Jonathan Herzog

There's the same dynamics where it's a highly liberal district, which has never faced the challenge in decades.

And she won by a margin of 4,000 votes in her June primary in 2018, because no one votes in New York congressional primary.

30,000, so 4%, less than 4%.

In order to win the seat and unseat Jerry Nadler, we need 15,000 votes by mail by June 23rd.

So every single...

Different type of campaign.

And this may be more to New York because the laws and rules here are particularly onerous, particularly corrupt, just frankly.

And so for our congressional campaign, so we got Yang on the ballot from the end of December to the end of January.

And the window for our congressional campaign was February 25th and supposed to end April 2nd.

no covid came online exactly at this moment so we needed by law before the rules were changed 1 250 signatures from registered democrats on the west side of manhattan and south berkeley to get on the ballot because of the way the systems work everyone knows or if you watch the uh i think it's bring down the house that documentary on netflix um

about the AOC win.

Like heck.

Exactly.

So, you know, you have to bring in at least like four X or, or, or five X. Is that the margin?

Yes.

Well, so here's the thing.

So we, our target, and we were exactly on pace to hit 5,000, exactly 4x by the end of the period.

But COVID comes online, at least on public record, about five days after signature gathering starts.

Now we call for an end to the signature process because

the the actual process goes as follows you come into personal physical contact with 20 000 new yorkers because there's some ratio of like you know like you're making a sale of your software or anything you're selling there's going to be some ratio of just like nose of views and what have you so we're coming into close personal contact with tens of thousands of new yorkers they have to manually in person sign using your pen witnessed by you in close proximity