We've also beat the left on education, and some of that means defeating the teachers unions, who've been a huge problem. And they're very partisan and they have an agenda. And when Covid was going on, I required that all schools remain open [during Covid]. And they sued me to try to close the schools. They wanted kids out of school for a year. And that would have happened had we not stood up to them. (14:14–14:20)
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