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🗓️ 20 December 2020
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D. Taylor – President of UNITE HERE – reports on what their 600+ canvassers are hearing at the doors. (Good News – no one’s pulled a gun on them like they did in NV and AZ during the general.)
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, we've got a great one today. Again, fooled you, huh? |
0:12.1 | Hey, I've done great ones before. It's just that, you know, we're coming off a run of very weak ones. |
0:20.4 | But this one breaks the streak. We have |
0:24.3 | D. Taylor who runs the ground organization for Unite Here. Unite Here is a labor union, which represents |
0:31.9 | 300,000 working people. Their members work in hotel, gaming, food service, manufacturing, laundry, transportation. |
0:40.7 | These are working people. And I know them from the culinary workers in Nevada. I saw their |
0:46.6 | operation there for Harry Reid back in 2010. And again, these are working people. They knock on doors, and they talk to folks. |
0:57.6 | And 1,700 of them did that this year in Nevada, Arizona, Florida, and Pennsylvania, |
1:04.8 | and now they have 600 canvassers in Georgia, and I've been encouraging you all to help them out because, you know, |
1:13.2 | the stakes of this runoff in Georgia, control of the Senate, which will determine whether Joe Biden |
1:20.2 | will be able to work with Congress, confirm his executive appointments. There's 2,000 positions that have to be confirmed by the Senate, |
1:32.3 | and that doesn't include judges. Will President Biden be able to fill a Supreme Court |
1:37.5 | vacancy if, say, Justice Breyer decides to retire, or will Mitch McConnell pull another |
1:43.6 | Merrick Garland? And how about our, just our agenda on |
1:48.6 | health care, climate, the tax code, labor rights, voting rights? Georgia is the finish line for |
1:53.7 | 2020 and the stakes could not be higher. You know, I want to thank you. Unite here has 600 canvassers on the ground, and that's because of the resources that they used to pay for this. |
2:08.3 | They have been hit especially hard because of COVID in terms of jobs. |
2:12.8 | At one point, they had 95% unemployment in Nevada. |
2:17.8 | Now it's about 75% nationwide. |
2:21.0 | My PAC, my political action committee, gave very early to their operation in Nevada. |
2:27.5 | We were the first to give in Georgia. |
2:29.4 | They are limited only by the resources, and I want to thank you. |
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