And I went to high school with someone who was pressured into becoming an informant. And so these kinds of approaches to surveillance have been ones that have truly torn at the fabrics of civic society. Part of the reason I'm sitting before you as the Democratic nominee is because of an increase in Muslim voter turnout unlike anything we've ever seen in the history of the city. And the reason that was so difficult, the reason it's taken so long, one of those reasons is that there are many whose experiences in the post 911 era, whose … (35:37–35:53)
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Asserts that there has been an unprecedented increase in Muslim voter turnout in the city's history.
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