So, rock hill, how yall feeling today. You all feeling the bern . All right, all right im jay lynn el rod. I have the blessing of being the deputy field director in South Carolina that leading the Political Revolution to change our nation for the better [ cheers and applause ] when we come to events like these and we see all of our enthusiastic supporters, i cant help but feel hopeful for the nations future. Because since jan january 20th 2017 weve had dark days in the country. Days that felt hopeless. We felt despair. But we flow because of people like you, because of people who man the campaign, because of people like our candidate Bernie Sanders on january 20th, 2022 this flags is going to change for the better. [ cheers and applause ] when we take the revolution that starts here in South Carolina and when we feel the burn here in South Carolina that bern goes to the oval office. [ cheers and applause ] but im here today rockhill to tell you woil we come to the rallies while they are great, what we need more so than anything is time and energy and your dedication. We need you to sign up and volunteer for in revolution. We need you to go out and phone bank and register voters bringing in people never engaged in the political process before. Because thats how a ruffles starts here. Thats how we end income inequality, end cloimt change and how we restore the nations promise. [ cheers and applause ] when you hear ore candidate say not me, us its all of you who he is talking about. Its all of you who lead this revolution. Its all of you who have to answer the call to bring about change in our nation. And our town. And in this place. So let us continue on this path towards our revolution. Lets continue on this path to bring about change and let us continue on this path to put Bernie Sanders in the oval office in 2020. Am i right . [ cheers and applause ] i do appreciate your time. I appreciate your getting out and joining our efforts here in South Carolina wherever you live and beyond. I do have the distinct honor of introducing to you dr. Lester a. Mchorn, the president of in institution who is the president of Clinton College. He is going to come and share a few words here right now to all of you. So we do welcome our dr. Mchorn and we do appreciate all of you. Thank you very much. Thank you and welcome to Clinton College. Im lester mchorn, the 13th president of Clinton College. And we are thrilled to welcome to our historic campus United States senator Bernie Sanders. Were always honored to have our elected officials here a. And owe and we honor all of them our now our Council Women are in the house. And we thank god for others who are here. Also happy to welcome mr. Danny glover, our friend, to the campus of Clinton College. I told him privately and i will say publicly how grateful i am for his powerful testimony on behalf of of the longover due National Conversation on repairations. What an articulate voice he offers. And what a special honor it is for Clinton College to host our second candidate for the highest office in the land. You are on hallowed grounds on one of the Fastest Growing historically black colleges in the nation. We are known as a beacon for leaders, once a junior college, clinton is now a fouryear liberal arts college, that has stood in this community for 125 years. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. Give it up for clinton. Thank you. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Like all hbcus we provide a path to success for young people by allowing them critical access to the affordable and culturely relevant Higher Education that our communities need. We have been built on the four pillars of scholarship, social change, spiritualty and servant leadership. We are seeking to become only the 10th federally designated work college in the United States. [ applause ] we believe that request given the opportunity this in an intentional learning and Living Environment our students can thrive, become productive contributors to the Global Economy and be the innovative, ethical leaders and moral agents of change that our world so desperately needs. We believe here at clinton in excellence without excuse. Because our society has too many people in leadership who offer more excuses than solutions. Clinton students, most of whom are first generation and from lowwealth communities, come with little preparation. But they leave here ready to face the world, armed with the confidence and compassion to make a real difference. Which is why we are happy to host persons like Bernie Sanders, who aspire to the presidency, many of our leaders have tossed their moral compass and picked up a few tring ets of political expediency that would rather build walls and cage children than build bridges and educate our children. Throughout this nations history, hbcus have helped america see better, learn better, think better and do better. Yes, we can do better. We admit that the bar for president ial leadership has been set pretty low in the last couple of years. And we know that making America Great again doesnt mean the same for all of our citizens. [ applause ] but we know that we can do better and we can be better. In fact, we should expect the best. As i remind our students all the time, we must practice the rhyme, good, better, best, never let it rest until your good is better and your better is best. Welcome to rockhill, welcome to Clinton College where our better is becoming best. [ applause ] s it my privilege now to present to you the York County Democratic Party chair, my friend mr. Jim thompson. Thank you, mr. President. Everybody prepare to repeal and replace the current occupant of the white house. Is everyone here feeling the burn . [ applause ] okay. I want to assure you and welcome you as chair of the York County Democratic Party, dont let anyone tell that you Bernie Sanders isnt a democrat. Because i know he is a democrat. [ applause ] and dont let anyone tell that you Bernie Sanders has really radical outlandish ideas because they are the same ideas democrats have been putting forward since fdr, harry truman, john f. Kennedy, lyndon b. Johnson, jimmy carter, bill clinton and barack obama. Now i know the senator is within hearing distance. So once again, let me ask you, are you feeling the bern and ready to get a new occupant of the white house . [ cheers and applause ] well welcome to york county, this is the road where we reclaim america in 2020. And thanks for coming out. Thank you. [ cheers and applause ] rockhill please welcome activist, danny glover. Yes, yes. Hello. [ cheers and applause ] it is beautiful. Its wonderful being here with you here in rockhill, to be here at Clinton College and to celebrate this incredible moment. An opportunity we have. This campaign with my friend and my friend Bernie Sanders is about justice, love and compassion. This is what we want to bring people together. We want to bring people together, not tear them apart. We want to make sure that we make a better america for our children. To make a better world for our chrin. Thats why we are here. Thats why the senators run has been so extraordinary. Thank you for coming out today, tonight . Today, this around. Thank you for coming out today. And come on. Lets keep pushing. Lets keep pushing. Bernie sanders, the democratic nominee for president. Yes, sir [ cheers and applause ] hello. Rockhill, rockhill, rockhill, rockhill. Rockhill is its such a pleasure and honor to be back here at Clinton College. I was fortunate enough to be the keynote speaker at this college. Fortunate enough to be the keynote speaker at this college. And its such a pleasure to be on a campus rooted in a tradition. This college is about 125 years old. And it was founded by folks who had a dream, who understood that education was the pathway to freedom. And we all are excited about being here. I want to hold up here for rockhill i know all of you understand the history of this community with in book right here, no fear for freedom. And i want to thank the good doctor kimberly and mr. Mccaul who i believe is in this audience today, i want to thank this community so much for standing up and doing what is right. And in that same way that the friendship nine did the right thing. We have an obligation to continue building on the right thing, no fear for freedom. No fear for freedom. And that really is what the campaign of senator Bernie Sanders is all about. No fear for freedom. The freedom to live a good life, the freedom to have health care. The freedom to not be saddled with debt. The freedom to have peace of mind. The freedom to have opportunity. The freedom to have a good life. And we can do this. In the weltiest country on the face of the earth, sisters and brothers we can do this. So i want you if you will, rockhill, to raise one hand for yourself, and one hand for somebody else. I need you participate with me, sisters and brothers. One hand for yourself and one hand for somebody else. And with these hands we will have medicare for all. With these hands we will have college for all. With these hands women will be able to control their bodies. With these hands we will get our whole damn dollar, ladies. With these hands we will take care of mother earth. With these hands we will take care of our elderly. With these hands we will ensure fair humane Immigration Reform. With these hands we will overhaul a racist criminal justice system. And with these hands we will dream big dreams. And with these hands we will elect senator Bernie Sanders, the next president of the United States of america. [ cheers and applause ] oh, rockhill, thank you [ chanting ]. Thank you. Thank you. Please. It does sound like rockhill, South Carolina, is ready for a Political Revolution. And i thank you all. [ cheers and applause ] now, i love campaigning. But the only problem that i have is that i always have got to follow nina turner. And thats hard. And then you got danny glover there as well. So i want to thank nina and danny and jim thompson and dr. Mchorn for allowing us to use the campus of this great college. Thank you very much. What this campaign is about is a very profound concept. We just talked about it earlier today. We were meeting with some local folks. And somebody raised the issue of what we are entitled to there it was, right. What we are entitled to as human beings in the wealthiest country on the history of the world. What are we entitled to . Now, i believe that what we must strive for is a government not based on racism, not based on sexism [ cheers and applause ] not based on homophobia. [ cheers and applause ] not based on xenophobia. [ cheers and applause ] and not based on religious bigotry. [ cheers and applause ] in fact in fact what our campaign is about is exactly the opposite of what trump is trying to do. He is trying to divide us up. Our campaign brings us together. [ cheers and applause ] and it brings us together, black and white and latino, native american, asianamerican, it brings us together in the struggle for economic justice, for social justice, for racial justice, and for environmental justice. [ cheers and applause ] it brings us together in the belief that the American People are entitled to an economy and a government which works for all of us not just the 1 . [ cheers and applause ] now, this campaign is asking you to think big, not small. It is asking you to imagine the kind of country we can and must become. And it is also asking to you take a hard look at the country we are today and how we can do better. Now, i know i get criticized by a lot of people. All right. Thats right. When you say when you talk truth to power you sometime get criticized. So this afternoon we are going to talk truth to power. [ cheers and applause [ cheers and applause ] and we are going to ask ourselves a few questions. We are going to ask oursds whether it is moral and it is right that in America Today three people own more wealth than the bottom half of america. Whether it is appropriate that the top 1 owns more wealth than the bottom 92 . Whether it is good economics when 49 of all new income goes to the top 1 . Now, we raised those questions because most candidates, most members of congress and the media does not talk about that. So what we are about is creating an economy and a country that works for all. And what does that mean . Lets start off by taking a look at jobs and the economy. Right now, in this great state you got tens and tens and thousands of workers earning a starvation wage. Now four years ago, when i came here to South Carolina, i proposed something that everybody said was radical and extreme. I said that if you work 40 hours a week in the United States of america you should not be living in poverty, that we have got to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. And that living page is at least 15 an hour. [ cheers and applause ] now, four years ago i was told that i was somewhat crazy for proposing an idea that would more than double the federal minimum wage. You know whats happened since . Well that crazy idea has now been adopted by seven states in america. [ cheers and applause ] and unless i am very mistaken and i am not the u. S. House of representatives is going to vote for a 15 and pass a 15 an hour minimum wage in the next several weeks. [ cheers and applause ] and i need you to tell your republican senators here when that bill comes from the house to the senate that people cannot live on 8 an hour or 9 an hour. They need to votego for a 15 p hour minimum wage. [ cheering and applause ] and, we talk about raising wages that were gonna and the absurdity of women in america making . 80 on the dollar compared to men, equal pay for equal work. [ cheering and applause ] talk about womens rights, when we talk about womens right, let me be as clear as i can be i believe that women of the constitutional right country to control their own bodies. [ cheering and applause ] and i pledge to you i pledge to you that i will never nominate anybody to the u. S. Supreme court was not 100 in favor of the pending roe v wade. [ cheering and applause ] four years ago when i came to South Carolina made another radical idea is that maybe in the United States we should do it every other major country on earth does guarantee healthcare is a right to all people. [ cheering and applause ]. I am sick and tired of talking to dr. To tell me that patients walk into their offices too late because they have no Health Insurance because there under insured with high deductibles and high copayments. The function of a rational Healthcare System is to provide quality care to all in a Cost Effective way, not to make billions in profits for the Insurance Companies [ cheering and applause ] that is why together that is why together, we will pass a medicare for all singlepayer program. [ cheering and applause ] and when we talk about a dysfunctional Healthcare System, it means that we are going to take on the pharmaceutical industry the top 10 Drug Companies last year made 69 billion in profits and millions of americans cannot afford the medicine they need because we are forced to pay the highest prices in the world for Prescription Drugs. So we got news for the Drug Companies they are going to stop ripping off the American People gonna cut the cost in half. In half. [ cheering and applause ] we live in a competitive Global Economy and all of you know that to make it into the middle class, by and large, people need a good quality Higher Education like the education people are getting here Clinton College. And yet, despite that reality we have hundreds of thousands of bright young people who cannot afford to go to college to get the training they need to go out and get a good paying job. Now, the truth is, 50 or 60 years ago if you had a high school degree, he the odds are you could go out make it into the middle class but the world is changed, technology has changed in the economy has changed and today people need that Higher Education thats why i believe that we have got to make public colleges and universities tuition free. [ cheering and applause ] , not a radical idea. It exists in countries all over the world. And in addition to that we have got to, very very substantially reduce the burden of student debt on our people. [ cheering and applause ] tomorrow in washington im going to make a big announcement on this gonna hold off until i make it my but basically this is what were going to be saying. Were going to be saying that its a little bit crazy people to do what they have to do, which is to get a quality education and then find themselves in the absurd position of having to pay that debt off for decades. Some of those people can afford to get married, they can afford to have kids they can afford to buy their own home well, we are gonna change that. [ cheering and applause ]. Some of you may remember that 10 years ago against my vote as it happens, congress voted to bailout the crooks on wall street that you remember that . [ boo ] they provided 700 billion in loans and trillions of dollars and zero or very low interest loans. So i think the time is now for wall street to repay the obligation to the American People. [ cheering and applause ]. If we could bail out wall street that we as sure as can reduce student debt in this country. [ cheering and applause ]. President trump believes that Climate Change is a hoax. [ boo ]. President trump does not believe in science. Its time we had somebody in the white house who understands that Climate Change is not a hope that it is in existential threat to this country and to the planet. [ cheering and applause ] and it is time longoverdue. Time that we told the fossil fuel industry that they cannot continue through their Carbon Emissions to destroy this planet for shortterm profits. [ cheering and applause ] that is why together we are going to transform our Energy System away from fossil fuel to Energy Efficiency and sustainable energies. [ cheering and applause ] and in the process, we are going to create millions of good paying jobs. [ cheering and applause ] you have a lot of sunshine here in South Carolina and its time that the state and the rest of the country use that sunshine to create energy. [ cheering and applause ] when we talk about disparities in this country between the very rich and everybody else, we are also talking about racial disparities. [ cheering and applause ] and that means we end the absurdity of white families now owning 10 times more wealth than the average black family. It means that we end the end the disparity in healthcare for the infant mortality rate in the black community is 2 1 2 times higher than in the white community. It means that we end the disparities in education where black School Districts are substantially underfunded. [ cheering and applause ] invest in our young people, in on jobs and in education. [ cheering and applause ] rather than building more jails and having more incarceration. [ cheering and applause ] it cost more money to send somebody to jail than to send the to the university of South Carolina. Lets get our priorities right, lets educate not incarcerate. [ cheering and applause ] [ cheering and applause ] and, when we talk about education here we are also talking about very significant increase in funding by hbcus. [ cheering and applause ] when we talk about criminal justice, you know i was here four years ago, talking about criminal justice and i said, you know what i think that the time is right to and the so called war on drugs. [ cheering and applause ] well, four years ago that seems like a radical idea, not so radical today. State after state after state, is either decriminalizing or legalizing the possession of marijuana. [ cheering and applause ] some communities are even going further and expunging the records of those arrested for possession of marijuana. [ cheering and applause ] so, when i talk about criminal justice reform, we are talking about also ending cash bail in this country. [ cheering and applause ]. Right now, quite unbelievable, hundreds of thousands of fellow americans are in jail today and their crime is they are poor. They havent been convicted of anything but they can afford dale. That is absurd and we are going to end that practice. [ cheering and applause ] and we are going to and private prisons and Detention Centers in this country. [ cheering and applause ]. When we talk about reform, we should be aware that as we speak, millions of people in this country are living in terrible, terrible fear, those are the undocumented people. And in my view, instead of having a president demonizes people because they came from abroad that people who are undocumented that we need to Work Together for comprehensive Immigration Reform and a path toward citizenship. [ cheering and applause ] we need to provide immediate legal status to the 1. 8 million young people eligible for the Doctoral Program daca program , and we need a humane border policy, not a policy that tears babies from the arms of their mothers. [ cheering and applause ] now, my friends, you all know that we are living in an unprecedented moment in american history. The results of this election will very clearly determine the future of america. One choice that we have is moving this country further and further into oligarchy, where a handful of billionaires exert unbelievable power over the economic and political life of this country, that is one direction that we can go. [ boo ] or, the other direction that we can go, is to create a vibrant democracy where we are not suppressing the vote [ cheering and applause ] , where we are not making it harder for people of color or poor people or young people to vote but making it easier for people to vote. [ cheering and applause ] and where we can create an economy that is based on justice that works for all of us. Those are the choices that we face. Now, when i announced for president , and its not an easy decision because when you run for president nowadays that you get attacked by everybody in your family gets attacked, we decided to run for two reasons. Number one i happen to believe that i am the strongest candidate to defeat the worst president in the history of this country. [ cheering and applause ] [ cheering and applause ] every poll that is ever been done in the last year has us running ahead of trump and in recent weeks, those numbers are pretty significant. [ cheering and applause ]. I believe that we can defeat trump in battleground states like michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, recent polls had us ahead of him even in florida and north carolina. [ cheering and applause ] and, you know what i think . With your energy and your enthusiasm, i think we have a shot here at South Carolina. [ cheering and applause ] so, the first reason that my mice and i wife and i decided we should do this is because we have a moral imperative to defeat the worst president in the modern history of america. But, theres a second reason [ cheering and applause ] there is a second reason which goes beyond defeating trump and it is the imperative to create a government and an economy based on justice. [ cheering and applause ] a government based on honesty not lies. [ cheering and applause ] but, let me tell you something that i believe that no other candidate will tell you, and there are a lot of good candidates running, i should tell you this, that many of the people running our personal friends of mine and they are decent and good people and, they know, by the way, what i know. Is that whoever ends up winning this democratic primary, all of us will rally around that person. [ cheering and applause ] and, what i said before i certainly hope that person is me. [ cheering and applause ] but, if it is not, i would do everything i can to support that candidate to defeat trump. , the second reason that the first reason i mean this is to make sure that trump is defeated but the second reason is equally important. So, obviously im here in South Carolina to ask for your so to win the democratic by mary here. I am asking for your support to win the democratic nomination. Im asking for yours of word if nominated, to defeat trump. , i am asking something more of you. Im asking something more of you and i think, maybe that distinguishes our campaign from other campaigns. The message of our campaign, as you may have seen is us, not me. And what that means is, i think two things, think it means that we are all as americans in this together, my job is to worry about you and your family and your job is to worry about me and my family, that is what being an american is about. [ cheering and applause ] but the second thing that us not me means is something very profound which you wont see much on tv or in the media, and that is that for 45 or 50 years , the American People have seen politicians giving great speeches and honest speeches. Theyve seen Party Platforms that have been good and theyve seen strong legislation being passed. But, today that the average American Worker is earning, in real inflation accounted for dollars, exactly what he or she earned 45 years ago. [ boo ]. So, after all of the speeches, after all of the great allergy that we seen, after all of the worker productivity, which means the average worker is producing much much more than he or she did 20 years ago, the person in the middle of our economy, the average person is no better off in real dollars. Second of all, in the last 30 years, listen to this, according to Federal Reserve data, the top 1 have seen a 21 trillion increase in their wealth. [ boo ]. The bottom 50 of our people will have seen a 900 billion decline in their wealth. [ boo ]. Now, what is it happen . How does it happen . And, what weve got to begin to deal with is where the real power in this country rests. All right . Its not that candidates are insincere, they want to do this and that and they do, somehow or another it never happens and it never happens because we have yet to deal with the power of wall street [ cheering and applause ] the six largest banks in america have assets equivalent to 54 of the gdp in america that they control the flow of trillions of dollars and they determine where the factories day in the u. S. Or go to china, they determine whether workers are now living wage or a starvation wage that we are not going to have progress in this country until we have the courage to deal with wall street, but its not just wall street that the American People understand that healthcare is a right, they know that the system today is dysfunctional when we spend twice as much per person on health care than the people of any other country. We want medicare for all but, in order to get that, we are going to have to take on the Insurance Companies and all of their monies and all of their power. [ cheering and applause ] the American People are disgusted at the high cost of Prescription Drugs and Everybody Knows we have to lower the cost of medicine, but in order to do that you cant just give a speech, you have got to have the guts to tell the pharmaceutical industry, you are going to stop your greed , we are going to substantially lower Prescription Drug costs. [ cheering and applause ] and, its not good enough to give great speeches about Climate Change, we all know that israel but what weve got to do is have the courage to take on the billionaires who own the fossil fuel industry [ cheering and applause ] so, what im asking you for is your help not just to win the nomination and defeat trump, i am asking for your help in something beyond that and that is, to understand that real change in this country does not and never has happened unless millions of people at the Grassroots Level stand up and fight back and demand justice. [ cheering and applause ] that is the history of the Labor Movement that is the history of the Civil Rights Movement [ cheering and applause ], that is the history of the womens movement, [ cheering and applause ] that is the history of the gay rights movement, [ cheering and applause ]. Power never gives up their power voluntarily. Wall street is not going to say, oh i guess we should do the right thing in lower Interest Rates for consumers in this country. The fossil fuel industry is not going to say oh yeah, Climate Change is real and i guess we got a go to Energy Sufficiency and sustainable energy. Thats not the way it happens or ever happen. Change happens when people have the courage to stand up to the powers that be [ cheering and applause ] so, today, i am asking your help , not just to win this thing, but to understand that the only way we bring about real change is when we Work Together, when tens of millions of people will demand justice so, we have the opportunity in this election, not only to defeat the worst president in the modern history of this country but to transform our nation and to become the kind of people that we know we can be calm. Thank you all very much. [ cheering and applause ] Bernie Bernie bernie [ cheering and applause ] [ crowd noise ] 46th president Bernie Sanders. Thank you bernie. I want to say thank you, senator. Thank you. Good morning, young lady. Thank you so much. Mr. Senator, missed her senator, how are you doing . Are you sure there are only a few minutes . Yep. Okay. Thank you, senator. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [ laughter ]. 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