Senator Ruben Gallego
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You know, I want to make sure that, you know, we take care of, you know, maternal deaths, you know, bringing them down.
And then you also seem like, and I want to make sure that, you know, young men, especially young black men, young Latino men, they're not doing well, statistically speaking, have an opportunity and they feel, you know, that they're part of our society.
They don't see that as like, well, you are de-emphasizing me.
For some reason,
The voter doesn't see it.
For some reason, when it gets kind of up to the top policy level, consultant level, that doesn't happen.
And like, you know, some of it's like very simple stuff.
I remember talking after I won my 2024 election, some Democrats asked me, how did you do so well with the mail vote?
And I said, look, we did some things that were specifically designed to get the mail vote out, to reach out to them.
And, you know, you're like, do you have any ideas?
And for this one politician, I'm like, yeah, you know, Father's Day is coming up.
You should have a Father's Day appreciation brunch all around your district.
And that one politician of Swing District, I don't think I could do that.
I'm like, why can't you do that?
I don't understand that.
He's like, oh, I'll get hit from the left.
I'm like, I don't think that's true.
I don't think that's true either.
I think you think that's true.
And I think there's people around you.