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>> All right. Jason Stein,
thank you very much.

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>> My pleasure. Thank you.
>> Campaigns for governor

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ahead of the August primary.
Head into high gear with

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some Democrats in the field
getting a boost after the

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party's state convention. A
straw poll of party

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activists put Lieutenant
Governor Sarah Rodriguez on

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top with state
Representative Francesca

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Hong in second and state
Senator Kelda Roys coming

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in third. Here's a glimpse
of candidates speeches at

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the convention.
>> Does the job I'm asking

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you for starts with showing
up and then standing up.

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Here's what I hear out
there. Our neighbors are

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scared. They are angry
because even if they are

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doing everything right,
they cannot make ends meet.

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They work hard and want a
paycheck that covers the

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rent or mortgage before
it's gone. They need a

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health insurance premium
that they can afford. So

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when they get sick, they
have the care that they

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need. They need public
schools that are fully

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funded for their kids so
they don't have to go to

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referendum.
>> We've seen this before

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in Wisconsin. Scott Walker
ran this con for eight

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years. Divide and conquer
got the public sector

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hollow out schools, attack
workers and treat

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government like the enemy.
When Tony Evers asked me to

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serve as his top cabinet
official, we inherited a

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mess. Depleted reserves,
structural deficits,

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teachers, state employees,
and working people who had

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been treated like a
punching bag for eight

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years. So we rolled up our
sleeves and we got to work.

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We constructed responsible
budgets that returned us to

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Wisconsin values.
>> I do want to be honest,

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because as I travel, people
always ask me, David, can a

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Black candidate become
governor? Hell yeah. If

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it's a candidate with a
track record of delivering

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results and winning and not
just talking about them?

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Yes. If it's a candidate
that has a plan that's

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built on proven public
policy, not whatever the

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latest poll says, it's
popular, then yes, the

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answer is simple, y'all.
Yes. And I am that

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candidate. I've built a
strong coalition in the

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state's largest county
while earning support from

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our rural, suburban urban
communities alike.

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>> I am running for
governor to raise wages,

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lower costs, deliver great
public schools, and protect

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our freedoms from this
authoritarian regime. We

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will lower the cost of the
biggest ticket items, from

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housing to health care,
child care to utilities. I

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don't just have bullet
points, I have bills. I

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don't just have social
posts, I have plans. And we

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know this is possible
because we've done it

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before, right? As the
executive director of NARAL

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Pro-Choice Wisconsin, I
helped pass the first

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pro-choice law in 30 years
through an anti-choice

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Republican Assembly.
>> We have been failed by

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the status quo for far too
long. And it's not just

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enough to be anti-Trump.
It's not enough to just be

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a Democrat. If you're going
to cave to corporate

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interests, we need a
governor who rejects the

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Washington way of rampant
corruption and corporate

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running for governor to do
things the Wisconsin way.

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That means taxing the rich.
That means freezing the

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rates. That means keeping
our community safe. And in

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the AI schemes that rig the
system, fully funding our

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public schools, passing
universal child care, and

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delivering health care to
every single person in this

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state, and standing up to
those monopolies that

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continue to bankrupt our
family farms and raise our

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utility bills. I am asking
for your support in August,

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and I'm asking you to
organize with me all the

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way through November to
take back with me.

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>> I am running on a
platform of permanent

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affordability, not as a
slogan. Not as a slogan,

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but as a practice. I am the
only candidate in this race

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who has called for a
moratorium on the

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construction of AI data
centers. I will not meekly

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accept the sellout of
Wisconsin to millionaires,

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billionaires and big tech.
I am the only candidate in

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this race with a plan for
free childcare. I am the

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only candidate in this race
who has even considered

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what AI will do, what it
means for our workers and

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our civil rights.
>> The first thing I had to

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do as Secretary of Economic
Development was clean up

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Foxconn. No problem. I had
three children under the

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age of two. I know how to
clean up a mess. So I

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cleaned up Donald Trump and
Scott Walker's mess and

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saved the state and
Wisconsinites billions of

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dollars. And then Covid hit.
Covid hit. And let me tell

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you, that's not a great
time to be in charge of the

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state's economy. But we
rolled up our sleeves and

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we got to work.
>> On the Republican side,

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current seventh
congressional U.S.

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representative Tom Tiffany
got his party's endorsement

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in his run for governor at
their convention.

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>> We're going to take a
shovel to waste and fraud.

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We're going to root out
corruption. And we're going

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to bring common sense back
to Madison. Because I

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refuse to accept failure. I
refuse to accept decline,

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and I refuse to see the
state of Wisconsin fall