Revolution . [cheers and applause] are you ready to fight for someone you dont know . [cheers and applause] i want each one of you in the audience to take a quick moment with me. Hold the hand of the person to your right. [laughter] [indistinct chatter] its going to be all right. And then, i want you to turn to them and look them in the eye, dont be shy. [laughter] [indistinct chatter] look at the person to your right. And then, i want you to tell them that you are ready to fight for them. [indistinct chatter] [cheers and applause] rep. Omar because we do this because while others are gathered tonight to fight our movement, we are gathered to fight for somebody we dont know. [cheers and applause] because that is the minnesota thing to do. The theme, the theme for Bernies Campaign is not me, us that is a commitment to openness, to inclusivity, to solidarity. [cheers and applause] and that is the theme of minnesota. [cheers and applause] because its an extension of what the late, great senator wellstone [cheers and applause] used to say when he said we do better when we all do better. [cheers and applause] because in minnesota, we build revolutions, we lead progressive politics, we practice the politics of joy. [cheers and applause] and we practice inclusive politics. [cheers and applause] so as a minnesotan [cheers and applause] i know that we believe that giving is living. And thats why in the twin cities, we are always number one in the region, in the country, for volunteering. [applause] i see it everywhere that we go, that we practice solidarity here in minnesota. How many of you in this room are Union Members or know someone in a union . [cheers and applause] so i am a proud former axne member, and i know that when my brothers and sisters and i went on strike, it was people who did not know us that would come and would bring us gift cards so we would have money to feed our children, pay our gas, and keep up the spirit to continue fighting for our wages. I know that in minnesota, we are always fighting for someone we dont know. Because i know that in cold october, november, it was minnesotans in minneapolis that for 18 days occupied the fourth precinct [cheers and applause] after mr. Clark was killed, because they knew injustice had taken place, and they were willing to stand to fight for someone they did not know irregardless of whether he committed a crime or not. [cheers and applause] i also know that for a campaign to win for people to have the right to marry who they love [cheers and applause] and defeat bigotry happened because all of you were all willing to fight for someone you did not know. [cheers and applause] i also know that in minnesota, some people talk about no go zones. But the truth is, the truth is we are an open, Inclusive Society because when a mosque was set ablaze, their neighbors, palmers, the pub next door, came to their aid. [cheers and applause] and i know some people would find that a little strange that in a no go zone, a mosque and a pub share a building, but that is what we do here in minnesota. [cheers and applause] people talk a lot about the heartland. They do not think people who look like me represent the heartland. But i tell people all the time, that the heartland does not only welcome refugees, it sends them to congress. [cheers and applause] here in the heartland, we have farmers that know what it means to work from the crack of dawn to sunset, that know what it means to live next door and uplift their immigrant neighbors, who know what it means to work three jobs just to put food on the table. [applause] here in the heartland, we are union strong. [cheers and applause] we believe love is love. And that immigrants get the job done. [cheers and applause] we also believe in having politics that is acceptable, accountable and transparent. We hold our politicians to account. We understand that their track records matter. And here in the heartland, we know that when bernie says he is fighting for us, that is true because he has always been fighting for us. [cheers and applause] so i am a little sick and tired of the political establishment and the political pundits that are constantly dismissing what people here in the heartland and across america are fighting for. [cheers and applause] i get sick and tired of hearing them call our progressive, bold ideas as radical. [cheers and applause] here in minnesota, we believe no child should show up to their classroom starving. [cheers and applause] that we cant feed the brains of Young Children unless we feed their bellies. That we must implement Universal School meals. [cheers and applause] so if they want to call that a radical idea, then sign us up. [cheers and applause] here in minnesota, we also believe that homeless camps should not be set up on the side of the roads for our indigenous brothers and sisters. [cheers and applause] whose ancestral land we occupy while they freeze outside in the cold and walk by to disregard their pain and say we do not have enough money to house them while we live in the richest country of the world. [cheers and applause] now if you think that is radical, then sign me up. [cheers and applause] i also know that they believe freeing 45 Million People from the shackles of student debt is radical. [cheers and applause] now i happen to think that is a sound policy that needs to be implemented yesterday. [cheers and applause] if believing Climate Change is an existential threat to humanity and that we need a Green New Deal to address it, if it is a radical idea, then sign me up. [cheers and applause] here in minnesota, we know whether you are a young person worried about our planet, you are a janitor cleaning buildings in downtown minneapolis, you are a farmer that is working to make sure you produce enough to be able to feed your children, or you are an immigrant looking to find the American Dream here in the heartland, that our destinies are tied together and that we cannot fight one form of hate while enabling another. [cheers and applause] because you will sometimes hear political pundits compare our populist movement to the Movement Trump is building. [booing] now, his is one that uses the anxieties that many of our communities are feeling to feel hate and pit us against one another. [booing] and the movement we are building is one that unites all of us so that we can heal our country. [cheers and applause] because we believe in radical love. We believe in radically fighting for someone you do not know. We believe in eradicating poverty. [cheers and applause] we believe in not allowing a child to go hungry. [cheers and applause] we believe the lives of People Matter regardless of where they were born and regardless of what their religion is and regardless of what their ethnicity is. [cheers and applause] we believe that it is important for us to invest in having medicare for all. [cheers and applause] and making sure we are housing our people. And that we are feeding our children. [cheers and applause] educating the next generation. And not using all of our resources to go bomb people in other countries. [cheers and applause] so for a lot of people, this election is just about trump. But for many of us, this election is about a lot more than trump. [cheers and applause] i do not just want us to defeat trump. I want us to fight for a better future. [cheers and applause] and i am proud to be here to make sure that you all vote for the person who is going to make sure we get that better future. [cheers and applause] so it is with honor that i introduce [cheers and applause] senator bernie sanders. [cheers and applause] our next president of the United States. Sen. Sanders thank you. [chanting bernie] [cheers and applause] thank you, st paul. [cheers and applause] i cannot believe this turnout. Thank you so much for being here tonight. Let me introduce you to the next first lady of the United States, jane sanders. [cheers and applause] it looks like st. Paul is ready for a political revolution. [cheers and applause] let me thank those who have gone up here before. Maria and her band. Let me thank nathaniel and the night sweats. Let me thank michael fairbanks. City councilwoman yang, jean ross of the National Nurses united. Let me thank jeremiah ellison. And his dad, the attorney general of the great state of minnesota, keith ellison. [cheers and applause] let me thank erica schatzline. Let me thank mayra lopez. Let me thank one of the bravest people i know, your congresswoman, ilhan omar. [cheers and applause] youre very fortunate indeed to have a great congresswoman like ilhan. Now before i begin, i want to mention to you what i think all of you know. You know that your senator, amy klobuchar, dropped out of the president ial race today. [cheers and applause] and you know i have known amy for a long time. We came into the senate together in 2006. She is one of the hardest workers that i know. I like amy. [cheers and applause] and yesterday, Pete Buttigieg dropped out of the race as well. [cheers and applause] and as you all know, petes campaign was an Historic Campaign and a brave campaign. He was the first openly gay candidate for president of the United States. And tonight, i want to open the door to amys supporters and petes supporters. [cheers and applause] i know that there are political differences, but i also know virtually all of amys support and petes support understand that we have to move toward a government which believes in justice, not greed. [cheers and applause] and that our government must be based on principles of economic justice, social justice, racial justice, environmental justice. [cheers and applause] so to all of amy and petes millions of supporters, the door is open. Come on in. [cheers and applause] our campaign is about two fundamental issues. First, we must and will defeat the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country. [cheers and applause] the American People, no matter what their political views may be, understand we cannot continue to have in office a president who embarrasses us every day. [cheers and applause] a president who is a pathological liar. [cheers and applause] a president who is running a corrupt administration. [cheers and applause] a president who apparently has never read the constitution of the United States. [cheers and applause] a president who does not believe in democracy, but is trying to move us into an autocratic type of society. [booing] i say to donald trump, youre going to learn what democracy is about next november. [cheers and applause] because the American People are going to throw you out of office. [cheers and applause] now, all of the Democratic Candidates and amy and pete and everybody who has run, we all share the understanding that together, we are going to beat donald trump. We are all united on that. [cheers and applause] so let us be clear, there are obvious differences of opinion. Thats true. But all of us understand that our differences of opinion pale in comparison to the differences that we have with trump. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders now, as you all know, you cannot miss it if you turn on the tv, the establishment in this country, the Economic Establishment and the political establishment are becoming very nervous. [cheers and applause] i think i read something in the paper today that some folks on wall street think that our victory will be an existential threat to their greed. [cheers and applause] and i read something the other day where a guy, a lobbyist for the military industrial complex, he is worried as well we are going to end endless wars. [cheers and applause] and the pharmaceutical industry, my god, they are shaking in their boots. [cheers and applause] their executives are going to have to take some of their tranquilizers because they understand we will not tolerate in our country paying in some cases 10 times more for the same prescription drugs sold in canada or other countries. And the Insurance Companies are getting a little nervous. [cheers and applause] because the American People are sick and tired of spending twice as much per person on health care as do the people of any other country. [cheers and applause] and despite spending so much, we have got 87 Million People uninsured or underinsured, 30,000 of us die each year because we do not get to a doctor on time because we are uninsured, and unbelievably, half a Million People go bankrupt because of medically related debt. The Insurance Industry is worried and they are spending a whole lot of money on lying ads. They are nervous that the American People understand that health care is a right, not a privilege. [cheers and applause] and that whether they like it or not, we will pass a medicare for all singlepayer program. [cheers and applause] but it is not just the corporate establishment that is getting nervous. The political establishment is getting nervous. [cheers and applause] and they look at rallies like this in st. Paul and they say, what is going on here . [cheers and applause] imagine a Democratic Party in which working people and young people finally have a real voice. [cheers and applause] so the question we have got to ask ourselves, which is a terribly serious question, is, who is the best candidate, which campaign is the best campaign to defeat trump . [chanting bernie] and that is a very important question because every democrat, millions of independents, and some republicans want to make sure we defeat trump. [cheers and applause] so the question is, what campaign is best suited to beat trump . And let me tell you why i think we are. [cheers and applause] and i mean this very sincerely. Joe biden is a friend of mine. I have known joe for a very long time. No, no, nope. Joe is a decent guy. He is just wrong on the issues. [cheers and applause] he is just wrong with regard to his vision for the future. [cheers and applause] joe, in his campaign, has received Campaign Contributions from more than 60 billionaires. [booing] does anybody think that we are going to bring about the change we need in america when you are indebted to 60 billionaires . Here in the midwest and all across this country, we have lost millions of good paying manufacturing jobs because of disastrous trade agreements like nafta and pncr with china. I helped lead the opposition to those trade agreements. [cheers and applause] which cost us millions of good paying jobs. Joe biden voted for those trade agreements. [booing] does anybody think joe can go to michigan or wisconsin or indiana or minnesota and say, vote for me, i voted for those terrible trade agreements . I do not think so. At a time when the American People are sick and tired of endless wars, i helped lead the opposition to the war in iraq, the worst Foreign Policy blunder in the modern history of america. [cheers and applause] joe biden voted for that war. [booing] i voted against a horrific bankruptcy bill supported by the credit card industry. Joe voted for that bill. [booing] time and time again, joe has been on the floor of the senate talking about the need to cut social security, medicare and veterans programs. I have spent my life fighting not only to oppose those cuts but to expand social security. [cheers and applause] now, i say those things not to denigrate joe biden, who is a friend of mine. I say those things because it is absolutely imperative that we defeat trump. That we have a candidate, agenda and a record that can defeat trump. [cheers and applause] and not only is our record different, the nature of our campaign is different. We are running the strongest Grassroots Campaign any candidate has run in the modern history of america. [cheers and applause] had volunteers and staff knocking on millions of doors throughout this country. Unlike joe, we do not have a super pac. We do not want a super pac. We do not need a super pac. Because our campaign is not funded by billionaires. [cheers and applause] our campaign is funded by working people. And i am very proud to tell you all we have received more Campaign Contributions, 8 8 million, from more americans, almost 2 million, 2 million, than any campaign in the history of the United States of america. [cheers and applause] and to those pundits and opponents who say bernie cannot beat trump, i ask you to look at the last 75 national polls. [cheers and applause] we beat trump in 70 of those 75. [cheers and applause] we are beating trump in battleground states like michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin. [cheers and applause] let me tell you, if i am the democratic candidate here in minnesota, 2020, the election will not be close. We will blow them away. [cheers and applause] [chanting bernie] look, trump will have endless amounts of money. His billionaire friends will pour in an unprecedented amount of money. Trump lies all of the time. He will discredit any democratic candidate. That goes without saying. Trump will merge federal agencies to play a role in his campaign because he has no shame and does not believe in the rule of law. That is a fact. [booing] but we will defeat trump not just because of me but because of you. [cheers and applause] because, as ilhan mentioned, this is not just a campaign. This is a movement. [cheers and applause] this is a multigenerational movement. And i am a young guy, but we have got some older people, too. It is a multiracial movement. Trump, as all of you know, is trying to divide us up based on the color of our skin, where we were born, our religion. [booing] our sexual orientation. And we are going to defeat trump because we are doing exactly the opposite. We are bringing our people together. [cheers and applause] and we are going to win this election because we believe that nobody in america who works 40 hours a week should live in poverty. [cheers and applause] we are going to raise the federal minimum wage to 15 an hour. [cheers and applause] sen. Sanders we believe in equal pay for equal work. We believe that it is important to make it easier for workers to join unions. [cheers and applause] and that is why our proposal will double Union Membership in a four year period. We are going to create millions of good paying jobs, rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure and the low income and Affordable Housing this country desperately needs. [cheers and applause] we are going to win this election because we believe in education. [cheers and applause] we are going to fight for high quality, affordable, universal childcare. [cheers and applause] we are going to triple funding for low income title i schools. [cheers and applause] we are going to raise teachers salaries. [cheers and applause] so that no teacher earns less than 60,000 a year. [cheers and applause] we are going to make public colleges and universities tuition free. [cheers and applause] and if congress can give a trillion dollars in tax breaks two years ago under trump to the 1 and large corporations, you know what we can do . We can cancel all student debt in this country. [cheers and applause] through a modest tax on wall street speculation. We, together, are going to end the International Embarrassment of the United States being the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a human right. [cheers and applause] over 100 years ago, Teddy Roosevelt talked about universal health care and president s throughout the years including barack obama and many others have talked about health care as a human right. Now is the time to end the talk. Now is the time for action. [cheers and applause] together, we are going to take on the Health Care Industry that made 100 billion in profits last year. [booing] we are going to take them on and pass a medicare for all singlepayer program. [cheers and applause] donald trump thinks that Climate Change is a hoax. We believe donald trump is a hoax. [cheers and applause] i will tell you this. Are you ready for a very radical proposition . I do not want anybody fainting or collapsing. Weve got some ems people there. Here it goes. Hold your breath. Are you ready . Our administration will believe in science. [cheers and applause] what the scientists are telling us is that if we do not act extremely aggressively within the next few years, the planet and nation we are going to be leaving our kids and future generations will be increasingly unhealthy and uninhabitable. So tonight, we say to the fossil fuel industry that your shortterm profits are not more important than the future of this planet. [cheers and applause] and i see some young people here with the sunrise movement. [cheers and applause] and i thank them for their support and the great work that they are doing. [cheers and applause] because we will pass a Green New Deal. [cheers and applause] we will create up to 20 million good paying jobs as we transform our Energy System away from fossil fuel to Energy Efficiency and sustainable energy. [cheers and applause] and our administration will not shy away from some of the most serious issues facing our country and that includes a broken and racist criminal justice system. [cheers and applause] our administration will invest in young people, in jobs and education, not more jails and incarceration. [cheers and applause] tonight, 400,000 people are in jail without having been convicted of anything. [booing] they are in jail because they are poor and cannot afford cash bail. [booing] in the year 2020, we should not have debtors prisons in america. We are going to end cash bail. [cheers and applause] we are going to end private prisons and detention centers. [cheers and applause] it turns out that there are some things a president can do alone through executive order. Other things, you need legislation and congressional approval. Turns out that one of the things you can do with executive order is to legalize marijuana in every state in this country. [cheers and applause] the war on drugs has been a disaster for millions of people in this country. Once again, disproportionately africanamerican, latino and native american. Let me ask you all a question, how many people here know somebody who was arrested for possession of marijuana . We are going to move forward to expunge the records of those arrested for possession of marijuana. [cheers and applause] and when we talk about broken and racist systems, we are going to bring a Major Overhaul to our immigration system. [cheers and applause] i am the son of an immigrant. [cheers and applause] my father came to this country from poland at the age of 17 without a nickel in his pocket and with very little education. As president , i will not accept the demonization of immigrants in this country. [cheers and applause] on day one, through executive order, we will restore the legal status of 1. 8 million young people eligible for the daca program. [cheers and applause] we will end border policy, which today allows federal agents to snatch babies from the arms of their mothers. And together, we will do what the American People want us to do and that is to pass comprehensive Immigration Reform and a path toward citizenship for the undocumented. [cheers and applause] all of us, no matter what our political point of view may be, are horrified and disgusted by the level of gun violence in this country. Together, we will pass the most sweeping gun safety legislation in the history of america. [cheers and applause] donald trump and the Republican Leadership are intimidated and frightened of the nra. I am not frightened by the nra. [cheers and applause] together, we will pass the legislation that the American People want, and that is universal background checks. [cheers and applause] we will end the gun show loophole. And we will end the sale and distribution of assault weapons in this country. [cheers and applause] as a United States senator, i am on the floor of the senate often. And i hear a lot of speeches from conservative republicans. You can boo. Ive got to listen to those speeches. [laughter] and their mantra, as you may know, is they believe in small government, they believe in getting the government off the backs of the American People. Well, i say to those hypocrites, if you believe in getting the government off the backs of the American People, understand that it is women who have a right to control their own bodies, not the government. [cheers and applause] and by the way, by the way, let me say a word to the men who are here tonight. The women of our country today are under political assault. Men, stand with the women. [cheers and applause] and my promise to you is i will never nominate anybody to the Supreme Court or the federal bench who is not 100 pro roe v. Wade. [cheers and applause] we will fight to codify roe v. Wade, put it into law. [cheers and applause] trump and his friends want to cut funding for planned parenthood. [booing] well, i got some bad news for them. We are going to expand funding for planned parenthood. [cheers and applause] so, brothers and sisters, here we are tonight, a few hours before the minnesota primary. And i am here tonight to respectfully ask for your support tomorrow. [cheers and applause] i am asking not only for your support, i am asking for you to bring out your friends, your coworkers, your aunts and uncles. Let us have a huge voter turnout in minnesota tomorrow. I am asking not only to help me win here tomorrow, but to help me win the democratic nomination. [cheers and applause] and then, with great joy, together, we will defeat donald trump. [cheers and applause] but tonight, i am asking from you even more. What i am asking of you because the message of our campaign is us, not me. I am asking all of us to stand together, to tell wall street and the Drug Companies and the Insurance Companies and the fossil fuel industry and the militaryindustrial complex and the Prison Industrial Complex and the whole damn 1 [cheers and applause] that our government, our country, belongs to all of us, not just wealthy campaign contributors. [cheers and applause] so let us go forward together. Let us win tomorrow. Lets defeat trump. Lets transform this country. Thank you all very much. 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