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Gavin Newsom: “We built this bottom up movement that brought us back into…”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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How Gavin Newsom Became the Democrats' 2028 Frontrunner | The Ezra Klein Show

Published | Video Starts at 09:20

And then we built Media Matters and we built center for America Progress, we built Democracy alliance, we started organizing Millennials, we started organizing Hispanics, we started focusing on mobile, local, social cloud, meaning technology. And We built this bottom up movement that brought us back into the majority with Nancy Pelosi two years later. And then 2008 we had 53% popular vote, most since 1964, to get Barack Obama into the White House. So it was a remarkable story of resilience. (09:20–09:26)

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Asserts that a grassroots movement helped Democrats regain the majority in the House with Nancy Pelosi.

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