People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.
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I wake up every day, and I’m a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day.
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Campaigns are so much more expensive than people think they are. Just to keep the lights on is several thousand dollars a month.
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Democrats are a big-tent party. You know, I’m not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.
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The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.
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I wasn’t born to a wealthy or powerful family – mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
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I want to speak to people directly as much as possible.
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We have to have a diversity of age represented in Congress, too.
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I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn’t be afraid to be bold.
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I felt like the only way to effectively run for office is if you had access to a lot of wealth, high social influence, a lot of dynastic power, and I knew that I didn’t have any of those things.
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I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.
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Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.
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We are fighting for an unapologetic movement for economic, social, and racial justice in the United States.
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I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.
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