Brad Schimel: “I called judge Crawford and conceded.”

“You did all the work, you put all your heart into it and I can't thank you enough for everything you did to try to make this a success, but just didn't work and yeah, I called, I called judge Crawford and conceded. You gotta accept these officers. Yeah, right. I'm not up here making any joke. This Caesar, the numbers aren't gonna, aren't gonna turn around too bad and we're not going to pull this off.” (02:37–02:41)

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