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Will Rollins: “We did have one of the closest races in the country.”

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

MEET WILL ROLLINS, CA-41 candidate for Congress

Published October 6, 2023 | Video Starts at 00:51

And you are the reason we are going to flip it and finish the job in 2024. And Patti alluded to this at the outset of the call tonight. We did have one of the closest races in the country. And since we're among friends, I will just share the behind the scenes experience that I had in the midterms after having one of the closest races nationally, being up … (00:51–00:54)

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Asserts that the race in California 41 was one of the closest in the country.

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“I was flown back to DC to participate in something called new Congress member orientation.”
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“I was told I was going to be trying the number two opiate prescriber in the state of California.”
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“Millions of dollars of coke moving across the country in the overhead compartments on flights from Los Angeles to New York.”
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“A guy who was a university professor selling essentially what were missile guidance chips to the Chinese Air Force.”
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“He [Ken Calvert] was voting to decertify the election, voting against a commission to investigate the attack.”
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“Five cops had died as a result of that [January 6] attack.”
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“My grandparents...started a small business that makes commercial parts for commercial aircraft and fighter jets, and still operates today in…”
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“Members of the US military are getting denied spousal benefits or their spouses are being denied benefits after they're killed in service…”
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“Voted to gut the office of Congressional Ethics, voted to keep George Santos in Congress, and even voted recently to make it harder for the…”
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“We were the only democratic challenger in the state to win independent voters as a bloc.”
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“We lost less than 1% off the president's vote share total in this congressional district.”
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“We're almost up to a 3500 voter registration advantage now in this congressional district.”
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“This used to be a republican majority congressional district in January of 2022.”
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“Votes in that CR resolution would have cut funding for local law enforcement, childcare, and the border.”
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“A shutdown will have a real impact on our troops and people in federal law enforcement.”
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“Countries like China, Russia, Iran, use disinformation on our platforms to make Americans mad at each other.”
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“The United States used pre and post World War Two FCC rules known as a fairness doctrine in broadcast media.”
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“There were only about four stations for a lot of the 20th century that were operating on air in the United States.”
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“Section 230, the original point of that law, made sense. We wanted to have Silicon Valley developed the way that it did.”
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“Silicon Valley has become one of the largest employers and most profitable and successful companies in human history.”
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“Algorithms have gotten so effective at driving divisiveness and toxicity because it is profitable and it is dangerous.”
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“There is immunity for companies that know exactly what that software is doing.”
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“Americans are only going to become more divided and angry at each other as a result of what folks in the counterintelligence community have…”
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“Ken Calvert has taken positions that climate change is a hoax.”
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“Ken Calvert is in the pocket of the oil and gas industry.”
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“The Coachella Valley in Palm Springs is going to become uninhabitable if we do not have serious political leaders who understand [climate…”
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“The Salton Sea, which is just adjacent to my district in the Coachella Valley, [has] one of the largest lithium ion deposits on earth.”
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“My opponent voted against [the bill addressing gun violence] after Uvalde.”
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“He's gotten more money from the NRA than any other member of Congress in California.”
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“We expect another 120,000 people to vote in 2024.”
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“240,000 people voted in the midterms, 360,000 voted, are going to vote in the presidential year.”
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“We've got the registration numbers now up to a growing majority.”
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“Donald Trump added more to the federal deficit in one term than every president for the last 250 plus years.”
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“The 2017 bill, which added trillions to the deficit, was designed to hurt [California].”
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“Some of our largest corporations, $0 in federal income taxes.”
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“We do have welfare in the United States for corporations supported by people like Ken Calvert.”
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“My opponent supported [a federal national abortion ban] in the 1990s.”
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“Ken Calvert has already supported nationwide restrictions on mifepristone.”
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“We don't have a serious primary this time around, and we feel really confident about that endorsement.”
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“We are actually close to opening a joint office already with the California Democratic Party in Riverside county.”
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“I do believe that there should be universal health care coverage in the United States.”
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“We have to come up with a baseline public option of care for people so that they are guaranteed coverage no matter what.”
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“Congress has to look at increasing transparency in the private marketplace.”
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“The cost of healthcare is always at its highest in the last six months of life.”
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“I think the number one thing we have to do is depoliticize [the Supreme Court].”
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“What I propose is some combination of expansion, plus rotating circuit judges on and off the federal appeals court, plus term limits.”
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“Maybe have all of the federal circuit judges vote for which cases are heard by the US Supreme Court.”
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“The longer they've been on the bench, the less connected they are to the political process.”
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“We need to look at reforms like that to try and get the judiciary back to where it was, which is a true independent branch of government…”
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