vote against republicans or donald trump. they are voting for a vision of our country that is more fair, more just, more inclusive, government that will truly represent we are at a rally in philadelphia, the most popular young elected official, bernie sanders. our message to young pieper people is that it gives you student debt cancellation, it gives you that large investments by any country on the planet to tackle it s giving us long overdue marijuana reform. young people have a lot more they want to achieve. we are not finished. we are just getting started. we ll come out and vote this election. last question. you mentioned bernie sanders, one of the oldest members of the senate, he has one of the most unique connections with young voters in this country. what about his message or style of politics resonates with young voters? he s authentic. he has old progressive change.
against doug mastriano in pennsylvania, he made that point last night. that you can t be the party of freedom if you are taking freedom away from women. voting rights and abortion rights are intertwined. absolutely. about a backsliding democracy comes from the international institute for democracy and electoral assistance. one of the things they speak about is that when a country begins suspending authoritarianism, you see curves on women s rights accelerating. this is the first time in history that we have had our supreme court, what is meant to be the highest court in the land, remove rights from americans. you start hearing from the horror stories. you hear about a ten-year-old rape victim in ohio who is forced to travel for care. a little girl who has not just not just men in power, some women saying this could be a
into a the confederacy. they tried to restrict rights. that was a moment in which the country had to react. or are they going to let a war that they had fought before nothing? or were they going to act? it was galvanizing. it was sweeping. we have to consider that a viable example that might inspire us. otherwise, it does look quite blake. a very good fight. given how much is at stake in terms of a republican anti-democratic takeover of congress, the governors mentions, how do democrats make the threat clear and urgent to the voters? joe biden made a good speech on democracy. was that enough on its own? a little too late i would say. oftentimes, what we have said on your show s democrats bring
they will be pushing all the way for election aid to make sure young people will come out and vote. in philadelphia right now, we have contacted nine out of ten eligible young voters. here, in pennsylvania, the birthplace of american democracy, it s really coming down to the wire, whether democracy will continue if republicans take power. in texas, christina, your home state has become ground zero for republican extremism in many ways. restriction of voting rights on abortion access. what are you hearing from young texans about what s motivating them to get out and vote? my state, texas, is one of the battleground states in the country. we also happen to be one of the youngest. only utah and alaska younger. we receive lines and new lines of young people outside campuses wanting to vote 71% of the youth vote. republicans have made it harder and harder in our state to vote. they are doing everything they can to shave off margins to keep young people, especially young people of colo
blessing for her. anyone who s ever been through a sexual assault understands that you cannot force a person to compound their trauma. you should not. this is a moral issue. it s also an issue of medical safety. when you see this rollback, these curbs of women rights asylum riding around the country, you see women sharing stories about finding out that there which means it s an un-viable pregnancy, it s terminal. these women are being to go septic, to risk their own lives stories working on this issue talking about they in states with trigger bands. talk about pregnancy, [inaudible] we are acting as though this is normal.