Ruben Gallego
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They could have stayed there and stayed in poverty.
They could have stayed there and been on their version of the social welfare and all, but they didn't.
They came to the United States because they wanted to build something.
They wanted to have stability.
They wanted to be successful.
And I think Democrats need to own that.
We need to be the party of success.
We need to be the party of, you know what, it's okay if you do well.
We just don't want you to screw other people in the process of doing well.
And so we need to kind of like, you know, organize around that because that is something that is very, you know, I think very deep and personal to every American that they want to succeed.
And we should be the party that figures out how to do that.
right?
The policies, the programs that help them get that.
So that way they can, you know, do well enough to buy that big ass truck, right?
And the big ass truck, again, it's not the actual truck.
It's the pride of it, right?
You get out there, you ride around with your boys on the weekends, you drive it through your community, you know, you wash it with your family.
It shows to your community that I'm here.
I've made it, right?
It is a symbolic, you know,