During a rally in Atlanta on Saturday, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) spoke about Senate Democrats winning two seats in Georgia during the pandemic.
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00:00Are you ready to fight Atlanta?
00:28It is truly wonderful to see you all here.
00:32And I'd like to ask, first of all, every veteran in the building, please raise your hands and
00:38be honored by all of us here.
00:39Thank you for your service.
00:57And please know that Rafael and I are both so grateful for every one of you, for your
01:03hard work over so many years.
01:08So many years we've been working together.
01:11Take a moment and turn to your neighbor.
01:13Turn to your neighbor.
01:15Face yourself for a moment.
01:23Say to your neighbor, say we're in this together.
01:30Say we're in this together.
01:34Say we're in this together.
01:37Say we're in this together.
01:42We've been in this fight a long time together.
01:46And you'll recall five years ago we faced a different sort of crisis.
01:52It was the deadliest pandemic since 1918.
01:57Thousands died per day, tens of millions were out of work.
02:02The lines for the food banks, do you remember, they ran for miles.
02:08And Donald Trump was president then, too, thinking out loud about whether we should
02:15inject ourselves with bleach.
02:19You remember that?
02:23And at that moment of crisis, we held here in Georgia one of the most consequential Senate
02:30elections of all time.
02:31It was two for one, two for one.
02:39It was the Jewish kid and the black pastor running together with all of you alongside us.
02:47They said we couldn't win, do you remember?
02:52But we built one of the most powerful movements in Georgia's history and you picked me up
02:56and you picked Raphael up and you carried us on your shoulders.
03:04And now it is our deepest honor to represent you in the Senate.
03:08Do you all remember how it felt to fight and to win, Atlanta?
03:14You remember, Bentley?
03:17Look maybe right now you feel, maybe right now you feel surrounded by darkness.
03:24You might be a little numb.
03:26You might be wondering if there's a way out.
03:30But Atlanta, we don't have the luxury of despair because there are so many counting on us.
03:36Children and pregnant women who rely on Medicaid, veterans who have earned their care and benefits,
03:40children in our public schools, cancer patients counting on the next big breakthrough.
03:46An entire world hoping the United States has not given up on freedom.
03:59My little girl, my little girl and all our children who deserve to grow up in a kind
04:06and fair and decent country.
04:12The truth is, beyond personal revenge, there's not much to this president's agenda.
04:22It's tax breaks for the rich and rounding up immigrants.
04:25That's the whole program.
04:27We've seen the bill paid for by blowing out the deficit, cutting Medicaid and trying to
04:34close the new factories we helped open that make chips and solar panels and electric vehicles.
04:40That's the whole agenda.
04:44Let me ask you, yes or no, will your family's life improve because we borrow trillions of
04:50dollars to cut taxes for the wealthiest people in the country?