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I just want to say how great grateful I am to my colleague Senator McMorro, Chairman Herel, to all of our incredible
0:088 secondssupporters here. Um what a race. You know, in the words of Muhammad Ali, we shook up the world.
0:1515 secondsAnd I I want to say just first and foremost um how grateful I am for the opportunity to participate in democracy.
0:2626 secondsNow my family immigrated to this country from a place where there is not democracy. You cannot just put your hand up and run.
0:3333 secondsAnd the ability to do do this, to have our voices heard, to select our leaders, it is
0:4141 secondsit is a gift that sometimes we take for granted. So to have participated means so so much. And to my fellow
0:4848 secondsparticipants, I just want to say how grateful I am to you. Senator McMor, you ran an incredible race. You fought to end corporate corruption in our politics. you took on the power of Apac.
0:5959 secondsYou were willing to speak truth to a level of power that sometimes uh is unbeatable. And I just want to want to say thank you uh and how grateful I am
1:081 minute, 8 secondsum to have your support here today. Uh I cannot wait to see what you do next. And I hope that uh for as long as uh I'm in this work that we can be in this work
1:161 minute, 16 secondstogether. Thank you
1:191 minute, 19 seconds[applause]
1:211 minute, 21 secondsto my colleague and friend, Congresswoman Haley Stevens. We shared a great conversation this morning and I know that it was a a bitter uh end to
1:291 minute, 29 secondsthis very long primary, but I also know that Haley brings uh the best of herself to her work. She is one of the most committed public servants that she'll
1:381 minute, 38 secondsever meet. Uh she loves democracy like I love democracy. And whatever differences that we might have had in the primary, they pale in comparison to what unifies
1:461 minute, 46 secondsus. A recognition that so long as we want to keep our democracy, that democracy better be working for people.
1:511 minute, 51 secondsand that all of us have to come to come together to make sure that we never let Mike Rogers see the inside of the US Senate. So, Congresswoman, thank you [applause] for your race.
2:052 minutes, 5 secondsAnd I have to say a few more thank yous before we talk about where we're going next. First, I got to thank my wife, Sara. Yeah, [cheering]
2:132 minutes, 13 secondsI um I really when when when we decided to jump into this race, I knew that it was going to be tough for me, but I also
2:222 minutes, 22 secondsknew that it was going to be particularly tough on our family. And uh the fact that she held it down alongside her medical practice, alongside uh
2:302 minutes, 30 secondsmaking sure that our daughters didn't experience this without thinking life was just normal, um that takes just an extraordinary amount of effort and uh
2:382 minutes, 38 secondssacrifice. So, I just want to say how grateful I am to you, love, and I'm I'm so so um honored and thankful that we we get to continue this 20 years on has been a hell of a ride.
2:492 minutes, 49 secondsUh I owe her a 20th anniversary on our 21st anniversary cuz we definitely didn't get one of those this year. To my daughters, um I know that they're not
2:562 minutes, 56 secondswatching. Uh but you know I I wish this this meant I get a little bit more time uh with you but um give me three more
3:033 minutes, 3 secondsmonths to uh everybody who put their shoulders into the work. Anybody who made a
3:113 minutes, 11 secondscontribution, who knocked on a door, who made a phone call, who put yourself into this democracy, who gave us your stake
3:183 minutes, 18 secondsin democracy, this movement, this moment is for you. And I just can't say how grateful I am to have earned the votes that we got. Uh, we took on a machine.
3:293 minutes, 29 secondsYou're not supposed to be able to beat $70 million of outside spending. A record amount of money spent in a
3:363 minutes, 36 secondscampaign against a Democrat in a primary in any campaign. You're not supposed to be able to beat that. And what we showed
3:443 minutes, 44 secondsis that the power of our many is greater than the power of their money. What we showed is that if you're willing to build a movement brick by brick, if
3:523 minutes, 52 secondsyou're willing to go and travel your state and have the conversations in rooms big and small, starting in moments when people aren't even paying attention to an election, but are paying attention
4:004 minutesto the price of gas and the price of groceries and the price of housing and the price of healthcare, that you can build a conversation that builds into a movement that defeats Goliath.
4:124 minutes, 12 secondsThis is what you all showed.
4:144 minutes, 14 secondsAnd my hope is that our democracy will never be the same. So when big pharma and big tech, when DTE and Blue Cross
4:234 minutes, 23 secondscome knocking saying, you know what, this is our democracy and we're going to own it. From here on out, we can always point and say, no, this is the people's democracy and we will always own it.
4:354 minutes, 35 seconds[applause]
4:394 minutes, 39 secondsThis would not have been possible without the incredible efforts of so many allies and allied organizations. I got to give a special thank you to my
4:484 minutes, 48 secondsfirst endorsers, Bernie Sanders, the OG who came in on day one, put his entire shoulder in the work. I just hope that I
4:564 minutes, 56 secondscan help to carry some of that load in the fight for working people and Medicare for all that he's been carrying for all of this time. to the UAW, the
5:045 minutes, 4 secondsunbeatable, indomitable UAW. [applause] As a son of immigrants, son of a father who came to this country
5:135 minutes, 13 secondsto build cars, I got to say that this is still the best place in the world to make an automobile. And that is because
5:195 minutes, 19 secondsof the fighting UA, but it's also the best place in the world to build a family because of the fighting UAW. And
5:285 minutes, 28 secondsour work is about making sure that [applause] the folks who want to sell our dem
5:365 minutes, 36 secondsdemocracy off to corporations and special interests don't get to take that away. And I stand in lock step with our
5:425 minutes, 42 secondsUAW sisters and brothers. To the AFT, the National Nurses United, the AFGE, the AAP, thank you so much for your
5:515 minutes, 51 secondswork. to all of the advocacy organizations who made this possible on the ground. Folks like the Pric and Move
6:006 minutesOn, folks like the Working Families Party, all of the constituency organizations who knocked on doors and made phone
6:096 minutes, 9 secondscalls. Thank you so much for putting your shoulder into the work. I also have to thank
6:176 minutes, 17 secondsall of our endorsers, 300 strong who came in, spent their time with us, came
6:256 minutes, 25 secondsfrom just down the street or came from across the country to talk about what it looks like to build a movement of the people,
6:336 minutes, 33 secondsby the people, and for the people. I want to say how grateful I am to you.
6:396 minutes, 39 secondsWe built this campaign brick by brick back in April. I remember talking to a room of of five people in a discussion that that most people
6:486 minutes, 48 secondswill never clock, but it was an opportunity for us to share a honest conversation about pain and about
6:556 minutes, 55 secondspurpose. And I've been a able to have 500 more of those discussions over the past 15 months. I trained to be a
7:047 minutes, 4 secondsdoctor. And the single most important moment that makes a clinical encounter is that moment that somebody shares
7:127 minutes, 12 secondstheir pain with you believing that you could do something about it. I don't practice medicine as has been well documented by all of you.
7:207 minutes, 20 secondsBut I hope that I get to practice that part of things and I've been able to practice it. But it requires people being willing to share their pain with
7:287 minutes, 28 secondsyou so that you can do something about it. That is a moment, a piece of vulnerability people give you because they believe that you can actually fix it.
7:387 minutes, 38 secondsIt's an investment, sure, in a campaign, but it more is an investment in democracy.
7:447 minutes, 44 secondsAnd as we traveled our state, we were in living rooms in Lancing, VFW halls in Eskanaba, basements in Grand Rapids,
7:517 minutes, 51 secondschurches in Detroit. I got to meet so many of you, Michigan. So many. and you shared both what caused pain, but also
7:597 minutes, 59 secondswhat brought purpose. And we forged a movement out of that to get money out of politics, put money back in pockets, and
8:078 minutes, 7 secondspass Medicare for all to guarantee healthcare in this country.
8:158 minutes, 15 secondsAnd for our troubles, the corporations, the special interests who would rather get to decide who our
8:228 minutes, 22 secondselected officials are than let us decide who our elected officials are, they spent an unprecedented amount of money to beat
8:318 minutes, 31 secondsus. Attack ad after attack ad after attack ad after attack ad, wallto-wall ads. But it turns out that the commercials are the part of the
8:398 minutes, 39 secondstelevision show most people don't want to watch.
8:428 minutes, 42 secondsIt turns out that you can spend as much money as you want on lies, but it doesn't make them true. It turns out
8:508 minutes, 50 secondsthat when you're able to reach out and dignify somebody's pain, people remember that a lot more than a 30 30 secondond ad played on a loop on television. And
8:598 minutes, 59 secondsit turns out that when the people want something in this democracy of ours, the people can get that thing if we're willing to do the work of that. And
9:089 minutes, 8 secondsthat's exactly what Michiganers up and down the state showed. 12,000 volunteers knocking nearly 10,000 doors a day to
9:169 minutes, 16 secondsdefeat an unprecedented amount of outside money, $70 million.
9:229 minutes, 22 secondsBut right now, as bitter and as divisive and as cynical as the campaign against us might have been, I want us to realize
9:309 minutes, 30 secondsthat there is so much more that unites us now.
9:349 minutes, 34 secondsBecause the campaign that Mike Rogers and Donald Trump and their GOP MAGA
9:429 minutes, 42 secondsallies are launching is already more bitter. All you got to do is look at the ads you're already watching on TV started today. You know, they think that
9:519 minutes, 51 secondsyou want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen, man. If you can't say the name, it's Abdman. Keep the name out your damn mouth.
9:599 minutes, 59 seconds[cheering]
10:0010 minutesI'll be happy to give you lessons.
10:0110 minutes, 1 second[applause]
10:0510 minutes, 5 secondsBut they understand that the only way that they think they can win is to drag us into the mud. To believe the worst about each other. To believe that what
10:1410 minutes, 14 secondsdivides us is bigger than what unites us. They want us to think that the reason some of us ain't got is because
10:2110 minutes, 21 secondsother people got. But it turns out that the reason so many of us ain't got is because of the system that has corrupted our politics to take it away from us.
10:3010 minutes, 30 secondsAnd that is the thing that we are taking on now. That movement to get money out of politics, put money in your pocket, pass Medicare for all, it is a big
10:3810 minutes, 38 secondsmovement. So, if you supported me or you did not support me, if you voted for Vice President President Harris in 2024
10:4610 minutes, 46 secondsor you voted for Donald Trump, if you believe like me that you ought to be able to afford your groceries, if you believe like me that you ought to be
10:5410 minutes, 54 secondsable to afford your home, if you believe like me that your tax dollars ought to be invested in you rather than sent
11:0111 minutes, 1 secondsomewhere else. If you believe like me that a government of the people, by the people, and for the people is our
11:1011 minutes, 10 secondsbirthright in this country. If you believe like me that we have a responsibility to stand up and walk with our unions so that everybody has
11:1711 minutes, 17 secondscollective bargaining rights in this country. If you believe like me that you ought to have the guarantee of good healthcare in this country without some
11:2611 minutes, 26 secondscorporation trying to tell you what you cannot have and should not fight for. I hope that you'll join this movement.
11:3211 minutes, 32 secondsNow, I want to speak specifically to an issue that has been focused on in this race.
11:4511 minutes, 45 secondsTo my Jewish American sisters and brothers, one of the most indelible memories [clears throat] of this campaign will have been the opportunity
11:5411 minutes, 54 secondsto break bread with you at Sedar to worship with you at Shu to embrace to be embraced by you
12:0312 minutes, 3 secondsand listening to sisters and brothers who said you know I want to join this movement because Apac doesn't speak for
12:1012 minutes, 10 secondsme because I understand that self-determination for one people does not require the quenching of self-determination for another people.
12:2012 minutes, 20 secondsThat unless all of us are free, none of us are free. I want to tell you the great gift that you've given me. And to
12:2712 minutes, 27 secondsall of my sisters and brothers of the Jewish faith or any faith at all or no faith at all, I want you to know that my
12:3512 minutes, 35 secondscommitment to your safety, my commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters.
12:4512 minutes, 45 secondsBecause if there is one question of a political philosophy that ought to animate us all is what would we build?
12:5112 minutes, 51 secondsWhat what would we do if we treated all of our kids kids like they were all of our kids?
12:5812 minutes, 58 secondsHow would we spend our money? Where would we put our investment?
13:0613 minutes, 6 secondsHow would we embrace one another? What kind of schools would we build? What kind of health care would we offer? What kind of jobs would we protect?
13:1713 minutes, 17 secondsAnd I say this because there could not be a greater contrast between that philosophy
13:2413 minutes, 24 secondsand the cynicism of Mike Rogers. See, Mike's a guy who spent 14 years in
13:3013 minutes, 30 secondsCongress with one goal to figure out how to cash out the day he left. And guess what he did? As soon as he left
13:3813 minutes, 38 secondsCongress, after having taken corporate check after corporate check after corporate check to empower the
13:4513 minutes, 45 secondscorporations to pick your pockets, he went and he cashed out. Not in Michigan. No. Winters are too cold for him.
13:5313 minutes, 53 secondsHe's got thin skin after all.
13:5613 minutes, 56 secondsHe went to Florida. So Mike, if you want to be a Florida man, go be a Florida man. If you want to golf in Florida, go golf in Florida. But I promise you in
14:0414 minutes, 4 secondsNovember, we are going to send you back to Florida.
14:0614 minutes, 6 seconds[cheering]
14:1214 minutes, 12 secondsMike Rogers is the guy who wants to put a data center in your backyard so he can make himself feel a little bit more manly by making an AI video. Mike Rogers
14:2014 minutes, 20 secondsis a guy who has never shied away from a DTE check so he could turn his face in the direction of Florida. Mike Rogers is a guy who will do anything Blue Cross
14:2914 minutes, 29 secondsBlue Shield wants him to do, including raise your rates. Mike Rogers is a guy who introduced legislation
14:3714 minutes, 37 secondsto increase the flow of opioids. He did that while I was in high school.
14:4214 minutes, 42 secondsMike Rogers is a guy whose politics and vision and perspective are old. Mike
14:4814 minutes, 48 secondsRogers is a guy who has never shied away from a corporation he could do a favor for. Mike Rogers is a guy who, believe
14:5714 minutes, 57 secondsit or not, went back to Florida so he could lick every single boot Donald Trump owns to beg for his endorsement.
15:0515 minutes, 5 secondsI'm so sorry. If you want a senator who's going to lick some boots, fine. Go vote for Mike Rogers. But if you want a senator who's going to stand up to Donald Trump, then you got your option
15:1315 minutes, 13 secondsright here. [cheering] And what's [applause] funny about Mike Rogers is that
15:2115 minutes, 21 secondshe's like the worst of all versions of the Republican party, right? He's the worst of the neocon
15:2915 minutes, 29 secondsversion. I mean, he was in the house during the entirety of the Iraq war. He left cuz he got tired of it.
15:3915 minutes, 39 secondsAnd then he swore up and down he could never support Donald Trump until, of course, he was licking Donald Trump's boots. So now he carries the burden of
15:4715 minutes, 47 secondsboth of those things. Is he MAGA? Is he neocon? No, man. He's just a corporate sellout.
15:5415 minutes, 54 secondsSo Mike, I'm going say right here, I know you're going to say no because you're a coward.
16:0216 minutes, 2 secondsFive debates. All right.
16:0416 minutes, 4 secondsIf you're willing to stand with me and have a conversation, you you and I both know that you will wither in front of
16:1216 minutes, 12 secondsyour own crimes. But I'm gonna make sure Michiganers know about them because the time we're done, you are not going to
16:2016 minutes, 20 secondshave safe quarter from people holding you accountable to what you've done for them here in Michigan. We will send you
16:2616 minutes, 26 secondsback to Florida where you belong. Five debates. I'm hoping for an answer today.
16:3116 minutes, 31 secondsIt's [applause and cheering] going to be a lot of fun, my guy.
16:3616 minutes, 36 secondsBut I want to finish here because it's not about Mike Rogers. It's not even about Donald Trump. It is about who we are as a country.
16:4516 minutes, 45 secondsI worked in that building right there.
16:4816 minutes, 48 secondsIn fact, you can see the window of my former office.
16:5216 minutes, 52 secondsAnd there are moments I had to pinch myself because
16:5916 minutes, 59 secondsmy story in America is about as unlikely as it gets.
17:0517 minutes, 5 secondsbut for an accident of history that allows my dad to immigrate to Detroit to go to Wayne State University.
17:1217 minutes, 12 secondsI was supposed to be a cab driver in Egypt like my cousins.
17:1717 minutes, 17 secondsI would spend a lot of my childhood summers in Egypt.
17:2117 minutes, 21 secondsI I'd spend them there with a front row seat to what my life should have been
17:2817 minutes, 28 secondsexcept for I got to be born in America where I got vaccinated against diseases that killed an aunt and uncle I never
17:3517 minutes, 35 secondsgot to meet. They died before their first birthday. I got to go to amazing public schools, an incredible public
17:4217 minutes, 42 secondsuniversity. I got a medical education paid for by a public agency at the NIH.
17:4817 minutes, 48 secondsThat's what America gave me. Now, the crazy thing is I grew up not 20 minutes from here.
17:5517 minutes, 55 secondsAnd in traveling 20 minutes, I travel a 10year life expectancy gap. I got to meet kids who never got the
18:0318 minutes, 3 secondsopportunities I got despite the fact that their families had been here far longer than me. I know what America gave me, but I also know what America
18:1118 minutes, 11 secondscontinues to deny too many of her own children. And a lot of my work in that building right there was about trying to address exactly that.
18:1918 minutes, 19 secondsAnd I kept running up against one thing.
18:2318 minutes, 23 secondsThe kind of politics that tell us that we cannot invest in those children because we should be sending their money to deny rights to other children abroad.
18:3318 minutes, 33 secondsA politics that tells us that the corporations should do what they can and the rest of us do what we we must. A politics that tells us that our
18:4218 minutes, 42 secondsdemocracy is there for the taking if you have enough money to take it.
18:4718 minutes, 47 secondsAnd so when the opportunity to run for US Senate came up, I realized that this was a fight not just against Mike Rogers and Donald Trump. It was a fight for the
18:5518 minutes, 55 secondskind of America that can give what I had to all of her children. That is the work in front of us.
19:0419 minutes, 4 secondsThis country of ours, this America of ours is more than a flag. It's more than a set of colors. If you're a patriot,
19:1219 minutes, 12 secondsthen you better fight for an America that is America for all of her kids.
19:1719 minutes, 17 secondsThat's what this is about. Building a movement to take our democracy back to serve the people who absolutely deserve
19:2419 minutes, 24 secondsthe best of what America has to offer them. That's the commitment all of us are making. So whether you voted for me
19:3119 minutes, 31 secondsor voted for my opponent or didn't vote at all, we're inviting you to that movement to get money out of politics so
19:3819 minutes, 38 secondswe can put money back in pockets and finally guarantee the promise of healthcare through Medicare for all. And I am so honored, so honored for all of
19:4719 minutes, 47 secondsthe folks who've already invested, to all the folks who have. And I cannot wait to meet you and let's go in in November.