Beto O'Rourke: “I went door to door 16,000 times myself personally and met…”

“When I ran for Congress against an entrenched incumbent who outspent me four to one, I won. Not because I raised more money, because I didn't, not because I had better name id. I didn't. I won because I went door to door 16,000 times myself personally and met the voters who were going to decide the outcome of that election. You have got to put in the work. And in this age where there is so much that our phones can do, where there's so many billions of dollars sloshing around in our politics, we become overly enamored of what money can buy.” (34:28–34:37)

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