Jake Levine

Well, Ben, I think I'm a little bit older than you.

Unfortunately, I have to admit that.

But I'll take a couple years here.

Look, I think a lot about the young people who are getting involved in my campaign.

These are people in college.

We've had some high schoolers out on the doors with us.

We're knocking thousands of doors.

And I think about the moment that they've come up in where they lived through 9-11

then the great recession, then Trump one, then COVID, then Trump two, they have not had a model for hope or inspiration or success.

And a big part of why I'm running is because within our own district, we've had no model for hope and success and effectiveness for 30 years with our incumbent member of Congress.

This was something that I,

came to appreciate um very recently after losing my childhood home in the la fires and watching the ineffectiveness of our incumbent member of congress but we have got to demonstrate across the government as a whole that we can actually deliver on important things i mean i you mentioned when after i graduated college i had the opportunity of a lifetime to go

work on the Obama campaign.

I started in 2007.

Actually, my very first real job on that campaign was as Michelle Obama's driver.

And I shuttled her around New Hampshire and we were barnstorming the state after Iowa, before the New Hampshire primary.

And there was something hopeful.

And then we delivered on healthcare, on financial regulatory reform.

I worked in the first ever White House Climate Policy Office.

We delivered a bipartisan bill that we got out of the house called Waxman-Markey.