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🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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0:00.0 | Joining us today is Kai Von Schroff, the Press Secretary of Dream for America. |
0:08.8 | Welcome, Kai Von. |
0:10.1 | Great to be with you. |
0:12.3 | Today, 238 days to go. |
0:16.8 | By the time people hear this, it will be a little less. |
0:20.6 | But you are one of 15 groups today that |
0:25.9 | endorsed President Biden. Tell me about that. Absolutely. So we were part today of one of the |
0:33.5 | biggest youth coalitions to endorse the presidential candidate in history. And we're proud to do so |
0:39.4 | because of the wins that Biden has under his belt. I know there's been a lot of conversation |
0:44.6 | about the president's age. But as he laid out at the state of the union, it's about ideas, |
0:49.5 | new ideas that move us forward. And that's exactly what he's done. He's, you know, from gun violence |
0:55.3 | to climate change, to student loan forgiveness. We can get into it all. But he's shown up for young |
1:00.4 | voters. Your group aims to be oppositional to turning points USA, which is the Charlie Kirk led group. |
1:10.5 | Absolutely. So basically, and we look at sort of the school board |
1:14.9 | races as a model for why we feel the need to compete here, because as I'm sure you're well aware, |
1:20.9 | I think Democrats sort of had their head in the sand on some of those local races for really |
1:25.8 | decades. And then one day woke up and wondered why, |
1:28.8 | you know, you had crazy curriculums being installed. You had these book bans. You had school boards |
1:33.8 | that were so far right from what the actual communities represented. And that's because there was a very |
1:39.2 | well-funded, well-organized, top-down Republican effort to compete in those races, and Democrats |
1:45.8 | weren't showing up. Then finally, you had groups like run for something, invest in those races, |
1:51.1 | get some young, great candidates involved. And in 2023, for example, right, it was a shutout |
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