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00:00It only works so long as we can maintain it.
00:04It does not happen automatically.
00:06There is no autopilot.
00:07There is no guarantee.
00:08There is no safety net.
00:10You are the safety net for democracy.
00:13It's your actions that will get us over that.
00:18And so today we will have our local assemblywoman, Jody Emerson, with our senator from Massachusetts,
00:29Elizabeth Warren, and our very own governor, Tony Evers.
01:00A classroom where people clap.
01:02Yes!
01:03I love it.
01:04What a wonderful gift.
01:05Yes, Senator, are you comfortable in a classroom?
01:08Yes.
01:09Oh, how I miss it.
01:10All right.
01:11Good afternoon.
01:12Thank you all so much for being here.
01:15This is such an exciting time to have...
01:23...been fighting for women and families her entire career.
01:27And while she's been in Washington fighting for us alongside amazing senators like our
01:32very own Tammy Baldwin.
01:33Yes!
01:39And Governor Evers has been doing his part here in Wisconsin making our government work
01:44for working families.
01:45Thank you.
01:46Thank you.
01:47Thank you.
01:48Now, I know we...
01:57...to do yet.
02:13I think we...
02:17...I was in La Crosse.
02:18We were getting ready for the Wisconsin Democratic State Convention.
02:22And those of us that were there, we had a rally where people were just getting their
02:26emotions out.
02:27And this rally...
02:30...blocks upon blocks.
02:31And that was great.
02:33But for me, it really hit, Governor, when we were at a smaller gathering that evening.
02:40And you were talking, you spoke with such raw emotion in your voice about...
02:49...daughters had just been relegated to second-class citizen.
02:54And to paraphrase what you said, you said it was crap.
03:00Something like that.
03:01Something like that.
03:03Well, today, my own daughter is here and my granddaughter.
03:07And every time I hold that baby, I think about how her rights to be a whole person right
03:14now depend on which state she lives in and who's in office and what kind of activists
03:20are in court.
03:21And I think that's crap.
03:24Because we know that the single most important economic decision a person can make is whether
03:30and when to have...
03:35...with raising a child...
03:42...these costs impact what type of...
03:46...you can work, where you can live, what kind of daycare situation you can have.
03:51And daycare now is...
03:55So no one has to make that decision except the person who is pregnant and whomever they
04:01choose to bring into that...
04:04And we know firsthand here in the Chippewa Valley that reproductive health care isn't
04:08just about abortion health care.
04:11It's also about having access to providers to take care of you when you are pregnant.
04:17It's about having the birth team that you want with you when you are giving birth.
04:22And we have a local issue to deal with here with the closing of hospitals.
04:26But I want each of you to know that my office has been in constant contact with the governor
04:32and with Senator Baldwin's office.
04:34And we are working, local, state, and federal, as much as we possibly can to put a Band-Aid
04:40on this until we can, to grab one of your phrases, make real structural change about
04:45health care.
04:51But we also know that having a doctor in a hospital won't matter if Donald Trump gets
04:56re-elected.
04:58If he's back in office, he has bragged that he is responsible for overthrowing Roe.
05:05And now folks across the country are left wondering, what's next?
05:09Is it birth control?
05:10Is it IVF?
05:12There's a lot of questions that are on the table right now.
05:15But leaders like Senator Warren and Governor Evers are here today to tell us that we can
05:19fight back and we can win.
05:22And with President Biden and Vice President Harris in the White House, we're all going
05:26to work.
05:28President Biden and Vice President Harris are going to make sure that every American
05:33has the freedom to make the decisions that they need to make for their life in their
05:38circumstances.
05:40And there were some dark days in Wisconsin after the Dobbs decision.
05:44Days where we didn't feel like we had choices about what was happening with our own bodies.
05:49Days where we didn't feel like we had a voice.
05:52Days where we didn't feel like we had choices about what was happening with our own bodies.
05:57But Wisconsin has shown us, when our rights are on the line, we fight back and we fight
06:02back hard.
06:09This time, the radical right has gone too far.
06:13They really have.
06:15And we're going to fight back in November and we're going to make sure that Dems up
06:19and down the ballot get reelected because it's not just about the White House, it's
06:23about Congress, it's about the Senate.
06:26We need to send Tammy back.
06:28We need to make sure we've got a real chance to make sure that we can have a democratically
06:33controlled assembly for the first time in over a decade.
06:43And I know that makes the Governor very excited.
06:47And it makes me very excited.
06:49So we're going to need every single one of you working hard, doing your part, talking
06:53to your neighbors, knocking on doors.
06:56And with that, I would like to turn it over to my friend Tony Evers.
07:04I have to tell you, Representative Emerson deserves a huge, huge thanks.
07:10She does good work every single day and it's a very, very difficult job under very, very
07:16difficult circumstances.
07:19Jody, thank you.
07:20Thank you.
07:26And you know she's running for re-election too, just saying.
07:31Anyway, I just want to give a little recent history lesson on what's going on here in
07:36the state of Wisconsin.
07:38And I couldn't be happier sitting next to Elizabeth Warren.
07:42I have had that opportunity several times.
07:46And a person of great integrity, high, high, high thoughtfulness, lots of energy.
07:55And thank you so much for being here.
08:03So before, before Donald Trump appointed three people to the Supreme Court to, for the express
08:12purposes to get rid of Roe v. Wade, I was governor.
08:17And I spent a lot of time on this issue.
08:21And it's been really difficult.
08:25One of the great things about my job is I have a veto.
08:29And I vetoed every single bill that would have made it more difficult for women.
08:39And that was, that was good.
08:41I mean, I, you know, everybody knows where I stand.
08:44The legislature knows where I stand.
08:46They pass a bill in this arena and they know it's going to be vetoed if it's going to be
08:51bad for Wisconsin.
08:53But two years ago yesterday, I think is the day, the threesome on the Supreme Court and
09:00others decided that in the Dobbs decision to get rid of Roe v. Wade.
09:08And to say that that didn't send a chill up a lot of people's spines here in the state
09:14of Wisconsin would be an understatement.
09:17Because we really hadn't thought about that 1849 law that we had.
09:21I mean, it was, you know, it was in the back of our head, but we'd never thought that we'd
09:25end up with that 1849 bill that essentially, you know, I could give you an hour worth of
09:30discussion on it, but basically it took away the right to have an abortion in the state
09:35of Wisconsin.
09:37And that was the law of the land after that decision.
09:42And we did everything in our power to get the legislature and we had special sessions.
09:52They decided they weren't going to come.
09:55We put, Democrats put bills and no one was going to buy on that.
10:00So we worked hard to overturn that in the state of Wisconsin with, but we had to have
10:07Republican help.
10:08We got zero Republican help.
10:10And so that took some time, frankly.
10:13And then, so there, between that time and the time where we got a good decision out
10:20of circuit court here in the state of Wisconsin, there's over 400.
10:30So,
10:46Obviously, if a woman wanted to have abortions, you had to go out of state and our partners
10:52in Illinois and Minnesota and Michigan helped out.
10:56And if you look at one of the data points, it's really telling.
10:59In the time, in those 400 days, the number of women, Wisconsin women that were receiving
11:07reproductive health in the state of Illinois increased 600%, not 6%, not 60%, 600%.
11:17So you think about that and the inequity about that too.
11:22Who can afford to do that?
11:25If you don't have a car, how the hell are you going to get to Illinois and Minnesota
11:29or Michigan?
11:30And so that was extraordinary.
11:33And for 400 days, 2 million women in the state of Wisconsin had that right taken away from
11:42them, including my two kids, my daughters, seven granddaughters.
11:48Think about that.
11:50What a legacy that would be for me as a grandfather and father, but what a legacy that leaves
11:58our state.
11:59And so we're really happy we had one success in that circuit court.
12:04Obviously, it's going to end up in the state Supreme Court.
12:08And we hope you have a good result there, obviously.
12:11We worked hard to make that happen.
12:14But the end of the day is we just have to be prepared, because even if we're successful
12:21and planning on having success with the Supreme Court, Donald Trump has been very, very clear,
12:29very clear where he stands on things.
12:32In fact, I was reading the other night about how he didn't answer a question, and thank
12:40God he kept asking the question, because he has this way of not answering a question,
12:45and then they get tired of asking it.
12:48But the question was, should we punish women if they get an abortion?
12:52And he said, yes.
12:55Yes.
12:57That's our former president, and that is part of why this discussion today with all of you
13:05from the Glenner area is so very important.
13:08Because even if we are successful at the state level, and I'm planning on that happening,
13:14but we just have to continue this fight.
13:17We have to continue this fight internally in the state of Wisconsin.
13:20We have to do it.
13:21We have to make sure that we do it at the national level, too.
13:25This is too important, obviously.
13:27You know, it's interesting.
13:28I've had a lot of media, and they're probably going to ask this question later.
13:32Is that an issue in this campaign?
13:35Yes.
13:38Yes.
13:41It is an issue.
13:43It's with President Biden and former President Trump and Kamala Harris with President Biden.
13:51You know where they stand, and you know where he stands, and that's why this election is
13:58so important.
13:59That's why this discussion is so important.
14:01So we're going to continue this fight.
14:03This is not over.
14:04We're not just going to rely on our Supreme Court.
14:08It could be a surprise decision, but we cannot allow my kids and my family
14:17and all of you and your children.
14:20We cannot stop here.
14:22We have to do this.
14:25Well, I mentioned before, I think I did, that one of my really fun times I've always had
14:35when I run for office is when I can hang out with Senator Warren here.
14:40He's a person of high, high, high honesty, high energy, and I'm just so thankful you're here.
14:48Thank you.
14:49That's so sweet.
14:50Thank you.
14:53Hello, Claire.
14:54It's good to be here.
14:56Hello.
14:57I am so glad to be with all of you.
14:59It is such an honor to be here with Jody, to be here with the governor, to be here with real fighters.
15:06I like fighters.
15:08You may already know that.
15:11Joe Biden fights for access to abortion, so I fight for Joe Biden.
15:17That's why I'm here.
15:21Joe Biden fights for access to contraception, so I fight for Joe Biden.
15:29And Joe Biden fights for access to IVF, so I fight for Joe Biden.
15:37We are now entering the third year of an America without rug.
15:44And I just want you to think for a minute about what we've learned,
15:47because up until a little over two years ago, it was speculation.
15:53What would happen if Roe disappeared?
15:57And think about what we've learned since then.
16:00It's about women who've had to go out of state.
16:03You're exactly right about that.
16:05It's about who it falls hardest on, on poor women, on women who already have three kids and two jobs
16:14and can't take off work for two days to be away.
16:19Absolutely.
16:21But think what else we've learned about.
16:24It's about 10-year-olds and 12-year-olds who've been raped
16:30and who can't get the medical treatment they need.
16:35A post-Roe world is a world in which women who are having miscarriages are told in Texas,
16:46sorry, you're not near enough death, go out to the parking lot and bleed a little longer
16:57and then come back in and we'll take another look before we can give you the health care that you need.
17:05It's about couples that want to have a family
17:11and now have learned that the clinic they've been working with has closed
17:18because they are in violation or they worry that they are in violation of local law.
17:25It is about medical practices that have changed.
17:29Doctors who have said, I can't do OBGYN work anymore
17:37because it's a continuum of providing health care for those who need it.
17:43It's about doctors who say, I can't honor my Hippocratic oath
17:49without a lawyer at my elbow while I try to practice medicine, I give up.
17:56I'm just moving away and denying access to health care to more and more people who need it.
18:06So I want you to think about what this two years has been about.
18:11About the people whose lives have been torn apart.
18:14About the people who now won't be able to have babies because they were left to get infected,
18:22to have to get nearer to death before they can get the abortion services they need.
18:28Think about what this has meant.
18:30Because it's us.
18:32This is about our sisters, our daughters, our granddaughters,
18:38it's about our cousins, it's about our friends from school,
18:41it's about our neighbors, it's about people we know and care about.
18:47That's what's on the line here.
18:51So here's what I want to say about that and why we have to be in this fight.
18:56First, it's about Donald Trump and the Republicans.
18:59Donald Trump is trying the old talk out of both sides of your mouth thing.
19:08So he says, when he thinks good and decent people across this country are listening,
19:13mumble, mumble, mumble about abortion.
19:16Maybe yes, maybe no, state law, blah, blah, maybe, you know, right in the whole shuffle.
19:22But he gets in front of his right-wing base, his extremists.
19:28And what does he do?
19:30He brags.
19:32He preens.
19:34He says, other presidents tried to get rid of Roe, but Donald Trump is the one who delivered.
19:43Understand that about him.
19:45He knows how unpopular it is, and yet he can't resist the opportunity
19:52to take it all on himself and to brag about what he has done
19:58to healthcare, to women in America.
20:01So that's part one.
20:02But part two in this is understand that today,
20:06one out of every three women of reproductive age lives in a state
20:11that basically blocks access to abortion.
20:15Donald Trump and the Republicans will not rest until it is three out of three women.
20:21That is, until abortion is blocked all across this country.
20:26And by the way, it's not just abortion.
20:30It's also some forms of contraception and it's IVF.
20:34So how do we know this?
20:36We know this partly from the things Donald Trump has said.
20:39We know this partly from the extremist group that is driving the Republican Party.
20:44But we know it partly from what the Republicans have actually done.
20:49Over in the House of Representatives, a majority of Republicans are co-sponsors,
20:56people who've written and put their names on the so-called fetal personhood bill.
21:03A fertilized egg has to be treated as a person.
21:08And that means no abortion.
21:10It's not about exceptions.
21:12No abortion anywhere in the United States.
21:16Also no IVF because you can't do IVF under those circumstances
21:20and certain kinds of birth control gone.
21:23A majority of Republicans are already there as co-sponsors.
21:27They get control.
21:30It's done.
21:32On the Senate side, last week,
21:35oh, let's do these Republican senators, including your own,
21:39who mumble around, oh, yeah, I'm going to try IVF.
21:44Yeah, that's great.
21:45Contraception, oh, I love about contraception, right?
21:49Very quotable things, mumble on.
21:51Don't want to talk about it.
21:53So Democrats said, fine, don't talk about it, let's vote on it.
21:57We put a very simple bill on the floor last week,
22:00and it just said whatever else is going on out there,
22:05we have a bill here that will protect access to IVF all across the country.
22:13Every Republican, save two, voted no.
22:19There it is.
22:20They've already told you.
22:21And the week before, did the same thing on contraception.
22:24Same result, Republicans blocked.
22:27So understand this.
22:30They're coming for all of us.
22:33And now let's give it one last twist.
22:37The Republicans have gotten together a group.
22:39Some of you have heard about it, Project 2025.
22:42Oh, yeah, I can tell you've heard about this.
22:45So they've gotten all the big conservative groups,
22:48big money into this, and laid out the roadmaps, more than 900 pages long.
22:53They've laid out the roadmap here.
22:55And the roadmap says, great, if we can get House, Senate,
23:00they've laid out what they want to do for us.
23:03But even if they can't, if Donald Trump makes it to the White House,
23:08they have their plan for how Donald Trump all by himself
23:15will block access to abortion, some forms of contraception,
23:21and all IVF all across America.
23:25And the reason I want to underline this is I'm in a blue state.
23:29Massachusetts, man, we are there on protecting access to abortion.
23:35We do a lot on mailing out for medication abortions.
23:39I know that you've had to really work through challenging times in Wisconsin.
23:44Looks like you're in a much better place now.
23:47But understand this, federal law controls over state law.
23:51And if Donald Trump is in the White House,
23:55it won't matter what you've done here in Wisconsin.
23:58It won't matter what we've done in Massachusetts.
24:01Abortion will be banned everywhere in this country.
24:06And just for one minute, let me do a quick contrast here.
24:12Joe Biden is using every tool he's got right now
24:15to try to give us access as much as you can within the law.
24:19We've lost Roe.
24:21He can't get anything through a house that's controlled by Republicans,
24:25but Department of Defense, under Joe Biden,
24:29guarantees access for every active-duty military and military family member
24:34to get access to abortion, IVF and contraception.
24:39Department of Veterans Affairs makes sure that there's access for every veteran.
24:45Go Department of Veterans Affairs.
24:48FDA is working right now to make certain
24:51that there's access to medication abortion all across the country.
24:56And the Department of Justice, under Joe Biden,
24:59is out there fighting every one of these radical lawsuits
25:03that are trying to take away even more rights in the reproductive area.
25:09So he's using the tools he's got, but here's his promise.
25:13Joe Biden and the White House, we will hang on to our protections that we've got.
25:19You give us a Democratic Senate, and you give us a Democratic House.
25:24And with Joe Biden and the White House,
25:27we will make Roe v. Wade law of the land.
25:31Every day.
25:43Well, my goodness, Senator, I was supposed to ask a few questions,
25:46but I think you got it all.
25:48I'm putting it in the classroom, and I'm just ready.
25:50I can't help it.
25:52There's so much to talk about.
25:54But, you know, I think what I really struggle with is, you know,
25:59my mom and my grandma, their generation fought for this.
26:02Yes.
26:03And now we're fighting for it again.
26:05I mean, how did we get here?
26:07Is it we, you know, the governor kind of touched on it a little bit,
26:10like, oh, we thought Roe was there.
26:12We didn't have to worry about getting that 1849 law off.
26:15You know, how do we work on codifying Roe?
26:17How do we get there?
26:19So it's an awful question to ask.
26:23I remember where I was the day that the opinion was announced.
26:28And my response was not to be sad, not to be upset, not to be disappointed.
26:36It was to be mad as hell.
26:39I was furious.
26:43And I was furious because six people,
26:47six people want to impose their extremist religious views on the rest of America.
26:56They can hold those views.
26:57That's fine with me.
26:58They can do what they want to do in their lives.
27:01They can try to influence their children, their friends.
27:05But they wanted to take their views and make it the law for the entire rest of the country.
27:14I was furious, but I want you to understand this.
27:17I was also optimistic, and I'll tell you why I'm optimistic.
27:21Because I stood on the steps of the United States.
27:24I just walked straight out of my office and over to the Supreme Court steps.
27:28And I said, okay, I've read what you've done, but understand this.
27:33It's about power.
27:35And right now, six of you have the power to burn Roe v. Wade to the ground,
27:42but you are not the final power.
27:44The final power rests with the voters.
27:49And the voters are going to make Roe v. Wade.
27:55And understand this.
27:58We really will do this.
28:00So just give us the skinniest possible majority in the House.
28:06I'm not asking for like a big cushion.
28:10Skinny, okay?
28:12We can do a lot with a skinny majority.
28:15I understand.
28:16Maybe it's state law, too.
28:18And give us 50 votes now in the United States Senate,
28:24and Joe Biden in the White House, we will make Roe v. Wade law of the land.
28:29Count on it.
28:30Count on it.
28:35One other thing I just want to bring up, and maybe one of your questions,
28:38but it's one of the things that worries me a lot about this issue
28:43is that if we don't get this solved now,
28:46what's going to happen in the state of Wisconsin is that at some point in time,
28:51the people that accredit the training of OBGYN doctors are going to say,
28:58no more in Wisconsin.
28:59You cannot prepare them anymore.
29:02And that's not like something that can be reversed overnight.
29:07If things change and then you try to do it again,
29:11it's really hard to get that accreditation.
29:14I know I vetoed those bills.
29:16There have been Republican bills on that to essentially get out of the OBGYN business
29:23in the state of Wisconsin.
29:24So whatever we do, it's got to be now.
29:29Because if we wait, suddenly we won't have the doctors we need,
29:34and that doesn't turn around in a day.
29:39You're right.
29:40That was one of my questions.
29:44Hopefully, depending on how elections go, maybe someday.
29:54I think it's important, and here in Wisconsin,
29:57if they don't have access to doing the training that they need to,
30:01how are we supposed to get nurse practitioners, OBGYNs,
30:05to be able to be certified to do the work that they need to do?
30:09And we already have a lot of missing pieces in the health care system.
30:16We have a lot of vacancies.
30:18I know we've got a few retired OBGYNs in the crowd today.
30:24That's what concerns me.
30:27Who's coming up next?
30:28And how do we make sure that they've got the education they need
30:31to take care of patients in the future?
30:34I was on a panel with several people,
30:37two students that are preparing to be OBGYN practitioners,
30:44and they're just scared silly.
30:47I mean, they've invested a lot of their lives in this preparation,
30:51and both of them said it.
30:55If they pull that away from us, they're getting out of the state.
31:00They're leaving.
31:02And those are things that you just can't turn around
31:07and make it whole in a day or a week or a year.
31:11And so the time is now to get this figured out.
31:16And if we want Wisconsin to be a place where people are going to move to
31:20to raise their family, one of the first things that you look at is,
31:24do I have a house to live in, what are the schools,
31:26and what's the medical care here?
31:28And if we can't have decent medical care,
31:31whether it's in this region or the whole state,
31:34who's going to move from Minnesota to Wisconsin,
31:36other than the Packers Vikings?
31:38They want to be all women's staff.
31:42And I think that's what concerns me.
31:45And, you know, Senator Warren, we know that not every pregnancy is perfect.
31:50Not every pregnancy goes according to plan.
31:54And that the road to getting pregnant isn't always easy, too.
31:57And you touched on this a little bit,
31:59but Senator Kelder-Royce and I have a bill in Wisconsin to protect IVF.
32:04And not only could we not get a hearing on it,
32:07we couldn't even get a single Republican to sign on to it.
32:11And you talked a little bit about this,
32:13but can you talk a little bit more about IVF nationally
32:16and what concerns you have over the attack on that?
32:21So this is a reminder why it is that legislators
32:27should not be legislating health care.
32:32So let's just do a little Bio 101, right, about IVF, for example.
32:38IVF often involves extraction of multiple eggs
32:43and fertilizing multiple eggs in order to decide
32:48which ones look like the ones that are most likely to become viable.
32:55If every fertilized egg has to be treated under the fetal personhood bill as a person,
33:06and it would be a homicide to deliberately dispose of an egg that is not viable,
33:18that clearly has problems,
33:21people I've spoken to at IVF clinics just say,
33:24we're done, we're out of the business.
33:28I'll pick up two other problems.
33:30A second problem is there often is multiple implantation,
33:36acknowledging it can be a rough journey for both the fertilized egg and for the mama.
33:46And sometimes some of the eggs have to be removed
33:50in order to give the others a chance to grow.
33:56We hear these cases now.
33:58The woman who had to leave Texas, and I say it as if it's not just one,
34:02but she's the one who was public about it.
34:05She had twins, and one twin was clearly not going to make it,
34:11was in terrible trouble,
34:13and was threatening the life of the other twin and of the mama.
34:17And yet in Texas, the twin that was threatening both of them,
34:23no abortion services available, she just had to leave the state.
34:27That's all that was available to her.
34:29And then the third part is a very common story with IVF,
34:35and that is the tri-implantation, it hasn't worked,
34:40but the miscarriage has not gone as hoped either.
34:45And so it takes what's called a DNC, but that is also what an abortion is.
34:51And a woman needs that opportunity in order to get healthy again so she can try again.
34:58And again, states now that are banning access are saying no, no, no.
35:05And I just picked three.
35:07I'm in a room with OBGYNs that could fill in another 10 and another 20,
35:13and the story's on this.
35:15But that really becomes the heart of it.
35:18This is why it is so urgent that we recognize that access to abortion,
35:27to contraception, to IVF is on the ballot on November 5th.
35:33And if we don't get the Democrats and Joe Biden in there to protect it
35:38and the Republicans take over,
35:41we've just begun to see the hurt that this imposes.
35:48And this is why I'm here in Wisconsin.
35:53We need everyone in Wisconsin to understand you all are crucial to this.
35:58You are one of the key states that could go one way, could go the other.
36:05The difference between your standing up and saying, I'm in this fight,
36:10I'm going to knock on doors, I'm going to pitch in $10, I'm going to organize people,
36:15I'm going to make clear how urgent it is that we vote for Joe Biden and Democrats,
36:22and Democrats up and down the ballot.
36:26Making that case is truly the difference for people all across this country,
36:33not just in Wisconsin, but all across this country, and not just for now,
36:38but for decades and decades, for generations, for our babies to come.
36:43So this is going to be up to you.
36:46And I'm grateful to be here with both of you, but most of all grateful to be with you,
36:52people who understand the importance of democracy and the importance of putting in the work
36:58so that we can build an America that reflects the values of most of us,
37:04instead of just a tiny little extremist handful.
37:08So thank you.
37:10Thank you.
37:18I think that's the perfect way to wrap it up today.
37:20I mean, I can't think of a better way to end this discussion than to say,
37:24if you were upset two years ago and one day ago, and every day in between,
37:30if you're frightened by what some of the things that Senator Warren talked about
37:34that is coming down the pipe for us, I need you to not just vote in November.
37:41I need you to work between now and November, and in the way that you can.
37:45Everybody can send out a text.
37:47Everybody can send out an email.
37:49Everybody can get a few people together and invite a candidate over to have further talk about this.
37:56Elections don't just happen on November.
38:00We need to work up to that, and it starts today.
38:03And so please, I know Dylan talked about this before we came in,
38:07we need each and every one of you to do what you can to make Donald Trump's Project 2025
38:15not a reality now or ever, because that is not the country we want to live in.
38:21So thank you so much for coming, but don't let this be the end.
38:26Thank you.
38:34We'll do a quick photo line if people could line up against that side of the wall over there,
38:38and we'll have everybody come up front.