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[Abdul] Detroit's a huge city
by square footage.

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But a lot of the development
has been deeply inequitable
and it's mostly downtown.

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We're, um, somewhere between
midtown and downtown.

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So, if you go this way.

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That's downtown.
That's the Renaissance Center.

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It's GM's global headquarters.

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[man 1] Better rock and roll,
too.

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[Abdul] So this is the
Eastern Market.

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This is one of the oldest
outdoor markets in the country.

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-We actually launched our
campaign in that shop.
-[Claire] Wow.

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[Abdul] In the middle of
February, which was very cold.

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I am here today to announce
my candidacy for governor
of the state of Michigan.

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[loud cheering]

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[man 2] He's being called
the new Obama.

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Thirty-three-year old
Arab American, Abdul El-Sayed

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is a doctor
and former Rhodes Scholar.

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[woman 1] ...who ran Detroit's
health department
at just 30 years old.

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[woman 2] If he wins,
he'd become the first Muslim governor of any American state.

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[Claire] Thank you all,
thank you all so much.
Thank you, Detroit!

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[loud cheering]

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We did it in the Bronx
and we're gonna do it
in Michigan.

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[loud cheering]

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[Claire] After progressives
lose, in a state like Michigan,

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there are always people
who will say,

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"Oh, we need to build
a better baseball team.

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Why can't our team win?"

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Well, it's not a game.

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The best analogy that I can
think of for the situation
that progressives are in,

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in trying to compete in these
types of elections is that...

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there is a war going on between
two different crime families.

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And progressives are
legitimate business operators

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trying to compete against these
two warring crime families.

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That is the best analogy.
They control the process.

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They control the media.
They control the money.

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And... and it's incredibly
difficult to take them on.

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We learned today from former
Democratic National Committee
chairwoman, Donna Brazile,

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that the Clinton campaign,
in her view,

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did rig the presidential
nominating process.

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[man 3] Bernie Sanders wins
by 12 percentage points

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-and lost the delegate count...
-[man 4] I don't... I don't
think it's a good system.

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These are the rules.

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[woman 3] People are talking about "rigged" as if votes were switched here and there.

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That's not the kind of rigging
that we're talking about here.

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It is a process that was unfair.

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[woman 4] Turning to the
midterms now.

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A secretly taped audio recording
is raising a lot of questions
for Democratic leaders...

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[Levi] After months of our
campaign receiving messages
from Democratic insiders

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that there was a chosen
candidate and it wasn't us.

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Democrats nationally,
the D-Triple-C,

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came into this race
and basically tried to destroy
this candidate.

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[man 5] This is going on
all across the country.

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♪ And the system's not broken
It's fixed ♪

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[man 6] It's just about how do
we move the levers of power

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to get our guys into office,
right or wrong.

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♪ But the system's not broken
it's fixed ♪

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[doorbell rings]

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I'm gonna go say hi to these
other people across the street.

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[Abdul] Hey, how are you?
My name's Abdul.

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Really nice to meet you.

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[woman 5] Okay, now... you are
running for governor?

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[Abdul] I am.

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[woman 5] Okay, well can you
tell me more about yourself?

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[Abdul] Yeah, I'm a doctor
by training.

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[dramatic music playing]

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So, you ready to take it over?

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Hey, man. First of all,
anything's better than what's
in there right now, right?

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Second of all, I think so.
I'm a... I'm a doctor
by training.

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I rebuilt the health department
here in the city

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and, you know, for me,
the reason I decided to run...

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I don't know how y'all feel
about the mayor.

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I worked for him
for a couple of years.

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You know, he didn't want to take
on issues that really matter,
issues like water shutoffs.

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You know the big demolitions
program, putting lead out
into the air.

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Every time I come up to him
and say, "Look, we have to do
something about this,"

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he'd shut it down.

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So, I said, "You know what,
if you're not gonna
pay attention to it,

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if the governor is going to
poison kids in Flint

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then we need leadership
that's going to stand up
and reset the agenda.

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So, that's why I'm running.

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[Max] A little bit to the left.
Ah, my left. This way.

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-Good.
-[man 7] Good. Okay.

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[Max] I've been managing
campaigns for ten years.

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[drilling]

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I've previously managed
candidates like Tulsi Gabbard,
Seth Moulton

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and Lisa Blunt Rochester,
who are now in Congress.

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I just said, "Hey, this is a guy
who's doing things differently,
like, let's give it a shot.

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Let's see what happens."

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The next governor of Michigan!

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[cheering]

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Thank you. Thank you.

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[loud cheering]
Ab-dul! Ab-dul! Ab-dul!...

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[Adam] I went to Harvard.
Graduated in 2015.

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First caught the political bug
when I was a Fulbright Scholar
in India.

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I was working for a politician
there as a speechwriter.

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I read in the news that this hot
shot Detroit health director
is running for governor.

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And when I met him,

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I kind of recognized that
there is something very special
about him.

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So, kind of on the spot
I agreed to join him.

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[clapping and cheering]

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[Claire] I worked on the Bernie
campaign in 2016 as the
distributed organizing director.

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I got a chance to meet Abdul
and I knew that
I had to join this campaign

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because he was someone
who was not only thinking about
what policies were necessary,

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but was actually thinking about
how to implement them.

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[Abdul] I had the privilege to
rebuild Detroit's health
department as a doctor.

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[Rhiana] I was a
Rhodes scholar.

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Abdul was, like, four years
ahead of me or something.

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He was like,
"I need a policy director."

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And I was like, "Don't you need
a white man to do that?" Like...

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People like my ideas, but they
don't want me to be the person
saying them all the time.

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But Abdul did.

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[Abdul] Every project that we
took on, every single one, led
us to the door of a politician.

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Those doors don't open
for people like you or me.

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They open for the corporations,
for the millionaires
and the billionaires

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who have bought
and sold Michigan politics
for far too long.

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-[man 8] No more!
-[Abdul] No more!

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[cheers]

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[Max] The average age of the
campaign is right around
twenty-four, twenty-five.

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And even though they're
so young, they are brilliant.

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And everyone on this team has
some kind of obstacle that they
are trying to overcome

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or they're trying to prove
themselves in a very real way.

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I think that's why they were
attracted to Abdul

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and I think that's why
Abdul was attracted to us.
Right?

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[Abdul] Let me tell you why
I believe so deeply
in this society.

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My dad, Mohammad...
Raise your hand.

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[cheers]

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Took a bet when he moved here
back in 1978.

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He met and married
my stepmom, Jackie.
Mom.

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[cheers]

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And her family have been here
since before
the Revolutionary War.

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They've been in Gratiot County
now for six generations.

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Teachers, small business owners,
and farmers.

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And together, Mohammad
and Jackie, they built a life.

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And I got to grow up
in that home that they built.

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Now, my father, he took a bet
on a society, on an America

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that was big enough for him,
too.

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Where it shouldn't matter
the color of his skin
or how he prayed

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or that his name was Mohammad,
that he could be just
as American as anyone else.

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-Yes.
-Yeah.

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[cheers]

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[indistinct chatter]

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I come from an uncommon
but entirely American family.

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[laughter]

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Just keep going! Keep stumping,
you know we're gonna stump
around town with this.

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Taking my movement
to the people!

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Take this door to door!

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This is it.

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This is about the leadership
we want to provide
to Michiganders.

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[Max] You know, here's a
Muslim guy, 33 years old.

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He has an IQ of like 192.

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And every time he tries to do
something, you know, doors get
slammed in his face, right?

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Like Abdul has a lot to prove.

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[man 9] Detroit in the house!

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[cheers]

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East side!

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[cheers]

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West side!

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[cheers]

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Alright, you guys ready
to meet your candidates?

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Alright, here we go.
Make some noise as
I introduce them.

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First, we have Abdul El-Sayed...

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[cheers]

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Shri Thanedar.

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[cheers]

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I promise he's here somewhere...
there he is!

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And Gretchen Whitmer.

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[cheers]

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Let's first get to the
candidate intros.

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First, Gretchen Whitmer.

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Alright. Hello, SCIU! Alright.

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I'm Gretchen Whitmer.
I'm running for governor because
I am proud to be a Michigander.

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But I look around in our state

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and I know our kids and our
workers and our families
deserve better.

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I think it is about darn time
we have a governor who's more
beholden to children

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than Betsy DeVos.

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And it is about time we have
a governor who's ready to fix
the damn roads.

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[cheers]

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[Max] It's really frustrating
to see a large portion of the
Democratic establishment

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lining up behind
another candidate.

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Turning now to the
Michigan governor's race.

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-I'm Bill Schuette.
-[man 10] Republican Attorney General, Bill Schuette,

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is out on top
in the Republican field.

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The next governor of Michigan,
Bill Schuette.

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[man 11] Bill Schuette, endorsed
by President Trump.

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[woman 6] On the Democratic side
there's businessman
Shri Thanedar.

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He is dumping millions of
dollars of his own money
into this campaign.

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[man 12] Former Detroit health chief Abdul El-Sayed is getting

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great national press
and national money,

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but its former state
Senate Democratic leader,
Gretchen Whitmer,

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who's winning
the in-state donor support.

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[man 13] Gretchen Whitmer,
considered the favorite
in Democratic field,

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now has the support of all
four Michigan Democrats

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serving in the U.S.
House of Representatives
and two major labor unions.

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Democrats seem to have
landed on... this is...
Whitmer's what they've got.

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Yeah, I don't see anybody else.

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Hey. I didn't wanna come
barging in.

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[man 14] Go back down.
Let me do this last line again.

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Starting today, in this race,
let's choose to believe in the
uniting idea of a shared future.

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-Done. Alright.
You're doing the ball there.
-Huh?

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-You had a nice little ball.
-[man 15] I like that.

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-Your palm...
-I believe you're also,
just, like,

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it's almost a little
Harry Potter, too, man, like.
Right?

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[Abdul] Aah... [laughs]

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Do you want the pictures?
Wedding album.

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[man 16] Oh, oh, yes, yes.
Let's film that.
Let's film that.

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Oh, my God.
When did you all get married?

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[Abdul] 2006.

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-Wow.
-[Sarah] This is old.

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-Oh, my God.
-[man 16] Huh! That's awesome.
So cute.

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This is before graduating
from college?

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-I think that's from my
freshman year of college.
-Wow.

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So we were big babies
that is, yeah.

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Where are the other one?

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Uh, you're gonna want to not
get these things in the shot.

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-Oh, okay.
-[Abdul] I think we do not.

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[man 16] Trying to keep the shot
secular.

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[dramatic music playing]

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[woman 7] ...any butter
in my hamburger.

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[woman 7] This is something.

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[woman 8] From voters:
We realize you "don't" take
corporate money.

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We know your money support
comes from... [imitates fanfare]

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The Muslim Brotherhood.
[tapping]

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He knows all about Taqiyya.

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What the heck is Taqiyya?

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-Oh... Taqiyya... that stuff?
-[man 17] Yeah.

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-I just learned about it!
-[woman 9] Apparently, it's
something we should be using.

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[woman 8] Where you're like
allowed to lie to someone
apparently, which is...

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Yeah, yeah, I think
we should do it.

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I think we should start
using Taqiyya.
Maybe we'd get further.

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-Maybe we'd get more money.
-Because they used to seal it.

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[Max] We've had a few threats
in a few letters and hateful
comments and stories.

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We saw a real uptick right after
we announced that we had raised
a million dollars.

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And then I think they really
saw, like, oh, wait,
like this guy's a real deal.

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I think it will get worse.

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That's why we've got Jordan
to be our bodyguard.

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-[baby cries]
-[Abdul] Alrighty. I know.

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I'm sorry. Okay.

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Look I am Muslim.
I'm never gonna run
away from that.

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But people hate you.

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And most of the time
when you walk in your life,
people don't hate you.

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High probability is that
I will be there
when she turns 18.

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But there is a possibility
out there where I'm not.

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Sleep time. Time for sleep.

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And I want her to appreciate
at least why.

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Why risks matter
and why I took the risk,

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frankly, for the world
that she's going to inhabit.

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Thank you so much.

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[man 18] Yeah. Abdul.

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[man 19] You know the last time
I felt like this a long, long
time. Very long.

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-And that means a lot to me.
-It's a pleasure to meet you.

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Privilege is mine,
and I really appreciate that.
You would be well, okay?

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-[Laura] Hi. How are you?
-[Abdul] Hey, how are you?

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[Laura] Good, nice to meet you,
my name's Laura Loomer.

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-[Abdul] Laura,
very nice to meet you.
-[Laura] Hi, nice to meet you.

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-[Abdul] Thanks for coming.
-[Laura] Thank you. Thanks.

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So I just had a question
for you.

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I just wanted to know how you
reconcile your own personal
practice of Islamic law

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with your Marxist socialist
political platform

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that directly contradicts
tenants within Islamic law?

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I... I think what's beautiful
about our country is that
I choose my own faith,

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and you choose yours,
or none at all,
and that's the beautiful thing.

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Right. But under Islam,
for example, you know,
gays are punished by death.

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-I don't know that that's true.
-People... gays are stoned.

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-I don't know... I... I... I...
-You're running and you're
campaigning on issues of LGBTQ.

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But you yourself said that you
are a Sharia compliant Muslim.

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-I didn't say that.
-Well, you said that your head
touches the floor

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-34 times a day.
-I choose to pray.
-We're done.

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-Right.
-I think we're done.

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-One last question.
-That's it.

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You guys gotta jump on that
way faster. Way faster!

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[Abdul] You wanna get Sarah out
before, uh, we leave?

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[indistinct chatter]

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Morning.

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[Max] It's not gonna be easy.
I mean, Trump won this state.

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I think the biggest challenge of
our campaign is the cynicism
that we see out there,

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not only from, you know,
white supremacists
and Republicans and stuff

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but also what we see
from Democrats.

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It's always, "Well, I'm not
racist, but I know a lot
of racist people."

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When we get to that
general election, I wonder if
non-Muslims will vote for him.

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-Where's Abdul?
-[Abdul] Max, what's up?

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There's a path.
There's a real path.

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So you start off,
you're tied with Shri.

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[Abdul] Oh, shit,
are you serious?

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[Max] Yeah, and then we do
the informed vote.

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She's still up, right?

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But then once we go through the
messaging, you're up by five.

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I mean, once you start making a
contrast with her, look at that.
You go up by 15.

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That's... that's a real poll.

291
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Oh, did you see this?

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They boost you
another six points
with the electability arguments.

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-Really?
-Yeah, that's the last piece...
back here. See?

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[Abdul] I mean, so this poll's
helpful for endorsements
and stuff?

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[Max] Yeah.

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[Abdul] And then the other side
of it is also the electability
argument.

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[Max] That the electability
argument isn't that big a deal?

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Yeah, that's it. Yeah.

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If you all thought that is
because I'm Muslim
I couldn't win. Check this out.

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[Max] People would get kind of
hung up on,
"This isn't possible."

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Because of the color of his
skin, his religion, his youth...

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But there's actually this giant
pool of voters who should be
voting who are not.

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[soft music playing]

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Two hundred and
seventy-one thousand potential
Muslim American voters.

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Ali, very nice to meet you.

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300,000 new registered voters.

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[Abdul] I'm Abdul.
Very nice to meet you, guys.

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You guys ready to come out
on the 7th?

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[Max] Kids excited by the
Bernie campaign.

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Thank you, guys.

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If we can pull them into the
process, then all of a sudden,

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you're looking at a win number
that looks really possible.

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Great job! Great job! Great job!

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If you look at a candidate
like Abdul El-Sayed,

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I wouldn't be surprised,
given what I know about him,

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if he were to give Gretchen
a real run.

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[Max] Alright, we ready?
Why don't we start off
with Rhiana?

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What's happening?

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The big thing that I'm
working on right now
is our urban agenda.

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Our affordable housing piece,
you can quote me, is fire.
Straight fire.

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It's looking good. I think
it will be very long,
and it will be comprehensive.

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But I think especially if we
drop like right after Gretchen,
the contrast will be very clear.

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-Yeah.
-So that when she rolls out her
like five-page agenda,

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-we roll out our 30-page agenda.
-Yeah.

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That people will be like,
"Oh, wait!"

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[woman 9] Yeah, she's searching.
You're going to see a lot more
desperation I believe

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-coming out of that campaign
-Yeah.

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Because the general consensus
is,

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through a lot of the
stakeholders
in and out of this city,

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is that they're
very disappointed.

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Yeah.

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[dramatic music playing]

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[Joel] Hey, Adam, this is Joel
Kurth fromBridge magazine.

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Listen, I was hoping
to talk to you today.

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I think they're asking questions about whether or not
El-Sayed is eligible,

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and we're planning to do
a story.

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[melancholy music playing]

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[Rhiana] So we went live
with urban agenda
early in the morning,

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and people were like
tweeting about it, and it was...

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I wouldn't say
it was revolutionary,

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but we were taking
like a decidedly
anti-poverty stance, right?

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And so it came out.
The press conference was at
12:30. It went really well.

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And then the Bridgearticle
dropped like three hours later.

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[woman 10] Abdul El-Sayed's campaign for governor could hit a major roadblock.

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That's according to a report
this week inBridge magazine.

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The Michigan constitution says
in order to be governor,

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you must be a registered voter
in the state
for four consecutive years.

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[man 20] A real legal question
about whether the fact that he
voted in New York in 2012

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invalidated
his Michigan registration.

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[Rhiana] At first I just kind of
laughed

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because reading
the Bridgearticle,

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there were so many things in it
that were othering, right?

353
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Like at one point
they describe Abdul...

354
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getting coverage
that called him the next Obama.

355
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That was in a Guardianstory.

356
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They say " The Guardian
newspaper of Britain."

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And then right after it talks
about like how much of our money

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has come from out of state
versus in state,

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which, again, has nothing to do
with eligibility,

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except it does because it goes
towards this narrative of
"Are you really from Michigan?"

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And just so much of it
was just like such subliminal
dog whistling,

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dog whistle racism.

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[Adam] They ran with
anonymous sources.

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At one point, the reporter
actually told me that one of
their lawyers

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was a lawyer that we knew
had a conflict, right?

366
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But they were anonymous
Democrats who I think explicitly
went after him

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without wanting
to attach their name on it

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because they knew what it
I think was playing into.

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[Max] Yeah, it's bullshit.

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Abdul 100% qualifies
to be on the ballot.

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His voter registration
in Michigan has never lapsed.

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They... they are so scared of
Schuette that they are willing
to do anything

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to get the Muslim guy
off the ballot, right?

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And the big thing to see
is the quote from
Mark Penn's 2007 memo

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where he talks about
how to otherize a candidate

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by continuing to state
how you're American,

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you were raised in the Midwest,
all this stuff,

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trying to alienate Obama
and make him seem like other?

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And that is exactly
the same tactic here.

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-[Abdul] Alright.
-[Max] Alright. Looks like
we've got everybody.

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-Whole... whole gang is here?
-Whole gang is here.

382
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Alrighty. So when I jumped into
this race, did all of my
due diligence that I could.

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Knew that because, ahem,
I had gone to grad school
abroad,

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and then grad school
in New York,

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that somebody could say
that I was not eligible
to be on the ballot.

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Our legal opinions
are unequivocal.

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If I felt like I was
not eligible, I'd quit.

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But this is, I think, how the
world works when you try and do
something and you don't belong.

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There are two kind of pathways
in front of us.

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One is we can seek a
preemptive judgment.

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We can just go directly
to a judge and be like,
hey, we need you to rule.

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Second is a challenge will have
to be filed by a candidate.

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So another candidate actually
has to challenge our position
on the ballot.

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[Rhiana] Can we just acknowledge
that white supremacy
is exhausting?

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-[Max] Yeah, it is.
-[Abdul] Yeah.

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This is nuts. Like I actually
cried just a little bit because
it is just so fucking tiring...

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[Max] Yeah.

398
00:24:52,186 --> 00:24:55,494
...to constantly have to like
stand up and say why you deserve
to be somewhere

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or why you have the ability
to do it... It's just fuck 'em!

400
00:24:59,498 --> 00:25:01,587
-Fuck all of them.
-Yeah. Exactly!

401
00:25:01,630 --> 00:25:04,024
-It's bullshit.
-[Abdul] Bullshit.

402
00:25:04,067 --> 00:25:06,809
-That we even have to
talk about this. Fuck 'em.
-[Max] Come here. Give me a hug.

403
00:25:06,853 --> 00:25:09,072
-Get... get... get up here.
-Don't hug me because
I'm gonna cry more.

404
00:25:09,116 --> 00:25:10,639
-Stop.
-[laughing]

405
00:25:11,858 --> 00:25:15,296
Yes, fuck 'em.
Like for real.

406
00:25:15,339 --> 00:25:19,213
This... this has been
powering me for a while.

407
00:25:19,256 --> 00:25:23,565
Like, this is fucking maddening
that they are doing this.
Like, fuck 'em.

408
00:25:23,609 --> 00:25:26,873
Yeah, I'll tell ya.
I've always believed that
you're never good enough.

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00:25:26,916 --> 00:25:28,744
And the reason you're never
good enough is because

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the world never lets you be good
enough when you look like me.

411
00:25:32,182 --> 00:25:34,750
Like there's a moment where
I think every person of color
has that.

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00:25:34,794 --> 00:25:36,709
You're like
they'll never accept you.

413
00:25:36,752 --> 00:25:38,885
And at some point you're like,
well, then fuck 'em, right?

414
00:25:38,928 --> 00:25:41,888
Like, I'm gonna... I'm gonna
figure out how to get in there.

415
00:25:41,931 --> 00:25:45,805
And when I do, it's either going
to be because I blasted the
door down, broke it down.

416
00:25:45,848 --> 00:25:48,329
I got myself in there.
But when I do, right,

417
00:25:48,372 --> 00:25:51,245
we're going... we're going to
make sure that we open up
for everybody else.

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00:25:51,288 --> 00:25:53,552
That's what we're doing
right now.
So, yeah, fuck 'em.

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00:25:55,031 --> 00:25:57,120
[woman 11] In fact, we spoke
with the El-Sayed campaign
today.

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A spokesman said this was an
attack from insider Democrats.

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00:26:00,863 --> 00:26:05,476
[man 21] Alleging there are
racist motivations comparable
to the birther movement,

422
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:08,305
which questioned whether
Barack Obama was born
in the U.S.

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[man 22] I'd like to welcome you
to the Michigan AFL-CIO
gubernatorial town hall:

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a better Michigan for everyone.

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[Abdul] I thought when the
party apparatus saw that
we had the most honest ideals,

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00:26:34,201 --> 00:26:38,814
the best ideas, and the energy
to make it happen, and were
inspiring people left and right,

427
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that the party would have said,
"Well, this is great.
We've got a candidate."

428
00:26:43,514 --> 00:26:46,648
But it's actually been exactly
the opposite reaction.

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That to me is pretty astounding.
I just didn't see it coming.

430
00:26:56,832 --> 00:27:02,011
[Max] Like they did this whole
thing so that Gretchen wouldn't
have to sue us.

431
00:27:03,883 --> 00:27:05,798
That's what this is all about.

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00:27:07,713 --> 00:27:08,975
Keep her hands clean.

433
00:27:10,803 --> 00:27:14,589
[Gretchen] I have built
an unprecedented early coalition
of support.

434
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Our campaign raised over
three million dollars last year.

435
00:27:18,462 --> 00:27:20,987
No one's done this kind
of work before.

436
00:27:21,030 --> 00:27:24,991
But on top of that,
I am ready to go toe to toe
with Bill Schuette.

437
00:27:25,034 --> 00:27:29,212
Let's make 2018 our year
to start setting the agenda.

438
00:27:35,479 --> 00:27:39,396
[Max] We should all understand
nobody is going to endorse us
until this is handled.

439
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:42,661
-I understand.
-I mean, that's why I want to
get it done sooner than later.

440
00:27:42,704 --> 00:27:45,664
[Abdul] How possible is it to
even get a Bernie endorsement
with this hanging over our head?

441
00:27:48,275 --> 00:27:50,712
[Max] He's being careful.

442
00:27:50,756 --> 00:27:53,889
Part of me almost at this point
is like either come now
or just don't come, honestly.

443
00:27:53,933 --> 00:27:56,022
[woman 12] To counter Shri,
I think we need that...

444
00:27:56,065 --> 00:27:57,719
-[Adam] Yeah.
-[Abdul] That's the other thing.
That's the other thing.

445
00:27:57,763 --> 00:27:59,634
If we don't get Bernie
endorsement within the month,

446
00:27:59,678 --> 00:28:01,549
-I don't think it's possible
to get him out.
-[Max] Yeah.

447
00:28:01,592 --> 00:28:04,117
I think... I think he's staying.

448
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,772
Hi, I'm Shri Thanedar
running for governor.

449
00:28:06,815 --> 00:28:09,818
-Shri Darth Vader?
-No. Shri Thanedar.

450
00:28:09,862 --> 00:28:13,735
[woman 13] For single payer
healthcare, not a single penny
of corporate money.

451
00:28:13,779 --> 00:28:17,652
Scientist Shri Thanedar,
the most progressive
Democrat for governor.

452
00:28:19,915 --> 00:28:22,657
[dramatic music playing]

453
00:28:22,701 --> 00:28:26,748
The new poll has
Republican Bill Schuette
and Democrat Shri Thanedar

454
00:28:26,792 --> 00:28:28,794
leading the primary battles
in the race for governor.

455
00:28:30,012 --> 00:28:33,799
For the Democrats Thanedar has a
three-point lead
over Gretchen Whitmer.

456
00:28:33,842 --> 00:28:35,757
That's a big change
from September

457
00:28:35,801 --> 00:28:38,673
when the poll had
Whitmer leading Thanedar
by 24 points.

458
00:28:39,892 --> 00:28:42,677
-How you doing?
-Man, you can't be Shri.

459
00:28:42,721 --> 00:28:45,027
I'm not Shri.
Thank God I'm not Shri.

460
00:28:45,071 --> 00:28:46,550
-How you doin'?
-He's saying,
"Thank God, he's not Shri."

461
00:28:46,594 --> 00:28:48,161
-I'm Abdul.
-Abdul.

462
00:28:48,204 --> 00:28:50,163
-Nice to meet you.
-Why I ain't seen you on TV?

463
00:28:50,206 --> 00:28:51,991
Like the other guy's
a millionaire.
I'm not a millionaire.

464
00:28:52,034 --> 00:28:54,123
-I've got to raise money
the old-fashioned way.
-Okay.

465
00:28:54,167 --> 00:28:56,038
Well, I like you.
I'm gonna have to do some
further research.

466
00:28:56,082 --> 00:28:57,953
-Please do. I hope you will.
-Alright. Yeah.

467
00:28:57,997 --> 00:29:00,434
-And thank you.
-Of course,
all we've heard right now is

468
00:29:00,477 --> 00:29:02,436
-how you say his name?
-Shri Darth Vader.

469
00:29:02,479 --> 00:29:04,090
[laughing]

470
00:29:04,133 --> 00:29:06,832
-I mean Shri... Thanedar.
-Yeah. It's like new.

471
00:29:06,875 --> 00:29:08,224
-Okay, good luck to you.
-Appreciate it.

472
00:29:08,268 --> 00:29:10,052
-Thank you.
-Thank you. Bye, guys.

473
00:29:12,054 --> 00:29:14,317
[Claire] I think that there are
a lot of voters,

474
00:29:14,361 --> 00:29:16,580
a lot of black voters in
particular in Detroit and Flint
and other places,

475
00:29:16,624 --> 00:29:20,410
who are supportive of Shri
because they hear that he is
a progressive,

476
00:29:20,454 --> 00:29:22,717
and they haven't really heard
a lot of other information.

477
00:29:25,328 --> 00:29:29,942
We initially thought that
the Bernie endorsement
would take care of it.

478
00:29:29,985 --> 00:29:34,598
That he would drop out because
he wouldn't be able to run
as a progressive anymore.

479
00:29:36,470 --> 00:29:39,212
Obviously, that hasn't happened.
We don't have
the Bernie endorsement.

480
00:29:43,607 --> 00:29:47,873
[Max] Shri Thanedar is a guy who
kind of woke up one day and was
like, "I've got all this money.

481
00:29:47,916 --> 00:29:50,919
I'll run for office." You know?

482
00:29:50,963 --> 00:29:54,227
So this is somewhere about
1,600 square feet of space here,

483
00:29:54,270 --> 00:29:56,272
just the hearth room
and the kitchen.

484
00:29:56,316 --> 00:29:58,753
[woman 14] It is a house built
for entertaining.

485
00:29:58,797 --> 00:30:01,800
We planned it to be a
party kind of house. Yeah.

486
00:30:02,757 --> 00:30:05,934
He is being sued for fraud.

487
00:30:05,978 --> 00:30:08,067
I mean, it's just awful.

488
00:30:08,110 --> 00:30:10,896
Some of the cases that have
been brought against this guy.

489
00:30:10,939 --> 00:30:16,423
And we've noticed he...
he always tries to sit
next to Abdul at forums,

490
00:30:16,466 --> 00:30:20,775
and then he just says whatever
Abdul says, you know, but worse.

491
00:30:23,865 --> 00:30:26,389
And normally,
you would just ignore him.

492
00:30:29,175 --> 00:30:32,482
But he's got six million
dollars. You can't ignore
six million dollars.

493
00:30:38,619 --> 00:30:40,490
[Ron] Hello and good evening,
everyone.

494
00:30:40,534 --> 00:30:43,189
I'm Ron Bieber, president of
the Michigan AFL-CIO.

495
00:30:44,103 --> 00:30:48,890
Please join me in welcoming
Bill Cobbs, Abdul El-Sayed,

496
00:30:48,934 --> 00:30:51,806
Shri Thanedar,
and Gretchen Whitmer

497
00:30:55,854 --> 00:30:59,553
-Shri, you're up first.
-Good evening. How are you?

498
00:30:59,596 --> 00:31:01,903
Great.

499
00:31:01,947 --> 00:31:05,298
So I am an entrepreneur,
I'm a serial entrepreneur,
so I've built businesses.

500
00:31:05,341 --> 00:31:12,348
I immigrated to United States
about 40 years ago
to work on my PhD in chemistry.

501
00:31:12,392 --> 00:31:15,917
And then I started
a small chemical testing lab.

502
00:31:15,961 --> 00:31:22,489
In the great recession,
I lost my business that I built
over 10, 20 years.

503
00:31:22,532 --> 00:31:27,929
And I, in 2010, I came
to Ann Arbor, Michigan,
and I rebuilt my business

504
00:31:27,973 --> 00:31:33,413
from 2010 to 2016
I created 50 high-paying jobs.

505
00:31:33,456 --> 00:31:35,545
I sold my business.

506
00:31:35,589 --> 00:31:37,417
And then I took
a little bit of money
and put it into my campaign.

507
00:31:37,460 --> 00:31:41,160
So I don't have to take money
from corporations.

508
00:31:41,203 --> 00:31:44,946
I am a business entrepreneur.

509
00:31:44,990 --> 00:31:49,211
I call myself a fiscally savvy
Bernie Sanders.

510
00:31:49,255 --> 00:31:50,386
Thank you.

511
00:31:54,869 --> 00:32:00,353
[Claire] We know that most of
the people who support Shri
probably would support Abdul.

512
00:32:01,354 --> 00:32:06,446
So it's potentially a life
or death thing for the campaign
to have Shri in the race.

513
00:32:13,844 --> 00:32:20,199
[soft music playing]

514
00:32:21,722 --> 00:32:25,987
[Gretchen] Working hard
and making things
is what we do in Michigan.

515
00:32:26,031 --> 00:32:27,858
My first job was
in a lumberyard.

516
00:32:27,902 --> 00:32:29,773
I'm Gretchen Whitmer.

517
00:32:29,817 --> 00:32:32,298
In the state's senate
I fought for working families

518
00:32:32,341 --> 00:32:35,344
to increase the minimum wage
and to expand Medicaid

519
00:32:35,388 --> 00:32:38,521
to over 600,000
more Michiganders.

520
00:32:38,565 --> 00:32:40,610
But there's still
more work to do.

521
00:32:40,654 --> 00:32:44,788
Like invest in skills training
or repeal the retirement tax.

522
00:32:44,832 --> 00:32:47,139
So that hard-working
people earn more.

523
00:32:47,182 --> 00:32:50,011
[Max] Look, all white,
all white.

524
00:32:50,055 --> 00:32:52,535
Hey.

525
00:32:52,579 --> 00:32:57,366
We're just gonna double down on
white, moderate Dems who don't
want to vote for a brown person

526
00:32:57,410 --> 00:33:01,457
because they think that that
means they can't win, you know?

527
00:33:01,501 --> 00:33:04,634
That's what they're doing.
It's really sad.

528
00:33:05,853 --> 00:33:10,162
Yeah, I mean it's also really
sad that her number one issue
is fixing the roads.

529
00:33:10,205 --> 00:33:13,078
-I mean, people don't have
clean water in the city.
-Yeah, exactly.

530
00:33:15,036 --> 00:33:17,778
And what water they do have is
poisoned by the government.

531
00:33:17,821 --> 00:33:22,130
And 80 percent of people
in Detroit have infrequent
access to a car.

532
00:33:22,174 --> 00:33:23,653
Yeah.

533
00:33:23,697 --> 00:33:29,790
Second off,
it's done by her 527 group,

534
00:33:29,833 --> 00:33:32,445
which is
Building A Better Michigan,

535
00:33:32,488 --> 00:33:35,578
that can take unlimited funds
from unions and corporations.

536
00:33:35,622 --> 00:33:37,624
[Gretchen] ...keep more
of what they earn.

537
00:33:37,667 --> 00:33:38,929
Let's get it done.

538
00:33:38,973 --> 00:33:41,671
Look. Right here.

539
00:33:56,425 --> 00:33:57,905
[Max] You know it says
it's not dark money

540
00:33:57,948 --> 00:34:00,429
because they have to
report their donors.

541
00:34:00,473 --> 00:34:02,083
But the way
that you would do it,

542
00:34:02,127 --> 00:34:03,737
the way that I think she's
probably going to do it,

543
00:34:03,780 --> 00:34:09,525
is you create a super PAC
that takes dark money

544
00:34:09,569 --> 00:34:13,051
and then they contribute
that money to your 527

545
00:34:13,094 --> 00:34:14,661
like that's kind of
how that goes.

546
00:34:20,145 --> 00:34:23,974
♪ Because your kiss
Your kiss is on my list ♪

547
00:34:24,018 --> 00:34:27,543
♪ Because your kiss
Your kiss I can't resist ♪

548
00:34:27,587 --> 00:34:30,024
-Good evening, Ithaca!
-Yeah.

549
00:34:31,112 --> 00:34:32,635
Traverse City, good evening!

550
00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:34,811
Alright!

551
00:34:34,855 --> 00:34:36,335
Good evening, Holland!

552
00:34:38,641 --> 00:34:42,471
We need full-on campaign
finance reform.

553
00:34:42,515 --> 00:34:47,433
Campaign finance is so critical
because it tells politicians
who they care about.

554
00:34:47,476 --> 00:34:49,783
Because if you're eating
at the corporate trough,

555
00:34:49,826 --> 00:34:51,872
the likelihood that you're going
to shut that down

556
00:34:51,915 --> 00:34:54,483
when a corporation comes
and asks for a set of policy
is minimal.

557
00:34:54,527 --> 00:34:57,138
It's a big reason why for me,
I don't take that money
to begin with

558
00:34:57,182 --> 00:35:01,621
because I would rather not lead
than lead and have those
handcuffs on my hands.

559
00:35:07,192 --> 00:35:08,932
[Claire] Also do Bernie.
That's your next commercial.

560
00:35:08,976 --> 00:35:14,155
Sick and tired
of the one percent, no more!

561
00:35:14,199 --> 00:35:16,418
We're gonna vote for this man.

562
00:35:16,462 --> 00:35:18,551
This man on August 7th!

563
00:35:18,594 --> 00:35:20,248
You know, the funny thing is
a young Bernie,

564
00:35:20,292 --> 00:35:21,902
if you look at what
a young Bernie looked like...

565
00:35:21,945 --> 00:35:24,034
-[Claire] Yeah.
-...looks like him

566
00:35:24,078 --> 00:35:26,385
It's... it's actually very
it's... it's quite creepy.

567
00:35:26,428 --> 00:35:28,430
Yeah.

568
00:35:29,605 --> 00:35:30,998
-[Abdul] Right?
Does he look like him?
-[Claire] Yes.

569
00:35:33,827 --> 00:35:38,136
Who are you?
I'm not going to caucus.

570
00:35:44,533 --> 00:35:48,102
So... so, speaking of Bernie,

571
00:35:48,146 --> 00:35:54,282
we've now been told to
come back after the
Medicare For All plan is out.

572
00:35:54,326 --> 00:35:57,155
There's part of me that thinks
that he's waiting to see
if he can win

573
00:35:57,198 --> 00:35:59,244
-before he puts his horse
behind us.
-Yeah.

574
00:35:59,287 --> 00:36:01,724
-That's the other only thing.
-Yeah, that's the other
part of it.

575
00:36:01,768 --> 00:36:04,423
Yeah. Well, if everyone just
stands on the sidelines until
the very last minute

576
00:36:04,466 --> 00:36:07,165
-saying, is this legit?
Can you win? Can you win?
-Yeah.

577
00:36:07,208 --> 00:36:10,168
-We're not gonna fucking win.
-I know. I know. I know.

578
00:36:10,211 --> 00:36:11,560
I still love you, Bernie.

579
00:36:14,433 --> 00:36:16,043
I'll always love you, Bernie.

580
00:36:17,262 --> 00:36:19,089
Just come help us.

581
00:36:19,133 --> 00:36:23,050
[suspenseful music playing]

582
00:36:27,750 --> 00:36:30,318
[woman 15] While we're waiting
for Abdul to get here,

583
00:36:30,362 --> 00:36:34,279
we are fortunate enough
to have his policy director
with us today.

584
00:36:34,322 --> 00:36:39,719
Rhiana, come on up here.

585
00:36:42,417 --> 00:36:44,376
Everyone is very nice.

586
00:36:44,419 --> 00:36:48,815
So MichCare is our plan
for a single-payer,

587
00:36:48,858 --> 00:36:52,732
Medicare For All-style health
care system here in Michigan.

588
00:36:52,775 --> 00:36:55,387
How many people have read it?

589
00:36:55,430 --> 00:36:58,346
It's a little long.
Oh, bless you.

590
00:36:58,390 --> 00:37:03,786
I'm sorry. I love details.
So if y'all are like
"We don't care", tell me.

591
00:37:03,830 --> 00:37:10,184
So, single payer, essentially,
means that instead of
private insurance companies,

592
00:37:10,228 --> 00:37:12,839
the government acts
as your insurer.

593
00:37:12,882 --> 00:37:16,277
Doctors are still private;
hospitals still do their thing.

594
00:37:16,321 --> 00:37:19,976
But instead of going
through a corporation
to get your insurance,

595
00:37:20,020 --> 00:37:22,588
you go through the state.

596
00:37:22,631 --> 00:37:27,593
And the reason that that's
beneficial is, one, the state
has no profit interest, right?

597
00:37:27,636 --> 00:37:33,599
Which cuts down costs. And also,
there's no CEOs making 13
million dollars a year from it.

598
00:37:34,991 --> 00:37:37,124
Yeah.

599
00:37:37,167 --> 00:37:38,386
-Abdul's actually about to
walk in like right now.
-[Rhiana] Awesome.

600
00:37:38,430 --> 00:37:40,954
He's got the word. So he's here.

601
00:37:40,997 --> 00:37:44,653
-So, if you want we can...
-I'm done. Thank you all.

602
00:37:44,697 --> 00:37:45,959
Let's give it up for Rhiana.

603
00:37:47,787 --> 00:37:51,660
Thanks, Abdul!
Man of the hour!

604
00:37:54,576 --> 00:37:56,274
No. Please come.

605
00:38:01,191 --> 00:38:03,019
Alright. Good afternoon.

606
00:38:06,066 --> 00:38:08,634
Very good to see you.
Thank you for coming.
Appreciate it.

607
00:38:08,677 --> 00:38:12,768
Hey, I just saying...
Rhiana's killing it.

608
00:38:12,812 --> 00:38:17,295
I was like, "I know!
Look, don't you understand,
she's smarter than I am!"

609
00:38:17,338 --> 00:38:20,298
Come on. I'm just waiting.
I'm waiting until someday
you run.

610
00:38:20,341 --> 00:38:23,997
-It's going to be fun.
I'll be like, "I knew her when!"
-For me...

611
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:29,045
-Let's just get you elected and
then we'll think about this...
-Fair enough.

612
00:38:33,659 --> 00:38:37,706
[tranquil music playing]

613
00:38:37,750 --> 00:38:41,057
[clock ticking]

614
00:38:52,895 --> 00:38:55,768
Hi, Dave. My name is Tara, I'm
calling from Abdul for Michigan.

615
00:38:55,811 --> 00:38:59,685
We're coming in this afternoon
to turn in our ballot petitions.

616
00:39:02,122 --> 00:39:06,126
[Max] The Democratic Party has
asked us to get the eligibility
resolved as soon as possible.

617
00:39:06,169 --> 00:39:12,698
But in order for us to take this
to court, we have to have
what's called standing.

618
00:39:12,741 --> 00:39:16,615
And because nobody's actually
been put on the ballot, yet,

619
00:39:16,658 --> 00:39:19,226
there's really nothing to sue
about yet.

620
00:39:20,836 --> 00:39:23,056
And Abdul.

621
00:39:23,099 --> 00:39:25,798
So this is the last step
that we have to take
in order to get on to the ballot

622
00:39:25,841 --> 00:39:28,627
and then start to actually
go through the legal process.

623
00:39:31,804 --> 00:39:33,414
[Abdul] I wanna talk about what
our press release is first.

624
00:39:37,026 --> 00:39:42,205
Yeah, we've got to say
something about
eligibility stuff.

625
00:39:43,468 --> 00:39:45,513
[Adam] I think we wait for them
to ask.

626
00:39:45,557 --> 00:39:47,515
[Abdul] Adam, if you think that
you're gonna put this out

627
00:39:47,559 --> 00:39:50,388
and nobody's gonna ask the
eligibility question then...

628
00:39:52,694 --> 00:39:55,001
[Adam] Do you know what
we should do?

629
00:39:55,044 --> 00:39:58,439
Let's say it, "Listen, we just
submitted that our signatures
blah-blah-blah.

630
00:39:58,483 --> 00:40:00,398
One thing that I'm really
concerned about is tomorrow,

631
00:40:00,441 --> 00:40:02,574
Gretchen Whitmer
has a fundraiser with
Blue Cross Blue Shield."

632
00:40:02,617 --> 00:40:06,055
-[gasps]
-And... and you just hit that
because you go on camera...

633
00:40:06,099 --> 00:40:11,147
So, what I'm going to do is say
"Blue Cross Blue Shield is
holding a fundraiser

634
00:40:11,191 --> 00:40:15,630
for a Democrat who is unwilling
to talk about Medicare For All."

635
00:40:22,202 --> 00:40:24,509
Thank you so much
for being here.

636
00:40:24,552 --> 00:40:29,296
We are so excited to be filing
our 24,000 signatures
to get on the ballot.

637
00:40:29,339 --> 00:40:31,690
-How many did you pay for?
-We didn't pay for any of them.

638
00:40:31,733 --> 00:40:34,214
It's all a volunteer-collected
effort.

639
00:40:34,257 --> 00:40:37,217
[reporter 1] What's your
thoughts on Gretchen Whitmer
with her Blue Cross fundraiser?

640
00:40:37,260 --> 00:40:40,350
You think Blue Cross is scared
that you want to have a
single-payer health system?

641
00:40:40,394 --> 00:40:44,093
Look, all I know is Blue Cross
is actively telling their
employees, uh,

642
00:40:44,137 --> 00:40:46,356
to fund a campaign
that is not mine.

643
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,403
I mean, we don't take corporate
money on this campaign
as a matter of course

644
00:40:49,447 --> 00:40:51,710
because I'm interested in being
on the side of real people.

645
00:40:51,753 --> 00:40:53,320
And real people deserve
healthcare.

646
00:40:55,931 --> 00:41:00,327
Gretchen's fundraiser,
Blue Cross, $144,000.

647
00:41:01,981 --> 00:41:03,461
I think we just put out
a press release:

648
00:41:04,897 --> 00:41:07,987
Gretchen Whitmer trades
single payer for $144,000.

649
00:41:13,079 --> 00:41:17,518
Alright, let's scrum up.
Alright.

650
00:41:17,562 --> 00:41:21,479
Um, we got a real gift
last night from Gongwer,

651
00:41:21,522 --> 00:41:25,874
reporting Gretchen Whitmer just
threatens lashing out wildly

652
00:41:25,918 --> 00:41:29,225
on the Blue Cross Blue Shield,
um, money.

653
00:41:29,269 --> 00:41:32,054
Um, she's trying to make it
into a personal attack
against her father

654
00:41:32,098 --> 00:41:35,101
being CEO of Blue Cross
Blue Shield, formerly.

655
00:41:36,363 --> 00:41:38,713
And... yeah, it's ridiculous.

656
00:41:47,287 --> 00:41:51,857
This is disabusing me of
so many of my beliefs
about the world.

657
00:41:51,900 --> 00:41:54,599
Look, at the end of the day, the
whole system that we're fighting

658
00:41:54,642 --> 00:41:58,428
is a system of people that have
fundamentally corrupted
themselves

659
00:41:58,472 --> 00:42:00,692
and taken all the spoils
for themselves.

660
00:42:00,735 --> 00:42:05,000
Like they're the reason
there are deeply poor people
everywhere we go.

661
00:42:05,044 --> 00:42:06,219
That's why.

662
00:42:07,437 --> 00:42:09,483
[Rhiana] I just wish we could
like...

663
00:42:09,527 --> 00:42:11,703
Then you think they're just
going to relinquish their power

664
00:42:11,746 --> 00:42:14,096
and they'll be like,
"You seem to have good ideas?"

665
00:42:14,140 --> 00:42:16,185
Kind of! I think on some level.

666
00:42:16,229 --> 00:42:18,797
[Abdul] "You know, guys,
she's right."

667
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:23,236
Now you know why I have to be
just like super thick-skinned
and kind of mean sometimes

668
00:42:25,455 --> 00:42:29,024
because inside I'm really mushy
and it makes me sad
that the world is what it is.

669
00:42:33,594 --> 00:42:37,946
[clock ticking]

670
00:42:51,438 --> 00:42:55,790
How do we find out
when Blue Cross Blue Shield's
posted this or?

671
00:42:56,835 --> 00:43:01,404
-It's on all the online stuff.
-Oh, is it? Nothing here.

672
00:43:01,448 --> 00:43:02,580
They're smarter than that.

673
00:43:05,365 --> 00:43:11,327
This is like the day for the
party establishment, so it's
like, you know, the lion's den.

674
00:43:11,371 --> 00:43:14,679
[upbeat music playing]

675
00:43:17,507 --> 00:43:22,077
Our next governor,
Gretchen Whitmer:

676
00:43:22,121 --> 00:43:24,514
[cheering]

677
00:43:24,558 --> 00:43:28,997
We need a governor who's ready
to fix the damn roads.
What do you say?

678
00:43:29,041 --> 00:43:31,652
Yes or hell yes,
are you ready to win?

679
00:43:31,696 --> 00:43:35,787
-Hell yes!
-Let's go to work. Thank you.

680
00:43:35,830 --> 00:43:37,963
-[Abdul] They brought
a marching band?
-[Rhiana] Yeah.

681
00:43:38,006 --> 00:43:42,097
I'm not moving out of the way.
I'm standing right here.
I'm not moving.

682
00:43:42,141 --> 00:43:46,580
-[man 23] Just a little bit.
-I don't move for anybody.

683
00:43:48,713 --> 00:43:50,062
-[Abdul] You've gotta watch out.
-[man 24] Hey.

684
00:43:50,105 --> 00:43:51,846
Hey, there, how are you?
Good morning!

685
00:43:51,890 --> 00:43:53,239
-How you guys doing?
-[woman 16] Good.

686
00:43:53,282 --> 00:43:54,980
Hey, enjoy the conference.

687
00:43:55,023 --> 00:43:56,416
-You guys have a lot of fun.
Okay?
-You, too.

688
00:43:58,418 --> 00:44:01,900
That's your alma mater right?
You went to Cass Tech, right?

689
00:44:01,943 --> 00:44:06,731
There's got to be something
wrong with using a public high
school marching band, right?

690
00:44:06,774 --> 00:44:09,342
It's called you can pay people
to do anything.

691
00:44:09,385 --> 00:44:12,040
Welcome to democracy in 2018.

692
00:44:16,392 --> 00:44:18,568
Alright, good morning,
Democrats.

693
00:44:22,268 --> 00:44:25,097
Those doors don't usually open
for people like you and I.

694
00:44:25,140 --> 00:44:27,882
They open for the millionaires,
the billionaires,
the corporations

695
00:44:27,926 --> 00:44:31,886
who have dominated our politics
for way too long.

696
00:44:34,933 --> 00:44:38,719
And here's the thing.
We are done waiting
at closed doors.

697
00:44:38,763 --> 00:44:41,896
We have a responsibility
right now to stand up
and take back our politics.

698
00:44:43,768 --> 00:44:47,293
[Abdul] Thank you.
Pleasure to meet you.
Thank... thank you so much.

699
00:44:49,861 --> 00:44:52,559
-Shri, Shri got booed
off the stage.
-Really?

700
00:44:52,602 --> 00:44:55,910
-Umm, yeah, okay. Take care.
-Alright.

701
00:44:55,954 --> 00:44:58,565
No, thank you. I don't want you
to give me more stuff.

702
00:45:01,568 --> 00:45:07,226
These kids over here they are
collecting "sigs" for Shri and
they don't know what that means.

703
00:45:07,269 --> 00:45:10,795
And they have some info so
maybe we can get some info.

704
00:45:13,014 --> 00:45:16,539
No pay by hour,
two bucks a signature.

705
00:45:16,583 --> 00:45:20,456
A couple of weeks ago he needed
1,200 valid signatures.

706
00:45:21,370 --> 00:45:23,851
Uh, so it's going to be
really close.

707
00:45:25,592 --> 00:45:27,550
We might be able to get them
off the ballot, maybe.

708
00:45:30,989 --> 00:45:32,642
I got a question for you, Shri.

709
00:45:32,686 --> 00:45:36,037
We have not been paid.
No, we have not been paid.

710
00:45:36,081 --> 00:45:38,170
We the ones got you
on the ballot.

711
00:45:38,213 --> 00:45:41,477
I got all the emails,
all the schedules.
We have not been paid.

712
00:45:41,521 --> 00:45:45,090
We did all your petitions.
You owe us $20,000.

713
00:45:45,133 --> 00:45:47,048
-Why have you not paid?
-Why you ain't pay me my money?

714
00:45:47,092 --> 00:45:49,094
[man 25] Don't vote for Shri.

715
00:45:49,137 --> 00:45:51,139
Do not vote for Shri.
He's a crook.
And he owes us money.

716
00:45:51,183 --> 00:45:53,446
-He hasn't paid.
-I worked out
in the cold for you

717
00:45:53,489 --> 00:45:55,927
and then you're gonna walk away.
You act like you don't hear me.

718
00:45:55,970 --> 00:45:58,016
-And I'm left with no--
-[man 26] Please answer
the question.

719
00:45:58,059 --> 00:46:01,106
-What is wrong with you?
-They worked in the cold.
-Thanks, Shri.

720
00:46:03,021 --> 00:46:05,501
-Have you signed the petition?
-No, I haven't.

721
00:46:05,545 --> 00:46:08,113
You're not wearing
a Shri sticker.

722
00:46:08,156 --> 00:46:10,463
I'm not going to sign anything
with somebody wearing a Shri
sticker. That guy's a fraud.

723
00:46:10,506 --> 00:46:13,031
He didn't know whether he was
going to run as a Republican
or a Democrat.

724
00:46:13,074 --> 00:46:17,383
Went, um, went and met with
a bunch of Republicans about
running as a Republican, um.

725
00:46:17,426 --> 00:46:21,213
He said he didn't, it didn't
really matter, he'd take
whatever position he needed,

726
00:46:21,256 --> 00:46:23,215
you know, in order to win,
that's all he wants to do.

727
00:46:23,258 --> 00:46:25,695
I mean, we've had enough
of that, man.
You know what I mean?

728
00:46:25,739 --> 00:46:27,785
-Yeah.
-Like here, can I take it?

729
00:46:27,828 --> 00:46:29,351
-It's all yours.
-Alright.

730
00:46:40,798 --> 00:46:42,930
[Adam] Jesus.

731
00:46:42,974 --> 00:46:46,847
Thanedar kept 100 beagles
and 50 monkeys
for drug and chemical testing

732
00:46:46,891 --> 00:46:50,155
until a judge stopped
the cruelty and removed them
to animal shelters.

733
00:46:50,198 --> 00:46:54,028
His employees said dogs
would even be used
in electrical shock experiments.

734
00:46:54,072 --> 00:46:56,814
There's no way.
How is this real?

735
00:46:56,857 --> 00:46:59,468
-How is that...
how is this real?
-So I think wait...

736
00:46:59,512 --> 00:47:03,472
There's a video!
There's a video of the dogs
being rescued. Jesus Christ.

737
00:47:04,517 --> 00:47:07,607
-Oh, my God,
did you download this, too?
-Yeah.

738
00:47:07,650 --> 00:47:10,175
-[Claire] He already has way
too much in it.
-[Adam] He has a lot.

739
00:47:10,218 --> 00:47:14,570
He has the drug that had the...
there was a meth-like compound,
never been tested on people.

740
00:47:14,614 --> 00:47:18,096
-Yeah.
-Then you have this: "Thanedar
worked to get a coal power plant

741
00:47:18,139 --> 00:47:21,142
off the hook for causing toxic
sulfur pollution and acid rain."

742
00:47:21,186 --> 00:47:25,059
I mean, Thanedar's company
worked for an opioid producer

743
00:47:25,103 --> 00:47:29,629
that was illegally marketing
opioid-laced lollipops
for back pain and headaches.

744
00:47:29,672 --> 00:47:32,240
How did do they...
who is this guy?

745
00:47:33,111 --> 00:47:35,983
This guy's like a white-collar
criminal.
That's like what he is.

746
00:47:36,027 --> 00:47:37,724
He's like a white-collar
criminal.

747
00:47:37,767 --> 00:47:40,335
-I just want to say one
other thing though.
-Cool.

748
00:47:40,379 --> 00:47:42,903
-Hey. What's up?
-Hey. How we doing?

749
00:47:42,947 --> 00:47:45,427
[Adam] We're winning,
we're winning a lot.

750
00:47:45,471 --> 00:47:49,344
-What happened?
-A volunteer discovered
an online survey

751
00:47:49,388 --> 00:47:52,739
that was testing all of
Shri's potential negatives,

752
00:47:52,782 --> 00:47:55,176
including bunch of negatives
we'd never heard of before.

753
00:47:55,220 --> 00:47:59,180
-Like he was selling
fentanyl lollipops illegally.
-And he killed 100 beagles.

754
00:47:59,224 --> 00:48:02,531
He's like, Abdul, this shit
is like, what the fuck?

755
00:48:06,013 --> 00:48:11,236
[Claire] "Shri Thanedar uses
business background
and optimism in governor race."

756
00:48:11,279 --> 00:48:12,672
[laughs]

757
00:48:12,715 --> 00:48:15,066
See, this is the problem.

758
00:48:15,109 --> 00:48:19,809
If you're wondering why so many
voters in Michigan don't
understand the truth about Shri,

759
00:48:19,853 --> 00:48:21,768
just look at the way the media
is covering him.

760
00:48:21,811 --> 00:48:23,552
-Is covering him, yeah.
-Look at this article
that's come out

761
00:48:23,596 --> 00:48:25,685
after all of that stuff.

762
00:48:25,728 --> 00:48:28,949
Didn't include any
of those things.
Look at that breezy transition.

763
00:48:28,993 --> 00:48:33,388
The way that, that she kind of
writes off the issue of him

764
00:48:33,432 --> 00:48:36,348
-leaving 170 dogs
and monkeys to die.
-...to die, yeah.

765
00:48:36,391 --> 00:48:39,917
But Shri's still smiling.
And it's like, what the fuck?

766
00:48:41,179 --> 00:48:43,442
It's like insane.
It's insane.

767
00:48:49,317 --> 00:48:51,841
-How are you doing? How are you?
-Very good.

768
00:48:53,017 --> 00:48:58,457
It's going to be extremely tough
because so many things
just haven't stuck.

769
00:48:58,500 --> 00:49:01,634
I guess I'm the next. Right?
[laughs]

770
00:49:02,722 --> 00:49:04,376
Good evening. How are you?

771
00:49:05,855 --> 00:49:09,120
Well, what an enthusiastic
crowd.

772
00:49:09,163 --> 00:49:11,470
I grew up in poverty.

773
00:49:11,513 --> 00:49:16,518
I'm the only candidate that
knows what it feels like
going to bed hungry.

774
00:49:16,562 --> 00:49:19,260
[Claire] Some folks stay
with Shri, even if they've heard
about his negatives,

775
00:49:19,304 --> 00:49:22,829
because they see him,
he's sort of like a Trump
who's a person of color,

776
00:49:22,872 --> 00:49:26,789
who's from a poor background
and went out there
and became a millionaire.

777
00:49:30,054 --> 00:49:33,753
[Max] Like here's a guy who has
been accused and charged

778
00:49:33,796 --> 00:49:37,452
and settled cases for fraud
multiple times

779
00:49:37,496 --> 00:49:41,369
and shocked dogs
with electroshock therapy tests.

780
00:49:46,722 --> 00:49:49,812
I just find it insulting that
the Michigan Democratic Party
won't stand up to him

781
00:49:49,856 --> 00:49:52,076
in any way, shape or form.

782
00:49:52,119 --> 00:49:55,601
I find it insulting that the
Michigan media
won't talk about it at all.

783
00:49:57,385 --> 00:50:01,476
It seems like they're using this
guy so that their establishment
candidate can win.

784
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:17,275
[Max] We have some challenges in
front of us that I wanted to
talk about today, namely budget.

785
00:50:18,276 --> 00:50:21,496
Anybody want to take a guess
at what our cash on hand
is right now?

786
00:50:21,540 --> 00:50:22,758
[Adam] 650?

787
00:50:25,544 --> 00:50:27,024
474,000.

788
00:50:28,329 --> 00:50:29,896
So much money we have
in the bank right now.

789
00:50:30,984 --> 00:50:32,159
[Max] Right?

790
00:50:33,813 --> 00:50:35,641
How much money you think
Gretchen Whitmer's raised
by now?

791
00:50:35,684 --> 00:50:38,992
-[Adam] 5.5.
-[Abdul] 5.
-4.5.

792
00:50:39,036 --> 00:50:41,168
-How do you know?
-That's what I think.

793
00:50:41,212 --> 00:50:42,648
Just... just looking at her.

794
00:50:42,691 --> 00:50:45,433
Just around 4.5-5 million.

795
00:50:45,477 --> 00:50:47,566
What do you think her
cash on hand is?

796
00:50:47,609 --> 00:50:49,046
-3.
-2.

797
00:50:49,089 --> 00:50:50,960
-3.
-At least 2.

798
00:50:51,004 --> 00:50:53,093
At least 2.
So she has four times as
much money as we do.

799
00:50:55,530 --> 00:50:59,186
The nightmare that I have every
night is that I miss a paycheck,
and you guys don't get paid.

800
00:51:00,318 --> 00:51:03,103
Every night. Every night.

801
00:51:03,147 --> 00:51:05,236
[Claire] Did we... did we think
we would have more money
at this point?

802
00:51:05,279 --> 00:51:07,934
We did. We did.

803
00:51:07,977 --> 00:51:11,155
-Let's be clear.
Eligibility kicked our asses...
-[Max] Yeah.

804
00:51:11,198 --> 00:51:13,287
...not because I'm not going
to be on the ballot.

805
00:51:13,331 --> 00:51:14,854
-Mm-hmm.
-That is how this thing was
always meant to play out.

806
00:51:14,897 --> 00:51:17,465
-You understand, right?
-Yeah.

807
00:51:17,509 --> 00:51:20,381
The minute they realize they had
to take us seriously was when
we put up a million dollars.

808
00:51:20,425 --> 00:51:22,122
-Yeah.
-Everybody was like,
holy shit, this is serious.

809
00:51:22,166 --> 00:51:23,819
Yeah, right.

810
00:51:23,863 --> 00:51:26,039
And so they were looking
for a way to freeze that.

811
00:51:26,083 --> 00:51:27,693
And that's why
this all came out.

812
00:51:27,736 --> 00:51:29,477
It took us from an
eight-million-dollar campaign

813
00:51:29,521 --> 00:51:31,914
-to a five-million-dollar
campaign.
-[Abdul] Yeah.

814
00:51:31,958 --> 00:51:33,699
It's cost us around
three million dollars.

815
00:51:33,742 --> 00:51:35,875
Three million dollars, I'd say.

816
00:51:35,918 --> 00:51:37,572
-Yep. Eligibility.
-Yeah.

817
00:51:40,836 --> 00:51:43,230
[cheering]

818
00:51:43,274 --> 00:51:45,841
-Good to see you! How are you?
-[woman 17] You come back,
you build up our city,

819
00:51:45,885 --> 00:51:47,104
which is good.

820
00:51:47,147 --> 00:51:49,628
[Abdul] How is little ones.

821
00:51:49,671 --> 00:51:53,327
But you tryna leave us behind.
You know, we fired up,
and we ain't takin it no more.

822
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:58,202
There ain't two Detroits.

823
00:51:58,245 --> 00:52:00,943
It ain't just for the
rich folks.

824
00:52:00,987 --> 00:52:03,294
There's no campaign
that's organizing like we are.

825
00:52:03,337 --> 00:52:05,948
We're knocking on about
ten thousand a week.

826
00:52:05,992 --> 00:52:09,213
That's not including the
60,000 text messages we send
a week.

827
00:52:09,256 --> 00:52:11,911
And about the 40,000 phone calls
we make every week.

828
00:52:11,954 --> 00:52:15,001
No other campaign has a
field organization like ours.

829
00:52:15,044 --> 00:52:16,481
-How are you?
-Good to see you, young man.

830
00:52:16,524 --> 00:52:17,960
I'm Abdul. Good to see you.

831
00:52:20,615 --> 00:52:22,443
-Thank you.
-Appreciate you, guys

832
00:52:22,487 --> 00:52:24,141
Appreciate you, too

833
00:52:24,184 --> 00:52:26,360
-People see the energy
that you bring.
-Yeah.

834
00:52:26,404 --> 00:52:29,929
You know and they're like trying
to get a little bit more
like you by trying to...

835
00:52:29,972 --> 00:52:32,975
-and trying to make you
disappear in the process.
-Yeah. Yeah.

836
00:52:33,019 --> 00:52:35,848
You know, when...
when they fight you,
you know you're winning.

837
00:52:35,891 --> 00:52:39,199
-That's the whole thing.
-No, of course. You know you got
something for sure.

838
00:52:39,243 --> 00:52:40,418
Hi.

839
00:52:42,376 --> 00:52:43,464
That was awesome.

840
00:52:43,508 --> 00:52:45,118
I think that went really well.

841
00:52:45,162 --> 00:52:47,686
[Abdul] Yeah, it's exactly what
we wanted, right?

842
00:52:47,729 --> 00:52:49,644
Did you notice every single one
of them being like, "I don't see
any of your opponents here?"

843
00:52:49,688 --> 00:52:51,037
Yep.

844
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:53,213
The SEIU is my favorite union
by far.

845
00:52:53,257 --> 00:52:55,128
Same! They're so great.

846
00:52:55,172 --> 00:52:58,697
I intend to be an SEIU stalwart
for the rest of my life.

847
00:52:58,740 --> 00:53:00,307
That's why they're going
to endorse you.

848
00:53:01,613 --> 00:53:03,919
SEIU's endorsing
Gretchen Whitmer.

849
00:53:03,963 --> 00:53:06,008
-Oh.
-Fuck.

850
00:53:06,052 --> 00:53:11,013
So, wait a second.
So, do we know exactly
how this went down?

851
00:53:11,057 --> 00:53:14,800
It's the international union
I think that like cut some deal

852
00:53:14,843 --> 00:53:20,284
because every single person
except for two were for Abdul,

853
00:53:20,327 --> 00:53:25,506
and the two that were not
for Abdul were for fucking Shri.

854
00:53:25,550 --> 00:53:28,379
And then they act like we're
crazy when we talk about
the establishment.

855
00:53:28,422 --> 00:53:30,250
-I know.
-Yeah.

856
00:53:30,294 --> 00:53:32,165
It's like we're being gaslighted
by the entire Democratic party.

857
00:53:32,209 --> 00:53:34,646
Yeah, no, whatever.

858
00:53:34,689 --> 00:53:37,910
I want to start talking
directly to members of unions.

859
00:53:37,953 --> 00:53:40,521
I was like, look, this is about
a new kind of politics.

860
00:53:40,565 --> 00:53:41,740
You're welcome here.

861
00:53:41,783 --> 00:53:43,089
You know?

862
00:53:47,136 --> 00:53:49,400
[Rhiana] It's just really
frustrating

863
00:53:51,271 --> 00:53:54,927
SEIU... like,
those locals wanted us.

864
00:53:59,061 --> 00:54:03,718
And they trust the apparatus
to do what it's supposed to do.

865
00:54:03,762 --> 00:54:07,809
And it's really frustrating
because it just feels like I'm
seeing all these institutions

866
00:54:07,853 --> 00:54:13,989
that I believed in as a kid,
and I thought they just like
work for good

867
00:54:14,033 --> 00:54:16,296
and didn't do anything else,
and they don't.

868
00:54:16,340 --> 00:54:17,906
And that's really sad.

869
00:54:17,950 --> 00:54:20,431
[crying]

870
00:54:20,474 --> 00:54:22,911
I'm lucky I have time to fight.

871
00:54:22,955 --> 00:54:26,306
But lots of people don't,
and they trust these
institutions

872
00:54:26,350 --> 00:54:30,876
to do the things that they say
that they will do and to have
their backs, and they don't.

873
00:54:37,578 --> 00:54:38,927
Shri is just like me.

874
00:54:38,971 --> 00:54:40,364
I am an immigrant.

875
00:54:40,407 --> 00:54:42,801
And some people tell me
I have an accent.

876
00:54:42,844 --> 00:54:44,629
Shri is just like me.

877
00:54:44,672 --> 00:54:47,284
We are actually more
alike than you think.

878
00:54:48,415 --> 00:54:49,895
It's like looking in the mirror.

879
00:54:49,938 --> 00:54:52,071
-Shri Thanedar...
-I feel so creepy!

880
00:54:52,114 --> 00:54:54,116
-Oh, my God, that look
is so about...
-Oh, oh, oh.

881
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:55,988
Shri is nothing like us.

882
00:55:00,384 --> 00:55:02,777
[woman 18]
In the race for governor,
Democrat Shri Thanedar

883
00:55:02,821 --> 00:55:06,259
submitted more than
30,000 signatures
to the Secretary of State.

884
00:55:06,303 --> 00:55:09,523
The Indian immigrant and
scientist going up against
Gretchen Whitmer...

885
00:55:09,567 --> 00:55:11,830
[Abdul] He's actually actively
submitting crap signatures.

886
00:55:11,873 --> 00:55:13,614
-He knows that.
-[Max] Yeah.

887
00:55:13,658 --> 00:55:15,921
-[Abdul] Some proportion
of them are good...
-Sure.

888
00:55:15,964 --> 00:55:19,141
But his collection is so bad
that I actually don't think
he gets there.

889
00:55:19,185 --> 00:55:21,883
First thing we got to do
is just... is count them.

890
00:55:24,669 --> 00:55:27,628
Right. So, you're the
clear team, yeah?

891
00:55:27,672 --> 00:55:28,977
[Claire] I know.

892
00:55:34,592 --> 00:55:35,810
Hey.

893
00:55:37,246 --> 00:55:40,511
[Adam] Okay, so unverifiable
circulator signatures.

894
00:55:40,554 --> 00:55:43,078
Potentially fraudulent. Yes.

895
00:55:43,122 --> 00:55:46,908
[Claire] We're compiling all of
the reasons that you can throw
out a sheet or a signature.

896
00:55:46,952 --> 00:55:49,476
[Max] And State's Attorney.

897
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:54,873
[Claire] The big thing that
we're waiting on now is we have
some remote data entry folks

898
00:55:54,916 --> 00:56:00,400
who are getting all of the
signatures of the voters
actually entered in.

899
00:56:00,444 --> 00:56:03,098
Then that needs to be checked
against the Qualified Voter File

900
00:56:03,142 --> 00:56:06,493
to see how many of these people
who signed are actually
registered voters

901
00:56:06,537 --> 00:56:10,454
and how many of them already
signed our petition
or Gretchen Whitmer's petition.

902
00:56:11,498 --> 00:56:13,761
-[Max] Come on in, baby.
-[Claire] Hi, Molly!

903
00:56:13,805 --> 00:56:16,198
-[Adam] Hi, Molly.
-You're lucky because we need
just one more person.

904
00:56:16,242 --> 00:56:17,722
[laughs]

905
00:56:23,554 --> 00:56:26,383
[Max] I think the odds are like
between like 5 and 10 percent.

906
00:56:26,426 --> 00:56:27,906
We can actually get Shri
off the ballot.

907
00:56:30,909 --> 00:56:32,519
Thirty thousand signatures.

908
00:56:32,563 --> 00:56:36,175
-So, you have to disqualify
15,001?
-Yeah...

909
00:56:36,218 --> 00:56:39,918
It's a lot for me. I'm tired.
That makes me tired.

910
00:56:39,961 --> 00:56:41,876
-Yeah.
-Okay. Great.

911
00:56:42,877 --> 00:56:45,880
-[dog growls]
-Oh, I hear you. It's okay.

912
00:56:45,924 --> 00:56:48,448
-[Claire] Shri's far away.
Don't worry.
-Yes.

913
00:56:51,669 --> 00:56:54,062
[Max] The digitizers aren't
working out.

914
00:56:54,106 --> 00:56:56,500
-[Claire] They're what?
-Oh, God.

915
00:56:56,543 --> 00:56:58,850
[Max] They'd called and said
they weren't going to be able
to finish.

916
00:56:58,893 --> 00:57:04,464
Oh, my God! We need to work on
every available option
to get more people.

917
00:57:04,508 --> 00:57:06,466
Okay. Alright.

918
00:57:06,510 --> 00:57:09,687
-We only have a 24-hour window
to get this done.
-Alright.

919
00:57:09,730 --> 00:57:12,211
-[woman 19] Should I sound
the alarm?
-[Claire] Yes.

920
00:57:12,254 --> 00:57:13,865
Okay.

921
00:57:13,908 --> 00:57:17,564
[suspenseful music playing]

922
00:57:19,044 --> 00:57:20,132
[Max] Hey!

923
00:57:20,175 --> 00:57:23,657
[all] Happy birthday!

924
00:57:24,963 --> 00:57:26,921
Oh, wow.

925
00:57:27,879 --> 00:57:29,707
This is the best present ever.

926
00:57:37,105 --> 00:57:41,066
[Max] I mean, Jesus Christ
this has just been
a Herculean effort.

927
00:57:41,109 --> 00:57:45,766
We are using data techniques
that no other candidate
in this race could put together.

928
00:57:46,854 --> 00:57:52,338
And then pumping all of this
out within a span of 96 hours.

929
00:57:52,381 --> 00:57:56,777
Right, like I mean it's just
like the fact that they only
give you a week

930
00:57:56,821 --> 00:58:00,085
to submit a challenge is,
essentially,
incumbent protection.

931
00:58:01,303 --> 00:58:05,786
This is designed so that
you cannot challenge
other candidates.

932
00:58:10,748 --> 00:58:11,836
Hey!

933
00:58:13,446 --> 00:58:16,101
Hey, it looks like we got a shot
knocking him off the ballot.

934
00:58:17,363 --> 00:58:21,410
Yeah, so everything got done
last night at like 3:00 AM.

935
00:58:21,454 --> 00:58:25,632
Yeah, we did an initial match
last night just with the
data that we had

936
00:58:25,676 --> 00:58:28,592
which was about
21,000 signatures.

937
00:58:28,635 --> 00:58:31,420
Out of that we knocked out
11,000 of them

938
00:58:31,464 --> 00:58:37,296
because they did not match
to the Qualified Voter File.

939
00:58:37,339 --> 00:58:40,734
So, yeah, we're gonna go for it.
We're gonna go for it.

940
00:58:43,432 --> 00:58:46,087
[Max] Go ahead and start
populating that machine.

941
00:58:46,131 --> 00:58:50,614
I've got to have it done by,
yeah, 4:30-4:35 so that
I can get it over to them.

942
00:58:50,657 --> 00:58:51,702
[Claire] Okay.

943
00:58:55,923 --> 00:58:57,664
-[Max] Hey.
-[Claire] Hey.

944
00:58:57,708 --> 00:58:59,666
[Max] I have all the
last name ones downloaded.

945
00:58:59,710 --> 00:59:02,756
Can he just move the first name ones to a separate spreadsheet?

946
00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:04,584
-And I'll send those separately.-Okay.

947
00:59:04,628 --> 00:59:06,281
Because I don't want them to be all mixed together

948
00:59:06,325 --> 00:59:07,718
because they'll just throw out
the whole thing.

949
00:59:07,761 --> 00:59:08,980
[Claire] Okay.

950
00:59:10,938 --> 00:59:12,592
[man 27] Holy cannoli!

951
00:59:18,380 --> 00:59:19,556
[Claire] Done.

952
00:59:21,209 --> 00:59:23,777
[Max] It's printing out the
final PDF right now.

953
00:59:23,821 --> 00:59:26,127
I'm at two percent battery.

954
00:59:26,171 --> 00:59:28,042
-Oh, my God!
-[Molly] What the fuck?

955
00:59:28,086 --> 00:59:29,261
[man 28] Wait, what?

956
00:59:30,784 --> 00:59:32,569
Where's your charger?

957
00:59:32,612 --> 00:59:34,658
[Max] I'm actually doing
the last of it right now.

958
00:59:34,701 --> 00:59:38,749
I'll take it. It sent. It sent.

959
00:59:38,792 --> 00:59:44,276
It sent. Thank God!
We did it, motherfuckers.

960
00:59:44,319 --> 00:59:49,629
-There are over 30,000 problems
that we're flagging.
-Yeah.

961
00:59:51,675 --> 00:59:53,633
-[Max] Okay. Thank you.
-[woman 20] Thank you.

962
00:59:53,677 --> 00:59:55,069
Yeah. Bye.

963
00:59:55,113 --> 00:59:56,636
[phone beep]

964
00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:58,682
Shri Thanedar,
challenging our eligibility.

965
00:59:58,725 --> 01:00:00,422
No.

966
01:00:00,466 --> 01:00:01,859
-Really?
-He's challenging our
signatures?

967
01:00:01,902 --> 01:00:04,252
Yeah. No, he's challenging
our eligibility.

968
01:00:04,296 --> 01:00:06,603
-What?
-Yeah.

969
01:00:06,646 --> 01:00:07,908
Is that good?

970
01:00:07,952 --> 01:00:09,780
-I mean...
-[Claire] What a fucker!

971
01:00:09,823 --> 01:00:12,565
Yeah. I mean, I think that
he'll take it to court.

972
01:00:18,223 --> 01:00:22,140
[dramatic music playing]

973
01:00:28,189 --> 01:00:32,237
Hey, friends, as we've always
held, I'm 100 percent eligible
to run for governor.

974
01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:36,241
And we're thankful that the
Michigan Bureau of Elections
has agreed.

975
01:00:36,284 --> 01:00:41,507
So, for now, I'm enjoying this delicious peanut butter sundae.

976
01:00:42,987 --> 01:00:46,773
The first thing I wanted to
cover real fast is eligibility.

977
01:00:46,817 --> 01:00:49,689
Judge signed the order this
morning to dismiss the case.

978
01:00:49,733 --> 01:00:52,213
[all cheer]

979
01:00:52,257 --> 01:00:54,999
Hey, how are you?
My name is Sarah.

980
01:00:55,042 --> 01:00:57,001
I am with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed's
campaign.

981
01:00:59,394 --> 01:01:02,397
-There you go.
-There you go. Let's do that.
Let's elect him.

982
01:01:10,492 --> 01:01:12,930
-So.
-[Abdul] Are you willing to
erase that?

983
01:01:12,973 --> 01:01:16,890
Yeah, it's already
in the spreadsheet so.

984
01:01:16,934 --> 01:01:19,023
[woman 21] "An ambitious
24-page plan

985
01:01:19,066 --> 01:01:21,460
for establishing a Medicare
for all health system
in Michigan,

986
01:01:21,503 --> 01:01:25,856
a 37-page strategy for
taking the profit motive
out of education policy.

987
01:01:25,899 --> 01:01:29,729
A 25-page plan for transitioning
to a renewable energy economy.

988
01:01:29,773 --> 01:01:32,950
The details matter.
That's what distinguishes
Abdul El-Sayed.

989
01:01:32,993 --> 01:01:36,040
He sees the future coming
and wants to make it work
for all of us."

990
01:01:36,083 --> 01:01:37,345
Hey.

991
01:01:39,521 --> 01:01:42,263
Now, show me what democracy
looks like.

992
01:01:42,307 --> 01:01:44,613
[all] This is what democracy
looks like.

993
01:01:46,354 --> 01:01:50,707
Nina is calling Bernie tomorrow
again, as is Shannon.

994
01:01:52,534 --> 01:01:55,755
Okay. We'll see.
I think he's coming.

995
01:01:55,799 --> 01:01:56,930
I think he's coming.

996
01:02:00,804 --> 01:02:04,590
[Max] You know, eligibility has
been holding us up
on several fronts.

997
01:02:04,633 --> 01:02:07,375
We've got some big endorsements
that we're hoping
are gonna come through.

998
01:02:07,419 --> 01:02:10,596
We went up on TV for two weeks
with a great ad

999
01:02:10,639 --> 01:02:13,207
and then there's still a lot of
money out there to collect.

1000
01:02:13,251 --> 01:02:18,212
The poll that we ran in January
shows that if we have the money
to be able to fund our message,

1001
01:02:18,256 --> 01:02:19,692
we actually can win this race.

1002
01:02:21,085 --> 01:02:23,261
[Abdul] Y'all know who
Shri Thanedar is?

1003
01:02:23,304 --> 01:02:25,045
Why?
Because you've seen his ads.

1004
01:02:25,089 --> 01:02:26,960
You know why
you've seen his ads?

1005
01:02:27,004 --> 01:02:30,137
Because he's put two million
dollars of ads on TV.

1006
01:02:31,095 --> 01:02:34,838
Imagine what it could be
if we put two million dollars
of ads on TV.

1007
01:02:35,882 --> 01:02:40,582
We want everyone to put their
money behind this candidate.

1008
01:02:40,626 --> 01:02:46,937
Okay, six people
for one full ad. One, takbir!
Two, takbir! Three, takbir!

1009
01:02:46,980 --> 01:02:52,594
Four, takbir! Five, takbir!
Six, takbir. Seven, seven.

1010
01:02:52,638 --> 01:02:55,597
One more. One more. Oh.

1011
01:02:55,641 --> 01:03:00,341
Yes, takbir! Wow.
Please give a round of applause.

1012
01:03:00,385 --> 01:03:02,604
Hey, thank you so much.
I appreciate it.

1013
01:03:06,652 --> 01:03:10,525
I know I've been a little
colorful with the language.

1014
01:03:10,569 --> 01:03:12,614
You all know how I talk
about those roads.

1015
01:03:12,658 --> 01:03:14,616
[crowd] Fix the damn roads!

1016
01:03:18,707 --> 01:03:21,362
Trump and Shri are very similar.

1017
01:03:21,406 --> 01:03:24,583
People have only heard of him
because he's on TV.

1018
01:03:26,628 --> 01:03:30,110
[mouth words]

1019
01:03:30,154 --> 01:03:36,290
[upbeat music playing]

1020
01:03:39,859 --> 01:03:43,515
[man 29] Mackinac Policy
conference is officially
under way.

1021
01:03:43,558 --> 01:03:47,998
The stage is set here
in northern Michigan
for this gubernatorial debate.

1022
01:03:48,041 --> 01:03:53,525
Six candidates, three Democrats,
three Republicans
ready to meet face to face.

1023
01:03:53,568 --> 01:03:58,269
And they're going to do it
in front of a very influential
crowd.

1024
01:03:58,312 --> 01:04:02,882
[Abdul] Let's be clear.
The hoity-toities at Mackinac
don't think I have a chance.

1025
01:04:02,926 --> 01:04:04,841
-Yep.
-How do they play?

1026
01:04:04,884 --> 01:04:08,409
They're like do I want to spend
a ton to destroy him?

1027
01:04:08,453 --> 01:04:12,979
Or do I like him?
Or nonentity.

1028
01:04:13,023 --> 01:04:15,286
[man 30] I mean, but it's not
just the people in the room,
right?

1029
01:04:15,329 --> 01:04:18,811
-[Abdul] It's the... yeah.
-It's is this the opportunity
to break out?

1030
01:04:18,855 --> 01:04:20,944
Just because so much media
is going to be there

1031
01:04:20,987 --> 01:04:23,772
and so much attention is
going to focused
within the state.

1032
01:04:23,816 --> 01:04:25,818
[Max] Yeah. Alright.
I gotta move you on.

1033
01:04:25,862 --> 01:04:28,342
[Adam] Can we do a quick
closing statement?
Forty-five seconds?

1034
01:04:28,386 --> 01:04:31,693
[Abdul] We hold these truths
to be self-evident that all
people are created equal.

1035
01:04:31,737 --> 01:04:34,392
-[Max] No, come on.
-[Abdul] You guys get...

1036
01:04:34,435 --> 01:04:36,568
[Adam] Listen, I'm all about
waving the American flag,

1037
01:04:36,611 --> 01:04:39,440
but I think what works for
45 seconds is closed door,

1038
01:04:39,484 --> 01:04:41,878
just closed door
of a politician.

1039
01:04:41,921 --> 01:04:44,010
That's the thing that all of
them... right, that's the one
thing that actually...

1040
01:04:44,054 --> 01:04:46,883
-[Abdul] They're the ones
who close the doors.
-Yeah.

1041
01:04:46,926 --> 01:04:48,667
[man 30] It's also a fighter
and truth teller moment.

1042
01:04:48,710 --> 01:04:50,799
You're gonna go
into the belly of the beast

1043
01:04:50,843 --> 01:04:52,671
and you're going tell them
you're telling them the truth.

1044
01:04:53,628 --> 01:04:55,543
Single payer, tax returns,
Blue Cross! Done!

1045
01:04:55,587 --> 01:04:58,720
[Claire] ...tax returns.
Like single payer...

1046
01:04:58,764 --> 01:05:00,897
Corporate money. Millionaire!
Done.

1047
01:05:02,333 --> 01:05:06,424
[man 31] And folks, they are
still currently loading
the Wyandotte...

1048
01:05:06,467 --> 01:05:08,730
Thank you. Catch you soon.

1049
01:05:08,774 --> 01:05:10,210
[mouth words]

1050
01:05:12,604 --> 01:05:14,475
[blows horn]

1051
01:05:19,698 --> 01:05:23,484
[soft music playing]

1052
01:05:23,528 --> 01:05:24,921
[man 32] Please watch your step.

1053
01:05:35,322 --> 01:05:37,542
[Abdul] Ugh, I hate Mackinac
so much.

1054
01:05:39,326 --> 01:05:42,634
It's funny because like,
if we win,
this is going to be like...

1055
01:05:42,677 --> 01:05:44,984
-the summer home.
-[Adam] Summer home.

1056
01:05:45,028 --> 01:05:46,725
[Abdul] And I'm just going to be
like every time I've ever
come here I've hated it.

1057
01:05:46,768 --> 01:05:47,726
Why am I here?

1058
01:05:47,769 --> 01:05:49,902
[laughing]

1059
01:05:55,386 --> 01:05:58,998
[Adam] This building does,
to be fair,
look like Augusta National,

1060
01:05:59,042 --> 01:06:00,478
which I mean is a compliment.

1061
01:06:01,522 --> 01:06:03,481
[Abdul] You do realize, that
means nothing to me, right?

1062
01:06:04,438 --> 01:06:06,397
-In there.
-Thank you.

1063
01:06:11,010 --> 01:06:12,229
-Thank you.
-[woman 22] You're welcome.

1064
01:06:12,272 --> 01:06:13,491
Thank you.

1065
01:06:15,406 --> 01:06:20,454
[jazz music playing]

1066
01:06:22,065 --> 01:06:27,070
[indistinct chatter]

1067
01:06:38,995 --> 01:06:41,867
It's a plantation. A plantation.

1068
01:06:48,917 --> 01:06:52,225
Hello, I'm staying at the hotel.
These gentlemen are not.

1069
01:06:52,269 --> 01:06:56,664
So, what do we do? Do you want
to do the room charge or...?

1070
01:06:56,708 --> 01:06:58,536
-It'll be $80 each.
-I'm sorry?

1071
01:06:58,579 --> 01:07:01,495
-It will be $80 each for the--
-$80 each?

1072
01:07:01,539 --> 01:07:03,454
You guys don't do
an a la carte?

1073
01:07:03,497 --> 01:07:06,022
It's not a la carte.
It's a fixed price.

1074
01:07:06,065 --> 01:07:08,154
-It's a five-course meal.
-Okay.

1075
01:07:08,198 --> 01:07:10,287
It's a five-course...
you guys want to share
my five-course meal?

1076
01:07:10,330 --> 01:07:11,592
Yeah. [laughs]

1077
01:07:13,855 --> 01:07:15,944
-We're not doing that.
Thank you.
-Yeah.

1078
01:07:17,990 --> 01:07:19,513
Hey, sorry if I wake you.

1079
01:07:22,125 --> 01:07:23,691
Hey, Facetime me.
Facetime me.

1080
01:07:25,606 --> 01:07:26,651
Can I go...

1081
01:07:30,046 --> 01:07:33,136
Ah, there she is! Look at her.
Look at her with her ears.

1082
01:07:33,179 --> 01:07:35,007
Hi. How's are you?

1083
01:07:35,051 --> 01:07:37,357
[Sarah] It's bedtime
and she's really sleepy.

1084
01:07:38,706 --> 01:07:41,013
-[chuckles]
-[Jordan] Let's go with...
yeah, let's stick to salad.

1085
01:07:42,841 --> 01:07:47,280
And for the entree,
the pistachio-crusted
rack of lamb.

1086
01:07:47,324 --> 01:07:50,022
[indistinct words]

1087
01:07:50,066 --> 01:07:53,330
Yes. Yeah, uh, but the dessert
with that also.

1088
01:07:53,373 --> 01:07:56,115
Yeah, everybody was like,
"Ah, your wife didn't come
to the conference. Why not?"

1089
01:07:56,159 --> 01:07:59,684
I was like, "Well, because
she works, and we're not
independently wealthy."

1090
01:07:59,727 --> 01:08:03,122
And this is what real people
are like. They have to work.

1091
01:08:04,297 --> 01:08:07,126
We have a baby,
so there's that, so.

1092
01:08:07,170 --> 01:08:09,520
But did you say that?

1093
01:08:09,563 --> 01:08:14,873
No but a part of me
was just like, it's ridiculous.
This whole thing is ridiculous.

1094
01:08:14,916 --> 01:08:20,183
[soft music playing]

1095
01:08:25,362 --> 01:08:27,668
Let's go.

1096
01:08:27,712 --> 01:08:29,105
-[Jordan] Good luck.
-[Abdul] Thank you.

1097
01:08:30,367 --> 01:08:36,286
[indistinct chatter]

1098
01:08:37,243 --> 01:08:39,245
Alright. You got him.
Go get him.

1099
01:08:44,076 --> 01:08:46,905
[announcer 1] ...candidates
for the State of Michigan.

1100
01:08:50,474 --> 01:08:53,694
[applause]

1101
01:09:02,703 --> 01:09:05,663
[woman 23] And welcome to the bipartisan gubernatorial debate

1102
01:09:05,706 --> 01:09:08,405
at the Mackinac policy
conference
here on Mackinac Island.

1103
01:09:08,448 --> 01:09:11,451
Let me introduce the candidates in alphabetical order by party:

1104
01:09:11,495 --> 01:09:18,371
Abdul El-Sayed, Brian Calley, Shri Thanedar, Patrick Colbeck,

1105
01:09:18,415 --> 01:09:20,634
Gretchen Whitmer,
and Bill Schuette.

1106
01:09:21,548 --> 01:09:25,291
[applause]

1107
01:09:26,249 --> 01:09:29,165
Alright. The next question
is going to go to the
three Democrats.

1108
01:09:29,208 --> 01:09:32,472
What is your specific plan
to finally repairing
Michigan's roads?

1109
01:09:32,516 --> 01:09:34,996
And are you willing to
raise taxes to do it?

1110
01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:36,824
And we are going to start
with Gretchen Whitmer.

1111
01:09:36,868 --> 01:09:39,392
[Gretchen] Well, thank you.
I am glad for this question.

1112
01:09:39,436 --> 01:09:43,527
It is time for us to fix the
damn roads, to make sure every
community has clean water

1113
01:09:43,570 --> 01:09:48,314
and that we get connected
to broadband so we can maintain
an edge in mobility.

1114
01:09:48,358 --> 01:09:50,621
We have to get these things
right.

1115
01:09:50,664 --> 01:09:53,537
And it's on the next governor
to do it,
not just throw out positions.

1116
01:09:53,580 --> 01:09:55,843
[woman 23] Shri Thanedar:

1117
01:09:55,887 --> 01:09:59,543
Well, when... when I was
growing up in India, my family
fell into dire poverty,

1118
01:09:59,586 --> 01:10:04,112
and I saw my mother raise
four girls, two boys,
and my dad.

1119
01:10:04,156 --> 01:10:07,377
And I've seen a strong woman.
I respect her.

1120
01:10:07,420 --> 01:10:10,989
And, you know,
I respect her for what
I learned from her.

1121
01:10:11,032 --> 01:10:13,948
I learned from her how
to be... never give up.

1122
01:10:13,992 --> 01:10:18,388
How to stand for your rights,
make a plan,
and provide leadership.

1123
01:10:18,431 --> 01:10:21,347
And that's what I will do
when I'm in Lansing.

1124
01:10:21,391 --> 01:10:25,830
Work with the Democrats,
for sure, but also work
with the Senate,

1125
01:10:25,873 --> 01:10:29,486
uh, possibly Republican
to make our infrastructure
top notch.

1126
01:10:29,529 --> 01:10:30,530
Wow.

1127
01:10:30,574 --> 01:10:32,358
Abdul El-Sayed:

1128
01:10:32,402 --> 01:10:35,796
Look, when we talk about why
these things don't get done,

1129
01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:38,190
I want us to think about
what we're doing in this room
right now.

1130
01:10:38,234 --> 01:10:40,932
You got lobbyists
from big corporations.

1131
01:10:40,975 --> 01:10:45,850
They're paying off politicians,
almost everybody else
on this stage,

1132
01:10:45,893 --> 01:10:48,244
to make sure that
they keep getting their tax cuts

1133
01:10:48,287 --> 01:10:50,637
and that we don't have the money
to invest.

1134
01:10:50,681 --> 01:10:53,466
If we're serious about building
Michigan, if we're serious about
building small business

1135
01:10:53,510 --> 01:10:56,904
and attracting and growing our
talent, then we have got to
stop with that.

1136
01:10:56,948 --> 01:10:58,776
Everybody has to pay
their fair share.

1137
01:10:58,819 --> 01:11:01,082
Let's stand up and say,
everybody's rate's the same,

1138
01:11:01,126 --> 01:11:04,564
and if you make a lot of money,
maybe you should pay
a little bit more.

1139
01:11:06,131 --> 01:11:09,134
And thanks to all
of our candidates, all of us at Detroit Public TV.

1140
01:11:09,177 --> 01:11:10,396
Goodnight.

1141
01:11:12,920 --> 01:11:14,357
Too many Michiganders
are suffering.

1142
01:11:14,400 --> 01:11:16,359
They don't have access
to health care...

1143
01:11:16,402 --> 01:11:19,013
[Abdul] We won the buzz.
Like we won the buzz hands down.

1144
01:11:25,672 --> 01:11:27,761
Did anybody have
a breakthrough moment?

1145
01:11:27,805 --> 01:11:31,896
I was very impressed
by the passion
that Abdul El-Sayed brought.

1146
01:11:31,939 --> 01:11:37,118
I think on the Democratic side
he was the most interesting,
intriguing candidate.

1147
01:11:37,162 --> 01:11:41,949
Didn't agree with a word
he said, but he said it with
conviction, with forcefulness.

1148
01:11:41,993 --> 01:11:47,259
It didn't sound like he was
repeating talking points
in the way that, you know,

1149
01:11:47,303 --> 01:11:49,130
his... his Democratic opponents.

1150
01:11:49,174 --> 01:11:52,177
Gretchen Whitmer, I felt, was
sticking on her talking points,

1151
01:11:52,220 --> 01:11:55,093
repeating her phrases
over again.

1152
01:11:55,136 --> 01:11:58,052
Shri Thanedar seemed to
get lost in the debate.

1153
01:11:58,096 --> 01:12:02,056
I think when you look at the
Democratic side Shri walked in
with momentum

1154
01:12:02,100 --> 01:12:04,189
-because of his
advertising campaign.
-Yeah. Yeah.

1155
01:12:04,232 --> 01:12:09,542
I think this debate has shifted
the momentum from Shri to Abdul.

1156
01:12:12,893 --> 01:12:17,202
There's one point where Shri
was literally reading off
our website.

1157
01:12:17,245 --> 01:12:18,899
Yeah, this is amazing.

1158
01:12:23,513 --> 01:12:25,732
[Max] And we just got the report
back from the
Bureau of Elections.

1159
01:12:25,776 --> 01:12:28,866
They have recommended that
Shri makes the ballot.

1160
01:12:30,346 --> 01:12:33,610
They say that he has gotten
16,000 signatures.

1161
01:12:33,653 --> 01:12:35,438
He needed to get 15,000.

1162
01:12:37,744 --> 01:12:42,923
So last night our staff were up
really late putting together
a point by point refutation.

1163
01:12:45,709 --> 01:12:52,368
Now we are heading down from
Mackinac Island to Lansing
so that we can stay overnight.

1164
01:12:52,411 --> 01:12:54,805
[horn blowing]

1165
01:12:54,848 --> 01:12:57,938
We're going to get up early
in the morning and go
to the hearing at 9:00 a.m.

1166
01:12:57,982 --> 01:13:01,551
You know, this is probably our
last chance to try to get him
off the ballot.

1167
01:13:02,595 --> 01:13:06,382
[dramatic music playing]

1168
01:13:12,126 --> 01:13:15,739
The list which you have
before you contains
the names of candidates

1169
01:13:15,782 --> 01:13:19,220
who have filed nominating
petition found to be sufficient
under...

1170
01:13:19,264 --> 01:13:22,572
[Max] The Board of Canvassers
are a bunch of
political appointees.

1171
01:13:22,615 --> 01:13:27,446
The two who represent the
Democrats are white women
in their mid-60s

1172
01:13:27,490 --> 01:13:29,927
appointed
by the Democratic Party chair.

1173
01:13:29,970 --> 01:13:34,627
I mean, they are not inclined,
just simply based on
our polling, to be with us.

1174
01:13:35,976 --> 01:13:39,415
Yep. Alright. Will do.
Thanks, man. Yep.

1175
01:13:42,287 --> 01:13:45,638
[woman 24] Okay. So we are now
moving to agenda item six,

1176
01:13:45,682 --> 01:13:48,206
Shri Thanedar,
candidate for governor.

1177
01:13:49,163 --> 01:13:52,123
This is the challenge
in front of us here.

1178
01:13:52,166 --> 01:13:56,562
I would just note, this is
the largest challenge we have,

1179
01:13:56,606 --> 01:14:02,220
I think ever seen
with regard to an individual
signature challenge,

1180
01:14:02,263 --> 01:14:04,091
close to 40,000...

1181
01:14:04,135 --> 01:14:08,052
[Claire] Going into that meeting
in Lansing,

1182
01:14:08,095 --> 01:14:13,666
I'm thinking there's no way
they can read this document
that I have prepared

1183
01:14:13,710 --> 01:14:17,496
and not grant us
at least a full review.

1184
01:14:17,540 --> 01:14:19,411
Okay, any questions?

1185
01:14:20,586 --> 01:14:22,458
Thank you very much
for coming in.

1186
01:14:23,633 --> 01:14:25,635
And now I'd like to call
on Claire Sandberg.

1187
01:14:28,333 --> 01:14:30,857
Claire, could you raise
your right hand for me?

1188
01:14:30,901 --> 01:14:32,816
Do you solemnly swear, that you
will tell the truth, the whole
truth, nothing but the truth,

1189
01:14:32,859 --> 01:14:34,252
-so help you God?
-Yes, I do.

1190
01:14:34,295 --> 01:14:35,645
Thank you very much.

1191
01:14:37,473 --> 01:14:44,001
Based on our face review
we found 3,212 signatures

1192
01:14:44,044 --> 01:14:47,744
that we would challenge for
header/circulator issues.

1193
01:14:47,787 --> 01:14:51,617
And then with our 80 percent
sample that we were
able to digitize

1194
01:14:51,661 --> 01:14:54,490
and check against
the Qualified Voter File,

1195
01:14:54,533 --> 01:15:00,931
69 percent came back with either
first name not matching,
last name, or both.

1196
01:15:00,974 --> 01:15:05,239
I understand that the Board of
Elections in looking over this

1197
01:15:05,283 --> 01:15:09,505
their assumption was that those
groups overlapped 100 percent.

1198
01:15:09,548 --> 01:15:15,902
And so they, in their report,
reduced the number of challenges
by 50 percent.

1199
01:15:15,946 --> 01:15:18,339
But in actuality,

1200
01:15:18,383 --> 01:15:23,519
the overlap rate between those
two groups was 76 percent.

1201
01:15:23,562 --> 01:15:27,958
So that would leave a minimum
number of valid signatures
remaining

1202
01:15:28,001 --> 01:15:31,135
of only 10,717.

1203
01:15:31,178 --> 01:15:33,485
And that's without looking
at fraud,

1204
01:15:33,529 --> 01:15:36,444
without looking at duplicates
with other candidates, or etc.

1205
01:15:36,488 --> 01:15:38,969
So this is why we are asking
for a full review.

1206
01:15:39,012 --> 01:15:42,233
And I'm happy to answer
any questions about any of this.

1207
01:15:42,276 --> 01:15:47,586
[woman 24] Um, Sally.
Our requirement is that
we certify everyone

1208
01:15:47,630 --> 01:15:50,458
for the primary ballot
by when, next Tuesday?

1209
01:15:50,502 --> 01:15:52,069
[Sally] Yeah, next Tuesday.

1210
01:15:53,940 --> 01:15:59,598
Uh, we have confirmed that
thousands of signatures
did exactly match,

1211
01:15:59,642 --> 01:16:02,253
first name, last name
within the challenge.

1212
01:16:02,296 --> 01:16:04,255
We went through extensive
effort...

1213
01:16:07,780 --> 01:16:13,656
[Claire] I think there's a
moment in the hearing when
I am listening to her response,

1214
01:16:13,699 --> 01:16:19,357
and her inability to account
for some of the issues
that we raised,

1215
01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:23,753
when I thought, they're going to
give us the review,
they're going to do it.

1216
01:16:23,796 --> 01:16:27,626
Uh, as you know, we follow
a very methodical process.

1217
01:16:27,670 --> 01:16:32,588
I have staff here who are
very experienced, people working
nights, weekends,

1218
01:16:32,631 --> 01:16:37,375
and it was a little
mind-boggling to us as to why
so many of these people

1219
01:16:37,418 --> 01:16:39,333
were listed in this challenge.

1220
01:16:39,377 --> 01:16:43,511
We are very sure that
mathematically it is not
possible for us

1221
01:16:43,555 --> 01:16:46,036
to conclude insufficiency here.

1222
01:16:46,079 --> 01:16:50,693
And again, we did take probably
the most thorough approach
we've ever taken on a challenge.

1223
01:16:52,999 --> 01:16:54,522
What's the board's pleasure?

1224
01:16:57,308 --> 01:17:02,313
I'll make a motion that the
board accept the staff report,

1225
01:17:02,356 --> 01:17:08,493
and deem the petition sufficient
for Shri Thanedar,
candidate for governor.

1226
01:17:08,536 --> 01:17:10,582
-In support?
-Support.

1227
01:17:10,626 --> 01:17:15,065
Ruled and supported that we, uh,
accept the staff report
as sufficient...

1228
01:17:16,893 --> 01:17:22,768
And then, without even reading
all the documents,

1229
01:17:22,812 --> 01:17:29,688
They just unanimously decided
that the request was denied.

1230
01:17:29,732 --> 01:17:36,390
And I really thought then
that we had probably lost.

1231
01:17:42,309 --> 01:17:47,445
And then later, I learned that
this woman, Julie Matuzak,

1232
01:17:47,488 --> 01:17:50,578
who is a lobbyist for
American Federation of Teachers,

1233
01:17:50,622 --> 01:17:56,149
which endorsed Gretchen Whitmer,
and also sits
on the Board of Canvassers,

1234
01:17:56,193 --> 01:18:02,460
while she was rejecting our
request to just have a full
review of Shri's signatures

1235
01:18:02,503 --> 01:18:06,594
to see whether he met
the criteria to be
on the ballot, was also,

1236
01:18:06,638 --> 01:18:11,904
unbeknownst to us at the time,
running a dark money group
to support Gretchen Whitmer

1237
01:18:11,948 --> 01:18:17,040
that gave $250,000
to Build a Better Michigan,
Gretchen Whitmore's 527,

1238
01:18:18,781 --> 01:18:23,046
using money that came from
we don't know where.

1239
01:18:25,439 --> 01:18:29,661
We don't know who the donors
were, we don't even know
what the legal entity was.

1240
01:18:29,705 --> 01:18:34,710
[dramatic music playing]

1241
01:18:48,506 --> 01:18:51,161
So it's a clear conflict
of interest.

1242
01:18:51,204 --> 01:18:56,035
And if Julie and her colleagues
on the Board of Canvassers
had not made that decision,

1243
01:18:56,079 --> 01:19:00,561
I think we would have had a real
shot at winning this campaign.

1244
01:19:00,605 --> 01:19:03,608
It probably would have still
been an uphill battle,

1245
01:19:03,651 --> 01:19:07,830
but it would have been
a very competitive race.

1246
01:19:07,873 --> 01:19:09,657
And they didn't want it
to be one.

1247
01:19:12,051 --> 01:19:14,445
[Max] They're willing to do
anything to get the
Muslim guy off the ballot,

1248
01:19:14,488 --> 01:19:15,707
-that's what
this is really about...
-[woman 11] A spokesman said

1249
01:19:15,751 --> 01:19:18,144
this was an attack from
"insider Democrats."

1250
01:19:18,188 --> 01:19:23,367
[Rhiana] So much of it was
othering in a very quiet dog
whistle kind of way...

1251
01:19:23,410 --> 01:19:27,110
[Max] It took us from
an $8 million campaign
to a $5 million campaign...

1252
01:19:27,153 --> 01:19:29,808
[Abdul] Yep, eligibility.

1253
01:19:29,852 --> 01:19:32,724
[Max] We should all understand,
nobody is going to endorse us
until this is handled...

1254
01:19:32,768 --> 01:19:36,772
[Adam] If we don't get Bernie
endorsement within the month,
I don't think it's possible.

1255
01:19:36,815 --> 01:19:42,429
[Claire] One of the crazy
things about the total
corruption of the process,

1256
01:19:42,473 --> 01:19:48,740
on both sides of this primary,
both Shri Thanedar world
and Gretchen Whitmer world

1257
01:19:48,784 --> 01:19:51,699
is just how little
accountability there is.

1258
01:19:51,743 --> 01:19:55,834
[Max] Gretchen Whitmer,
unlimited corporate money.
What's she going to do with it?

1259
01:19:55,878 --> 01:19:58,576
[Claire] There's nothing that
we can do about it.

1260
01:19:58,619 --> 01:20:02,972
[Sally] I'll make a motion that we'll accept the staff report...

1261
01:20:03,015 --> 01:20:05,452
And in fact, if we say
anything about it,

1262
01:20:05,496 --> 01:20:10,370
if we say that the process
was unfair and biased

1263
01:20:10,414 --> 01:20:14,157
and the establishment
controlled the process

1264
01:20:14,200 --> 01:20:17,813
and manipulated it
for the benefit of its
preferred candidate,

1265
01:20:17,856 --> 01:20:20,685
they will say that we're crazy.

1266
01:20:20,728 --> 01:20:22,208
And that we're hurting
the party.

1267
01:20:22,252 --> 01:20:23,949
And that we're helping
Republicans.

1268
01:20:23,993 --> 01:20:27,823
So, we're in an
impossible situation.

1269
01:20:29,085 --> 01:20:32,697
[dramatic music playing]

1270
01:20:38,746 --> 01:20:42,141
Hello and welcome to this
debate, among the three
Democratic candidates

1271
01:20:42,185 --> 01:20:44,404
for governor of Michigan.

1272
01:20:44,448 --> 01:20:46,015
[man 33] Alright. Let's begin
with the questions tonight.

1273
01:20:46,058 --> 01:20:48,017
Again, you'll each
have 60 seconds...

1274
01:20:48,060 --> 01:20:49,888
All of you have talked about raising taxes and/or fee for...

1275
01:20:49,932 --> 01:20:52,325
...prescription for repairing
Michigan's roads.

1276
01:20:52,369 --> 01:20:55,111
I don't think I even need
to say it, we need to fix
the damn roads.

1277
01:20:55,154 --> 01:20:58,114
-We all... -[Kimberly] We see a divergence of opinion over healthcare...

1278
01:20:58,157 --> 01:21:01,030
...what is the single biggest
problem in American life
that you would solve

1279
01:21:01,073 --> 01:21:05,512
-with the wave of a magic wand, if you could?
-Poverty.

1280
01:21:05,556 --> 01:21:07,819
[Gretchen] I am going to go
right off of it

1281
01:21:07,863 --> 01:21:10,256
and say the best way
to address poverty
is a good job.

1282
01:21:10,300 --> 01:21:12,780
[Kimberly] ...are all talking
about cutting taxes.

1283
01:21:12,824 --> 01:21:15,218
[man 33] And Abdul El-Sayed,
this is your second and final
rebuttal.

1284
01:21:15,261 --> 01:21:17,785
Look, it's about more than just fixing the darn roads.

1285
01:21:17,829 --> 01:21:20,136
- It's about fixing
the darn politics.
-[laughs]

1286
01:21:20,179 --> 01:21:23,922
We've got to stand up
for a Michigan
that embraces our future.

1287
01:21:23,966 --> 01:21:26,707
A Michigan where we believe
in the ideal of a government

1288
01:21:26,751 --> 01:21:29,014
for the people
and by the people.

1289
01:21:29,058 --> 01:21:32,800
That means no more corporate money in our politics, no more 527s,

1290
01:21:32,844 --> 01:21:35,455
no more people trying to
buy the election.

1291
01:21:35,499 --> 01:21:38,981
It means standing up for things like MichCare, universal
single-payer health care

1292
01:21:39,024 --> 01:21:41,897
for every Michigander
to save us money
and give people health care.

1293
01:21:41,940 --> 01:21:44,682
It is about a vision
for Michigan
that empowers all of us,

1294
01:21:44,725 --> 01:21:49,556
that says that all of us
belong here and that our politics should dignify us all.

1295
01:21:49,600 --> 01:21:51,994
-Yeah!
-Good! That was good.

1296
01:21:52,037 --> 01:21:55,998
We have a Facebook poll,
Dr. El-Sayed is firmly
in the lead.

1297
01:21:56,041 --> 01:22:00,089
[dramatic music playing]

1298
01:22:02,787 --> 01:22:05,921
[Abdul] You know, it's easy to
think about what would
have happened "if."

1299
01:22:06,791 --> 01:22:08,532
How much more
we could have raised "if."

1300
01:22:09,620 --> 01:22:11,056
It was not even just
about the numbers.

1301
01:22:11,100 --> 01:22:13,102
It's also about our momentum
and our ability.

1302
01:22:13,145 --> 01:22:15,713
So like Shri is spending
huge amounts of money on TV,

1303
01:22:15,756 --> 01:22:21,893
and I'm under an eligibility
challenge basically between,
uh, February and May, right?

1304
01:22:21,937 --> 01:22:26,115
You take that out
and you flip that:
completely different ball game.

1305
01:22:27,725 --> 01:22:30,380
[woman 25] So I'm gonna
grab here. She's right here.

1306
01:22:30,423 --> 01:22:32,077
-I can't let you go.
-Oh, my God.

1307
01:22:32,121 --> 01:22:34,645
She's looking at herself on TV.

1308
01:22:34,688 --> 01:22:38,214
Hey, Alexandria. Wanted to just
call and personally congratulate
you on an incredible win.

1309
01:22:47,005 --> 01:22:49,355
Now they'll tell us
it's impossible.

1310
01:22:49,399 --> 01:22:51,183
You're not strong enough.

1311
01:22:51,227 --> 01:22:53,316
You're not rich enough.

1312
01:22:53,359 --> 01:22:55,492
You're not the right people.

1313
01:22:55,535 --> 01:22:57,363
I got a friend I'd like
to tell them about.

1314
01:22:59,931 --> 01:23:04,240
I am privileged to introduce
to you the future
Congresswoman-elect

1315
01:23:04,283 --> 01:23:09,288
from the great state
of New York,
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

1316
01:23:10,550 --> 01:23:12,552
[Alexandria] Give it up again
for Abdul.

1317
01:23:13,597 --> 01:23:15,991
[cheering]

1318
01:23:16,034 --> 01:23:22,823
I support Abdul because he knows
that our greatest challenges
are not left and right.

1319
01:23:22,867 --> 01:23:25,478
They are up and down.

1320
01:23:29,265 --> 01:23:33,008
-Hi. How are you? Hey.
-Yes. Yes.

1321
01:23:33,051 --> 01:23:36,968
Are we all in?
You guys want to come through?

1322
01:23:37,012 --> 01:23:38,839
[photographer]
Alright. Say "democracy."

1323
01:23:43,279 --> 01:23:48,632
I think that the surge
we experienced at the end
of the campaign was real.

1324
01:23:48,675 --> 01:23:51,417
Who here believes
that change is possible?

1325
01:23:51,461 --> 01:23:54,203
[cheers]

1326
01:23:57,336 --> 01:24:00,687
Welcome. I know you guys are all
excited to knock some doors.

1327
01:24:01,906 --> 01:24:05,866
I was wondering if we could
count on your vote for Abdul?
Yes? Wonderful.

1328
01:24:05,910 --> 01:24:08,782
Thank you so much
for your support.
We're only a few points down...

1329
01:24:08,826 --> 01:24:13,483
And the AOC win, I think,
really convinced people that

1330
01:24:13,526 --> 01:24:15,833
a candidate like Abdul
could actually win.

1331
01:24:15,876 --> 01:24:18,879
-Good to see you, Doc.
-Chris, thanks for having me.

1332
01:24:18,923 --> 01:24:21,099
[Chris] Where is the party?

1333
01:24:21,143 --> 01:24:23,362
Well, I'll tell you I think
the party right now,
it's soul searching.

1334
01:24:23,406 --> 01:24:27,888
And what we realized in 2016
is that our party lost
a lot of voters...

1335
01:24:30,108 --> 01:24:32,763
-Appreciate you. Thank you.
-August 7th.

1336
01:24:33,764 --> 01:24:35,592
[Claire] Hey, Bernie is in yet?

1337
01:24:35,635 --> 01:24:38,899
[Max] No, I just texted Jordan
to see if he's called.

1338
01:24:38,943 --> 01:24:41,641
Well, apparently,
it's happening.

1339
01:24:41,685 --> 01:24:45,689
Can I take you out to the floor
here and have you tell them?

1340
01:24:45,732 --> 01:24:47,952
[Abdul] Bernie Sanders is
endorsing this campaign!

1341
01:24:47,995 --> 01:24:49,649
[cheering]

1342
01:24:49,693 --> 01:24:51,564
We did it.

1343
01:24:55,655 --> 01:24:57,222
It means a lot to me
that you've come. Thank you.

1344
01:25:05,274 --> 01:25:08,015
Bernie coming, like, those
rallies were just fantastic.

1345
01:25:09,843 --> 01:25:14,892
But, you know,
it just came way too late.

1346
01:25:16,937 --> 01:25:23,030
I am running because I,
like you, like all of us,
we are done waiting.

1347
01:25:24,902 --> 01:25:28,601
[cheers]

1348
01:25:30,299 --> 01:25:37,044
Done waiting, while people all
over this state are told
that they don't belong.

1349
01:25:38,220 --> 01:25:43,312
Excised out of our politics,
told that they're less than
because of what they look like,

1350
01:25:43,355 --> 01:25:47,185
the color of their skin,
how they pray, who they love,

1351
01:25:47,229 --> 01:25:49,579
where they come from,
who their parents are.

1352
01:25:54,018 --> 01:25:58,936
Until we have done that work,
the work of democracy
does not and cannot end.

1353
01:26:03,680 --> 01:26:08,598
[melancholy music playing]

1354
01:26:14,256 --> 01:26:17,781
-[crowd] Abdul, Abdul, Abdul.
-[Abdul] Thank you.

1355
01:26:17,824 --> 01:26:22,220
[woman 26] Gretchen Whitmer
outran two male rivals to win
the Democratic primary

1356
01:26:22,264 --> 01:26:25,658
for Michigan governor,
part of the so-called
pink wave...

1357
01:26:25,702 --> 01:26:28,618
[Abdul] We need to stand up.
We need to back our nominee.

1358
01:26:28,661 --> 01:26:33,275
We need to fight for a Michigan
where we turn this state blue.

1359
01:26:33,318 --> 01:26:35,799
That is what I intend to do...

1360
01:26:35,842 --> 01:26:38,497
[woman 26] Democrat
Gretchen Whitmer will be
our state's next governor.

1361
01:26:38,541 --> 01:26:41,979
[man 34] We did hear from
the governor elect,
just moments ago.

1362
01:26:42,022 --> 01:26:45,678
I guess we're going to have to
fix the damn roads now, right?

1363
01:27:05,916 --> 01:27:07,265
[Shri] Good evening.

1364
01:27:08,788 --> 01:27:11,008
My name is Shri Thanedar.

1365
01:27:11,051 --> 01:27:16,579
I am running to be your
next State Representative.

1366
01:27:44,302 --> 01:27:47,044
We've got an incredible
United States
public health service

1367
01:27:47,087 --> 01:27:50,265
and an incredible CDC
but they've been systematically
underfunded.

1368
01:27:50,308 --> 01:27:54,094
They've been politicized
in a way that I think it just...

1369
01:28:07,717 --> 01:28:12,156
[tearing up] I was walking out
last night and Molly said
something like, uh,

1370
01:28:12,199 --> 01:28:14,376
she's like,
"I feel like I'm in a movie.

1371
01:28:14,419 --> 01:28:16,856
But this isn't the end
of the movie. It's the middle."

1372
01:28:18,293 --> 01:28:19,816
And that's very true.

1373
01:28:21,296 --> 01:28:25,300
And, um, I want to make sure
that we shut this down right.

1374
01:28:25,343 --> 01:28:28,477
So that when our time
comes again, we're ready.

1375
01:28:30,609 --> 01:28:34,613
[upbeat music playing]

1376
01:28:40,271 --> 01:28:43,013
♪ I want clean water
You're being ridiculous ♪

1377
01:28:43,056 --> 01:28:45,668
♪ I like fresh air
You're being absurd ♪

1378
01:28:45,711 --> 01:28:48,366
♪ I guess I oughta
Guys, don't be assholes ♪

1379
01:28:48,410 --> 01:28:51,064
♪ Forget to care
Better than petulance ♪

1380
01:28:51,108 --> 01:28:53,545
♪ I dig plant farmers
Narcissists ♪

1381
01:28:53,589 --> 01:28:56,374
♪ Not GMOs
It's not that big a deal ♪

1382
01:28:56,418 --> 01:28:58,811
♪ And marijuana
It needs further study ♪

1383
01:28:58,855 --> 01:29:01,901
♪ Just let it grow
There you go again ♪

1384
01:29:01,945 --> 01:29:04,991
♪ Who will provide

1385
01:29:05,035 --> 01:29:07,603
♪ Rara, ridiculous

1386
01:29:07,646 --> 01:29:10,867
♪ Ha, ha
You're hopelessly naive ♪

1387
01:29:11,998 --> 01:29:15,611
♪ To believe in a world
That exists ♪

1388
01:29:15,654 --> 01:29:18,309
♪ Lala, we're having fun

1389
01:29:18,353 --> 01:29:22,531
♪ Wawa, disaster capitalists

1390
01:29:22,574 --> 01:29:26,970
♪ And the system's not broken
It's fixed ♪

1391
01:29:36,501 --> 01:29:39,461
♪ Who will provide

1392
01:29:39,504 --> 01:29:42,202
♪ Rara, ridiculous

1393
01:29:42,246 --> 01:29:45,597
♪ Ha, ha
You're hopelessly naive ♪

1394
01:29:46,511 --> 01:29:50,167
♪ To believe in a world
That exists ♪

1395
01:29:50,210 --> 01:29:52,735
♪ Yaya, we're having fun

1396
01:29:52,778 --> 01:29:56,129
♪ Chacha
The incrementalist twist ♪

1397
01:29:57,174 --> 01:30:02,832
♪ But the system's not broken
It's fixed ♪