.
So guys, here with us today to talk
to you guys, give them a little
round of applause.
Thank you so much.
How you doing?
Good to see you too.
Hey, how's it going?
Yeah, good to see too. How's
everybody doing today?
Great, great, brother.
I know real good keeping myself busy
on the road like it's always fun
getting a chance to travel
across the state being back on
campuses and back on the road just
running my mouth talking to people
about everything going on.
We got a whole lot of state right
now as you know about every
single election. I remember when
I was younger somebody's like why
people say that like well every
election is the most important until
the next election and then
another person was like well every
election is the more important
because it might be your last.
And which kind of has
a double meaning right now at this
point as we think about the future
of our country and the future
of our democracy which is something
that you certainly take serious is
exactly why you are here today
so I am Mandela Barnes
former lieutenant governor a
former state representative from
Milwaukee Wisconsin and
I'm running for governor and I'm
ready for governor because we find
ourselves at a very
critical moment in this country.
And because we find ourselves at
a critical moment in this country,
our state has been feeling the
impacts in a very real
way, whether it's tariffs,
whether its the rising cost of
healthcare, or at the same time
the declining prospects for
employment, for jobs,
for being able to earn a living,
for truly being able to consider
a future beyond the next five, ten,
or fifteen years.
And I think about when I
finished college, 2008 was probably
a time where it felt as
close to this level of uncertainty.
It was a real rough time.
And I remember in 2009,
I actually got laid off from a job
that was to help people find jobs.
And just to give you, just to paint
the picture of how tough things were
at that point.
But and I want to be like,
you know, I don't wanna be fear-mongering
But it does feel a little bit worse
right now than it did back in
2008 2009.
And I'm going to go and reverse
a little bit because I just want to
sort of set the stage and really
like pinpoint exactly
what that challenge is and why
we are where we are.
So my grandfather moved to Milwaukee
after his service in the Navy in
World War II.
And he got a job as a union steel
worker.
And he walked into factory one
day, walked out 35 plus
years later. He was able to retire
with some comfort, was able retire
with dignity, and ultimately set
a foundation that allowed me
to be here standing in front of you
all today.
My dad followed in his footsteps.
He worked on an assembly line.
He also was
a union member, continues to be a
union member. He's president of his
retirees local or something.
He refused to give up.
And that's also what helped paint
the picture for me, learning right
from wrong, learning what
it meant to exist in a
society and be valued for the work
that you do.
Now, I am.
Think about the fact that people,
even my age, I don't
know if I'm saying my age now, there
was a time when I had to stay real
about 25, so I could level
with you all back then.
Now it feels like I'm so out of
touch.
That's a joke.
I'm very much in touch.
It feels like the opportunity
for people, even my or your
age, to go on to
find long-term,
gainful employment, it feels like
those prospects are fleeting.
You all feel that way?
I'm not sure if you all talked about
majors or anything, but
it just feels tough.
It feels like there's no end in
sight. It feels there are people who
don't get it, who don't understand,
and unfortunately those are the
people with the most power right
now. Those are the who are making
the decisions about our collective
future.
And we need people who are going to
be bold and stand up.
Now, yes, Donald Trump,
terrible president.
Terrible for this country, terrible
for us, even on an individual
level.
But having established that,
we need more than just to stand up
to him. The reason why a
Donald Trump was able to get
the power that he has,
is because we haven't always
articulated the most clear vision
of what we want for America.
We haven't all always made the case
very plain and very clear,
regardless of where we are in this
state or in this country.
And even as a state rep.
As a young 20-something state row
back
in 2013, I made
a point to travel all across
Wisconsin.
Because again, it was the
story of my grandfather, my father,
who got me to that place.
And I knew that there were other
similar stories all across this
constant. But I guess I didn't
really realize how similar those
stories are.
Not sure where people are from, but
I think about.
The decline in family farms,
the historic number of farm
bankruptcies all across Wisconsin
that we continue to experience
that have been accelerated because
of tariffs.
Small businesses that have closed
their doors because of the tariffs
they haven't been able or they
passed on a cost to consumers but
gotten to a point where they had no
one else coming in to shop.
And they had to close their doors,
because of presidents were
decisioning.
And the reason why
the factory where my grandfather
worked or even the factory my dad
worked, the reason those doors are
closed or those buildings don't
exist anymore is because
people at the very top made the
decision to
lower their costs so that
they could increase their own
profits.
And this is all corporate
greed that's led to this exodus,
not even an exodus a forced exodus.
Of American jobs, of Wisconsin
jobs in particular, being sent
overseas, the same corporate greed
that has consolidated our
family farms.
It is the same corporate greed that
has pushed our family farmers out
of businesses, or excuse me, out of
business because they aren't able to
compete with these large entities or
take losses at the same rate.
And we're all up against the same
stuff. And as I travel the state as
a member of the assembly, Like
it was a constant reminder that
these conversations are always
left versus right is
who's at the very top and who's
pushing everybody else down to the
bottom.
And with that in mind,
and having had that experience and
having had all those very unique
conversations with people, I ran for
lieutenant governor in 2018.
Won that race, was you know elected
in that primary, got on the ticket
with now governor Evers and
we went all across Wisconsin.
Because we had a point to make.
We had dealt with eight years of
the worst governor of my lifetime.
And that wasn't even the only
Republican governor of my life time.
We had Tommy Thompson who had his
flaws, but he was nowhere near as
divisive or as
devastating as the
former governor Scott Walker was.
And we lost to him in
2010 when he first got elected.
We lost to them in the recall
election. We lost him in 2014
for his re-election.
And I couldn't help but think.
What were we even talking about as
Democrats? What were our candidates?
What did we even offer to the people
of this state to say, hey, you
should vote for us?
It didn't feel like it was much.
And I knew that we had to lead with
our values. We had to leave with our
vision in order to win.
That's exactly what we did.
We, and people will say, no, what do
you talk about when you're outside
of Milwaukee? I talk about the same
exact things as I do when I'm in
Milwaukee. I talk the lack of
opportunity. I talk that the fact
that everybody's looking for the
same things. People want a good
school to send their children to.
People want to go to a doctor and
not worry about a surprise bill.
People want good job that puts food
on the table. One job should be
enough, but that is not the
reality that enough people
are experiencing.
And that was back in 2018.
Eight years later, it is even worse
right now because of decisions that
are being made at the federal level.
People still want that same reality.
And I'm on the campaign trail now.
Talking about, unfortunately, a lot
of the same things.
It is about restoring opportunity to
a place like Wisconsin.
I know it feels difficult,
every person you talk to,
especially people under the age of
25, they don't see a future for
themselves in this country.
And it is important for leaders to
understand the need for young people
to be able to see a feature for
themselves in the state of
Wisconsin.
That means fully funding public
education. That means full funding
our university system.
It is a travesty that we are number
44 in state spending on
our university system.
We need to make college more
affordable.
We also need to increase
opportunities for entrepreneurship.
We need attract more people to this
state. We need be able to
keep our rural health care clinics
open. Hospitals are closing at an
alarming rate because we are one of
10 states that has yet to
expand our Medicaid program under
the Affordable Care Act.
Once you get out of college, or once
you get over the age of 26 and have
to buy health insurance.
We need to make sure health
insurance is afforded. But I was in
Cadot like early in this campaign
and a farmer
told me that he
got a letter informing him that his
health insurance premium was gonna
go from $275 to
over $1,600 a month.
Crazy amount of money.
He said he couldn't afford it, he
said he ripped up the letter, he
would go without health insurance
because of the high cost.
And that's because Republicans in
Congress have failed to extend
the Affordable Care Act tax credits.
This is something that Tom Tiffany,
Republican running for governor,
voted against. Voted against the
interests of the people that he
already represents, which shows
an inability to lead this entire
state if he cannot even
take serious the task that he
already has at hand.
And as I said before, in 2018,
it wasn't necessarily about the
current governor at that point.
This is about what we were going to
do for people. And I've made
expansion of magic here a
priority in Wisconsin.
I've make a public option a
priority in Wisconsin because
if you don't have health insurance,
it's not a whole lot you can do.
And people have dealt with medical
bankruptcies.
The cost of a pregnancy through the
roof rural health care is
evaporating rapidly
because these clinics can't stay
open. We also need to raise our
minimum wage. It's been $7.25
since Hozier Age,
which is crazy to believe, crazy to
think of. And not only do we need to
raise minimum wage, we also have
to do everything we can to lower
costs, which means creating more
things right here in Wisconsin,
building more things here in
Wisconsin like we used to.
We used to supply the entire
globe. And I do truly believe
that we can access a
new era of opportunity, but
it means that we come together like
we've never come before.
We put our best foot forward, our
best minds forward, and that means
investing in our young minds and
keeping people here in WIsconson.
We lose so many people to
other states that offer more
opportunity.
And I truly believe that based
on what we have in
terms of quality of people, in terms
the quality of life, our natural
resources, that.
People want to be here,
but there unfortunately isn't enough
that keeps people here right now.
We need to do everything we can to
attract and retain talent,
to value the people who are already
here, and to make this the best
place to live, work, and raise a
family. Wisconsin can be a
state that is prepared for the
future, but it takes leadership to
do it. It takes
bringing people in an
intergenerational aspect, people
across all sorts of divides,
rural, suburban.
Uh, urban or otherwise.
And I
have you know, my own personal
experience that I do bring to this
race. I've had my health care
stories. I've have my challenges
with an uncertain economy.
But I've also had my experience
that I have brought to elected
office that has prepared me for this
run.
And we have been focused
during my time as lieutenant
governor on bringing people
together. I was chair of our climate
change task force.
We put together the oldest
plan ever in the state to
address the climate crisis and
also create good paying jobs.
As a result of it,
but that's the kind of work in
prioritizing our future that we
need, but it means bringing you all
in as well.
No one person, I don't care what
they tell you, no one person can
govern on their own.
Uh it takes ideas
that come from all over the place
to come up with the best solution to
come up with, the best path forward
and ultimately provide that
opportunity that we so desperately
need. So I want to thank you all
for having me. I want thank you also
for the work that you do as college
dems getting people out to vote.
In 2022 we
had the highest youth voter turnout
in the entire country and it's
because we live with that value with
those values we live that vision,
and we are going to continue to
lead with those values and that
vision, except we're going to
amplify it. We're going to take it
even more places. We're gonna talk
to even more people, we're gonna
out-organize, we are gonna show up,
we're going be bold in the face of
all this adversity we have been
experiencing, and we are put our
future first.
Okay, thank you so much for that.
I think, I'm assuming our students
have questions.
So if you guys want to raise your
hand, there's not too many of you
guys. So you can probably just shout
them out, but just be mindful of the
other people around you.
Erica? I'm curious how you want
to invest in our young people
and keep people in Wisconsin.
Exactly, like I mentioned,
our K-12 funding is
abysmal right now.
We have a constitutional
responsibility for
two-thirds funding from the
state for our schools.
We have not met that.
And a number of school districts,
thankfully, have filed
a lawsuit against the state
legislature. Eau Claire.
Exactly. Green Bay will clear
this. Outside of Madison,
there's a couple others too.
I'm so grateful for it because
they're taking on the legislature
because they've advocated
their responsibility to fully
fund our schools and
when people are looking for
a place to you know
start a family most
people are going to go to a place
that hasn't invested but like public
schools are the first thing that
people think of when they choose a
place to live if want to start a
family. You want to send your
children to a school that has
everything in these for that child
to be able to
get the best education possible.
And we have world class schools here
in Wisconsin.
We have some world class K 12
schools.
If we can have world class k 12
schools in any school district,
we have the ability to have them in
every single school district.
And as far as
also cultivate the future again, it
goes back to getting from 44
in the country for
state support for university
funding.
Even if we got to 35th,
if we move up nine spots,
that creates a world of a difference
because we have a great
university system in spite of.
But I think about what it could be.
What could this university be with
increased and additional funding,
with more support for programs
that prepare people for the future
and an ever-changing economy?
Because
I can't even imagine, you know, what
being in college right now
feels like, especially with
artificial intelligence being
the big threat for so many folks.
I didn't have to worry about that,
but we all have to worried about
this. Like, this is still my
concern, even though I'm not
in school right now.
This is my concern because, oh
yeah, this my, this, this still
my concerned because of,
you know,
what am I to do if.
The people who are younger than
me, the next generation,
have very few opportunities.
And I've seen what the decline of
opportunity looks like.
When people ask about issues
of crime and delinquents,
especially when people always want
to point the finger and walk, you
can walk. You can walk, I love to
walk. You're deaf in this place.
It's my home.
That is where I will be.
And.
The reason, whether it's
Milwaukee, whether it's Chicago,
Detroit, any other malign city
in the entire country, is because
of the opportunities that were taken
away.
If you have communities without
good paying jobs, you're going
to see all sorts of things creep in.
Whether it's crime, whether there's
addiction, whether
there's homelessness, all these
factors that creep in and
make bad situations.
Even worse.
And that's why it's important to
invest in K-12 all-seeing
diversity system because if
you can educate people and
these folks go on, graduate college,
they can, you know, this is where
innovation happens and businesses
are created, new ideas are
created. There's so many people
who've passed through Wisconsin and
are elsewhere and have
created.
Some of the most profitable
businesses you could ever imagine
or even gone on to lead some
of these organizations
and companies.
And I do believe we
have a responsibility to be
able to keep some of that brain
power here so that money can
be invested and so that
the next generation and the
generation after that can
reap the benefits and Wisconsin
can remain
a strong and ideal place to
live.
To mention AI, do you have a stance
on AI data centers?
What does that look like if you
become governor?
Yep, data centers is
part of a longer
conversation about
tech accountability in general.
And I say that because I know
you feel like social
media companies, big tech in
general, is just taking advantage of
us, the feeling of
most people, of all people.
And I've been
on Facebook for like 20 years now.
Just like think about like, I know
it's crazy like to think about just
everything that has been fed into
it, that has used
by whatever other people
and our data is being harvested,
it's being sold, we are products
essentially and
social media.
And the fact that we've been taken
advantage of in the digital
and virtual space and
now at the same time in the physical
space. Because these data
centers are propping up, again, the
largest, most profitable
corporations ever imaginable,
sums of wealth that are
unrealistic, like amounts of
money you couldn't even withdraw
from a bank anyway.
With that being said, they're
showing up in communities that have
already been disadvantaged,
communities that have experienced
job loss, communities that
experience a level of deterioration,
and they're getting over on people.
And there are deals that are
happening in secrecy, as I'm
sure you all know.
These non-disclosure agreements that
are taking place.
As governor, I am
telling you that in order for
data centers to have any sort
of presence in Wisconsin, there has
to be community input.
There has to community buy-in that
is actually respected.
And there has be community benefits.
And when I say community benefits,
that means that people
Bye.
Residents should not have to
foot the bill for their
construction.
Should not have the foot the deal
for increased
use and energy.
And also have to
have land and air protected and
water qualities especially
protected.
Any sort of data center construction
cannot answer the questions,
because these are the questions that
come up from everybody.
People are concerned about water,
they're concerned about the land
use, they are concerned about air
quality, even light pollution in
many instances.
If you can't answer those questions,
if you can have a solution for those
issues that are consistently brought
up, you just can't, you can
build a data center there.
Oh yeah, how you, you forget, come
on now.
So California passed a
bill called the Physicians Make
Decisions Act and Arizona passed a
similar bill.
It makes it so that a board
certified physician has to approve
any insurance claims that
AI processes because AI has been
processing health care claims at an
alarming rate.
Would you be willing as governor
to work towards passing a similar
bill?
I'll be willing to sign that.
Again, we got to slow down.
We got to rein in big tech in
general. And the problem is,
if you give them off the cookie,
we've let them get it just inch
by inch by each by inch.
And it is just completely not just
taking over our lives, it's taking
over out job opportunities,
it's taken away our autonomy
in many instances.
And the
idea that somebody...
Can go bankrupt, you're talking
about medical debt.
The idea that somebody could go
bankrupt because of an algorithm is
crazy.
And so, yeah, I'm all for
putting these guardrails
in place for big tech and
AI.
I am all for reining them in
however possible.
The impact on minors and mental
health, like all these things.
Obviously, they're much better
done at the federal level, but as a
state, we can show some leadership.
And Wisconsin, historically, is a
place that shows leadership.
We have been on the right side of
history so often.
We have done the right thing so
often, we have led the way so
often we've had a few gaps.
We've had some setbacks.
But overall, we have truly
lived up to our motto.
Overall, we have been a
forward-thinking place.
We've had some of the most
progressive ideas come out of
Wisconsin.
We have had some the most impactful
legislation.
We have some of most deliberate
thought guiding the way in
Wisconsin.
And I know that we can do
that again.
It's why I ran for state
representative back in 2012
because even then,
at that point, I said, better was
possible because I was frustrated.
And When
I ran for lieutenant governor, I was
like, all right, yeah, we can still
do more.
And I never ran for office because
I thought things were going well.
If things are going well, I'll just
go home and chill, do something
else.
It would be.
This is very stressful, in case you
don't know.
It is very stressfull.
If anybody's thinking about a career
in politics, surely happy to help
you with your decision making.
Surely happy to give any of you the
pointers that you want if this is
something that's on your mind that
you really want to do, because I do
encourage young people to get
involved and run for office.
We need more voices.
We need diverse voices.
When I say diverse, I mean all
across the spectrum.
Age, race, gender, sexuality,
whatever. All the things, right?
We need as many people that truly
reflect a community,
that reflect our society as
possible. But it's stressful.
And if things are going well,
you wouldn't even see me here right
now.
But things aren't going well.
And I remember even
talking to people, frustrated
people, in office.
And they're like, oh yeah, well, I
don't feel like this is going around.
I don't like this. I don't like
this, I don't like that.
I'm like, look, you're never going
to agree with somebody 100% of the
time.
And if you want somebody that you're
going to agree 100% with, I
encourage you to run for office.
I encourage to put your name on the
ballot. I encourage that you go out.
Give your ideas, present your ideas
to the public.
I think that is, I think, that's
what you should do if you are, you
know, that passionate about a
thing or a collection of things.
I remember first few
weeks, first couple months, I would
say, as Lieutenant Governor, a group
of students came to
visit me in my office and they
were, you now, they were
fired up about climate change and
the climate crisis.
Like, we need to do this, we do
that, we need do this we need that.
I sat there, I let them yell at me
for like 45 minutes.
And I was like, y'all know I'm on
your side, right?
We were literally talking about the
same exact things.
I showed them everything that I
was trying to work on and
everything that the legislature had
stood firmly in
opposition to.
And it ended up being a very
productive conversation.
And one of the
students who was there, I don't Once
we created our climate change task
force, I appointed her to it,
because that's
the kind of firepower we need on
this task force.
That's the idea and vision that
we need. She was the youngest
person, and she was probably
the most ambitious person on
that task force and it was
very necessary to have her
there, to have a voice to one,
to be able to learn the ropes.
Because I have been
fortunate to have people who've
sort of lent me a hand in some sort
of way. After college,
I was an unpaid intern in
the mayor's office in Milwaukee.
But I got to learn about functions
of government.
While I'm sitting waiting on people
to call or knock on the door, I'm
just doing all kind of research.
I need to know how to answer the
questions when I answer the phone.
And it was a great learning
opportunity for me. And I wanted to
create that learning opportunity for
her and so many other people.
So it wasn't just her as an
individual. Like the group of
students that she was with, like I
wanted them to be able to go to her
and have a reliable source of
information.
And that's what we should be doing.
Not enough of that happens.
But that's also been
a part of my commitment to
bring in more people.
Bringing more people in.
I didn't see a whole lot of people,
one, who looked like me, but also
didn't a lot of who share my
experience.
I was born and raised in the city of
Milwaukee, born on 26th
and Locust. That's the heart of the
53206 zip code.
That's our state's poorest, nation's
most incarcerated zip code.
It places some real challenges.
And the reason why
those negative statistics
are the way they are is
because of one, lack of investment,
two, lack of accountability,
and three, lack of attention
being paid to
by people who have
that authority and the power
to do something.
And not only did I want to be a
part of that decision-making
process, that shift to paradigm,
I wanted to be an example
for anybody else in a community
like that who felt like
all hope was lost.
Who felt as if there
was nothing to be optimistic about
or felt that they couldn't change
things. I wanted them
to know that a
path existed for them to not just
address the issues, but to also
be in the decision-making
chair.
You're talking like one or two
really fast.
OK.
Yeah, we had two hands there.
Could we get pictures with you,
please? Oh, yeah, yeah.
Oh, here we go.
Yeah, thank you. Yeah, yeah yeah.
Oh, good. No problem.
Okay, so you mentioned a bit about
darker spots in Wisconsin
legislative history and you
mentioned Scott Walker a bit.
With Act, with Scott Walker's
Act 10, you talked a lot about your
father working in unions and unions
and your grandfather.
Would you take initiative to act
against Act 10? Oh, I've already, I
was out there in March.
Oh, I'm already, I was out there marching.
I was up there marching before I was
in office.
I got, yeah, I, that's honestly,
that was like catalytic for me when
Act 10 was being debated in
the legislature.
I was, I wasn't out there and it was
cold.
And, you know, that truly,
truly, that was, my
state representative, like
everybody, it's funny, it's like
everybody was speaking out against,
you now, Act 10, giving these long
speeches and like.
My state representative, he did vote
the right way.
But he was so silent about
it.
And I was like, what are you doing,
man? What's going on?
And I ran against him
the next year.
We are cool now, ironically enough.
He's a great guy.
On a personal level, the dudes,
we're very cool now.
But it was time for
him. And he actually, it is funny
because he acknowledged, we were
somewhere before, and we
were together. Here's what I got.
How many offerings?
He's like he's like I needed to
go he actually said it was crazy.
But um, yeah, no act because my
mother's public school teacher as
well And she's she
was very active in her union
In the teachers union.
So like I felt it was a personal
front to me Like I said, I wouldn't
I wouldn't have had you
know, the upbringing that I had
by no mean We were rich at
all bears didn't worry about the
bills a lot
But I was stable
And I think about
people in my neighborhood,
people I went to school with, even
family members whose lives were
drastically different than mine.
And I look at what
their educational journey was.
Because whenever I talk about education
as well, of course, we need to fully
fund our schools.
But we need make sure our children
are going to school on a solid and
stable footing.
And that just isn't the case.
And I thing about a lot of my
classmates that didn't have.
The same luxuries, and by luxuries
I mean we never had to worry about
moving, never had to get
evicted, never had worry about
food being on the table or not.
But so many of my friends either I
knew then or have come to learn in
adulthood, they were dealing with
some like real stuff,
some real stuff.
And I didn't have those
uncertainties.
And I say a couple things, like one,
I never knew where my dad worked, I
just knew he was a member of the UAW.
I just knew he was a member of the
union.
And I also say that
my parents' employers gave them
a job, but their unions gave
them real opportunity.
They gave them fair wage,
health insurance.
It allowed them to be able to take
off work if I got sick.
They didn't have to worry about
getting fired.
And it allowed them, again,
to have retirement comfort.
And again, I would not
have been able to
experience life The way that
I did if it were not for
their union membership.
And I'm not sure if I've already
said it, but my focus is
ensuring that everybody growing
up in the state of Wisconsin has at
least the same opportunities that I
have.
Last question. Go ahead, first.
Yep. All right.
Well, thank you all.
Really, really appreciate the time.
Y'all have been great. Y'all have been great.
Thank you.
Thank you for coming.
We're happy to.
Thank you, thank you. Of course.
Yeah, do you always want to jump in
place?
What's up, man? How you doing?
Good. You guys want me to take you
out of here? Yeah, that would be awesome.
Thank you.
Hey, nice to meet you.
Pleasure.
Yeah, everybody.
We'll get everybody up there.
Anybody that's comfortable.
Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you very much. For sure, thank you.
Hey, you too. Yeah.
Awesome. Please do.
Can you guys throw a big group
picture?
Yeah.
Anybody that would like to change
the color? We're just going to do
some rows.
Yeah, we can follow it.
Yes, row any square.
We can follow that.
Maybe we should switch.
Oh, yeah, maybe. Actually, maybe we
should. All right, look at it.
Wait, wait a second.
Wait, which one?
Me. OK.
Smile
Thank you.
And then can we get in the, oh,
okay.
That's it.
Can we get an exec board picture?
Oh, yeah. Thanks, guys.
Hey, thanks again, everybody.
Thank you so much.
Sorry.
Oh.
Yeah, best of luck.
Thank you so much. Appreciate you.
Thank you. Thank you, thank you.
Oh, yeah, of course. Thank you for
having me.
We appreciate it.
No, it's been great, it has been
great. Thank you for planning.
I appreciate you guys.
Stay involved.
Get even more involved.
If you got questions, happy to
answer them about running.
Feel free to take some pizza, I
don't want to have to take them
home.
So give me an update, how are you
feeling?
Feeling incredible, a few months
in actually, incredible response all
across the state.
We've been traveling nonstop, the
response has been incredible.
We see the momentum continue to
grow. We see support increase all
across Wisconsin.
So we've seen the first poll come
out. A lot of people still making up
their minds. How do you work that
with supporters who are like, why
are your numbers so much higher?
It's like, just slow down.
People are just too late. Oh, as a,
as.
Oh, as I said even before Marquette
poll came out to poll numbers are
poll numbers doesn't change our
program We're showing up all across
Wisconsin. We're talking to people I
mean there was a poll that came out
two days before show me within a
lead with eight points above the
next person So polls are polls are
always scattered all over the place
What matters is the response
of the people that we have been
talking to very confident about the
support that we?
Have and even more confident about
The Road Ahead
How are you seeing your campaign
kind of merge with Chris Taylor's
Supreme Court election as people are
tuning into both coming into April?
Yeah, people are, you know,
obviously we're, you
know, had the idea.
We know for sure, you know, people
that are going to be focused on
the spring election.
That's the way it goes. And people
should be focused on the Supreme
Court election right now.
So that's to be expected.
But we also expect to
be non-stop as soon as that race is
concluded.
And there's gotta be a chance to
build momentum from April to August,
November.
Oh absolutely, so we look at this
race and the organizing that we have
an opportunity to be a part of,
other conversations that we happen
to be part of as well, encouraging
people to get out and vote for
Chris Taylor. So we get to chat
in communities that may even have
lower voter turnout and people
in communities who may not even show
up in a race like this and we talk
about why this one is as
important as the November election.
So it gives us a chance to even just
talk to more people.
That's all we need from you.
Thank you.
All right.