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Will Rollins: “Everybody [in California] automatically gets a mail-in…”

Featuring: Will Rollins, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House California, District 41

The Pride of California: Will Rollins and Derek Marshall

Published June 14, 2024 | Video Starts at 1:03:31

Now, every single person in the state is automatically registered to vote when they get a driver's license. So that's great. Everybody [in California] automatically gets a mail-in ballot. That's great. This is going to be the first presidential election since COVID that is going to result in every single registered voter in California getting a mail in ballot. (1:03:31–1:22:31)

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Asserts that all registered voters in California receive a mail-in ballot.

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“I had wanted to work in national security since I was a kid.”
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“I went to Dartmouth, I took Arabic, I applied at the CIA.”
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“I went to law school in New York at Columbia.”
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“I was clerking for a judge who told me that if I was interested in national security, I should apply to the US attorney's office.”
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“I took her advice, applied, got hired.”
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“I was hired under the Obama administration in 2016.”
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“We saw a huge rise in the threats from domestic terrorism, whether it was neo Nazis attacking Charlottesville or QAnon conspiracy theorists…”
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“January 6, for me, was the catalyst.”
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“Ken Calvert voted to decertify the election and then voted against the committee to investigate the attack and called for dropping charges.”
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“The mail in ballots end up going the other direction. They define mail in to include the ones that republicans dropped off on election day.”
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“The first case that I tried at the department was against the number two opiate prescriber in the state of California.”
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“Got to go after MS 13, the Sinaloa cartel, fentanyl dealers, and got to put away a guy who was selling essentially missile guidance chips to…”
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“We raised over 1.9 million in the first quarter. That was the number one red to blu ray in the entire United States.”
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“We just had a poll that came back a few weeks ago that shows us with a one point lead over Calvert at the cold, open question.”
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“We just got endorsed by a police union that had previously endorsed Ken Calvert in 2022.”
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“Former Republican assembly leader supports our campaign. Former Republican sheriff in Riverside county endorsed our campaign in 2022.”
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“Yesterday was the anniversary of the worst massacre of LGBT people in United States history.”
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“Ken Calvert sent homophobic mailers across Riverside County, outing Mark before Mark was out, even to his own family.”
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“Calvert went on to vote year after year against equality, voted against letting us serve in the U.S. military, voted against letting us…”
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“Louisiana's anti-LGBT rules [caused] the pediatric surgeon [to leave] the state with his family.”
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“Louisiana legislature didn't see it that way. And now they've lost one of the critical care providers that the state had in place because of…”
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“Every FBI field office in the United States [should have] a task force that is exclusively committed to hate crimes investigation.”
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“We strengthen our hate crimes rules to give federal law enforcement the investigative tools and resources necessary to make sure that they…”
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“The vast majority of Americans believe that this should be a country where you can achieve whatever you want and live the American dream, no…”
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“Our state [California] has taken some really aggressive steps to protect the right to vote.”
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“Every single person in the state [California] is automatically registered to vote when they get a driver's license.”
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“We had about 50% voter turnout in 2022.”
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“We want to get it [voter turnout] to 70% to 80% in the presidential year, at a minimum.”
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“We really want a national standard embodied in things like the Freedom to Vote act and the John Lewis Voting Rights act.”
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“We've got to make sure we codify those federal voting Rights act pieces of legislation that were introduced by the last democratic majority.”
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“The Supreme Court's decision to gut vote section five of the Voting Rights act.”
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