Ruben Gallego: “I called him and said, it's time to drop out.”

“I don't remember the timeline, but as soon as I read about the San Francisco Chronicle article in like. Like a minute afterwards, after I got off stage, I called him and said, it's time to drop out. Is this true? Is this not true? I told him to drop out. He denied everything. I told him, you have to drop out. We'll start taking back, too.” (04:14–04:17)

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