Gavin Newsom: “We built the world's biggest middle class.”

“But I worry for our party that, you know, we have to be in the business of addition, not subtraction. You know, we talk about the Kennedy family. They understood that. I mean, that's how We built the world's biggest middle class. It was, you know, it was the values of the Democratic Party and social justice, race justice, economic justice, and how we were able to knit together folks from all parts of the spectrum of the Democratic Party.” (40:44–40:47)

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