:21):
The two reasons that Republicans lost elections ballot on the ballot.

Speaker 8 (03:03:27):
Well the man is though, does that mean now he
calls his slave in uh, the House representatives, Maga, Muppet,
Mike Johnson, they get this done. And calls John Thune
in them and say okay, I'll relate yaw, and they
do the shutdown again.

Speaker 3 (03:03:40):
Yes, I agree.

Speaker 8 (03:03:41):
Foremo is an independent, but he was running out of
the white nationalists. And race is not going to be
discussed anywhere else but here. The only reason Cuomo got
that kind of vote is because he was running inter
fear campaign. And the Democrats are going to continue to
run as soft white nationals.

Speaker 3 (03:03:58):
Can't. We can't ignore that. Here's the deal though, if
you're Democratic the House and the Senate tonight you should say, oh,
we want more. But they not what I'm saying them.

Speaker 9 (03:04:12):
But here's the deal though they may not say that,
but the people can put pressures on.

Speaker 3 (03:04:17):
That's that's and and that's the thing again.

Speaker 9 (03:04:21):
But I keep saying we can talk about the politicians,
but they respond.

Speaker 3 (03:04:28):
That's right.

Speaker 9 (03:04:29):
And what I'm saying to people, and I always say this,
the election is the end of one process and it's
the beginning of another. To every single group out there
that mobilized and organized and put together groups and they
like you had the family chats and the text groups,
and you would curtage people the vote. Don't let that
stuff with her way eat those channels and say, all right,

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we're gonna roll to the city council meeting, the school
board meeting, the county commissioner.

Speaker 3 (03:04:56):
Meeting, the state House. Roll We're gonna we got we
gotta put the pressure on them to do well. They
said they're gonna do our money.

Speaker 38 (03:05:04):
But the other part, I'm looking at Virginia and I'm,
you know, like everybody, just looking at these numbers and
knowing that there's a uh Democrats want a whole.

Speaker 3 (03:05:12):
Lot more seats in the legislation.

Speaker 20 (03:05:15):
So we gotta be in Richmond before we gotta be
in Richmond.

Speaker 3 (03:05:19):
Right, we have to be in Richmond with.

Speaker 54 (03:05:23):
Right.

Speaker 6 (03:05:23):
We have to be because otherwise.

Speaker 9 (03:05:28):
I was talking to doing the show, and I was
pressure them when they see your money, and I said.

Speaker 3 (03:05:34):
To the audience, what's your Virginia bottom minus is here
expairing the house?

Speaker 9 (03:05:40):
And again, don Scott my press, I speak of the house.
We lookers in the Senate. But elections are a return
on investments. And when you showed up, that's when you
come up.

Speaker 38 (03:05:53):
And gotta do it in New Jersey, Gotta do it
in Virginia.

Speaker 3 (03:05:56):
And whatever we want. And they all right, well, say.

Speaker 38 (03:06:00):
We well, I'm just melting now. I'm off the clock right,
right right, I'm off the.

Speaker 9 (03:06:06):
Box waiting Democrats right now.

Speaker 38 (03:06:09):
I mean I'm saying, as a bowler right who lives
in Virginia, right, that we have to show up.

Speaker 3 (03:06:18):
I don't show up with my day hat on.

Speaker 38 (03:06:19):
I gotta show up as Melling the Campbell who helped
get you in there with other black women especially who
when those numbers come out, Oh trusting believe it's gonna
be black women right and brothers right, and we have
to collectively mobilize around that.

Speaker 49 (03:06:35):
Otherwise that's what's going.

Speaker 38 (03:06:36):
With greg That's what's going to happen, because at the
end of the day, we don't see that just with
with with white electors.

Speaker 3 (03:06:43):
We see with some black electors. The names I'm name,
some of them names have already been named.

Speaker 38 (03:06:48):
Who show up when it's when they didn't have any
other choice to show up?

Speaker 3 (03:06:56):
Folks, this is a live shot in New York City.
Mayor must go, lobbies, go roun Mamdani.

Speaker 6 (03:07:03):
We thank you New York.

Speaker 3 (03:07:04):
It's not.

Speaker 6 (03:07:18):
Thank you, my friends.

Speaker 5 (03:07:27):
The sun may have set over our city this evening,
but as Eugene Debs once said, I can see the
dawn of a better day for humanity. For as long

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as we can remember, the working people of New York
have been told by the wealthy and the well connected
that power does not belong in their hands. Fingers brew
us from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, Palms callous
from delivery by candlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns.

Speaker 6 (03:08:11):
These are not hands that have been allowed to hold power.

Speaker 5 (03:08:15):
And yet over the last twelve months you have dared
to reach for something greater. Tonight, against all odds, we
have grasped it.

Speaker 6 (03:08:34):
The future is in our hands, my friends.

Speaker 5 (03:08:41):
We have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo
only just in private life, but look, tonight be the

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final time.

Speaker 6 (03:09:07):
I utter his name.

Speaker 5 (03:09:12):
As we're telling the privilege on the politics that abandons
the many and answers.

Speaker 6 (03:09:17):
Only to the feud New York. Tonight, you have delivered
a man day for change, a man day for a
new kind of politics, a man day for a city

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we can afford.

Speaker 5 (03:09:43):
And a manday for a government that delivers exactly that.
On January first, I will be sworn in as the
Mayor of New York City.

Speaker 6 (03:10:05):
And that is because of you. So before I say
anything else, I must say this.

Speaker 3 (03:10:15):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (03:10:19):
Thank you to the next generation of New Yorkers who
refused to accept that the promise of a better future
was a relic.

Speaker 6 (03:10:28):
Of the past.

Speaker 5 (03:10:31):
You showed that when politics speaks to you without condescension.

Speaker 6 (03:10:35):
We can usher in a new era of leadership.

Speaker 5 (03:10:41):
We will fight for you because we are you, or
as we say on Steinway anaminkum waileku. Thank you to
those so often forgot and by the politics of our city.

Speaker 6 (03:11:02):
Who made this movement their own.

Speaker 5 (03:11:05):
I speak of Yemeny bodega owners in Mexican I was
Senegalese taxi drivers.

Speaker 61 (03:11:14):
And who's got nurses, Trinidadian lime cooks and Ethiopian aunties, Yes, aunties.

Speaker 17 (03:11:31):
To every New.

Speaker 5 (03:11:31):
Yorker in Kensington and Midwood and Hunts Points, know this.

Speaker 6 (03:11:40):
This city is your city, and this democracy is yours too.

Speaker 5 (03:11:49):
This campaign is about people like Wesley an eleven ninety
nine organizer I met outside of Elmhurst Hospital on Thursday night,
Yorker who lives elsewhere, who commutes two hours each way
from Pennsylvania because rent is too expensive in this city.

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It's about people like the woman I met on the
BX thirty three years ago, who said to me, I
used to love New York, but now it's just where
I live, and it's about people like Richard the taxi
driver I.

Speaker 6 (03:12:28):
Went on a fifteen day hunger.

Speaker 5 (03:12:29):
Strike, went outside of city Hall, who still has to
drive his cab seven days a week. My brother, we
are in city Hall now.

Speaker 6 (03:12:50):
This victory is for all of them, and it's for
all of you, the more.

Speaker 5 (03:12:58):
Than one hundred thousand ballonn tears who built this campaign
into an unstoppable force. Because of you, we will make
this city one that working people can.

Speaker 6 (03:13:11):
Love and live in again.

Speaker 5 (03:13:16):
With every door knocked, every petition signature earned, and every
hard earned conversation, you eroded the cynicism that has come
to define our politics.

Speaker 17 (03:13:32):
Now.

Speaker 3 (03:13:32):
I know.

Speaker 6 (03:13:34):
That I have asked for much.

Speaker 5 (03:13:36):
From you over this last year. Time and again you
have answered my calls. But I have one final request.
New York City, breathe this moment in We have held

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our breath for longer.

Speaker 3 (03:13:58):
Than we know.

Speaker 5 (03:14:00):
We have held it in anticipation of defeat, held it
because the air has been knocked out of our lungs
too many times to count, held it because we cannot
afford to exhale. Thanks to all of those who sacrifice
so much.

Speaker 6 (03:14:15):
We are breathing in the air of a city that
has been reborn.

Speaker 5 (03:14:24):
To my campaign team, who believed when no one else did,
and who took an electoral project and turned it into
so much more.

Speaker 6 (03:14:37):
I will never be able to express the depth of
my gratitude. You can sleep now.

Speaker 5 (03:14:47):
To my parents, Mama and Baba, you have made me
into the man I am today. I am so proud
to be your son. And to my incredible wife.

Speaker 3 (03:15:07):
Rama.

Speaker 6 (03:15:13):
Hyati. There is no one I would rather have by
my side in this moment than in every moment.

Speaker 5 (03:15:24):
To every New Yorker, whether you voted for me, for
one of my opponents, or felt too disappointed by politics
to vote at all, thank you for the opportunity to
prove myself worthy of your trust. I will wake each
morning with a singular purpose to make this city better for.

Speaker 6 (03:15:45):
You than it was the day before. There are many
who thought this day.

Speaker 5 (03:15:52):
Would never come, who feared that we would be condemned
only to a future of less With every election, can
signing us simply to more of the same. And there
are others who see politics today as too cruel for
the flame of hope to still burn.

Speaker 6 (03:16:11):
New York. We have answered those fears. Tonight. We have
spoken in a clear voice. Hope is alive. Hope is
a decision that.

Speaker 5 (03:16:28):
Tens of thousands of New Yorkers may, day after day,
volunteer shift after volunteer shift, despite attack ad after attack ad.
More than a million of us stood in our churches,
in gymnasiums, in community centers, as we filled in the

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ledger of democracy. And while we cast our ballots alone,
we chose hope together, hope over tyranny, hope over big
money and small ideas, hope over despair. We won because

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New Yorkers allowed themselves to hope that the impossible could
be made possible. And we won because we insisted that
no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now,
it is something that we do. Standing before you, I

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think of the words of Juan lal Nehu. A moment
comes but rarely in history, when we step out from
the old to the new, when an age ends, and
when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

Speaker 6 (03:17:56):
Tonight we have stepped out from the old into the new.

Speaker 5 (03:18:03):
So let us speak now with clarity and conviction that
cannot be misunderstood about what this new Age will deliver
and for whom this will be.

Speaker 6 (03:18:13):
In age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders.

Speaker 5 (03:18:17):
A bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than
a list of excuses for what we are too timid
to attend. Central to that vision will be the most
ambitious agenda to tackle the cost of living crisis.

Speaker 6 (03:18:34):
That this city has seen since the days of Fear of.

Speaker 5 (03:18:37):
La Guardia, an agenda that will freeze the rents for
more than two million rents, stabilized tenants, make buses fast
and free, and deliver universal childcare across our city. Years

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from now, may our only regret be that this day
took so long to come. This new Age will be
one of relentless improvements. We will hire thousands more teachers.
We will cut waste from a bloated bureaucracy. We will

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work tirelessly to make light shine again in the hallways
of knights and developments where they have long flickered. Safety
and justice will go hand in hand as we work
with police officers to reduce crime and create a Department
of Community Safety that tackles the mental health crisis and

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homelessness crises head on. Excellence will become the expectation across government,
not the exception. In this new age we make for ourselves.
We will refuse to allow those who traffic in division
and hate to pit us against one another.

Speaker 6 (03:20:18):
In this moment of political darkness. New York will be
the light here. We believe in standing up for those
we love.

Speaker 5 (03:20:32):
Whether you are an immigrace, a member of the trans community,
one of the many black women that Donald Trump has
fired from a federal job, a single mom.

Speaker 6 (03:20:45):
Still waiting for the cost of groceries.

Speaker 5 (03:20:47):
To go down, or anyone else with their back against
the wall, your struggle is ours too, and we will
build a city hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New
Yorkers and does not waver in the.

Speaker 6 (03:21:08):
Fight against the scourge of anti Semitism, where the more
than one million Muslims know that they belong not just
in the five boroughs of this city, but in the
halls of power. No more will New York be a

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city where you.

Speaker 5 (03:21:32):
Can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election.

Speaker 6 (03:21:45):
This new age will be defined by.

Speaker 5 (03:21:48):
A competence and a compassion that have too long been
placed at odds with one another. We will prove that
there is no problem too large for government to solve,
and no concern too small for it to care about.
For years, those in city Hall have only helped those

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who can help them. But on January first, we will
usher in a city government that helps everyone.

Speaker 6 (03:22:21):
Now, I know that many have heard our.

Speaker 5 (03:22:24):
Message only through the prism of misinformation. Tens of millions
of dollars have been spent to redefine reality and to
convince our neighbors that this new age is something that
should frighten them. As has so often occurred, the billionaire
class has sought to convince those making thirty dollars an

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hour that their enemies are those earning twenty dollars an hour.
They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that
we remain distracted from the work of remaking a law
broken system. We refuse to let them dictate the rules
of the game anymore.

Speaker 6 (03:23:10):
They can play by the same rules.

Speaker 5 (03:23:12):
As the rest of us. Together, we will usher in
a generation of change. And if we embrace this brave
new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond
to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not

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the appeasement. It craves. After all. If anyone can show
a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him,
it is the city that gave.

Speaker 6 (03:23:47):
Rise to him. And if there is any way to terrify.

Speaker 5 (03:23:55):
A despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that
are allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only
how we stopped Trump, it's how we stop.

Speaker 6 (03:24:09):
The next one.

Speaker 5 (03:24:14):
So, Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have
four words for you.

Speaker 56 (03:24:23):
Turn the volume up. We will hold better landlords.

Speaker 5 (03:24:50):
To accounts because the Donald Trump's of our city have
grown far too comfortable taking advantage.

Speaker 6 (03:24:56):
Of their tenants.

Speaker 5 (03:25:00):
We will put an end to the culture of corruption
that has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and
exploit tax breaks.

Speaker 6 (03:25:11):
We will stand.

Speaker 5 (03:25:12):
Alongside unions and expand labor protections because we know, just
as Double Trump does, that when working people have iron
clad rights, the bosses who seek to extort them become
very small. Indeed, New York will remain a city of immigrants, a.

Speaker 62 (03:25:37):
City built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight,
learned by an immigrants. So hear me, President Trump when

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I say this to get to any of us.

Speaker 6 (03:26:10):
You will have to get through all of us.

Speaker 5 (03:26:20):
When we enter city Hall in fifty eight days, expectations
will be high.

Speaker 6 (03:26:27):
We will meet them. A great New Yorker.

Speaker 5 (03:26:33):
Once said that while you campaign in poetry, you govern
it in prose. If that must be true, let the
pros we write still rhyme, and let us build a
shining city for all. And we must chart a new
path as bold as the one we have already traveled.

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After all, the conventional wisdom would.

Speaker 6 (03:26:59):
Tell you that I am are from the perfect candidate.

Speaker 5 (03:27:03):
I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older.
I am Muslim, I am a democratic socialist.

Speaker 56 (03:27:19):
And most damning of all, I refuse.

Speaker 6 (03:27:22):
To apologize for any of this.

Speaker 5 (03:27:29):
And yet if tonight teaches us anything, it is that
convention has held us back. We have bowed at the
altar of caution, and we have paid a mighty price.

Speaker 6 (03:27:43):
Too many working.

Speaker 5 (03:27:45):
People cannot recognize themselves in our party, and too many
among us have turned to the right for answers to
why they've been left behind.

Speaker 6 (03:27:55):
We will leave mediocrity in our past. No longer will
we have to open a history book.

Speaker 5 (03:28:03):
For proof that democrats can dare to be great. Our
greatness will be anything, but I'm strapped. It will be
felt by every rent stabilized tenant who wakes.

Speaker 6 (03:28:17):
Up on the first of every mouth.

Speaker 57 (03:28:21):
Knowing the about they're.

Speaker 5 (03:28:22):
Going to pay hasn't swored since the month before. It
will be felt by each grandparent who can afford to
stay in the home they have worked for, and whose
grandchildren live nearby because the costs of childcare.

Speaker 6 (03:28:39):
Didn't send them to Long Island.

Speaker 5 (03:28:44):
It will be felt by the single mother who is
safe on her commute and whose bus runs fast enough
that she doesn't have to rush school drop off to
make it to work on time. And it will be
felt when New York workers open their newspapers in the
morning and read headlines of success not scandal. Most of all,

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it will be felt by each New Yorker when the
city they love finally loves them back. Together, New York,
We're going to freeze them together, New York. We're going
to make buses fast and.

Speaker 6 (03:29:32):
Together. New York. We're going to deliver a universal.

Speaker 3 (03:29:39):
Let.

Speaker 5 (03:29:39):
The words we've spoken together, the dreams we've dript together,
become the agenda we deliver Together, New York.

Speaker 6 (03:29:55):
This power, it's yours. This city belongs to you. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (03:30:20):
Brings the audio down line up.

Speaker 56 (03:30:22):
Hey, y'all.

Speaker 6 (03:30:22):
That was the acceptance features.

Speaker 3 (03:30:25):
So ram Mom, Donnie was allowed to unpack. No, I
want to start with you. This is when I knew
that this, This is when I think he won. This race.

Speaker 9 (03:30:36):
Was in the debate the question was asked, what's the
first trip you're gonna take as mayor of New York City.

Speaker 3 (03:30:43):
Every candidate went Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel. He went, I'm
gonna go to New York City. That's what that was
a New York City speech, and that is why I
believe he won. He did not get caught up in
making it the mad New York City. Ain't got nothing

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to do it fig policy and his whole deal, no, no,
no follow me.

Speaker 9 (03:31:07):
Here's he ain't the State Department.

Speaker 3 (03:31:11):
So they want to make the whole race about Israel
and Jewish voter That's right. He said, No, I'm gonna
make the race about New York City voters. And that speech,
that's what that was.

Speaker 14 (03:31:23):
Absolutely he is a guy from New York. He is
New York's guy.

Speaker 41 (03:31:27):
As I'm listening to this afric, I'm listening to this
and I know for a fact that there's going to
be a shift when I think about the three economies
in the United States, when I think by California, Texas,
and New York. The World Bank, they just had their
major meeting, Ossion just had a major meeting. Everything is
about economics and how everything is realigning globally. So this

(03:31:50):
speech tonight, it was amazing. It spoke to New Yorkers,
but it also spoke to Israel. It also spoke to
the Middle East. It spoke to economies around the world.

Speaker 5 (03:31:57):
Right.

Speaker 41 (03:31:58):
So one of the things that Bok like me have
been tracking is how this will play globally. I think
that is very important locally, I think very important for
people to vote for the things that they care about. Now,
how this is going to play globally, that's a very
different discussion from how this is going to play domestically.

Speaker 3 (03:32:15):
But he doesn't care tiffany about how it plays globally.

Speaker 9 (03:32:20):
And again this was why the camp I go back
to his commercials, how he talked to the guy in
the food truck about the cost, how he sat there
at a table and talked about SUBSI abuse and on
a basketball court and discussing earl the Managulf, what he
did was he said, I'm running for mayor of New

(03:32:43):
York City.

Speaker 3 (03:32:44):
I have to get the votes in five girls, not
the votes in the Middle East, not in Europe, not
in Asia, not in Russia, anywhere else. He said, in
the city, and.

Speaker 9 (03:32:56):
Everybody else has been patronizing.

Speaker 3 (03:32:58):
And all the sort of stuff like this. He's like, Okay,
y'all talk about that.

Speaker 9 (03:33:02):
I'm talking about them bus prices, rent prices, food prices.

Speaker 3 (03:33:07):
That's how he won.

Speaker 9 (03:33:08):
And for every Democrat who's been a punk ass come
on criticizing him, they should be studying how he won.

Speaker 60 (03:33:16):
The studying how he won. I want to add to
that list that you just gave. I watched the debates.
He also was able to combat. They talked about how
young he was, and they talked about how he was
inexperience and never had an opportunity to lead a state
or city like this, and that he wouldn't be qualified
and prepared. They tried to ask him one hundred questions
about Trump, and to your point, he stayed focused on
the issues. He built the coalition, and you have to

(03:33:39):
forgive me rolling because I'm a little emotional right now.
We talked about like inspiration and motivation. I'm feeling hell
of inspired right now. That yeah, because he just went
around the world and back again. But most importantly, he
talked about the coalition of people in New York ran
his campaign and.

Speaker 24 (03:33:55):
All of the issue that they are going to, all
of the issues that they.

Speaker 60 (03:33:58):
Have been facing, and how this this moment is going
to respond to the needs that people have been having,
the needs like not just the economic means, but like
people are stressed out, not only in New York across
the country, but people.

Speaker 24 (03:34:09):
Are stressed out in New York.

Speaker 60 (03:34:11):
He named taxi drivers, Ethiopian aunties, young people, Muslim Jews.
He talked about black women, He talked about a labor
he named SCIU. He talked about the Working Families Party.
He talked about his family, their family, their family, over
their childcare. Except he was able to bring it all together.
And I told this the Marcus when he was giving

(03:34:31):
a speech that needs to be studied to your point,
building that coalition of those.

Speaker 24 (03:34:35):
Young people who want to move everything.

Speaker 9 (03:34:37):
With Marcus, he basically told these white democrats, kissed my
ass about your criticism about dentity politics.

Speaker 40 (03:34:43):
That's right, that's right, I mean, but he's been saying
that his whole race, right, He's done. He's produced campaign
commercials in multiple languages. When people say penned or you know,
with targeting the Muslim community or targeting immigrant communities would be.

Speaker 23 (03:34:57):
A liability for him.

Speaker 40 (03:34:58):
He's been doing all of these things where he says
I'm gonna buck the system.

Speaker 23 (03:35:02):
He says, you're gonna.

Speaker 40 (03:35:03):
Try to, you know, break me down for being a
democratic socialist. What I'm gonna do is very calmly explain
to you what democratic socialism means.

Speaker 3 (03:35:11):
And what New York City voters did tonight.

Speaker 40 (03:35:14):
Was by it, they said that that we understand what
you want to do for us, we understand the problems
we face, and we know you see us, right.

Speaker 6 (03:35:22):
A part of and.

Speaker 40 (03:35:23):
Zora mom Donnie explained this earlier, democratic socialism is part policy,
but it's also part posture. Right, how do you show
your neighbor, right that you love them? Do you show
your neighbor that you care about them? And what Zorah
mom Donnie did tonight as well as over the last
year of this election, is show New Yorkers that he
cares about their individual situations. He's willing to hone in

(03:35:44):
on those individual stories and turn those stories into Polus.

Speaker 9 (03:35:47):
Greg Carr normally lives say now that you've won, go
out bringing people together.

Speaker 3 (03:35:56):
He said, I'm gonna give a speech that needs to
be given.

Speaker 9 (03:36:01):
Damn what y'all think this was a non consultant driven campaign.

Speaker 8 (03:36:08):
It was, and it's from a young man whose father
moved Mamdani first class intellect, spent most of his working
career between Columbia University and Uganda, where Zuran was born.

Speaker 3 (03:36:19):
His middle name is Kwame Uh.

Speaker 8 (03:36:21):
He identifies as an African and Uh and and as
an indiananais Muslim, and all the things we heard. It's
a very young man. People accuse me being very critical
of Obama, and I disagree. I'm not very critical of him.
I'm ultimately critical of him. This is the anti Obama.

Speaker 3 (03:36:41):
Realized that passed. He took the torch from you. You
wasted your torch, sir. There are no red states, they're
no blue states, sir, just the United States.

Speaker 6 (03:36:51):
I want to be very clear.

Speaker 8 (03:36:52):
About this because I don't want to be mistaken about that.
In the ironic that this boy from Uganda and Obama's
people from Kenya right next door, maybe the whole thing
is gonna be chilting.

Speaker 3 (03:37:00):
On the edge of East Africa.

Speaker 8 (03:37:01):
Ultimately, countries come and go the United States of America
and people get tired of hearing me saying that. But
I don't care, because I've studied this enough to be
able to say it befull confidence. This country is not
going to be here in the same form much longer.
These white nationalists understand that, and I embraced them for it.
I love them for it because my people were trafficked
and it's a crime scene. The only shot they have

(03:37:23):
now is what they're doing. They're making a death bleat
to white nationalism. Tonight, we heard from New York City
and California to just pass Proposition fifty. These are the
two areas of this country that are the future of
the people who live in this country. California is as
Pacific rim as it is and Mexican as it is

(03:37:43):
anything else. In New York City, as John Henry Clark
used to say, isn't a city. It's a multi national
polity in its own right. The politics of Mississippi, the
politics of the billionaires who controlled the lives in Iowa
and Texas, those.

Speaker 3 (03:37:58):
Politics are dying. This is their death.

Speaker 8 (03:38:01):
Nil Zorhan, I'm Diddy right, and it's the future not
only of the United States, but in many ways. He's
gonna be a leader for the world if he If
he lives, he's in his mid thirties, they're gonna try
to kill him. I'm just gonna say that right now,
because when they get desperate enough, that's what they do.
And I'm saying, twenty years from now, being the president
the United.

Speaker 3 (03:38:19):
States shouldn't even be his ambition.

Speaker 8 (03:38:20):
Ain't gonna be United States to be president of mont.

Speaker 9 (03:38:22):
Stop for freight and the most of Frank LUNs posted
this and I had to respond, don't read too much
into tonight's election results. For Democrats are strongly favored in
all the key races. The surprise would be if any
of those races are nil biders. California is expected to
ratify Prop.

Speaker 3 (03:38:36):
Fifty. That's the big race. Republicans never get their act together.

Speaker 9 (03:38:39):
Proud fifty is the only race that will have big
consequences in the year ahead, and the fact that the
outcome of twenty twenty six maybe decided by the outcome tonight.
Frank Luster Yeah, but but but, but first of all,
that's Frank Lungs Tinna.

Speaker 3 (03:38:51):
He's trying. We also trying to.

Speaker 9 (03:38:52):
Play the game here by saying, well, you know what,
it's no big deal because they were gonna win.

Speaker 3 (03:38:56):
Here's the whole thing. And again, this is the last
for your speech tonight, other than Gavin giving his calipusion.
But this is again, if you are a Democrat.

Speaker 9 (03:39:08):
Running for school board, for DA for judge, for county government,
for state reps, state senate, US House, you should tell
your whole campaign team we are flying to New York
City and we are sitting down with him, and say,
tell us how you did it. There should be was
a whatever flattery is or whatever the hell and mimic whatever,

(03:39:31):
it's the best form flattery. They should be saying, that's
how you run. Because what he did was he connected
with the hearts, minds, and the pocketbooks of voters.

Speaker 3 (03:39:45):
But we watched wasn't a speech. It was testimony.

Speaker 27 (03:39:49):
It was testimony.

Speaker 3 (03:39:52):
It was testimony will be like a put downright testimony
about dignity.

Speaker 27 (03:40:12):
Yes, because he made sure the folks that have traditionally
been unseen seen.

Speaker 6 (03:40:19):
It was testimony about justice.

Speaker 27 (03:40:22):
It was about making sure putting folks on record that
if you have done wrong, you will be held accounts
It was testimony about accountability, about this administration is going
to be different, This administration is going to make sure.

Speaker 3 (03:40:38):
That we are uplifting form.

Speaker 27 (03:40:40):
It was testimony about humanity.

Speaker 6 (03:40:43):
It was about I see you, I hear you, I
value you. And that's the difference.

Speaker 27 (03:40:49):
And the only thing that he didn't do at the
end of that speech, it is say power to the people,
but he.

Speaker 6 (03:40:56):
Did it to his action.

Speaker 3 (03:41:01):
The thing here is again folks can say, Okay, that's fine,
but the thing that jumps out at me is not
he checked off boxes. He didn't do that.

Speaker 9 (03:41:15):
One thing that he said is in a moment where
immigrants are being demonized, are being dragged out of detention, hearings,
dragged out of hallways, being disappeared.

Speaker 3 (03:41:29):
And you even know where they went. His whole deal
is he said, we ain't going nowhere. And the reality is,
and this is.

Speaker 9 (03:41:37):
The foreign policy implication, this is the economic implication. America
cannot remain the world's largest economy if you do not
confront reality that you have to have immigration. White people
ain't having enough kids, they are not. We are a
thirty trillion dollar economy, China is a nineteen trillion dollar economy,

(03:41:59):
and even the child had to get rid of their
one child rule because they said, oh shit, that was
stupid of us, because we're not gonna have people in
the future, and so these white folks can run around
with the great replacement theory be mad as hell. And
he said, there going guess what, we ain't going nowhere,
and if y'all can stand Muslims, we ain't going nowhere either.

Speaker 37 (03:42:20):
But as a child of immigrants myself, as a Haitian American,
I felt proud of what I saw tonight. I felt
like he touched every single immigrant group in New York City,
and there are a lot of immigrants in New York City.
And then being so proud of his faith, being out
of who he is, being proud of his ideologies as

(03:42:43):
a democratic socialist. Every single thing they've tried to say
about this thirty four year old man, he's flipped it
on his head.

Speaker 20 (03:42:49):
He's claimed it.

Speaker 3 (03:42:50):
He stood in it.

Speaker 37 (03:42:52):
So when they say you can't win based on identity politics,
you can when you stand in your light.

Speaker 24 (03:42:57):
That's what we saw him do tonight.

Speaker 37 (03:42:59):
That's what we need to continue to see the Democratic
Party do if they want to win. But what I
will say, and I'll close on this is that when
you see New York City win, when you see Virginia win,
when you see New Jersey win five times out of five,
that means a win for Democrats in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 3 (03:43:16):
And that can't be lost on us.

Speaker 37 (03:43:18):
But we must mobilize and make sure that we're replicating
this campaign and we're doing the work because we don't
have that much time until next year.

Speaker 3 (03:43:27):
Absolutely, it starts tomorrow.

Speaker 17 (03:43:31):
Doctor.

Speaker 1 (03:43:32):
For this, I agree a little bit.

Speaker 25 (03:43:35):
I see a direct line from Jesse Jackson eighty four
eighty eight Obama four oh eight men DOMI twenty five wherever,
all right, the direct.

Speaker 1 (03:43:49):
Line Obama was up, wait hear me, give me go,
go go, Jesse Jackson.

Speaker 25 (03:43:59):
Jesse Jackson force a restructuring of American politics. Barack Obama
forced a restructure of American politics that we liveing with today.
What we heard leading up what we heard leading up
to today was hey, Mandamie is not representative of Democrat Party.
Mandamie is not represented Democrat Party. Look at look at
to Charrell, look to Spamburger, look to any other Democrat

(03:44:21):
bought Mundomie.

Speaker 1 (03:44:22):
Because hey, if you look to Mandamie, a.

Speaker 25 (03:44:24):
New standard of what a Democrat needs to project and
deliver is now being is now being projected onto everybody else,
and from at least from my perspective. You know, I
think that if he delivers, if he I think it's not.
It doesn't take much to make busses free. That's a
stroke of a ptist, stroke of a budget. It doesn't,
you know, take much to even deal with the child

(03:44:46):
care situation. If he delivers, that now puts pressure on
the entirety of the Democrat Party.

Speaker 20 (03:44:51):
No biggest irony publishing.

Speaker 3 (03:44:55):
Not totally disagree.

Speaker 9 (03:44:57):
Name me the last New York City mayor who came president.
I'm sir, no, no, no, no, no, no follow me here.
New York City. New York City is the media capital
of the world. There is no seat that has more
height and than the Mayor of New York City. And
the rally is the Mayor of New York City does

(03:45:20):
not drive an American agenda.

Speaker 3 (03:45:22):
The reason so that when you made.

Speaker 9 (03:45:23):
The point about Reverend Jackson running, Remond Jackson changed the
rules of the Democratic Party. Reverend Jackson running in eighty
four also led to the creation of the DLC. I'm
walking through it, bro, That's first, that's exactly right. So
they had that has's number one Obama running the counter
that was that changed the Republican Party because those white

(03:45:46):
folks said, oh my god, this degro won.

Speaker 3 (03:45:49):
They were just shot. So he changed that.

Speaker 9 (03:45:51):
So those were national Those are national implications. Mam, Donnie
is a New York City, New York City result, And
you can say New York City result caring Bass is
l A. You can say Andre Dickens is Atlanta. You
can say what Sevester Turner was in Houston.

Speaker 3 (03:46:08):
Raality is.

Speaker 9 (03:46:09):
Mayors don't lead to Nash don't have national implications. Many
of them don't even have state implications.

Speaker 3 (03:46:17):
So they have they have city right, they have city implications.
So all I'm saying is all I'm saying is I
think when.

Speaker 9 (03:46:27):
People try to make this thing bigger than what it is.
He's going to be New York City, but it's the largest.

Speaker 40 (03:46:33):
But it's the largest municipality in America.

Speaker 3 (03:46:37):
New York City is one, right, yeah, but I mean, well, Chicago,
Los Angeles, two, three, Chicago, he was four Houston. Tell
me which mayor.

Speaker 9 (03:46:49):
Tell me which mayor of those four cities has led
to national change.

Speaker 3 (03:46:55):
No, no, no, no, no, no, name me Chicago mayor.
You I can't go.

Speaker 25 (03:47:02):
I can't What I can't show you is that in
the last four months that the work that that from
Donald Trump.

Speaker 3 (03:47:08):
And you tell you mean to tell me.

Speaker 25 (03:47:09):
That I have the political center of the right, But
what's the political center of the state of New York?

Speaker 3 (03:47:14):
Converge all this one guy? No, no, no, no, no,
why sole point my whole point? No, no no, Why
was my c Why was his race nationalized?

Speaker 25 (03:47:24):
Because it's not a nation, it is a nationalized There
was race, there was there was gen er race, Eron
Adams smoking uplanes.

Speaker 9 (03:47:31):
Race was nationalized because he's running in New York City.

Speaker 3 (03:47:36):
It is the media capital of the world. So just
what because all of the national network of the follow
me here, all the national networks, they live in New
York City. They're right there, CINGBC, Fox News, seeing in
m CNBC. They're all there. So they are seeing it
every day. They ain't make it national But it ain't no.

Speaker 40 (03:47:57):
Difference, no no, But beyond the personalities, the propos I mean,
we also talked about very specifically the proposals that man
Downey put forward, like the fact that he's talking about
freezing rent, canceling rent, not right there.

Speaker 3 (03:48:13):
That was held up, hold up st right there.

Speaker 9 (03:48:15):
How many cities have the same rent restrictions as New
York City, L A, d C.

Speaker 3 (03:48:23):
Who else? D okay got us daily three cities. The
point I'm making there are that are only specific to
New Your housing is universal, universal. But what I'm saying
is you don't have the rent the rent controls and

(03:48:43):
things on those lines. So all I'm simply.

Speaker 9 (03:48:45):
Saying is we too often elevate New York City as
if it is this national thing.

Speaker 3 (03:48:52):
It's actually it's not.

Speaker 24 (03:49:06):
Roll Trump play in this particular election.

Speaker 3 (03:49:16):
First of all, Trump towers in New York City. That's one.

Speaker 9 (03:49:19):
Two he's Muslim. Three he's an immigrant.

Speaker 3 (03:49:24):
It played into the the right strategy of close, shut
the border down. Talking the immigrants is different from other
mayorl me here, I understand that endorsements everybody involved. What
I'm saying is the mistake. The mistake you Republicans don't do.
What they do what Democrats cannot do is fall into

(03:49:47):
that trap of somehow trying to elevate Mamdani because Republicans
want Republicans want him to be the leader of the
party and they want they want.

Speaker 38 (03:49:59):
Him to be a bas the party, the Democrat is
gonna elevate my.

Speaker 3 (03:50:04):
I'm gonna tell you the capital of the world, much
of the media capital of the world.

Speaker 9 (03:50:11):
Mam Donnie has also very strong man. Donna asked also
an extremely smart as saying, if I'm gonna be do
if I'm gonna do media, let me do New York
City media.

Speaker 1 (03:50:24):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (03:50:25):
If Monnie begins to.

Speaker 38 (03:50:27):
Go the route of agency this week, that's when it'll
take them out, meet the press, face the nation.

Speaker 3 (03:50:33):
If Monnie all of a sudden, you're where me here.
If mon Donnie all of a sudden.

Speaker 9 (03:50:37):
Is speaking about on policy, he's speaking about happen in
DC all of a sudden.

Speaker 3 (03:50:45):
All the thing that's the smart play is don't fall
for that trap, because that's what they want. They want
to make him bookieyman, we'll do that from book focused on.

Speaker 6 (03:51:03):
Focused on New York.

Speaker 41 (03:51:06):
I wanted to say, his job is going to be
focused on beyond New York because it's New York. It's
beyond New York because it's New York period.

Speaker 22 (03:51:14):
It's New York so.

Speaker 3 (03:51:17):
And so and so and so.

Speaker 41 (03:51:21):
One of the issues, one of the major issues is
you know, when you think about you know, when London
had uh It's its first mayor, and you know how
there were a lot of things that happened, you know,
you know during that time.

Speaker 14 (03:51:37):
The issue is, these are.

Speaker 41 (03:51:40):
Things that I feel very uncomfortable talking about. But when
you think about Israel, when you think about Gaza, it's
very easy to make a boogeyman of someone who is
very openly Muslim, who speaks Arabic, and the way that
the world is right now is so easy to make
him the boogieyman.

Speaker 14 (03:51:59):
It is so easy to make him the villain.

Speaker 41 (03:52:01):
But outside of that, there are some very real problems
and some very real concerns. We are in a complete
realignment of the entire world. I need people to understand
that we are in a complete realignment of the entire world.
So you have a mandami in New York, right, you

(03:52:21):
have a Mandamie in New York.

Speaker 14 (03:52:23):
You have a situation, an.

Speaker 41 (03:52:25):
Ongoing situation that's laughable with Israel and Godza to this day.

Speaker 14 (03:52:29):
And he has the ability to weigh in, that is
the fear.

Speaker 22 (03:52:36):
He has the ability to weigh.

Speaker 3 (03:52:39):
In, that is the fear hold before you talk, put
a pin in.

Speaker 9 (03:52:44):
This year, it was a young brother who was running
for mayor of Marriott Or, Georgia.

Speaker 3 (03:52:50):
Twenty four years old.

Speaker 2 (03:52:52):
Did we have him on the show?

Speaker 3 (03:52:54):
Yeah, twenty four years old. His name is Sam Foster.

Speaker 9 (03:52:58):
By everybody out there, all every young person, I did
Ricky Smiley's show, I did DD maguire's show.

Speaker 3 (03:53:05):
Out of the health people. Everybody keep running mind talking
about my vote don't matter. This is the latest result.
Oh please, No, he is.

Speaker 9 (03:53:13):
Winning by forty seven votes. The precincts in the incumbent
is Steve Tumblin.

Speaker 3 (03:53:23):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (03:53:24):
Sam Foster is the challenger. Foster has six thousand and
thirty nine votes something.

Speaker 3 (03:53:29):
That's five thousand, nine hundred and ninety one. So for
the folk out there who say I was using my training,
that's thirty seven votes.

Speaker 24 (03:53:37):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (03:53:38):
That's the difference between Okay, now, y'all go back to
dogg and go ahead, yeah, go ahead, Lawn London, Melanie, Okay,
Lawn Melanie, Tiffany.

Speaker 19 (03:53:50):
Let's go over complicate things here, I mean, yeah, fuck
New York.

Speaker 3 (03:53:53):
Oh ahead, okay, right.

Speaker 22 (03:53:55):
All right, the only one in here.

Speaker 20 (03:54:00):
I think it should come for you anyway.

Speaker 19 (03:54:03):
I do pay taxes in New York, along with a
few other my fans okay, whatever, and in Brooklyn, and
this is an example, mom, Dommy, what we just heard
was an example of the old thing, putting it where
the goats can get it.

Speaker 20 (03:54:15):
He's talking on a very basic level, a very human level.

Speaker 19 (03:54:19):
That's what a speech sounds like when you don't have
a goddamn consultants in the room.

Speaker 20 (03:54:22):
He doesn't care.

Speaker 19 (03:54:23):
He's been talking like that the entire time and does
not care about what they want to talk about, which,
of course was another country. So he didn't want to
talk about another country because.

Speaker 7 (03:54:34):
He's going to be the mayor of New York, not the.

Speaker 19 (03:54:37):
Mayor of another country. Okay, so that's why. And that
resonated talking to the taxi drivers, the stuff he's already.

Speaker 23 (03:54:44):
Done in his life.

Speaker 19 (03:54:45):
He brought that to the table at thirty one years old.
I'm thirty three years old. It's pretty amazing thing. We
think about it, whether it's in New York or not.
I think AOC proves this as well. When you talk
about issues that people care about, this is not complicated Democrats.
When you talk about issues that people care about and
you don't care about corporate interests, and you put what
the people care about of corporate interests.

Speaker 18 (03:55:07):
That's how you win.

Speaker 19 (03:55:07):
I don't know why that's complicated. It's complicated by the money.

Speaker 20 (03:55:11):
That's what it is.

Speaker 38 (03:55:13):
You know, he was one of the only candidates that
showed up to that march on Wall Street.

Speaker 20 (03:55:20):
He was the only oh really today, wow that.

Speaker 38 (03:55:22):
Showed up because I was able to march on Wall Street,
the one that al put l put together only wow
candidate they did that much, and having a chance to
kind of have a little bit of conversation with him.
He's his genuine brother, right and so I think at
the end of the day, he I think he's going

(03:55:44):
to focus in on being the mayor. He's going to
be national, whether he wants to be or not, just
like some of some of our.

Speaker 20 (03:55:50):
Other younger leaders that are coming up.

Speaker 38 (03:55:53):
It's a new generation of of of of political leaders
that we have, and whether he wants to be or not,
he's going to be keen as national.

Speaker 3 (03:56:02):
But I think the brother's going to focus on what
he ran on and the key is going to be
for you to allow that. And they are afraid.

Speaker 38 (03:56:11):
You know, it's a powerful, powerful, powerful message that he
get it right. Because he did speak about New York,
but he also spoke about the moment we're in, in
this moment of all that's happening, and so there's this
opportunity I think to take.

Speaker 20 (03:56:27):
Advantage of that for the good the pushback.

Speaker 8 (03:56:33):
Listening, I'm thinking about the idea of a society where
everyone doesn't just have a fair shot, but you put
a floor under everybody so nobody falls completely.

Speaker 3 (03:56:43):
Out of it.

Speaker 49 (03:56:44):
You see my shirt, that's what he got.

Speaker 8 (03:56:50):
That's right, you know it's done, has charisma which makes
it go down. Those smiling eyes he's never never seen.
That's the anger has ever seen him, and he wasn't
he be angry still, the kind of joyous kind.

Speaker 3 (03:57:01):
Of all law Ingram good luck, Virginia will be good.

Speaker 6 (03:57:07):
Worried.

Speaker 3 (03:57:07):
He clearly has the internect.

Speaker 8 (03:57:10):
I suspect that whoever helped him write that speech he
wrote that speech as well. Clearly I'm thinking about in
this country and rolind you said people need to get
on a plane and get there. The lesson they could
learn from them from him is a lesson that they
don't want to learn because that lesson will require them
to have respect for everybody's kind of humanity. Now I'm

(03:57:30):
trying to think who would be a radical wife like
he sounds like Bernie Sanders, but unlike Bernie Sanders. What
Bernie Sanders should have gotten from Jesse Jackson when he
was his campaign manager for mine, when he was the
mayor of Burlington, he should have put those identity politics there.
Bernie Sanders can't get past his socialism to get the
identity Zorahi Mindani has that. But I'll end with this,
this is what makes it fascinating. Yeah, exactly, there's a

(03:57:54):
king wasn't a politician.

Speaker 3 (03:57:55):
He's not a politician.

Speaker 8 (03:57:57):
He can't run for presidents. You said he should never
go to the Senate. Be no congressman.

Speaker 3 (03:58:01):
You govern a polity. Mayors don't become president, but governors do.

Speaker 8 (03:58:05):
He can't be a president, but he can show a
microcosm of how everybody in the country could live. Finally,
this what I was gonna end us her. I'm trying
to think of a president who came with that same
kind of mentality. I'll be it in a different set
of circumstances. And the closest I can think in our
lifetime is probably James Orcarter. The idea that Jimmy Carter
would come into a space and say I'm a white

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man from the South. My daddy was in the Klan,
and yet I think everybody should have a floor underneath him.

Speaker 3 (03:58:31):
He had Greg Almond and the rock and roll Boy.

Speaker 6 (03:58:35):
It's not Jimmy Carter.

Speaker 8 (03:58:36):
And this ain't the country that it was in nineteen
seventy six.

Speaker 3 (03:58:39):
Never gonna be president.

Speaker 8 (03:58:40):
As this country fractures, as these states test the limits
of federalism, because these white nationalists hate the federal government
unless they're in control of it, at which point they
want to use it as a hammer against all of us.

Speaker 3 (03:58:53):
As that happens and.

Speaker 8 (03:58:54):
This country falls apart, all I say is watch the
Hunger Games. The revolution gonna come from the province.

Speaker 3 (03:59:00):
Its hold no, hold hold up. I gotta give some
results forgot keep up with everything we're talking about him.
In New York.

Speaker 9 (03:59:16):
Well, in Minneapolis, Jacob Fry to term incumbent, he got
forty one point eight percent of the vote. O mar
Fat got thirty one point seven. Now that race moves
to ranked balloting, and yes, see why I see it?

Speaker 6 (03:59:32):
Hold up?

Speaker 9 (03:59:33):
So that's so again they have been dogging at that,
Samal your brother, Oh, they've been dogging.

Speaker 3 (03:59:39):
So now all of a sudden, by going to ranked choice,
this could go to a second and third round.

Speaker 9 (03:59:44):
So Frey Frey has won the first round forty one
point thirty one point seven, but that race now goes
to rank choice.

Speaker 24 (03:59:52):
Go. Let me say one thing and a commercial.

Speaker 6 (03:59:56):
Y'all know that I agree with.

Speaker 60 (03:59:58):
What folks have said so far, just around like the
lessons that the folks who are running next year need
to observe from this campaign. The thing that I want
to add to that is this, and a lot of
the campaigns that we've been seeing around the country on
the local and statewide level, it has been a fear
based discussion and reaction to Trump.

Speaker 24 (04:00:15):
All of their.

Speaker 60 (04:00:16):
Campaigns have been Trump this, Trump that, Trump this, Trump that,
Trump this, Trump that, And what we watched here is
a campaign that addressed or answered the questions about Trump,
but stay focused on his people than the state in
the city, excuse me, and stay focused.

Speaker 24 (04:00:31):
On what his three main goals were.

Speaker 60 (04:00:34):
And then I heard somebody say when he was giving
his acceptance speech, he has let everybody else in the
city know that they need to.

Speaker 24 (04:00:39):
Get on board with with the agenda's going to be too.
He made him very clear.

Speaker 60 (04:00:42):
It was childcare, and it was freezing, and it was
free buses and if we can get other candidates, I
want to say democrats, because that's a different conversation. He
does identify as a democrat all the way, So democratic socialists,
if we can get.

Speaker 24 (04:00:55):
Other folks to mirror or mimic that strategy, What are.

Speaker 60 (04:01:00):
The three things we're gonna run on there are going
to impact and change people's.

Speaker 24 (04:01:02):
Eyes directly on the ground.

Speaker 60 (04:01:04):
And then how are we going to mobilize people around
what those three things are?

Speaker 24 (04:01:08):
And if you watch them, pay attention. I'm gonna watch
it again.

Speaker 60 (04:01:11):
If you watch and listen to it carefully, he said,
we are going to do this, We are going to
do this, we are going to respond. And then he
said Trump, I got a couple of words for you,
turn the value off.

Speaker 24 (04:01:22):
And everybody in.

Speaker 60 (04:01:23):
The building went crazy because it wasn't him, it was
we are going to defeat Donald Trump. And so I
just I want them to walk away understanding that that
is the thing that they need to use in their campaigns.
What are the clear, tangible and transactional thing that we
can measure for the people in the city. And then
the second thing I want to say is, I know
we didn't talk about it here because there's maybe not

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the other black.

Speaker 24 (04:01:45):
People out there.

Speaker 60 (04:01:45):
I don't know what the stats are, but main was
an important race for me to watch as well for
Question number one, simply because next year the Supreme Court
is going to be tackling Section two in the Voting
Rights Act.

Speaker 24 (04:01:56):
There are thirty five thirty seven states right now that required.

Speaker 60 (04:02:01):
To have a voter ID, and we had a huge
black voters matter.

Speaker 9 (04:02:05):
Next to this past a constitutional amendment tonight requiring you
to US citizenship to be able to vote.

Speaker 24 (04:02:10):
See, so that we're talking about voting rights.

Speaker 60 (04:02:13):
Question one in my in Maine was one in Maine
was Conservatives ran this campaign do we need a voter ID?

Speaker 24 (04:02:21):
And they said two things. One hell no, we don't
need no damn voter ID.

Speaker 60 (04:02:24):
And two no, you cannot remove two days of absentee
voting off of the ballot. But I just want to
also applaud Maine because they had a victory tonight to
to make sure that voting rights is accessible for everybody.

Speaker 3 (04:02:35):
So a couple of things the folks said, boats magazine.
I love they really covered.

Speaker 9 (04:02:40):
So many local races people ignored vote boats, bo lts
boats boats magazine. Uh, this is what my man uh
to Neil Danielle uh Na Canyan.

Speaker 3 (04:02:55):
He was the editor there.

Speaker 9 (04:02:56):
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was ground zero for the conservative takeover
over school boards and anti LGBTQ polaces in twenty twenty one,
with Central Bucks and pen Ridge Districts. Dims flip both
boards back in twenty twenty three. Tonight, Dems have ousted
all Republicans from both school.

Speaker 24 (04:03:15):
Boards were coming for you.

Speaker 20 (04:03:18):
Were coming from.

Speaker 3 (04:03:19):
Talking about that. Give me one, hold on, we bet
not messing up. Now, say you that, he said, hold on.

Speaker 6 (04:03:32):
Hold on, hold on.

Speaker 9 (04:03:34):
He also said we're seeing conservative losses and other school
board races.

Speaker 3 (04:03:39):
He said, a hugely.

Speaker 9 (04:03:39):
Positive results for Democrats and tough county executive elections in
some of Pennsylvania's swingyas counties of the county executive office
in Erie County, Lehigh County, Northampton County roughly twenty percent each.
This is a flip in Erie County. So what you're
seeing is again we go back to what's happening on
the ground. Also here in Portsmouth, Virginia, Steffani Morales.

Speaker 3 (04:04:02):
Re elected as the prosecutor there. That's a huge race.
Let's see here, let me see it going on Supreme
Court yeah, Gottually, I don't know if they got didn't
win one of the Senate seats they needed to to break. Wow.

Speaker 9 (04:04:24):
He Daniel reports them have a shot at taking the
majority on the Aurora, Colorado City Council. He calls it
a little earthquake. They defended the Minnesota Senate. The Demons
one seat margin was at playing especially election them leaning seat.

Speaker 3 (04:04:39):
They won that particular seat.

Speaker 9 (04:04:42):
Let's see here, wild sir and Stevenson, who lost an
eye due to a projectile fired by the police during
the Black Lives Matter protests between twenty and Minneapolis, has
won a seat on a city council.

Speaker 3 (04:04:55):
Wow, there U do. Let's see here.

Speaker 9 (04:05:02):
Let's see Alleghany County, Pennsylvania council mandate seats for minority parties.
The Democrats were never able to unseat at large Republican councilmen,
so they ran a left wing independent and he's winning easily.
Let's see, we're talking about the main voters. Let's see,
we're talking about the Supreme Court in Pennsylvania. See what

(04:05:22):
congratulations to Alicia Johnson.

Speaker 3 (04:05:24):
We had her on the show.

Speaker 9 (04:05:25):
At Georgia Public Commission race Peter Hubbard. They beat two
Republican commissioners on the state's Utility Commission.

Speaker 3 (04:05:32):
Oh, we didn't talk about it.

Speaker 9 (04:05:34):
Donald Trump's nemesis Alvin Bragg huge win wins second term there.
Larry Krasner easily wins as a DA in Philadelphia.

Speaker 3 (04:05:44):
Let's see here, Oh, that crazy ass election in Miami.
You know the dumbass You know what, the idiots.

Speaker 9 (04:05:49):
Canceled the damn election and they were like, your ass
can't They canceled the election to say, well, we're gonna
move to next.

Speaker 3 (04:05:55):
Year to coincide with the midterms. They were like, you
can't give your ass an extra right.

Speaker 9 (04:06:01):
So so Democrat Eileen Higgins and Republican Emilia Gonzalez head
to the run head to the runoff there as well.
Let me see here, any other see what happened in Stockbridge?

Speaker 6 (04:06:14):
Go ahead and say it.

Speaker 60 (04:06:15):
Jayden Williams, twenty one year old, also former NAACP leader,
a student at Clark Atlanta University. He just was the
youngest candidate to run and win mayor of Stockbridge in Georgia, US.

Speaker 9 (04:06:27):
In the Bronx, the Republicans won a council seat. The
first time was the nineteen eighties.

Speaker 3 (04:06:31):
Two years ago. It was like Democrats had taking that
sucker back. Let's see else I'm looking. I'm looking at
some of.

Speaker 9 (04:06:40):
The other and so again that there are a whole
lot of local races that that are out there as well.

Speaker 3 (04:06:47):
So clearists, those things are important.

Speaker 40 (04:06:50):
H Dorsey a clearist. Next mayor of Albany, New York.
First black woman. Okay, incredible, Yeah, cool?

Speaker 3 (04:06:57):
All right, anybody else got anything else?

Speaker 19 (04:07:01):
Sixty four Democrats in the Virginia General Assembly, sixty four
The Vegas and Modern History the Vegas thirteen thirteen, Wow,
sixty four. Don Scott has a press of tomorrow at

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ten thirty in Richmond along with Dan Helmert tuning in.
That's a record, obviously, and wow, that's all Scott.

Speaker 14 (04:07:32):
Can I just say something about Richmond.

Speaker 41 (04:07:33):
So every single time I'm driving through Virginia and I
passed Richmond, I always think about this was the seat
of the Confederacy. This is where John Will's booth was
trying to get to after he assassinated you know, Abraham Lincoln.
And when I think about the history of that, you know,
as an academic, you know this is.

Speaker 3 (04:07:52):
Your will have room. Can y'all please hit Amanda at
where she's texting me go back.

Speaker 41 (04:07:57):
I think about what that means in a night like tonight,
where we you sixty four?

Speaker 24 (04:08:04):
Can you just say that sixty four seat since.

Speaker 19 (04:08:07):
For Democrats, a lot of black Democrats to should be the.

Speaker 20 (04:08:10):
Biggest black black caucers.

Speaker 41 (04:08:12):
That's incredible when you think about what Virginia represents in
terms of our history, in terms of the Confederacy, in
terms of the Civil War, and where we are now.
I don't know about y'all, but every time I'm driving
through there and I pass.

Speaker 14 (04:08:25):
It, I get it was bumps.

Speaker 20 (04:08:26):
Let's not over complicate. This is about leadership.

Speaker 19 (04:08:29):
This is about Don Scott saying leadership. This is about
one man that just showed up in twenty nineteen.

Speaker 20 (04:08:36):
Virginia via Texas.

Speaker 19 (04:08:38):
So he's only been there for four years, for five years,
and Don Scott is the reason that this has happened.

Speaker 3 (04:08:44):
So let's so let me say say, let me say
this here again. I got it was a lot.

Speaker 9 (04:08:49):
It was a lot of It was a lot of
white Democrats in Virginia who did not want to listen
to Dawn.

Speaker 3 (04:08:56):
They felt he was not the money the right way.

Speaker 9 (04:09:01):
He was ignoring a lot of the consultants when he
came in that speaker two years He came in that
speaker two years ago.

Speaker 3 (04:09:08):
Look, I'm gonna tell you right now that listen. The
two US senators say it right now.

Speaker 9 (04:09:16):
Two United States Senators from Virginia were questioning his actions.
In fact, one of the actions that the questioned was,
why the hell are you spending money on advertising on
Roland Martin the show? No seriously and having him brought
and come doing these shows around Virginia. And he said,
point blank, he said, because, he said, thousands watched, and

(04:09:41):
we're gonna win by the margins, he said.

Speaker 3 (04:09:45):
And two years ago they won by the margins.

Speaker 9 (04:09:48):
His whole deal was, and we talked, he said, I'm planning.

Speaker 3 (04:09:51):
On expanding it.

Speaker 9 (04:09:53):
Here's the thing right now, I dare say, Abigail Spanberg
is only gonna be one term in governor, going to
give one term a BYuT Virginia law. The reality is
the most important political player in the state of Virginia
is Speaker Don Scott. And I'm telling you right now,
after picking up thirteen seats, here's what needs to happen.

Speaker 3 (04:10:16):
I'm gonna see it right now. All you smart ass.

Speaker 9 (04:10:20):
Strategists at the DNC, the DSCC, the d Triple C,
the Democratic Government Association. Y'all should be taking y'all ass
down to Richmond, kissing Don Scott's.

Speaker 3 (04:10:32):
Ass, saying how did you do this?

Speaker 19 (04:10:35):
Richmond?

Speaker 3 (04:10:36):
I'm telling you they don't.

Speaker 9 (04:10:37):
And he'd be doing that because again they keep playing
by somebody else's playbook.

Speaker 3 (04:10:44):
To Lawrence point, he ain't been in a legislature twenty years. Noe,
he ain't been that ten years.

Speaker 9 (04:10:52):
But he understood strategy and what I always say, Mike,
not macro micro. He understood you hit this area, this area,
this area, turning out people.

Speaker 3 (04:11:04):
We win.

Speaker 9 (04:11:05):
A plus thirteen pickup is huge. Nobody predicted that. They
were talking about six eight.

Speaker 3 (04:11:13):
Maybe go ahead, go.

Speaker 20 (04:11:16):
On MSNBC. Why don't you text him and get him
on this show?

Speaker 3 (04:11:19):
Hold on the text, Amic, it's the Spotlin.

Speaker 20 (04:11:24):
You know it takes an outsider.

Speaker 3 (04:11:27):
All say well, what race again?

Speaker 40 (04:11:28):
You also need to watch Melvin Carter's race in Saint Paul.
He's the first black mayor of Saint Paul. But he's
now in a very tight race. It looks like it's
going to go.

Speaker 3 (04:11:35):
To a runoff. Yeah, his race as well.

Speaker 9 (04:11:39):
So yeah, so that is uh, listen, that's huge again
thirteen seed pick up. Let me go ahead, FaceTime his
after what what y'all.

Speaker 3 (04:11:58):
Got over there? That well, hey, y'all, y'all FaceTime done
hit him two or three times. Here the ends woke
one one.

Speaker 24 (04:12:07):
Yeah. Now they say d I won.

Speaker 3 (04:12:09):
All right, so let's do so let's uh, I bet well,
guess what?

Speaker 9 (04:12:13):
Guess what with some serious as saying that, let's do
this here. Get final comment, Julian, pull that chair up,
sit next to Greg. Uh, let's do this here.

Speaker 3 (04:12:23):
Final comment Eugenka, listen, I think.

Speaker 25 (04:12:27):
This is a pre cursor twenty twenty six if you
got Virginia doing the.

Speaker 3 (04:12:31):
What oh Amanda, so my bad, my bad. Sorry, hold up,
you can't give your final comments yet. Let's go live
to Houston.

Speaker 9 (04:12:41):
We told you all about the eighteenth Congressional district earlier.

Speaker 3 (04:12:44):
We had Christian Minifi on. He came in first in
tonight's election.

Speaker 9 (04:12:48):
Amanda Edward's former city council woman, came in second. This
race goes to a runoff, She jones, us, right now, Amanda,
you must feel good.

Speaker 24 (04:12:56):
Well, we're still waiting on some of the results to
come in.

Speaker 23 (04:12:59):
It's been a little little bit.

Speaker 63 (04:13:00):
Slower than we hoped, but we're so waiting, but it
looks like we're in a great.

Speaker 24 (04:13:04):
Position to head into the runoffs. So we're excited about it.

Speaker 63 (04:13:08):
This district has gone far too long to have gone
without representation and a voice, and so it's time for
this eighteenth Congressional District to get its voice back.

Speaker 3 (04:13:18):
You ran against Tom'swima Shilah Jackson Lee. You lost. What
was the key for you in this special election?

Speaker 63 (04:13:28):
You know at the time, Congresswoman Jackson Lee of course
had universal name I D and of course a long
track record of service.

Speaker 11 (04:13:36):
In this instance, we had a pretty open race in.

Speaker 63 (04:13:39):
Which the voters just got to decide who were going
to be the folks that they wanted to push forward
to lead this community that has this rich history of
leadership forward.

Speaker 7 (04:13:50):
And of course I'm someone.

Speaker 24 (04:13:52):
Who they know.

Speaker 63 (04:13:53):
I have done the work in the community, been present,
been consistent, and they want the people's candidate to emerge
and that's what I've been. So we are excited about
the opportunity to serve and of course we're still watching
for the returns to come in, but are very optimistic
about getting in the runoff and of course.

Speaker 3 (04:14:10):
Win in the race, well we'll be paying attittioning to it.
It's been a long night, and so I'm.

Speaker 9 (04:14:17):
Sure y'all are going to be crunching the numbers, and
so when we wake up in the morning, we'll see
what that final tally is.

Speaker 3 (04:14:24):
Percentage of vote in, what is it?

Speaker 26 (04:14:26):
What is it?

Speaker 63 (04:14:26):
Right now, we've got just a few boxes in, so
we don't even have ten percent of the vote in yet.
So it's been pretty low in terms, and I think
they've got some various credentialing processes that are kind of
causing delays, and so hopefully we will all wake up
in the morning and those boxes.

Speaker 37 (04:14:45):
Will all be in.

Speaker 9 (04:14:47):
All right, then, well we certainly agree. Yeah, I'm looking
at it right here. I'm seeing Menafee at thirty two
points something and you're at twenty. Let's see here at
thirty two point five, you had twenty five point four.
And so we'll keep the eye out of this as well,
so Black you could quickly join us.

Speaker 3 (04:15:07):
Well, appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (04:15:09):
Thank you so much for having me on. I appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (04:15:11):
All right, thanks a bunch all right, folks who were
talking about final comments, Eugenie, you were making them go.

Speaker 25 (04:15:16):
Look, I think twenty twenty six, I think we're not
in for a title wave. It's gonna be a title
wave if you're pulling thirteen plus in the off off here,
you know, nationalized election, and you know you all have
no campaign contribution to the the Republicans of the port
all let the money intenter racist.

Speaker 1 (04:15:35):
I think you're in for a title.

Speaker 25 (04:15:36):
Way for twenty six and I think you know, finally
some restoring of bounds of power in the country.

Speaker 37 (04:15:44):
You have a thirty four year old in charge of
the eighth largest economy world, New York City. I don't
want that to be lost on anyone tonight. What we
saw in New York was historical, was your point, Nola.
It is an international thing. New York City is not
just the largest city in the United States, it's one
of the largest cities in the world. And the implications
of his win tonight will be global. It's a win

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for immigrants, it's it's a win for a.

Speaker 3 (04:16:08):
Muslim people, and it's the one for all of us.

Speaker 38 (04:16:11):
Melan Well, I would say like this that the enemy
doesn't sleep and we can't either, and so we have
to take this moment for what it is and know
that we got a long runway.

Speaker 3 (04:16:26):
And I believe the lawlessness we will continue. It's how we.

Speaker 38 (04:16:31):
Decide to continue to organize ourselves. And I believe it's
going to be critical when I'm looking at some of
the numbers and seeing some of the ages where you
see eighteen to twenty nine year old really came out
in some of these races.

Speaker 3 (04:16:43):
I think that we have to build upon not just
for the.

Speaker 38 (04:16:46):
Media of the election, but for the for the shift
in this in this nation, because we have an opportunity
with all the things that have been torn down, that
means we can build something anew.

Speaker 3 (04:16:58):
The old the United States of America is gone. It
won't come back. So what do we want to look like?

Speaker 17 (04:17:03):
Right?

Speaker 3 (04:17:04):
Right?

Speaker 39 (04:17:04):
What like it was?

Speaker 5 (04:17:05):
So?

Speaker 3 (04:17:06):
What does that look like?

Speaker 38 (04:17:07):
And how do we utilize our power to make sure
that we have a better future for our for our kids.

Speaker 3 (04:17:15):
The quote that I live by is you have power
unless you give it away.

Speaker 27 (04:17:18):
We saw tonight that black folks use their power, that
young people use their power, and now we just got
to make sure that we're holding people accountable and that
we're pushing.

Speaker 3 (04:17:28):
For positive change.

Speaker 4 (04:17:29):
Julian Audrey look Forward said the master tools cannot dismantle
the master Think about that in terms of what happened
in New York with Mom Dommy.

Speaker 24 (04:17:39):
I'm just axhilarating to hear him speak.

Speaker 4 (04:17:42):
And to harness all that energy. But at the same time,
when I said the Master's tools will not dismantle the
Master's house, Carville and them are some of the Master's tools.
They forgot what they said back in nineteen ninety two
when they said it's the act to be stupid. They
didn't say it's the white boy stupid. They didn't say

(04:18:03):
it's our world. They said it's the economy stupid. They
forgot about the economy when they lean back rolling your
point about those people, those white male consultants who are
making millions off the contributions that we send the d NC.

Speaker 20 (04:18:21):
Making millions.

Speaker 24 (04:18:22):
So this is just like a victory to.

Speaker 4 (04:18:24):
Say, no, we're not using Mammy did not use the
master's tools. He created tools. He created tools that resonated.
And the challenge is going to be and for us
old heads. I date myself, I'm probably the eldest on
this panel.

Speaker 20 (04:18:40):
I'm okay, I'm.

Speaker 24 (04:18:41):
Okay, I'm okay with it.

Speaker 4 (04:18:45):
I turned seventy eachail my last birds. But we have
to remember that we were used once too, that we
wanted to overtime.

Speaker 52 (04:18:56):
You know our are they was turned this.

Speaker 4 (04:18:58):
Mofo out, you know, the turn the tables over, and
so we have to remember that. So that's a thirty
two year old, thirty four year old, a twenty four
year old is someone that we not only welcome but
also celebrate. And unfortunately, I think that many of my
peers have forgotten that, and so I celebrate by Madami,

(04:19:20):
but I celebrate the young energy on this panel and
just the enthusiasm, which is what we have to harness
if we can get to twenty six and get what
we want. Because this is devil and the place that
enslaved people built. I do not call it the house.
I call the place that enslave people built. That devil

(04:19:40):
is trying to upend everything that.

Speaker 24 (04:19:43):
We fought for.

Speaker 4 (04:19:43):
All this t right, and our young people are going
to be the ones that save that.

Speaker 20 (04:19:48):
New York, New York baby.

Speaker 3 (04:19:51):
All right.

Speaker 19 (04:19:52):
My father's from New York, my mother's from Virginia. I
really enjoyed this night, but this night really is going
to be countered by the other side. I look for
them to try to take over the polling places. I
look for them to bring the military out again.

Speaker 3 (04:20:04):
These are the.

Speaker 19 (04:20:04):
Idiots that land on the black helicopter on a building
in Chicago.

Speaker 20 (04:20:09):
I mean, Trump has no shame.

Speaker 19 (04:20:11):
They're gonna get scared, you know, when they start losing
power to get scared and they start breaking the rules
and changing them. That's what I look for next from them,
because what just happened is a major slap.

Speaker 24 (04:20:21):
In their face and a very big night for diversity.

Speaker 19 (04:20:25):
That two Muslim folks that just got elected, one mayor
of New York, the other Lieutenant governor of Virginia.

Speaker 20 (04:20:31):
It's huge for diversity. It's a slap in the face.

Speaker 19 (04:20:34):
And what Zorn said up there about I love how
he went after everything that Trump is trying to villify.

Speaker 20 (04:20:41):
He went after all of those things.

Speaker 19 (04:20:43):
And you know this stupid moment that we're in right
now where everybody is bowing down, these law firms, these
academic places, everybody's bowing down.

Speaker 20 (04:20:51):
He's not bowing down.

Speaker 19 (04:20:52):
So I mean, if he can get up there, a
thirty something year old but probably not that much security
and say all that stuff, knowing full well this puts
his life in danger, it really does. The forces against
them are huge, then there should be people who follow that,
so quite an evening.

Speaker 20 (04:21:08):
Thanks for rolling friend, Marcus, Thank you.

Speaker 40 (04:21:10):
Uh incredible night. I think the themes still remain the
same from the beginning of the night that I thought
before we had the results, which are compassion and ambition.
I think that when people show you that they know
you and that they're willing to fight for you, the
voters will respond to that, and I think.

Speaker 3 (04:21:26):
We saw that in a big way.

Speaker 40 (04:21:29):
The other thing I will say, just because I think
this is very specific to your audiences, I watched the
video from ct Vivian earlier who said that.

Speaker 3 (04:21:37):
My man has been waiting right.

Speaker 40 (04:21:39):
He had been waiting for this generation because his generation
could only dream it. But the conditions are right now
for us to win. And I think what we've shown,
what Democrats show tonight with black folks show tonight that
despite the headwinds, despite the folks in the White House,
despite right the deep entrench issues that we face in

(04:22:00):
the country, the conditions are right for us to win
if we fight for and that is a very powerful
message we're sending the country.

Speaker 9 (04:22:08):
To the point day was one sixty four in the House.
There's still two seats outstanding. They could go to sixty six, Tiffany.

Speaker 60 (04:22:16):
My America has always been bigger than just white, straight
Christian men.

Speaker 24 (04:22:22):
So I am celebrating tonight, and I think that we often.

Speaker 60 (04:22:27):
Find so much wrong with what we're doing that we
don't get a.

Speaker 24 (04:22:30):
Chance to stop and celebrating rest.

Speaker 60 (04:22:31):
So to all the volunteers and everybody, y'all need to
take a break tonight and get them real sleep and celebrate, like,
congratulate each other, celebrate each other.

Speaker 20 (04:22:39):
We deserve to do that.

Speaker 60 (04:22:40):
We don't think each other enough because we won this.
And with that, I'll say wassolama lakam. And you are
a if you thank you.

Speaker 20 (04:22:50):
My sister.

Speaker 60 (04:22:51):
And if you are a college age student and attending
a public university, you should go to US Student Association.

Speaker 24 (04:22:58):
Dot org and join our movement.

Speaker 60 (04:23:00):
We are building what we talked about earlier, this apparatus
for student leaders to be developed, trained and build a
network to really focus on federal advocacy work from the
United States and Association perspective, but to help build stay wide.

Speaker 3 (04:23:12):
And local power.

Speaker 20 (04:23:12):
So join to say US Student Association dot org NOLA.

Speaker 41 (04:23:17):
A few things. So I agree what Lauren said. I'm
going to put a little bit differently. The weaponization of
national security will come swift and fast. We are already
seeing it. We've already seen it with the deployment of
the military in our cities.

Speaker 14 (04:23:32):
We're going to see it even more. And one of
the reasons being.

Speaker 41 (04:23:36):
You know, before October seventh, before Hamas they attacked Israel
on October seventh, there was a normalization process that was
happening in the Middle East where Middle East countries were
in a process of kind of recognizing Israel, not necessarily
wanting to be their besties, but recognizing that they were there,

(04:24:00):
you know, that they were a power. And since October seventh,
a lot of that has been erased. So as I
sit here as a national security person, a foreign policy person,
I am I'm elated, but I am also cautiously worried.
There will be some sort of response. There will be
some sort of global response, and I don't know what

(04:24:22):
that's going to look like.

Speaker 14 (04:24:23):
It's going to be messy.

Speaker 41 (04:24:24):
But for the country, I am very happy that the
response is what the response was. But I don't think
we should be naive about the relationship between Israel and Muslims.
It is older than all of us sitting here together.
It is biblical and it is after that, right, So
this is not just a situation that is about New York.

Speaker 14 (04:24:46):
It is beyond that.

Speaker 41 (04:24:47):
It transcends that. So I'm curious to see what that's
going to look like. But I am very happy that
we get to sit here and talk about w's because
as we've been sitting here on this set for quite
some time, it hasn't felt good a while.

Speaker 14 (04:25:00):
So I'm gonna take those w's. I'm gonna go home.

Speaker 41 (04:25:03):
I was gonna go to Reesey's house tonight because her
Mann also had an election tonight.

Speaker 14 (04:25:08):
But I'm going home and I'm gonna.

Speaker 38 (04:25:10):
Watch what I just text her.

Speaker 22 (04:25:12):
I don't know, she can't tell me.

Speaker 14 (04:25:13):
She said they're going to bed. I hope he wont.
I hope all the positive energy CJ that you want.

Speaker 41 (04:25:21):
But my point is this, while tonight was amazing, the
Mendami thing will have global I don't want to use
the word consequences. That's too strong, but I don't want
to be naive about where we are globally, right, And.

Speaker 8 (04:25:35):
That's it, Yeah, Greg, I mean you know what I'm
always gonna say. This is why Black Star Network is
so important. Nothing else anywhere came close to this like
like everybody else, I probably scanned some of the other stuff.
The fact that they had I'm gonna say it only
because people know him by the name Charlottemagne on CNN

(04:25:55):
should tell you everything you need to know about why
you should turn that off and come here. No no,
no no, And that's but yeah, mister McKelvey. But I'm
just saying I ain't mad at him. I'm just saying,
these people curate, these heads do something other than what
we're doing.

Speaker 3 (04:26:08):
And I'm looking at this room and I agree with you.

Speaker 19 (04:26:11):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (04:26:12):
I mean, we got young people here and who are
doing incredible work. And I look at this studio and
you know, you had a president United statesuts people were
praying from Kenya. You got a couple of New Yorkers
over here with James Bond and Harry Butler. Fontable's people
are from Jamaica. But as I look at idabell or
Wells Barnett over there over your shoulders, I think about
the fact my man Travis Armstrong just texted me from Mississippi,

(04:26:34):
so that Teresa get Us Gillespie ism won the Mississippi second.
So when you put that with Johnny Dupree, who won
the forty fifth senatorial district. The Democrats broke the supermajority
in Mississippi.

Speaker 3 (04:26:47):
Home you know what I'm saying. That means that they
can stop these whites. But let's also thank our legal
groups because.

Speaker 9 (04:26:55):
It was the lawsuit in Mississippi that call that suit
that calls them course to say those were legally drawing districts,
and they force them to redraw those districts.

Speaker 3 (04:27:05):
And that's why tonight happened.

Speaker 17 (04:27:07):
Yes, no, no, no, that was it.

Speaker 8 (04:27:09):
I mean, we just have to remember, as everybody said,
I'm just echoing Ithn, we.

Speaker 3 (04:27:14):
Just got to stay on the path. I just saw
this tweet here from Carolina Ford.

Speaker 9 (04:27:18):
There is just a no Republican enthusiasm and down in
Mecklinburg and all that's in North Carolina, all the candidates flopped.
Democrats are crushing it again. That's in Mecklenburg, where Mecklenburg County,
where Charlotte is in basket to be the precursor to.

Speaker 3 (04:27:36):
To next year.

Speaker 9 (04:27:37):
Oh uh, and give it up for that sister in
Charlotte vye Lyles. She how bad she going with seventy
point two percent of the boat and she beat the
Republican Terry Donovan who got.

Speaker 3 (04:27:50):
Twenty five third. So so she won there and so
again this is what happens again when folk turn out.
So so what's the point of all of this. I
said this last year.

Speaker 9 (04:28:05):
You cannot fixate on four years from now. You can't
fix it on two years from now. You got to
focus on what's dex And what we saw tonight is
what happened when people actually give a damn, mobilize, organize,
and they vote based upon issues. They don't wind and
complain and say I'm gonna set out things along those lines.

(04:28:27):
They recognize that somebody is going to win, so it's
gonna be your side or their side that's going to win,
and then.

Speaker 3 (04:28:34):
We see what happens.

Speaker 9 (04:28:37):
My issue is not I don't despise Republicans, but I
hate MAGA and I hate their agenda. And what they
are doing is they are attacking black people. They want
to defund Black America. They are attacking black mayors, They're
attacking black elected officials. They want to wipe out with
that callous decision. We know the Supreme Court is gonna
come down. They want to wipe out anywhere from twelve

(04:28:58):
to thirty members of compression of black hawkass And what
I keep saying the black people is that even if
they wipe out a lot of these seats and they
start moving us around into other districts, if we vote
our numbers, they lose even in those districts as if
we put our numbers. Let me also be clear, there's
no such thing as Jared manningen state elections. And so

(04:29:20):
we vote our numbers in North Carolina, and vote our
numbers in Georgia, and vote our numbers in Mississippi, and
vote our numbers in Texas, and vote our numbers in Louisiana.

Speaker 3 (04:29:30):
The South does not have to look like it looks.

Speaker 9 (04:29:33):
But it's a lot of hope who are saying, well,
if we could get Stacy coming, Stacy Abrams ain coming
to your state.

Speaker 3 (04:29:41):
But guess what, there's.

Speaker 9 (04:29:42):
Already somebody likes Stacy Abrams in your state. So what
has to happen is you have to be willing to
join with those folks. We also have to pool our resources.
I think back to will Haygod's book on the Confirmation
Hearing of Thirdgood Marshall, and in his book he talked
about how black folks in Texas put their money together

(04:30:05):
to hire the lawyers to sue the Texas Democratic Party
because they had closed primaries.

Speaker 3 (04:30:10):
They took their case to the Supreme Court.

Speaker 9 (04:30:12):
And third and Marshall did not want them to take
the Supreme Court because they feared that they lost will
set them back, and they did lose.

Speaker 3 (04:30:18):
The key was here. These black folks said no, We're
going to fund this lawsuit ourselves. And so where are
we right now?

Speaker 9 (04:30:26):
And I keep telling y'all, don't send money to these parties,
don't send money to these candidates. Send money to black
organizations who we know who are going to be on
the ground in twenty twenty six. Black Voters Matter National
Coalition of Black SIMI Participation. We know Until Freedom, we
know USSA, and there are others as well.

Speaker 3 (04:30:47):
But we have to understand.

Speaker 9 (04:30:49):
Look, New Georgia of Project was New Georgia Project. Listen, Yeah,
they shut down all of that, all of that work.
And what a Tiffany say earlier, this is what happens
when we have a group that starts and all of
a sudden day then disappeared.

Speaker 3 (04:31:03):
That can't happen.

Speaker 9 (04:31:05):
I'm telling all y'all right now, they are coming after
everything in Black America and I've been sitting here looking
at all these tweets, and guess what, that same bullshit
algorithm that Elon Musk is forcing all of their tweets
down our throats.

Speaker 3 (04:31:20):
All the crying, the whining is amazing.

Speaker 9 (04:31:24):
Lena, tell you right now, these evil ass people or
they gonna be pisched tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (04:31:29):
They're gonna be angry tomorrow.

Speaker 9 (04:31:31):
And that's nothing better than to have that even more
pissed off a year from now.

Speaker 3 (04:31:37):
I would love for them to be whining.

Speaker 9 (04:31:40):
You talked about thirteen seats picked up in the Virginia House.
Imagine if they start crying, they lose twenty thirty seats
in the US House next year. But that will not
happen if we don't keep our foot on the pedal.
Let me be clear, keep your foot on their necks
and step harder, go harder. When Cooney like he is crazy, I'm.

Speaker 64 (04:32:06):
Telling y'all all of the whining and complaining, I want
them to be complaining more because I'm telling y'all they
cannot stand the.

Speaker 9 (04:32:16):
Diversity of this country. My book is called White Fear,
How the browning of Americans making white for les lose
their minds, and they have been losing their minds.

Speaker 3 (04:32:23):
They've been riding high all year.

Speaker 9 (04:32:25):
They've been so happy with Trump and Ice in the
National Guard and Doge and Elon Musk.

Speaker 3 (04:32:31):
What did I keep telling y'all?

Speaker 9 (04:32:33):
Bill Ackman might be a billionaire, Elon Musk might be
a billionaire.

Speaker 3 (04:32:38):
Mike Bloomberg might be a billionaire, and they might spend
one hundred and two hundred three million on the race.

Speaker 9 (04:32:43):
But every single one of their week asses only got
one vote. And for every poor person who sits out. Understand,
they might have a bill, they might be billionaires, but
your vote count just as their. And if I and
the ninety million people who did not vote, those folks
can beat back every single one of these billionaires in

(04:33:04):
next year's midterm election.

Speaker 3 (04:33:06):
So we're gonna be right here. We're gonna be on
the road. We were in five cities in Virginia.

Speaker 9 (04:33:10):
One of the reasons why we've been focused on raising
this million dollars. We're launching a new midday show as well.
We're looking and launching a health.

Speaker 3 (04:33:18):
Show with Tiffery to get her act together. We're gonna
be launching her show. Yes I did, Yes, I did.
Put the camera owner. Put the camera owner she's waving
a fan shot of the camera owner.

Speaker 9 (04:33:28):
When Tiffany started playing around, we're gonna launch her weekly show.

Speaker 3 (04:33:31):
Put the camera on Tiffany camera. Thank you? All right,
So right, so y'all know right now I had to
announce it. So Tiffany gonna do a show.

Speaker 5 (04:33:42):
Now.

Speaker 60 (04:33:42):
That's why I'm mad, because if you say it publicly, now,
I gotta do it.

Speaker 3 (04:33:45):
Yeah, you gotta do it.

Speaker 20 (04:33:46):
A messages, go do it.

Speaker 9 (04:33:50):
And so the point I'm making, y'all is what we
did in Virginia, we want to do the exact same
thing around the country. We want to pinpoint the places
where we need to be. We want to be mobilizing voters,
reaching y'all, talking about your issues, pulling folks together. Because listen,
an'ybody else in black onmedia doing this.

Speaker 3 (04:34:09):
Okay, I ain't hate on nobody else. They ain't doing it.
No one is doing what we're doing.

Speaker 9 (04:34:14):
They're not traveling anywhere talking to voters. And I'm telling y'all,
we can take this thing back you mentioned ct Vivian.
We talk about Reverend Lowry, we talk about Diane Nash,
we talk about Sephan mcclark, we talk about Ella Baker,
we talk about all those folks who put it all together.

Speaker 3 (04:34:36):
To fight for what's right.

Speaker 9 (04:34:38):
Listen, you got next month, say with there in the
verse of Montgomery Bus boycott Happy next month. Okay, that
was Joeanne Robinson and others. I'm telling y'all, they are
afraid of us. They are afraid of our power. They
are afraid when we mobilize and organize.

Speaker 3 (04:34:58):
He knew what.

Speaker 9 (04:34:59):
I love nothing more for them to be even more
afraid and lose next year, and then lose in twenty seven,
and then lose in twenty eight. And that can happen,
but it cannot happen if you do not do your part, every.

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Speaker 3 (04:37:02):
I appreciate it, thanks a lot.

Speaker 4 (04:37:04):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (04:37:05):
I already saw you know, some of y'all already being
packed y'all at the go bags. I saw y'all all
that back.

Speaker 9 (04:37:10):
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Speaker 9 (04:37:24):
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