They denied all of my appointments. So I had to work with people who had spent their whole life trying to defeat me. One year later, I worked so hard, knocking on doors. We ran a slate of candidates. On election day, we won three seats plus two. Gave me veto power, changed the whole direction. And I think even our opponents said, oop, we better back off. What Bernie is doing is what people want him to do. (03:53–03:59)
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Asserts that his political slate won five seats, giving him veto power.
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