I want to congratulate my competitors and their supporters on their campaigns here in New Hampshire.
I know that we all share the spirit we heard from some of our volunteers at the polls earlier today, who welcomed another candidate with chants of “Vote Blue No Matter Who.”
Here in a state that goes by the motto “Live Free or Die,” you made up your own minds. You asserted that famous independent streak. And thanks to you, a campaign some said shouldn't be here at all, has shown that we are here to stay.
So many of you turned out—die-hard Democrats, Independents unwilling to stay on the sidelines, and even some newly-former Republicans, ready to vote for something new. Ready to vote for a politics defined by how many we can call in, instead of by who we push out.
Now, our campaign moves on—to Nevada and South Carolina, and to communities all across our country—welcoming new allies to our movement at every step.
We go forward fueled by hundreds of thousands of grassroots supporters—from the woman in Minnesota who donated in honor of the wife she lost to lung cancer, to the veteran from Connecticut who sent $19.68, in honor of the year he served in Vietnam. This campaign belongs to them.
And if our campaign moves you, I hope you’ll go to peteforamerica.com and contribute what you can.
We go forward knowing that this is our chance—our only chance—not just to end the era of Donald Trump, but to launch the era that must come next.
When Americans live under an unaccountable president who will cut taxes for corporations and then cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security for the rest of us—we must get this right.
When people of color fear for their own place in their own country, while infants are torn from their parents at the border—we must get this right.
When a Commander-in-Chief pardons war criminals and punishes war heroes, while systematically demolishing the credibility of our country in the eyes of the world—we dare not risk four more years of this presidency—we must get this right.
My competitors and I share the same fundamental goals—bringing balance to our economy, guaranteeing health care to every American, combating a climate crisis and a rising tide of gun violence. But we do differ in what we believe it will take to make that happen.
We’re not going to defeat the most divisive president in modern history by tearing down anyone who doesn’t agree with us 100 percent of the time.
We also know that we can’t defeat such disruptive president by relying on the same Washington framework and mindset.
To win and to govern, we need to bring new voices to our capital. We need to get Washington working more like our best run cities and towns, rather than the other way around.
A fresh outlook is what makes new beginnings possible. And election after election has shown us that putting forward a new perspective is how Democrats win the White House.
This is the powerful majority we’re gathering together—it is a coalition of addition and not subtraction. A movement reaching into church basements and barbershops, into universities and union halls, carrying the same values everywhere we go.
Together we are building a future in which there is no such thing as an uninsured American or an unaffordable prescription.
Together we will stop enabling corporate greed and start raising wages; empowering workers and making good on the idea that one job should be enough.
Together we will stop sending our young people into the teeth of endless wars and start recruiting every American in the fight for our climate future.
Together we will deliver the day where your race has no bearing on your health, your wealth, your access to education, or your experience with law enforcement.
Together we will deliver a democracy worthy of the name. No more manipulated districts, no more dollars outvoting people. And—whether that’s the Black vote in Georgia, the Native vote in North Dakota, or the student vote here in New Hampshire—no more voter suppression.
We can say to a young woman in a headscarf enduring racial taunts, to a young man feeling fear instead of safety when he spots the lights of a police vehicle—you belong securely in the heart of the American project
We can tell an autoworker buffeted by tectonic shifts in our economy—that yes our economic future has a place for you, and we need you in it.
We can say to a Dreamer lying awake at night, questioning if this country is her own, that this country is your country too.
I’m asking you to join us in taking a stand for a better future.
Join us as we turn the page and open a new chapter in the American story.
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Join us as we turn the page and open a new chapter in the American story.
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