1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: The election, for the first time in a long time, 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:08,040 Speaker 1: has become once again about the thing that it must 3 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 1: be about, and that is Donald Trump, the worst and 4 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: most dangerous person in American history. It's the first day 5 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: of February twenty twenty four, and there is good news 6 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: for a change. When it comes to the polling in 7 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: the race between President Biden and Donald Trump. Quinnipiac is 8 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: showing for the first time in a long time that 9 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 1: President Biden is pulling ahead and that if the election 10 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 1: were tomorrow, he would win, gaining the necessary two hundred 11 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:48,880 Speaker 1: and seventy electoral votes. This poll is among the first 12 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: where women voters are starting to assert themselves overtly rejecting 13 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: the idea that Donald Trump could ever become the commander 14 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: in chief again. American women have a stark choice to make. 15 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:10,320 Speaker 1: Donald Trump has been convicted of sexual abuse, and he 16 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:15,399 Speaker 1: has been convicted of defaming repeatedly the victim of that 17 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: sexual abuse, Egene Carroll. American women have to understand that 18 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: their rights, their freedom, and their liberty is endangered by 19 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: the Maga movement. The Maga movement supports a dogma of control. 20 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: It holds out because it is in league and alliance 21 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: with Christian fundamentalists and religious extremists, that women are subordinate, subservient, 22 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: that the men are the masters of women, and that 23 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: men will decide what goes on with women's bodies from 24 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 1: cradle to birth. Is that what American women want? Because 25 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: that is the proposition at hand. Let's look at the 26 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:21,919 Speaker 1: state of Texas. Governor Greg Abbott declared he would end 27 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:29,359 Speaker 1: rape in Texas. Somehow rape would stop if only abortion 28 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 1: was made illegal. Well, abortion is illegal in Texas. Rape 29 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:42,119 Speaker 1: has not stopped, but greg Abbott's legislation has achieved its 30 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 1: desired effect. Tens of thousands of Texas women are now 31 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: forced to carry their rapists baby. These women have no freedom, 32 00:02:55,200 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 1: they have no agency, they have no control. They are 33 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:07,359 Speaker 1: trapped by the laws passed by an overwhelmingly male political 34 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 1: body that doesn't care at all about the dignity the 35 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:21,080 Speaker 1: basic human rights of women. Hillary Clinton was exactly correct 36 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,920 Speaker 1: when she said many years ago at a UN conference, 37 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: women's rights are human women's rights are human rights, and 38 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: human rights are women's rights. And this is a fundamental 39 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: proposition on the ballot. Understand this. Mike Johnson, the Speaker 40 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 1: of the House, is a religious fanatic who believes that 41 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: people and dinosaurs lived together six thousand years ago. He 42 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: does not believe that women or blacks or equal to 43 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 1: white men in the eyes of God. He rejects it. 44 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 1: He rejects democracy. He rejects the American Constitution that he's 45 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 1: sworn an oath to. He is a biblical fundamentalist that 46 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 1: believes literally every single printed word in the Bible is 47 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: the inerrant word of God. He is a theocrat. He 48 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 1: does not believe in American democracy. And so on this 49 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 1: the first day of Black History Month, it's important to 50 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 1: remember that American freedom has been hard won for women 51 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 1: and blacks who were enslaved in this country and were 52 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: only emancipated after Civil War killed eight hundred and fifty 53 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:05,279 Speaker 1: thousand people in a war that was absolutely one hundred 54 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: percent about slavery. No matter what Nicky Haley or Donald 55 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 1: Trump or any other maga Republican says, Nicky Haley seems 56 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 1: not to understand the consequences of that war. So, no, 57 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:28,039 Speaker 1: it's not okay for Texas to secede, and no, it's 58 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 1: not okay for twenty five state governors to send National 59 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: guardsmen to Texas to engage in foreign policy there is 60 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,599 Speaker 1: one president of the United States at a time. In 61 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: the United States, it's Joe Biden, and the federal government, 62 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,679 Speaker 1: not Greg Abbott, is in charge of the American border 63 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: with the state of Texas. Understand this extremism is real, 64 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: it is here, and it wants control. You're safer if 65 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 1: you're a white man, but certainly at risk if you 66 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 1: speak out. But look around and understand this. Women, blacks, 67 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:23,040 Speaker 1: minorities are all at risk. They are at risk because 68 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: of a political dogma, an extremeist dogma, an extremist dogma 69 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 1: that has attracted the worst elements in American society and 70 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: has loosed again in the country a spirit of racial malice. 71 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 1: These people around the march. But the good news is 72 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 1: the American people are tuning in. This will be a 73 00:06:55,040 --> 00:07:00,279 Speaker 1: very very easy election to understand. Whoever it is about 74 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: is going to lose. And for the last week or so, 75 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:09,039 Speaker 1: the election, for the first time in a long time, 76 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: has become once again about the thing that it must 77 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 1: be about, and that is Donald Trump, the worst and 78 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 1: most dangerous person in American history, an a moral nihilist 79 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:30,679 Speaker 1: who seeks to tear down two hundred and fifty years 80 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: of American freedom, for himself, so he can take, he 81 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: can control, he can plunder, and he can steal. It's 82 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: unacceptable and the American people are the only ones in 83 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 1: the world who can stop it. And we must because 84 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 1: if we don't, we face national catastrophe. 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