Obama Campaigns for Harris in Las Vegas, Nevada

There are people who have let the problems of today.

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Lead them to conclude that for them life is not the way.

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But every problem has an answer, and if yours you cannot find.

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You should talk it over to Him.

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He’ll give you peace of mind.

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When you feel your life’s too hard.

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Just go have a talk with God.

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Many of us feel we walk alone without a friend.

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Never communicating with the One who lives within.

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Forgetting all about the One who never, ever lets you down.

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And you can talk to Him anytime, He’s always around.

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When you feel your life’s too hard. Just go have a talk with God.

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Well, He’s the only free psychiatrist.

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That’s known throughout the world.

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For solving the problems of all men.

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Women, little boys, and girls.

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When you feel your life’s too hard. Just go have a talk with God.

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When you feel your life’s too hard.

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Just go have a talk with God.

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When your load’s too much to bear.

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Just go talk to God, He cares.

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I know He does.

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When you feel your life’s too hard.

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Just go have a talk with God.

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Thank you.

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And we back.

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And we back, and we back, and we back, and we back, and we, huh.

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And we back, and we back, nah, nah, nah.

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Hey, this ain’t no intro, this the entrée.

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Hit that intro with Kanye and sound like André.

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Trying to turn my baby mama to my fiancée.

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She like music, she from Houston like Auntie Yoncé.

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Man, my daughter couldn’t have a better mother.

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If she ever find another, he better love her.

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Man, I swear my life is perfect, I could merch it.

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If I die, I’ll prolly cry at my own service, igh-igh!

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It was a dream, you could not mess with the Beam.

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This is like this many rings. Y’all know what I mean?

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This for the kids of the king of all kings.

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This is the holiest thing.

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This is the beat that played under the Word.

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This is the sheep that ain’t like what it heard.

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This is officially first.

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This is the third.

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This is the bom, bom, bom.

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Bom, bom, bom.

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Bom, bom, bom.

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Music is all we got.

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Oh, bom, bom, bom.

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So we might as well give it all we got.

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This is the bom, bom, bom.

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Huh.

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Bom, bom, bom.

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Bom, bom, bom.

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Music is all we got, got, got.

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Oh, bom, bom, bom.

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So we might as well give it all we got.

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Hey, hey, I get my word from the sermon.

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I do not talk to the serpent.

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That’s the holistic discernment.

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Daddy said I’m so determined.

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Told me these goofies can’t hurt me.

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I just might make me some Earl tea.

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I was baptized like real early.

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I might give Satan a swirlie.

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Wish I could tell you it’s ready.

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Tell you it’s ready today.

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They don’t give nothing away.

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You gotta fight for your way.

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And that don’t take nothing away.

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Because at the end of the day.

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Music is all we got.

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Music is all we got.

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Music is all we got.

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Oh, bom, bom, bom.

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So we might as well give it all we got.

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Music is all we got .

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Huh, huh.

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Music is all we got.

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Huh, huh.

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We know, we know we got it.

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We know, we know we got it.

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We know, we know we got it.

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We know, we know we got it.

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Music.

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We know, we know we got it.

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We know, we know we got it.

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We know, we know we got it.

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We know, we know we got it.

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Music.

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Music is all we got.

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Oh, I know a place.

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Ain’t nobody crying.

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Ain’t nobody worried. Ain’t no smiling faces, mm-mm, no, no.

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Lying to the races.

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Help me, come on, come on.

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Somebody, help me now.

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I’ll take you there.

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Help me, y’all.

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I’ll take you there.

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Help me now.

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I’ll take you there.

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Oh.

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I’ll take you there.

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Oh, oh, mercy.

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I’ll take you there.

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Oh, let me take you there.

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I’ll take you there.

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Oh, oh, let me take you. There.

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I’ll take you there.

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Play it baby.

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Play your piano now.

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All right.

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Do it, do it, come on now.

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Play on it, play on it, make Daddy now.

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Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, play your…

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Ooh, Lord, all right now.

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Baby, little lady, easy now.

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Help me now.

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Come on, little lady, all right.

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And suck it so, all right, oh, ah.

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I know a place, y’all.

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I’ll take you there.

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Ain’t nobody crying.

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I’ll take you there.

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Ain’t nobody worried.

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I’ll take you there.

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No smiling faces.

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I’ll take you there.

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Uh-uh.

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Lying to the races.

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I’ll take you there.

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Oh, no, oh.

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I’ll take you there.

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Oh, oh, oh.

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I’ll take you there.

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Mercy now.

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I’ll take you there.

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I’m calling, calling, calling for mercy.

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I’ll take you there.

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Mercy, mercy.

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I’ll take you there.

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You got, you got, you got to let me, let me.

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I’ll take you there.

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Take you, take you, take you over there.

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[inaudible 00:08:50] different fashion. Hello?

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A me, see one thing Nancy can understand.

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One ting Nancy can understand.

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What make them a talk about me ambition.

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See, what make them a talk about me ambition.

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Because me see some a them a ask me where me get it from.

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Because some a them a ask me where me get it from.

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A true them no know it’s from creation.

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A true them no know, it’s a from creation.

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Bam, bam, ey, what a bam bam.

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Bam, bam dilla, bam, bam.

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Bam, bam, dilla, bam, bam.

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Hey, what a bam, bam, see what a bam, bam.

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This woman never trouble no one.

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I’m a lady, I’m not a man.

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MC is my ambition. I comfy nice up Jamaica.

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So bam, bam, what a bam, bam.

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Bam, bam, dilla, bam, bam.

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Bam, bam, dilla, bam, bam.

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Hey a me say what a bam, bam.

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Tell them say me say what a bam, bam.

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Hey, yeah, tell them, tell them.

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Me born an me grow in a Kingston 6.

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I Nancy write me crissest lyrics.

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When you hear them in a sound like Miss prissy Biscuit.

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You come in a the place so me see well, well slick.

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Bam, bam, hey, say what a bam, bam.

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Bam, bam, dilla, bam, bam.

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Bam, bam, dilla, bam, bam.

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Hey, say what a bam, bam.

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Hey say what a bam, bam.

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A some a them a see me a go mash up them plan.

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A true them no know me a one business woman.

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Sister Nancy she a wantina three million.

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Sister Nancy she a wantina three million.

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So, bam, bam, say what a bam, bam.

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Bam, bam, billa, bam, bam.

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Bam, bam, billa, bam, bam.

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Hey, say go, Sister Nancy, make you go.

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I tell yourself fix go Sister Nancy, make you go.

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I know it from me head straight down to my toe.

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A tee tar toe Sister Nancy a me go.

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A some a them a ask a Sister Nancy make you bad so.

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Bung dung didle-a Sister Nancy make you bad so.

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E bam, bam, what a bam, bam.

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E bam, bam dilla, bam, bam.

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E bam, bam, billa, bam, bam.

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What a bam, bam, hey, so me.

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Say, what a bam, bam.

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This woman never trouble no one.

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I’m a lady, I’m not a man.

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MC is my ambition. I comfy nice up Jamaica.

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So bam, bam, say what a bam, bam.

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Bam, bam dilla, bam, bam.

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Bam, bam, dilla, bam, bam.

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Even though the dancing’s done.

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Don’t worry, because the night is young.

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Who cares where we go?

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We’re ready for the afterglow.

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Someone hold the sunlight back.

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Because we want this night to last.

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Smoke and lasers, love and ravers.

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Afterglow, we’re ready for the afterglow.

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Lights and action, strong attraction.

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Afterglow, we’re ready for the afterglow.

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Love and ravers.

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Strong attraction.

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Oh, oh, afterglow, we’re ready for the afterglow.

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Oh, oh, afterglow, we’re ready for the afterglow.

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We’re ready for the afterglow.

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We’re ready for the afterglow.

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Even though the dancing’s done.

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Don’t worry, because the night is young.

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Who cares where we go?

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We’re ready for the afterglow.

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Someone hold the sunlight back.

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Because we want this night to last.

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Smoke and lasers, love and ravers.

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Afterglow, we’re ready for the afterglow.

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Lights and action, strong attraction.

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Afterglow, we’re ready for the afterglow.

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Oh, oh, afterglow, we’re ready for the afterglow.

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Oh, oh, afterglow, we’re ready for the afterglow.

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Shoot me.

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Shoot me.

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Shoot me.

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Shoot me.

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Here come old flat-top, he come grooving up slowly.

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He got ju-ju eyeball, he one holy roller.

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He got hair down to his knee.

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Got to be a joker, he just do what he please.

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Shoot me.

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He wear no shoeshine, he got toe-jam football.

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He got monkey finger, he shoot Coca-Cola.

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He say, ” I know you, you know me.”

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One thing I can tell you is you got to be free.

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Come together, right now.

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Over me.

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He bag production, he got walrus gumboot.

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He got Ono sideboard, he one spinal cracker.

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He got feet down below his knees.

Welcome the Congressman from the Fourth District, Steven Horsford.

Are you fired up? Are you ready to go? I’m Congressman Steven Horsford, and I’m proud to represent Nevada’s Fourth Congressional District and to serve as Chairman of the Congressional Black caucus, and Co-Chair of the Labor Caucus. I’ve got phenomenal colleagues who are with me today, Congressman Meeks, Congresswoman Baty, Congresswoman McBath, Congresswoman Seul, Congresswoman Badigon, Congressman Gomez, Congressman Kazar, and Congresswoman Chu. Thank you all for joining us today.

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So, you all are here in the Fourth Congressional District, and I’m proud to represent the hardworking people of North Las Vegas. And I’m proud that Cheyenne High School is here in my district. Now, little bit of history. Back in 2007, this was the site of then Senator Obama’s rally 16 years ago. I was standing here with him then, and I’m proud to welcome him back now. It’s an honor to be here with President Barack Obama, as we come together for a cause that couldn’t be more important, and that’s to elect our next president, Kamala Harris. And Governor Tim Walz.

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Now, Nevada, we’re at a critical point in our history. And the stakes in this election couldn’t be higher, not just for our state, but for our communities, for working families, and, yes, for an entire nation. I want to remind you all about the power of our vote, and the power of our voice.

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Now, look, voting doesn’t change everything, but not voting changes absolutely nothing. So we have to get out there, and we have to make sure that our voices are heard at the ballot box. Are you ready to do that?

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Early voting is already underway here in Nevada, starting today, and we need everyone. Every neighbor, every friend, every family member, to get out, and to vote, and to vote early. You don’t have to wait to election day. You can make your voice heard right now. Because trust me, this election is about more than who sits in the Oval Office. It’s about what kind of future that we want for ourselves, for our families, and for generations to come.

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Nevada has always been a battleground where elections are won or lost by just a few thousand votes. That means that each and every one of us can make a difference. Now, our Vice President, Kamala Harris, has fought for policies that directly impact our communities. Fighting to lower healthcare costs, expanding economic opportunities, and ensuring that our families have the resources to not just get ahead but to thrive.

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And what we’re up against is extremely dangerous, however. Things like Trump’s Project 2025.

Boo.

Which is a radical plan that would turn back the clock on so many of the rights and protections that we fought for and won. But we’re not going back. We’re going forward. Trump

We’re not going back, we’re not going back, we’re not going back, we’re not going back, we’re not going back, we’re not going back.

Donald Trump and the radical Republicans supporting him threaten everything, from access to affordable housing to our right to organize in the workplace, and they’re especially dangerous for men of color and Nevada’s working families. They would make it harder for us to have access to quality jobs. They would undermine our ability to build wealth, and they would gut the very social safety nets that keep our families afloat.

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They would put the American dream out of reach for so many families that we fought to bring closer to it. But here’s the good news. We have the power to stop it. We have the power to stop it. By turning out in record numbers, by voting early, by electing leaders like Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, reelecting Jacky Rosen to the United States Senate. Winning back the House for Representative and making Hakeem Jeffries the next Speaker of the House.

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We can ensure that Nevada remains a place where every person, regardless of race, background, or income, has the opportunity to succeed. Kamala Harris has always fought for us. She’s fought for criminal justice reform, for economic opportunity, and, yes, for affordable housing, and healthcare. She’s fought to keep families together, and to make sure that every child, no matter their zip code, has the chance to succeed.

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But right now, she can’t do this alone. She needs all of us to fight for her. So, Nevada, now is the time. Let’s rise to the occasion. Let’s get out and vote, and vote early. Let’s protect our future. Let’s reject the dangerous path of Project 2025, and choose a path of progress, justice, and opportunity. Because together, we can make sure that Nevada and America continue to move forward.

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But it all starts with us. It starts with you, and it starts with your vote. Are you ready to vote? Are you ready to win? Because when we fight?

We win.

When we fight?

We win.

And when we vote?

We win.

So let’s get out there and show people how we win.

Please welcome the Congresswoman from the Third District, Susie Lee.

Hello, Las Vegas. Hi, you look beautiful out there. Are you ready to win? I’m Congresswoman Susie Lee. I represent the Fourth Congressional District, and I’ll tell you what. I’m ready to put Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the White House, are you? I’m ready to reelect Jacky Rosen to the Senate, are you? And I’m ready to reelect Steven Horsford, Dina Titus, and me, and to give Hakeem Jeffries the gavel, are you?

And of course, we cannot forget about the Democrats in our Assembly, in our Senate. We have an incredible state legislature. Are we ready to make that another Democratic supermajority? It’s go time, people! We got 16 days. It is voting right now.

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And I am so excited to welcome President Obama back to the Silver State. Now that Obama’s in the house, I think we should take a little stroll down memory lane. When Obama came into the White House, the first thing he had to do was rescue our economy after a Republican White House. And he did it, and he reduced the deficit. Does that sound familiar?

Yeah!

Because when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris got into the White House, they had to also rescue our economy, because Trump could not figure out how to help millions of Americans who were sick, or killed, or out of work because of COVID. In fact, he told people to inject bleach. But we know who got Americans back on their feet. It was Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democrats in the House and the Senate.

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Now, President Obama, with the help of the great senator Harry Reid, let’s give it up for Harry Reid, helped kickstart our clean energy economy, which has something that this great state has benefited from: tens of thousands of good-paying union jobs. Let’s give it up for the union. And billions of dollars of investment. Then we joined the Paris Climate Accord. Guess who denied climate change, and pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Accord? That’s right, Trump did that. And that’s why we say we need Kamala. Can I hear it? We need Kamala!

We need Kamala!

Remember the Affordable Care Act? Millions of people now have healthcare, saving millions of lives? That was Obama, and Reid, and Pelosi, and the Democrats who got that done. And this is personal for me. My mother and father had high blood pressure, and they couldn’t afford, this was before the Affordable Care Act, and they couldn’t afford health insurance. And my mom had a heart attack before she qualified for Medicare, and they almost lost their home. And the Affordable Care Act would’ve changed their lives. And it has changed so many people’s lives in this country, because getting sick should not be a cause for bankruptcy.

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But now let’s go back to memory lane here. Guess who tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act about 30 times?

Boo!

That’s right, that’s right, Trump did it. And that’s why we say we need Kamala.

We need Kamala!

Obama protected Dreamers. Where’s Astrid Silva in the house? But guess who repealed DACA? And that’s why we say-

We need Kamala!

And I’m not even going to talk about taking babies away from their parents. We’re not even going to go there.

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It was Obama who protected LGBTQ Americans from employment discrimination. Guess who reversed that?

Boo!

We’re not even going to say his name. But what we are going to say is that’s why we need Kamala.

We need Kamala!

Can I hear from the women in the house? It was President Obama that signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, because we should be paid the same amount for the same work. And guess who overturned a rule that would require companies to report what they pay people by race and gender? And that’s why we say-

We need Kamala!

Now, after overturning Roe v. Wade-

Boo!

This is great, I don’t even know what this means. Trump said he’s the father of IVF. What the hell does that mean? I don’t even get that. What he should be saying is that he’s the father of women dying on operating tables. He’s the father of rape victims having their rapist’s babies. He’s the father of banning IVF and contraception, because we know that is the next step.

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So, my point is this. We don’t need to imagine what another presidency of that fake tan, incomprehensible, lying, cheating, orange comb-over, unfit for office, convicted felon would be like! We saw it once, and we don’t need to see it again. What do we need?

We need Kamala!

Now, listen. We don’t need to imagine it because they have a plan. It’s in black and white. It’s called Project 2025.

Boo!

Written by the Heritage Foundation. And guess who worked at the Heritage Foundation for 25 years? My opponent, Drew Johnson.

Boo!

But they’re like, “I’ve never even read the book. I’ve never even read it.” They’re like, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Well, listen, their connections to Project 2025 couldn’t be clearer, and the bottom line is that Donald Trump, Drew Johnson, and the rest of the extremists like Sam Brown do not represent you. We saw it before, and now it’s in black and white, and they plan to do it again. But we’re saying we’re not going back. We’re not going back. We’re not going back.

… going back! We’re not going back! We’re not going back! We’re not going back! We’re not going back!

But where are we going? Where are we going? We’re going forward. That’s right, we’re going forward with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz! America’s new way forward with Kamala Harris. It’s about lowering housing costs, protecting Social Security and Medicare, protecting the Affordable Care Act, protecting women’s freedom, innovating small businesses, getting veterans the care they need, ensuring that seniors can retire in their homes and with dignity, and, of course, supporting the men and women of labor who have built the middle class in this country. Give it up.

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Now listen, we’re a gambling state, all right? But winning is not going to happen by rolling the dice. If we want to make this dream a reality, we got to work for it. Okay? Are you ready? Can we stand up to Trump and those faithful followers?

Yes!

Are we ready to protect a woman’s right to make her own decisions?

Yes!

And are we ready, Nevada? Because it’s going to happen here, it always does. We’re going to make history. Are you ready to make history by electing the first woman president?

Yes!

But we can’t do it without out-working, out-organizing, and out-voting. Voting is on now. Election day’s not November 5th. Election day is now. Every person you know, just get them out to vote. Get them, fill it out, go to early voting. Let’s get it done. Are you ready to do this?

Yes!

All right, let’s go, Nevada!

Please welcome the congresswoman from the 1st district, Dina Titus.

Ain’t no stoppin’ us now.

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We’re on the move.

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Ain’t no stoppin’ us now.

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We’ve got the groove.

Wow, this is a good-looking crowd, I must say. And who’s that in those purple shirts? Is that SEIU? Labor is in the house. And how exciting is it to be here on the first day of voting with President Barack Obama? It just doesn’t get any better than that. And you know what they’re saying, is that people were lined up around the corner to vote early. And I know a lot of you have already voted early, so thank you for that. Come on! I hope some of you voted for Dina Titus?

Yeah!

Well, thank you.

Vote Dina!

People are wanting to vote early because they know what’s at stake. They know what’ll happen if they don’t vote. They want to vote for somebody who believes in the middle class, who’s a child of immigrants and knows the challenges they face, who knows that unions built this country. That’s right. They want to vote for somebody who stands up for investments in infrastructure and renewable energy that create those good jobs that we need. And someone who will expand healthcare put in place in the Affordable Care Act by the person who’s here with us tonight, Barack Obama. I was in Congress when that passed. I proudly voted for it, and I voted 60 times against their attempts to overturn it, and I proudly call it Obamacare.

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But you all know all that, or you wouldn’t be here. So, let me just put it to you simply. If we don’t vote, Trump wins, and we’re done. That’s it. Simple fact. Think about it. Women’s rights, done. LGBT, human rights, civil rights, done. Clean water, clean energy, clean air, done. Environmental protections across the board, done. This is what we are facing if we don’t vote and Trump wins: we’re done.

We’re done.

Also, collective bargaining, done. NATO, done. Child care, done. ” Let’s let the grannies take care of it.” Isn’t that what old crazy-ass Vance said? And Obamacare will be done. Also, democracy will be done. Trump has said, “I want to be a dictator on the very first day.” And you know what? The Supreme Court he appointed most of said, “Okay, we’ll give you immunity, do whatever you want.” So, democracy will be done. Are we going to let that happen?

No!

No, no. So, here’s the truth, and I’m not exaggerating one bit. I think you’ll agree. Trump is a liar and a womanizer. Trump is a tax cheat and a draft dodger. He’s also a bankrupt businessman and a convicted felon. What kind of person is that to be electing president? Is that what you want?

No!

The thought of it is just incredible. Now, listen to this. If you are sick and you need a doctor, you want Trump to be the one to take care of you?

No!

If you’re in trouble and you need a lawyer, you want Trump to go into court for you?

No!

No, no. If your car breaks down, you think Trump would make a very good mechanic?

No!

No. If you need a little salvation, are you going to Trump, thinking he’d be a priest?

No!

No. And here’s one; if you got children in school, do you want Trump to be their teacher?

No!

No. So, why the hell would we want him to be president?

No!

No. And besides all that, he’s a terrible dancer. These folks are a lot better dancers than his. Oh my God, the man has no soul and no rhythm. He’s got to go. He’s got to go.

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But that’s why we need to elect Vice President Kamala Harris. She stands for the things that we believe in. She cares about us, not just herself. She’s someone we can trust and be proud of to have in the White House as our president, like Joe Biden and Barack Obama. So, I say to all of you, and I know I’m preaching to the choir, but we got to get out there, get in the streets, and get this done. And I say, let’s just rock and roll, and push him off the dance floor for good.

… crazy right now.

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Got me looking so crazy right now.

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Your touch got me looking so crazy right now.

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Your touch.

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Got me hoping you’ll page me right now.

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Your kiss got me hoping you’ll save me right now.

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Looking so crazy, your love’s got me looking.

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Got me looking so crazy in love.

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Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh no, no.

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Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh no, no.

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Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh no, no.

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Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh no, no.

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When I talk to my friends so quietly.

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“Who he think he is?” Look at what you did to me.

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Tennis shoes, don’t even need to buy a new dress.

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If you ain’t there, ain’t nobody else to impress.

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It’s the way that you know what I thought I knew.

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It’s the beat that my heart skips when I’m with you.

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But I still don’t understand.

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Just how your love can do what no one else can.

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Got me looking so crazy right now.

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Your love’s got me looking so crazy right now.

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So crazy.

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Got me looking so crazy right now.

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Your love.

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Your touch got me looking so crazy right now.

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Oh, your touch.

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Got me hoping you’ll page me right now.

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Yeah.

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Your kiss got me…

Please welcome the First Vice Chair of the Nevada State Democratic Party, Francisco Morales.

Over the horizon.

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She’s smooth sailin’.

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These concrete…

Hello, and welcome! [Spanish 00:44:54]. It’s an honor for me to be here among so many community leaders as we are about to welcome the 44th President of the United States. My name is Francisco Morales. I’m an immigrant, I’m a local landlord, I’m an attorney, and I came to this country when I was five years old from Michoacán, Mexico. My family came here, we didn’t speak a word of English, we didn’t have much to our name, but my parents had a hope, a dream, that their four sons, five daughters, family of nine, could achieve their American Dream.

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[Spanish 00:45:44]. But chasing this American Dream did not come without challenges. I saw my family struggle to pay the bills, put food on the table, oftentimes pay rent. We constantly faced the threat of eviction. And time and time again, I’ve seen politicians promise that they’re going to reduce costs. That they’re going to bring the cost of living down, and help the middle class. Donald Trump made this promise, but all he did and all he gave us was a failed tax plan that only benefited the billionaires of this class, while turning his back on the middle class. He left out more than 70,000 Nevadans from gaining overtime protections, resulting in $10 million in lost wages in 2020 alone.

Boo!

And, of course, we all know that his Project 2025 agenda is even worse. His economic agenda will raise taxes on the middle class by nearly $4,000 a year. He wants to slash earned benefits like Social Security and Medicare that my parents rely on, and that so many Nevadans rely on. And he, again, just wants to provide benefits, more economic tax cuts, to the billionaire donors.

Boo!

Look, Donald Trump is out to benefit Donald Trump. But he’s also recruited lots of extreme MAGA allies, like Sam Brown.

Boo!

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[inaudible 00:47:58].

But look, the good thing is that Vice President Harris and Tim Walz, they have a new vision: Forward. One that’s going to cut costs for middle-class Americans, make it easier to afford a home and pay rent, and ensure that everyone has an opportunity not just to get by, but to actually get ahead. They’re proposing to give a $25,000 down payment assistance, so that folks can buy their first home and start building generational wealth, and start building that American Dream that we all seek. She wants to provide tax incentives, so that we can start more small businesses. And she wants to cut red tape, so that we can actually start building more homes and actually tackle the housing crisis.

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Look, these are real, tangible solutions for Nevadans that are going to reject and refuse to accept Trump’s Project 2025 agenda. So, for my community, for my families, so that more families like mine can actually have a fair shot at achieving their American Dream, I am so proud that this morning I voted for Vice President Harris, Governor Tim Walz, Senator Jacky Rosen, and Democrats up and down the ballot. But let me just say this. Voting, we all got to vote early. Turn in your mail ballots, vote in early. But when you do so, sign up for a canvassing shift. Make a phone call, call your neighbors, call your family, call everybody that you know, so that we can, together, make the right decision this election. Because we know, [Spanish 00:49:49].

[Spanish 00:49:52]!

When we vote, we win.

We win!

And now I’m so proud to introduce a champion of the working class, a champion of getting things done in the Senate, somebody who is incredibly effective at delivering for Nevada: Senator Jacky Rosen.

Bring me higher love, love.

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That love, that love.

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Bring me higher love, oh.

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That love, that love.

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Bring me higher love, love.

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That love, that love.

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Bring me a higher love.

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That love, that love.

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Bring me higher love, love.

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That love, that love.

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Bring…

Oh man, this is a good-looking bunch. SEIU in the house! I seen it! Man, I’m looking around. Wow, wow. What a night. Are you ready to vote?

Yes!

Anybody vote already? Yes!

Yes!

Absolutely. I’m telling you, we got 17 days, actually. It’s after 6:00 PM, so maybe about 16 days left now. And we have to make every single day count. And we’re going to do that, aren’t we?

Yes, yes!

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Yes!

Because you know what? We’re the Battle Born State. Battle born, battleground battle tested on the road to the White House. And holding our Democratic Senate majority runs right through where? Nevada!

Nevada!

Nevada. And so with your help, we’re going to send Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to where? The White House!

The White House!

In November. And you saw my friends, we’re going to reelect Susie, Steven, and Dina to where? To the House!

The House!

We’re going to send them back. And what else are we going to do? You’re going to help me protect Nevada’s Senate seat from being taken down by a MAGA extreme candidate called who? Sam Brown.

Boo!

Because when we win, when we win, we’re going to keep making progress on the issues that matter. More housing that regular people can afford, better child care options for working families, lower prescription drug costs for everyone, for everyone. That’s what we’re fighting for, that’s what you’re fighting for. That’s why this election is so important.

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And tonight, I guess you’re waiting, we got a little bit of a special guest with us. Anybody know who that is, right? He’s someone who knows a thing or two about winning elections. He won a couple of them right here: President Barack Obama. And I got to tell you, I am honored, because in Washington, the office that I have right now is President Obama’s former Senate office. So, I want to thank him for coming back to Las Vegas time and time again to help us get out the vote and mobilize, organize, and get us excited for the next 16 days. Nevada vote. You know, thank you. And President Obama, he understands what’s at stake, and he’s stepping up, like he always has, to protect our rights, to protect our democracy. Just like he helped protect the health of millions of Americans by passing and signing the Affordable Care Act.

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Winning elections isn’t just about beating the other side on November 5th, although we have to do that, for sure. But it’s really about the progress we can deliver for the American people if we elect the right leaders. And so, thanks to the Affordable Care

Hundreds of thousands of Nevadans have been able to get better access to healthcare that’s high quality, that’s more affordable, with guaranteed protections for pre-existing conditions. It matters. It matters. I can tell you my opponent wants to take that away, but in the Senate, what we’ve done is we fought to protect and strengthen the ACA so that we can keep lowering costs for the middle class. And like I said, can you imagine all these years later, all these years later, MAGA Republicans like Sam Brown and Donald Trump, they’re still pushing to gut the Affordable Care Act. They’re still pushing.

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So yeah, think about what that would do. Yeah, think about what that would do to you if there was no Affordable Care Act. Think about the fact that you could be denied healthcare for a pre-existing condition. Think about healthcare prices skyrocketing. Think about maybe someone in your family has asthma, they’re diabetic, they have cancer, you’ve doomed them to a lifetime of unattainable insurance. And it’s going to kick young people off their parents’ insurance plans once again. And I got an opponent, Sam Brown, who just doesn’t care. He just doesn’t care.

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He actually wants to take it a step further by repealing the law that’s capping the cost of insulin for $35 a month and giving Medicare the power to negotiate drug costs for our seniors. He wants to repeal it. He wants to repeal it. He called it a big loss for the American people that our seniors, the people who took care of us, our parents and grandparents finally get a better price for life-saving medication, a big loss for the American people. I took care of my parents and in-laws as they aged, I wanted to make sure they had everything I could give them. And so for Sam Brown, it’s just not disqualifying, it’s plain wrong.

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And so Nevadans, yeah, Nevadans have an opportunity starting today with early voting, which everybody did, which you’re going to do. You’re going to chart a different path for our state, a different path, a path forward for our families, for our children. We can elect leaders that are going to protect your healthcare, lower drug costs, leaders that are going to work together to fix our broken immigration system, going to secure our border, ensure a pathway to citizenship for our Dreamers, for our Dreamers, instead of using all of this as a political football. So we need leaders that are going to reach across the aisle, try to find bipartisan solutions and common ground instead of sowing division and gridlock. Leaders are going to defend our reproductive freedom from anti-abortion extremists like Sam Brown, who want to take women’s rights away. We’re not going to let him. We’re not going back. We’re not going back.

We’re not going back.

That’s right.

We’re not going back. We’re not going back. We’re not going back. We’re not going back.

So what are we going to do to go forward?

Vote.

Vote. So what’s it going to be? All hands on deck. Everybody got your gym shoes on? Everybody got your going? Get your running shoes on. Get moving because we’re going to organize, mobilize, and get out the vote. I’m going to tell everyone, go to rosenfornevada.com, go to iwillvote.com. Tell everybody you know that they have to get out and vote like their life depended on it because it does. Because it does. I know you can text Jacky to 30508. It can help us too. I know you’re all involved, but if you know anybody that isn’t, tell them, we need them to get busy. Get busy.

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So together with all of you, I look out here today and I see so many friends from so many places, and I am proud to be a Nevadan. I am proud to stand with all of you every day with your heart, with our community, with how we feel about Nevada and what we hope for our future. We’re voting for our future, and we’re going to send Kamala Harris and Tim Walz to the White House. And now I am so honored. It is such a privilege for me to introduce, well, the person that used to hold my office and someone that we all know and love. Our 44th President of the United States, President Barack Obama.

Hello Vegas. Are you fired up? You ready to go? Oh, it is good to be back in Nevada. It’s good to be back at Cheyenne High School. I’ve been here so many times over the years it feels like I should get a diploma. I feel like a desert [inaudible 01:00:10].

We love you, Obama!

Yeah. I love you back. I do. That’s why I keep coming back. But I am here today for a very important reason, and that is to make sure, not just that you vote, but everybody you know votes for your members of Congress, Steven Horsford and Dina Titus and Susie Lee, for your Senator Jacky Rosen, and for the next President of the United States, Kamala Harris. You already heard from Jacky and some other speakers, but I’m going to reiterate this. We just got to drum this home. Here in Nevada, voting has already started. You can vote early by mail or you can vote in person. You can still register to vote at any early vote center in your county. Just go to iwillvote.com/nv, iwillvote.com/nv and you can find a vote center or a ballot drop-box near you.

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And then help your friends and family make a plan to vote. Because together we have a chance to choose a new generation of leadership in this country and start building a better, stronger, fairer, more equal, more hopeful America. Now, before I start digging in, it’s kind of hot in here, so I want everybody to bend their knees a little bit if you’re standing. If you got a little water, take a sip. I don’t want anybody falling out. You’ll be okay but it’s embarrassing. All right? So keep those knees bent a little bit. Every once in a while, move around. Don’t stand too stiff. All right, now that we’ve got that taken care of, the preliminaries.

We love you, Obama!

We know this election’s going to be tight, and it’s going to be tight because a lot of Americans are still struggling. As a country, we’ve been through a lot over these last few years. You think about it, we had a historic pandemic that wreaked havoc on communities, on businesses, and then the disruptions from the pandemic caused price hikes. And that put a strain on family budgets. And so people started feeling like no matter how hard they ran, they were kind of treading water. And they started worrying, “Will my kid have the same kind of future I had?”

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So I get why people are looking to shake things up. It’s understandable. I understand it. What I cannot understand is why anybody would think that Donald Trump will shake things up in a way that is good for you. Because there’s absolutely no evidence that this man thinks about anybody but himself. I’ve said it before, I’m going to say it again. Donald Trump is a 78-year-old billionaire who has not stopped whining about his problems since he rode down that golden escalator nine years ago.

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I mean, he is constantly, he is complaining, he is griping. And when he’s not complaining, he’s trying to sell you stuff. He trying to sell you some gold sneakers, he was trying to sell you a $100,000 watch. It’s supposed to be Swiss-made, but nobody in Switzerland really knows where it got made. He trying to sell you a Trump Bible. Think about that. This is the word of God. Gideon gives it out for free. He wants to sell you word of God Donald Trump edition. He’s got his name right there next to Matthew and Luke. And by the way, I’ll give you one guess where those Bibles are made. In China. Yeah. This is Mr. tough guy on China, except when he can make a few bucks. Then he’s all like, “Ain’t nothing wrong with that.”

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You cannot make this stuff up. You can’t make it up. If this was an SNL skit, you’d be all like, “Well, that’s… Come on. That’s over the top.” No, he’s doing these things. And the reason he’s doing it is because all he cares about is his ego and his money and his status. He’s not thinking about you. He sees power as nothing more than a means to his ends. He wants the middle class to pay the price for another huge tax cut to help mostly him and his country club buddies. He doesn’t care if he costs more women their reproductive freedoms because it won’t affect his life.

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Most of all, Donald Trump wants you to think that this country is hopelessly divided between us and them. And between the, quote-unquote, “real Americans” who obviously support him and anybody who doesn’t, because having people divided and angry and resentful and full of grievance, that boosts his chances of being elected. That’s why he does it. Do not boo, vote. Listen, I was backstage here and I was hearing y’all boo. Let me tell you something. Cannot anybody hear your boos? You know what they hear? Your vote. They hear your vote, they don’t hear your boos. Vote. Now, so look…

Vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote.

I like that. Go ahead. So I’ve spoken about Donald Trump’s intentions, what his concerns are. They are not you. But there’s another concern that I have about Donald Trump, which is his competence. Have you seen him lately?

Yeah.

I mean, he is out there, he’s giving these two and a half hour speeches, just a word salad. You don’t know what he’s saying at any given moment. He held a town hall meeting where… Now, the point of a town hall meeting, I’ve had maybe a thousand of them. The point is, you meet with people and you answer their questions. He just stopped. He’s all like, “I don’t feel like taking questions anymore.” And then he just played music for half an hour. Just swayed to Ave Maria and YMCA. I mean, imagine if Jacky or I did that. Now our playlist might be better, but it is strange behavior.

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He called himself the father of IVF. I have no idea what that means and neither do you. He said January 6th was a day of love. Said it… Don’t boo, vote. Said it was a day of love. I mean, made it sound like it was Coachella. So you would be worried if your grandpa started acting like this. You would. I mean, right? You’d call up your brother or your cousin or something, and be like, “Have you seen grandpa lately? What are we going to do?” But this is coming from somebody who wants unchecked power, wants the most powerful office on earth with the nuclear codes and all that. Now, the point is, we do not need to see what an older, loonier Donald Trump looks like with no guardrails. America’s ready to turn the page. We’re ready for a better story. Arizona, we are ready for a President Kamala Harris. That’s what we want.

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And the good news is that Kamala Harris is ready for the job. I mean, this is a leader who has spent her entire life fighting on behalf of people who need a champion. Somebody raised in the middle class, worked in McDonald’s while she was in college just to pay her expenses. Somebody who believes in the values that built this country, and she is as prepared for the job as any nominee for president has ever been. That’s who Kamala is. And in the White House, she will have an outstanding partner in Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota. I love that guy. Tim’s a veteran, he’s a teacher, he is a football coach, he’s a hunter. Been a great governor, working with Democrats and Republicans to get stuff done.

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And I just found out he can take vintage trucks apart and put them back together again. Now imagine that. You think Donald Trump can do that?

No.

Do you think Donald Trump’s ever changed the tire in his life?

No.

If he gets a flat tire, he calls Jeeves. “Jeeves, change that tire.” The point is, if you elect Kamala and Tim, they won’t be focused on their problems. They’re going to be focused on your problems. They understand too many folks here in Nevada and across the country is struggling to pay the bills. And listen, wages actually are steadily growing and inflation is finally slowing. But for a lot of folks, the price of everything from healthcare to housing to groceries, it’s still too high. It hurts. The question is, who’s actually going to do something about it? Yeah, I know you know the answer, but I’m going to tell you anyway. Somebody’s all like, “I know, I know.”

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Donald Trump’s plan is to give another massive tax cut to billionaires and big corporations. Now wait, hold on. Some people hear that, because I’m having conversations with folks, they’re all like, “Well, I don’t know. I know Trump’s kind of crazy, but I remember the economy when he first came into office. I remember those first two years were pretty good.” Yeah, it was good because it was my economy. Some of y’all remember what it was like in Nevada when I came into office. The worst financial crisis in history. The housing market collapsed here in Nevada. You remember that? Boarded up homes everywhere, folks’ mortgages underwater.

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I spent eight years cleaning up that mess that the Republicans had left me. And then I handed over to Donald Trump, 75 straight months of job growth. And all he did with it was give a tax cut to the people who didn’t need it, drove up the deficit in the process, and now he wants to do it all over again. So if you’re talking to somebody, and y’all know somebody who’s all like, “Well, I don’t know. I remember Trump, the economy seems… that was pretty good.” You remind them it wasn’t good because of anything he did. So that’s point number one.

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Point number two, when it comes to healthcare, Donald Trump has got one answer. He wants to end the Affordable Care Act. He doesn’t even really know what the Affordable Care Act is or how it works. He just knows I did it. No, that’s the truth. A couple weeks ago, his running mate had the nerve, the chutzpah to say Donald Trump, quote, “Salvaged the Affordable Care Act.” There are a bunch of folks from Congress here, let me tell you. He spent his entire presidency trying to tear it down, and he couldn’t even do that right.

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And now, eight years after he was elected, y’all saw this. He was at the debate. So the moderators asked a pretty reasonable question. It’s like, “Well, you always say you want to end the Affordable Care Act. What are you going to replace it with?” And he kind of stumbled. And then he said, ” Well, I have a concept for a plan.” For how he can replace it. What? I want y’all to think about this a second. Let’s say your boss gives you an assignment, says to you, “I need this done by Friday.” Friday rolls around and she says, “So you finished that project I asked for?” And you say, “Well, no, ma’am, I haven’t actually started. But I do have a concept of a plan.”

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Or we’re here in Cheyenne High School, we got some high school kids here. You should try that on one of your teachers. Paper’s due date rolls around. Everybody’s turning it in. You don’t have yours. Say, “Well, I do have a concept for a paper.” What? How’s that going to go over? If it wouldn’t work for you, why should it work for the president of the United States?

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But the good news is Kamala Harris doesn’t have the concepts of a plan. She’s got an actual plan to make your life better. She got a plan to bring down the cost of things like groceries. She’ll go after corporations that are jacking up prices just like she went after big banks and for-profit colleges when she was Attorney General of California. To lower housing costs, Kamala will cut red tape and work with state and local governments as well as the private sector to build three million new homes. She has a concrete plan to do that. And then she’ll give first-time home-buyers up to $75,000 to help with the down payment. That is a concrete plan to help solve the issue of housing affordability.

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To lower healthcare costs, Kamala already worked with Joe Biden, Jacky Rosen, members of Congress who are here to take on the drug companies, bring down the cost of insulin, hearing aids, more than 50 prescription drugs. And as president, she’ll never stop working to limit out-of-pocket costs and protect your care. And instead of giving more tax cuts to folks who don’t need them, to billionaires, Kamala will give a tax cut to 100 million middle-class and working people here in America. That’s who Kamala is. That’s what she stands for, not concepts of a plan, actual plans.

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Now, I got some more points. If you challenge Donald Trump or his VP nominee, Vance. If you challenge them on, “well, these concepts don’t seem to make much sense and nobody really understands them, and the economists tell you they’re not going to work.” If you challenge them, they’ll fall back on one answer. It does not matter what it is, housing, healthcare, education, paying for the bills. One answer. Blame the immigrants. Don’t boo. What’d I tell you?

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He wants you to believe that if you elect him, he will just round up whoever he wants and ship them out and all your problems will be solved. Now let me tell you something, because I’ve been working on this for a long time. We have a real issue at the border. We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. We have to make sure the system works the way it’s supposed to so that we’ve got legal immigration, which built our nation, where we’ve got folks like the DACA folks that I worked on behalf of to make sure that they grew up here, that we give them pathways to citizenship. But we also have to have an orderly border. We have to have it fair. That’s the truth. We have to fix some aspects of it that are broken.

[foreign language 01:20:45].

[foreign language 01:20:46]. But when I hear Donald Trump talk, I keep on… He’s very quick to say to Kamala, “Well, you were vice

“… president four years.” Dude, you were president for four years. As I recall, you were up there in the Oval Office. So if rounding up and deporting millions of desperate people, many of them who are women and children, if that’s the answer to everything, well, why is it that the number of undocumented immigrants were basically the same when he left office as when he took office?

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He didn’t solve the problem. And I’ll tell you why. Because he does not have a real plan. He has a concept of a plan, and it’s a mean and ugly plan designed to foster resentment and divide people.

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You know what would actually bring order to the border? Help fix our immigration system. There was a bipartisan deal just a few months ago. Kamala Harris supported it, even though it was written by one of the most conservative Republicans in Congress. That same bill Donald Trump purposely told Republicans in Congress do not vote for it. Not because he thought necessarily that it won’t work, but because he wanted to keep the issue to campaign on. He thinks fear mongering is how he’s going to win this election.

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We do not need a president who will make problems worse just to make his politics better. We need a president who actually cares about solving problems and making your life better. And that’s what Kamala Harris will do. And in order for her to do it, she is going to need a Senate full of public servants like Jacky Rosen. This is something that sometimes folks forget about. We need Kamala Harris in the White House. But I can tell you this from experience, you need a team. Presidents are not kings, although Donald Trump would like to think they are.

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You need a Congress that supports what you want to get done. Jacky has a long record of looking out for middle class families, of taking on special interest to bring down costs. She’s one of the most bipartisan members of the Senate. She doesn’t care which party you’re from. If you’ve got a good idea to make life better for the people in Nevada, she’ll work with you. She’s for it. That’s the kind of person we need in Washington. That’s who you need alongside our other outstanding senator from Nevada, Catherine Cortez Masto, the kind of person who they’re going to roll up their sleeves and help Kamala get things done, folks who share our values, who want to move the country forward and not back.

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Now, one of those values is freedom. So let me talk about that just for a second, because I don’t think we’ve ever heard an election with candidates who understand freedom so differently. For Donald Trump and his cronies, freedom means just getting away with stuff. It’s like he said in the middle of the pandemic. I don’t know if people remember this. I remembered it because I was paying attention. People were dying, our hospitals were overrun. He’s the president of the United States, and at one point he said, I don’t take any responsibility at all. I am not sure any American president has ever uttered those words, but that’s his idea of freedom. I do what I want and I’m not responsible for anything. Well, we’ve got a broader idea of freedom. We believe in the freedom to provide for our families if we’re willing to work, the freedom to breathe clean air and drink clean water and send our kids to school without worrying if they’ll come home.

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We believe the true freedom gives each of us the right to make decisions about our own life, and it requires us to recognize other people have the freedom to make different choices than the choices we might make. Even on the most divisive issues, I’ve always said there are good people of conscience on both sides of the abortion divide. I respect anybody whose faith tells them that this is not something they believe in. I understand that. But if we believe in freedom, then we should at least agree that such a deeply personal decision should be made by the woman whose body is involved and not by politicians.

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And it’s been fascinating to watch Donald Trump because I think he’s starting to figure out, “Well, maybe this isn’t a popular issue for me,” and he’ll say anything. So now he’s trying to tie himself into a pretzel on this issue. When he first ran for president, he said he would support punishing women who got an abortion. A few weeks ago, he told a bunch of women, “I will be your protector.”

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Listen. I’ll tell you how he protected you. He handpicked three of the Supreme Court judges who overturned Roe v. Wade. He went out there and bragged about it. Now, there are Trump abortion bans in 20 states, many of them with no exception for rape or incest. And he’s out there saying, “Everybody wanted it this way.” No, they didn’t.

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So Donald Trump may be confused, but let’s be clear about what’s at stake here. If you send Jacky Rosen back to the Senate, she and Catherine Cortez Masto will vote to restore the reproductive freedom that women had for nearly 50 years. And if Congress passes that bill, Kamala Harris will sign it into law.

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And here in Nevada, you don’t have to wait because abortion, reproductive freedom is actually on the ballot. You have a chance to vote yes on Question 6 for reproductive freedom and keep women, not politicians in control of their personal medical decisions. It’s an example of how as frustrating as politics can be sometimes, elections really do matter. Listen, I understand how, especially in today’s climate, politics just seem so mean and nasty, and there’s so many lies floating around, and people get on these doom scrolls on TikTok and it’s like, “Oh, man, that’s terrible. Oh, that’s worse. That’s terrible. Oh, my God.” And so you get frustrated and it feels like nothing’s going to work.

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But the truth is, when you vote, it matters. It can make your life better or it can make it worse. Sometimes I talk to folks who don’t think it’s going to make a difference whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump wins. No, no. You guys know people like this, right? I mean, they’re not bad people. They’re just like, “Oh, you know, politics. It’s not going to make any difference in my life.” They figure it’s not going to have an impact.

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And I constantly have to remind them, yes, whoever’s president, they’re not going to end the poverty overnight. They’re not going to end racism. You’re not suddenly going not have to go to your job and listen to your boss. Things are not going to suddenly be perfect. But you know what? It makes a difference. When I passed the Affordable Care Act, almost 50 million people got health care that they didn’t have before. That made a difference in their lives. More than 50 million people with pre-existing conditions can no longer be denied coverage or charged more. It made a difference to them.

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Listen, when I was president, I’ll give you just one other example, and I want you to use this example when you’re talking to folks who say, “It’s not going to make any difference.” I had been talking to scientists for a while. And so in my last year in office, we put together a playbook for how to deal with the eventuality of a pandemic because scientists had been saying with globalization and travel, et cetera, rising populations, that at some point there was going to be a pandemic. And so I said to my team, I said, “We got to have a plan,” just like you do for hurricanes or tornadoes or natural disasters.

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So we put together this whole playbook and we practiced the playbook. We’d get all the agencies. “This is how we’re going to respond. This is how to make sure that the public health systems in all the states are working. Here’s how we’re going to think about the schools.” And when Donald Trump came in, we gave over this playbook to them. But the point is he ignored it. And three years later, a pandemic hits.

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Now, I want to really be fair on this, but I want everybody to pay attention. No matter who was president at the time, this was going to be a problem. This was a generational pandemic. People were going to get sick, people were going to die. We didn’t have a vaccine right away. Businesses were going to have to shut down for a while. Travel was going to be restricted. But if you look at a country like Canada, their per capita death rate was 40% lower than it was here in the United States. So just do the math. That’s more than 400,000 people, people’s grandmothers, people’s fathers, people’s moms who would have been alive if Donald Trump had just paid attention and tried to follow the plan that we gave him. It might’ve been somebody in your family that could have been impacted.

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So if somebody tells you that this doesn’t make a difference, having somebody competent, somebody who cares about you, who listens to ordinary people, who listens to people who are experts in these areas, if you hear somebody say, “It doesn’t matter.” It does matter. And at some point it will make a difference to them. And if that’s not enough, then remind them that you know what? This election is also about more than policies. It’s about values and it is about character. Some of you knew I grew up, I didn’t have a father in the house. My parents divorced when I was two. I met my dad once for about a month. But I did have a lot of people around me, a stepfather, my grandparents, teachers, coaches, most of all my mom who taught me the difference between right and wrong, showed me what it meant to have integrity, to be honest, to be responsible, to work hard, to treat other people the way I wanted to be treated. And most of you grew up the same way.

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And I’ll tell you the truth. When I was a teenager, young adult, I didn’t always live up to those values. I made mistakes, but I tried to learn from them. And as I got older, I continued to benefit from people who reinforced those values. Obviously my wife Michelle, but also friends and neighbors and co-workers. And I’ll give you an example. Being in Vegas made me think about my friend Harry Reid, who was the president of the Senate for a long time. And he was a proud Democrat. He didn’t shy away from bare-knuckle politics.

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One day a staffer handed him a draft of remarks in which he referred to himself as a former boxer, and he was editing and he crossed out former. He was a tough guy. He was 70 years old at the time, but he refused to see politics as just this battle between good and evil. He’d work with Republicans, he’d work with people who didn’t agree with him. He understood we’re all a bundle of contradictions. We all got flaws. But despite our individual differences, it’s our collective humanity, what we have in common that makes a difference. That’s what makes a country great. The point is, he had values, he had character.

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One of the most disturbing things about this election, about Trump’s rise in politics, we seem to have set aside the values that so many of us were taught. A few weeks ago, one of the deadliest hurricanes in American history, President Biden, Vice President Harris, they’re down meeting with local officials, comforting families, making sure aid is in place. Donald Trump and his running mate made up stories about the Biden administration withholding aid, giving it to undocumented immigrants, not giving it to Republicans, just making this stuff up. Even Republicans on the ground, even MAGA Republicans on the ground said it wasn’t true.

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So my question is, when did that become okay? How can it be okay? It doesn’t matter where you stand on the issues. Doesn’t matter what your party is. That kind of behavior is not okay. If your co-workers acted like that, they wouldn’t be your co-workers very long. If you had a family member like that, you might still love them, but you wouldn’t put them in charge of nothing. And yet, when Donald Trump repeatedly lies or cheats or shows utter disregard for our constitution or just insults people. When he calls service members who died in battle losers or fellow citizens vermin or the enemy within. People make excuses for it. They say, “Well, he’s not serious. He’s not …” Everything a president says is serious. Everything that somebody who’s aspiring to office is listened to.

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And people make excuses for it. They think, “Well, it’s funny,” or, “It’s okay as long as our side wins.” And I’ve noticed this especially among some men who seem to think Trump’s behavior of bullying people or putting them down is somehow macho, a sign of strength. I’m telling you that’s not what real strength is. Never has been. Real strength’s working hard. Real strength’s carrying a heavy load without complaining. Real strength is about taking responsibility for your actions. Real strength is telling the truth even when it’s inconvenient. Real strength is about helping those who have less or need some help standing up for those who can’t always stand up for themselves.

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That’s what we should want in our sons and our daughters. That’s what I want to see in the president of the United States. And the good news is you have candidates to vote for in this election that have demonstrated that kind of character, who know what real strength looks like, who will set a good example and do the right thing and lead this country better for it. Nevada, that’s the choice in this election. It’s not just policies on the ballot. It’s about who we are and what we stand for.

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So whether this election is making you feel excited or scared or hopeful or frustrated or anything in between, do not sit back and hope for the best. Get off your couch and vote. Put down your phone and vote. Vote for Kamala Harris as the next president of the United States and Tim Walz as the next vice president of the United States. Vote for Jacky Rosen and this whole incredible Nevada Democratic ticket. Help your friends and family and neighbors and coworkers do the same because if enough of us make our voices heard, we will leave no doubt about the outcome of this election. We will leave no doubt about who we are and what America stands for. And together we will keep building a country that is more fair and more just and more equal and more free. That is our job, Nevada. Let’s go get it. That’s what we’re going to do. I love you. God bless you. Let’s go vote. Hey! (singing)