Everybody wants to talk about not letting a zip code determine your future, but that's exactly what Democrats are doing. Focus on education. Michigan is in the bottom of the bottom of educational attainment. Like I mentioned, It didn't take a year or two or three or ten for the adults in Detroit to be statistically, in a majority, illiterate. That took decades. That took decades of failure. And so looking at education, looking at our education system and fixing it, that's among my very top priorities. (47:41–47:52)
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