ok, everybody take a seat. democrats.g welcome to virginia blue commonwealth gala. this is important, so i want y all to listen up. before we get started tonight, listen up. we talkportant that about the pain and sorrow suffered on may 31 in virginia beach. here in virginia, and across the country, we are all too familiar with this pain. action to stop the scorch of gun violence. and we will take it immediately. we will honor the 12 members of our virginia beach community, who we love. who we love, with our actions. i agree with the governor, he said bots and prayers are not enough. we need action. room, i dot, in this ask for we have a lot of people from the virginia beach community with us tonight, please stand. i asked that you all please stand with them and follow the solidarity for a moment of silence in their memory. thank you. crowd. this there are 1800 democrats here tonight. [cheers and applause] one for every democrat running for president. [laughter] in all s
this is important. . address theant we pain and sorrow suffered may 31 in virginia beach. here in virginia and across the country, we are all too familiar with this pain. we will take action to stop the scorch of gun violence. [cheers and applause] of gun vi. and we will take it immediately. we will honor the 12 members of our virginia beach community, who we love. who we love, with our actions. i agree with the governor, he said bots and prayers are not enough. we need action. room, i dot, in this ask for we have a lot of people from the virginia beach community with us tonight, please stand. i asked that you all please stand with them and follow the solidarity for a moment of silence in their memory. thank you. crowd. this there are 1800 democrats here tonight. [cheers and applause] one for every democrat running for president. [laughter] in all seriousness, help me say it one more time. there are 1800 fired up democrats in this room. [cheers and applause] the state of
announcer: this is live coverage of the virginia democratic gala. there are a number of speakers expected, including members of the virginia congressional delegation. also, presidential candidates senator amy klobuchar and south bend, indiana, mayor pete buttigieg, who will speak in the 8:00 our. this is live coverage on c-span. welcome to the 2019 blue commonwealth gala. youre make your way to seats, as the program will be starting shortly. announcer: welcome to the between 19 blue commonwealth gala. 2019 blue commonwealth gala. please make your way to your seats as the program will be starting shortly. announcer: all come to the 2019 blue commonwealth gala welcome to the 2019 blue commonwealth gala. please make your way to your seats as the program will be starting shortly. announcer: the virginia democratic party blue commonwealth gala should be starting shortly. there will be speakers throughout the evening, including members of the virgini
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