… to not pursue reelection, no one really predicted that everyone would coalesce in the Democratic Party and independents would move en masse and that the national mood would change. That A vice presidential candidate who most Americans had never heard of would come along and just light the country on fire. and that we'd have a ticket that could pack, you know, 11,000 people into a field in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and then head to Detroit and get 15,000 people there. (01:17–01:23)
CLAIM
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