recommend to all of our viewers, please read all of this stuff and look at those remarkable images. caitlin dickerson, reporter and future writer for the atlanta, lynsey addario, photojournalist. both of them are multiple award- winning and they're both polls or prizewinners. thank you for that and that's it for me for today. thank you for watching. you get me here every saturday and sunday morning from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 eastern. you can also get velshi as a podcast. you can follow and listen for free wherever you get your podcast. you can also catch our content on youtube. you can head to msnbc.com/alley -- michael steele is filling in for jen psaki . . the harris-walz ticket continues to draw great numbers and the momentum striving the former guy absolutely nuts.

plus, we are going to show you the wide ranging interview with house speaker nancy pelosi. you will hear her thoughts about the state of the race and the state of her relationship with president biden. and later, and increasingly clueless j.d. vance continues to attack tim walz's 24 years of military service. i will talk with jason crow, who is calling those attacks a flat-out disgrace all right. i am sure at some point you have all known a schoolyard bully who insults and attacks and demeans people to get their way and a lot of the time, it works for them. but then, a new kid comes to school and the insoles just aren't landing. the attacks just aren't

sticking, the bully's power starts to shrink and the new kid changes the vibe on the playground. that is what we are seeing play out in the 2024 race right now. vice president kamala harris is beating donald trump in the money game, out raising him by more than double in july. she is beating him in the ground game, holding multiple rallies across several swing states this week, while trump held one in montana, she is beating him in the efficacy as an game -- in the enthusiasm game. she is rising in the polls, leading in three crucial states of seats in the three crucial states of michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. according to a new poll from the new york times out just this weekend, and she is definitely beating him in the running mate game.

>> madam vice president, i want to thank you for putting the trust in me. she has done so much and with you together, it is reminding us about something. it's reminded us that there is work and it can be about goodness. it can be about smiling. >> i smile a lot a lot of things, including bogus questions from media, man. >> vice president harris believes in those items. she knows that every single person should get a chance at the middle class. she believes in something so beautiful, the promise of america. >> they don't want have a beer with me because actually do like to drink beer and i probably like to drink beer little too much, but that's okay. >> my mom and dad taught us so generosity towards your neighbors and work for a common good. >> i figured i'd come by and -- hopefully it's going to be my plane in a few months. >> and just like her running mate, harris is exciting, energetic, and joyful, while trump, like vance, is boring and mad and dark. >> our campaign is not just about us versus donald trump. it is about two different

visions for our nation. one, hours, focus on the future, the other, focused on the past. >> we are going to evict crazy come allah -- kamala harris. >> a future with affordable health care, affordable childcare, and paid leave. >> they said she had a big crowd, all the crowd, the press is talking about the crowd. in new jersey, i had 107,000 people. the press didn't even talk about it. >> we love our country and i do believe it is the highest form of patriotism to fight for the ideal of our country. >> you know, it's interesting. no one really knows her last name. if you asked people coming to know what her last name is, no one has any idea what it is. harris, it's like harris. how the heck did this happen? >> that's a good question. folks, the spotlight and all

the joy surrounding her is clearly driving donald trump just a bit crazy and he is getting desperate. holding an hour long rambling press conference at mar-a-lago and re-agreeing to debate harris after backing out and trying to set the terms of the debate himself. and he is getting defensive, resorting to his playbook of insults and name-calling, and rage posting on true social about crowd sizes. here's the bottom line on all this team harris is on the rise. team trump is flailing. i would say even flatlining. they know it, and you and i know it. so they are getting real desperate, real defensive and real divisive but nothing they say, none of it, is sticking. none of it is working and those crowds for kamala harris and tim walz? well, they just keep getting

bigger and bigger and bigger. -- a special correspondent for -- and host of the fast politics podcast. matthew., my old friend, was the chief strategist for the bush cheney 2004 campaign, that was a long time ago bro. and they both join us now. it's great to see you guys. so, matt, let's start with you. man, you and i have been in the gop space a long time. you found the offramp. i'm still driving. i see a very defensive trump campaign right now. i see a campaign that hasn't figured out in 3 1/2 weeks how to narrate a story around kamala harris to blunt the success of the gate. what you say? >> exactly the same thing. i don't think they have any idea how did deal with both the vice president and with governor walz.

i don't think they have a clue what to do and i think what upsets them more is the happiness and joy by which those two campaign. by the ways harris and walt campaign. i think that even makes him angrier in the course of this. i think we are at such a moment. the country -- i wrote about this this weekend. such a trauma that a moment of joy, it comes to be a huge breath of fresh air, the country needs. it can exhale. it no longer feels it has to be in a constant fight. it no longer think it has to flee. it no longer feels like it is in fear and i think that is what i think is most unnerving to the trump campaign. it's not the issue sets and all of that, which i think harris and walz have an advantage on. it's the tone and nature of the way they are campaigning that i think anyone of us, is going close to a campaign knows, the campaigns that are most happy and most fun almost always win.

>> that is very true. they something to say about joy it's a bit infectious. it makes you, it makes you want to be a part of something. what we see with donald trump right now, that he's clearly mad. he's frustrated, he's angry, he's not doing well. is watching these crowd sizes and i submit to you, molly, that's actually what drew him to have the press conference was a report about the crowd sizes, more than anything else, more than his vice presidential pick, it was the thing that struck at his core the most and that is fewer people like him then like her. how do you see this momentum shift for the campaign right now as they are drawing more people out. they are giving, they are gaining ground in the important swing states. how do they take advantage of this momentum as they get ready for their convention?

>> i think it's important to realize just one more thing about trump is trump has been running for president since 2016. right, he's wrong, and he's often used some of the same attacks. his use the same attacks on hillary clinton on joe biden and now he's using the same attacks on harris and you know, that is a long time to be using these attacks. so, you know, he keeps saying, you know, if you'll for her, you're not going to have a country anymore. he said that same thing about joe biden. we still have a country and i think he's having a lot of trouble adapting to a new candidate and he's just sort of stuck in it, which is kind of amazing and now you have democrats going into this convention already, harris is doing quite well in polls. we are all little skeptical about polls, but the direction is very important. she could not be in a better place to head into a campaign, into a convention which tends to historically provide a balance. >> let's shift a little bit,

matthew and sort of pull the length out a little bit further on the debate stage. because that now is also shifting from what it was to something a little bit crazy now into something a little more subtle. trump is still out there talking about a fox to be that no one has agreed to but him. it does seem like he is going to debate on september 10th against harris. at that point how do you assess this aspect of this. with the september 10th debate as a lock, is there an incentive for the other two to take place at fox and nbc a little later in the month of september, or how do you see the debate advantage or disadvantage for both of these candidates. >> i'm not sick -- i think he announced this thing early this morning where i'm going to do

the fox to be in that we have the abc debate as if he is saying, if she doesn't show up to his invented fox debate that somehow gives him permission to not do any debates in this. i think in the end, he has to show up, because i think it's the only moment left in the campaign that he can blunt the momentum of vp harris in this campaign. is the only big moment left. yes, there are tv ads, yes there are organizations, and yes there are press conferences, debate is the only way to shift the race back to history. i think she is exactly right to say let's have the debate and then we can decide if there's more debates in the course of this. i don't necessarily think holding a debate on fox news, which denied the election results and -- the place to do it, nbc may be a place to do it in the course of this, and i

think she can easily draw the line and saying election deniers are not going to hold the debate, but i'm happy to do another one in this. >> i think she is in a perfect position in the negotiation of the process because he needs the debate a lot more than she does and she is got a huge advantage just, as i said earlier, by tone and by substance in the course of this present herself in the debate. they are in the driver seat and listen, this race, it's fundamentally, she has her hands on the steering wheel in this race. the olympics ended today, the democratic convention starts in a week or so, so she's got her hand on the steering wheel of this. all the way through labor day in this, and as i said, the only way donald trump can change the narrative and story line of this race, this develops a far and is beginning to solidify to her advantage is through the debate. >> yeah, i agree with that analysis all the way through pickard because i think there's no incentive, molly, for the

vice president to play the fox game. why would you go into the house of deniers. why would you go to the house of election deniers and pretend that this is normal, number one, number two, you've got the momentum going into your convention. you're going to have a coming of the convention so were to that, you got a debate on the 10th and then you may decide, we will do one later in the month or early in october. but that advantage is clearly hers. the disadvantage, however, still lies with trump, debate or no debate, around his vice presidential pick. because the new york times is out here this morning reporting that when he was asked about democrats trying to paint his ticket as. -- weird, by the way, they are weird. trump said not about me. they are saying that about jd. vance was asked about that in an interview this morning. let's have some fun. the new york times reports that when donald trump was asked about it, he said not me. they are talking about jd.

>> well, certainly they have levied that charge against me more than anybody else, but i think it drives home that they are trying to distract from their own policy failures. look, this is fundamentally schoolyard bully stuff. they can accuse me of whatever they want to accuse me of. i accept their attacks, but i think it is a little projection. >> i'm sorry. i'm not supposed to laugh coming back into this but when you are funny, you're funny, j.d.. i'm sorry. i mean without any irony, without any hint of irony, molly, is accusing democrats of name-calling. i will just let you will with that for a moment. >> well, it's ironic because trump was famous for his nicknames, right, in 2016. he nicknamed all his republican primary competition and he did it quite successfully. lion tad lying tad, little marco. he's had trouble catching that -- i don't want to say magic but

he was able to make bullying part of the republican primary fight. i do think it's ironic. i would also add, remember, there's a reason why his previous vice president can't run with him and every time i see this, you know, i want to remember like mike pence, you know, who is now, i think, is he and never trump? i don't know. he created the permission structure to let evangelicals vote for trump and now, where is he? >> molly, -- giving me the laugh. molly, thank you so much. matthew dobb, appreciate you, brother. coming down -- up jen sat down with nancy pelosi for a fascinating conversation that you just don't want to miss. don't go anywhere. we will be right back, folks . . for a total value of twelve hundred and fifty dollars.

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>> yes, you will. i talked to her frequently and, by the way, have known her running mate is a great guy, as we say. we grew up in the same neighborhood, we would have been friends. he's my kind of guy. he is real, he is smart, and i've known him for several decades. i think it's a hell of a team. >> that was president biden talking about governor tim walz and governor walz is one of the many topics that jen discussed with house speaker nancy pelosi this week. here is their conversation. >> you have known tim walz for a long time. he spoke glowingly about him. i member in 2000, he was running for congress. and a lot of people liked him, but they didn't think he could necessarily win but what i love about that is he just connected with people in his district. what do you hope the american public sees about who he is as

a human being? >> he's all-american man. he's just fabulous and we had some contention with the democrats about the priority of that race. my daughter, christine, was doing boot camps. she loves to train the candidates and the rest, and he was one of the probe boot campers, but none of the -- nonetheless, a very difficult republican seat but he really did connect -- it's a long term, long serving veteran now and then as a person who grew up on the phone and worked in agriculture could speak to rural america, it's just a lovely family man. really coming to congress and of course their children are little and now they are bigger but he was part of our big victory that year. to take back the house for the democrats, for the american

people, for the children and he was part of our victory to pass the affordable care act. >> such a big part of your legacy and certainly his. we knew the republicans would go after him because that's what they do and they been going after him and calling them dangerously liberal, and sanford this go liberal. nothing wrong with that but i don't think he is one. they've been calling him tampon tim, which is a dig at his support the required public school to have menstrual products, which by the way, is a great thing. and now they are trying to attack his military record. he served for 24 years in the national guard. he was the highest enlisted member of congress. -- when he was in congress and did an enormous amount of the affairs committee. what do you say to these efforts to attack his military record? >> first of all, it's a sign of the bankruptcy of their ideas. they make up things. so first of all, he was in the national guard. 20 years, but then, 9/11 happened. so he signed up for four more years. he retired from that to run for

congress months before his unit was assigned to be deployed. so it was after he left. they are just trying to confuse things, but he came to congress and was respected by our colleagues. elected to be the top democrat on the veterans affairs committee, where he and working with chet edwards, on the appropriations committee, on the authorization committee did historic, made historic advances for veterans, eating their needs, more than had been done since the g.i. bill during world war ii. >> do you think, and i was referencing, i worked on john kerry's campaign, and you worked on the outside of john kerry's campaign and he was swift voted. i just curious.

even though these are baloney charges, absurd on a man who served in the national guard, should they be punching back at this? should they call it out? >> just dismiss it. if people lie, as they are lying, and you hear the lie enough times, it sort of becomes some kind of accepted intergroup and so you have to say no, that didn't happen. like they are criticizing him about minneapolis and the president praised him and we have it on tape. praised him how it went. so the reality has to be driven home. i'm not one to let their miss representatives, misrepresentations persist. and by the way, he signed up for -- he's there for 20 years. then, when 9/11 happened, he signed up for two more years -- terms of office. so then, he laughed and then his unit was deployed. the timing is very important to know because he really was only going for 20 years and but because of 9/11, persisted. he has been a consistent patriotic courageous american. >> i have seen how close the relationship you have with

president biden and he respects you, he loves you. that's what i saw when i was working for him and you've known each other for so long and -- asked you if you thought your relationship with survive after president biden dropped out. you said i hope so, i pray so, i cry so and you lose sleep over it. just was wondering how this is impacting you personally the last couple of weeks. >> it's been, again, his legacy , as a preeminent president, just, i mean, and -- it's hard to -- he's right there among the top few. very consequential president. i wanted the decision to be a better campaign. so that we could win. i did not think we were on a path to victory. that was really more of the thing that he made his decision that that would be accomplished by him stepping aside.

>> you said to your point, i've never been that impressed with his political operation. >> no. >> what was it about the operation. you have a gut instinct about this. you been part of many winning cycles. what was it about that, and it was more that than about him as a candidate? >> oh yes. praise them. he was elected president of the united states and that was a very important election for our country. a very important election. i praise him and then -- for that. >> the harrison was campaign is only a couple of weeks old. have you been impressed with that political operation? >> -- >> it's the same people. >> some same, but the operation was there but the thing is is that she is, personally, very faith filled and that translates into her civic responsibilities and the rest in a very faith

filled way. that is so personally, i see that, officially she is strong about the issues about a woman's right to choose, but there's so many others. she is strong in that regard officially and politically, she is very astute and people just don't realize that. she one against the incumbent for a district attorney. she one in a very competitive race for attorney general but she figured it out, she figured out she was behind and then she one and then she won the senate, that was easier, and then as soon is, shall we say, i don't want to say opportunity because, well, this opportunity came along. she just rolled and did it gracefully, respectfully, in every way and then so her political astuteness.

personally, officially, politically she's ready. >> given your long friendship with president biden and how much you've long worked with each other, i know you haven't talked, unless you tell me you have talked since he dropped, since he decided not to run. is there a way back with your friendship? >> let me just say, in our family, we have three generations of love for joe biden. my husband and i, of course, we've known him for a very long time, we respect him, love him, and he and jill are so remarkable and their family. our kids have always loved him. i have pictures with him from our children growing up and now, our grandchildren growing up. so we have three generations of love for him and, you know, i hope that that would sustain as we go forward but most important thing we have to do is to win the election, to sustain his legacy and to have

the legacy, to do even more in the presidency and the vice presidency of kamala harris and tim walz. one good day in front of another, organize on the ground with mobilization, message with the boldness and progressiveness, but non- menacing, the money to get the job done. it's all in place. >> it sounds like you've done this. >> no wasted time, no underutilized resources, and no regrets. that we could've done more. >> oh, folks. stay right where you are. more of jen's interview with nancy pelosi is coming up after a very quick break. hing? now you can with smileactives, the teeth whitening breakthrough

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conversation with this poker sees the speaker >> before you were nancy pelosi, you are nancy -- your father had a tremendous legacy as the mayor of baltimore, a longtime member of congress. he did a lot of things, including working on low income rental housing. i just want to ask you. you have kind of risen to be one of the most powerful movement, if not one of the most powerful and right now. how is he, in his career, in his life and legacy impacted you? >> in terms of my father, he went on to serve in the kennedy administration and the johnson administration, but he started out as a poor boy, we grew up in little italy in baltimore, even when he became mayor, he thought we would move, but that wasn't ever going to happen. -- but he was quite remarkable. he was a great orator. he could turn the room around. the people booing became cheering and laughing.

he became a real champion for the establishment of the state of israel. and what was palestine then. also, criticize the roosevelt administration for not doing more to help the jewish people. worship at the shrine of franklin roosevelt. one of the early italian- americans to serve in congress. >> very gutsy. that may be part of your, the legacy >> i don't want to -- my mother. they -- he was the orator and the policymaker and she was all of those things, but the organizer. >> i love that. important to include. you also talk about your catholic faith. i wanted to ask you about this because i think you had some moments that you had been difficult, as president biden has as it relates to fate -- faith. the ice dicey says you should be prohibited from receiving communion in any san francisco dioceses because of your

support of abortion rights. and there are a lot of, i think, up-and-coming politicians who have a similar struggle. they want to be true to their faith, they want to be true to what they believe politically. what do you tell them, how have you dealt with that personally? >> well, being true to our faith, we want people to be true to their faith and that's the way it is. i came from an italian catholic family who were not exactly where i was on a woman's right to choose, even though i was imbued growing up with the fact that we all have a free will and have a responsibility to live up to our responsibilities and so i felt very comfortable about having a public policy that enabled people to live up to their responsibilities. our archbishop, he's the head of every parade against women's rights and women's rights to choose and lgbtq. i don't have very much in common with him when it comes to what i call the cultural

issues. i am very happy, though, that want to go to church in washington, d.c., the cardinal here had a letter read in every parish in his diocese that communion was not a political weapon and no one would be turned away from the altar. >> do you also -- you speak glowingly. i love this part of the book, about the bush family. specifically george h.w. bush. you have some nice things to say about his son, george w. bush, which might suppress people who read the book because you were a strong opponent of the iraq war. that was part of his legacy. but talk to me a little bit about your relationship with the bush family and how that tells you about that period of time in politics. >> when you are new member of congress, you don't really know how powerful you aren't. so i'm in there fighting against a policy on china right after team and square. so i had a disagreement with president george herbert walker bush. it was a difference of opinion.

it wasn't animosity. it was just policy. it wasn't personal. we were friends. he was such a lovely man. he was really, as i say, when president george w. bush was being sworn in, as is the custom, go to the capital, as a leader, to escort him to, go to white house to escort him to the capital and i said my father and mother will be here and i said why can't wait to see them. he is a sweetheart. and he says why does everybody say that about him and not about me? okay. i will go there. but he was. but i told the story. we are at one of the christmas events, congressional christmas events at the white house and president -- senior bush comes over to me, asks about family, this or that and the rest and then he says, speaker, give my kid a break.

>> that such a great story. every parent can relate to that. >> i know, as a parent, i related to it myself, as a matter of fact. >> absolutely. >> you've often written in the medically the book a lot about being the only woman in the room, sometimes the first woman who's ever been in a room. there's been a lot of progress made and you've made about this in terms of more women in elected office. much more diverse caucus but what do you tell people about what progress still needs to be made, >> well, i am encouraged by the progress made. when i came to congress, there were 23 women in the house out of 435 people. 11 republicans, 12 democrats. we have 94 will now we made a decision that we would recruit, that we would fund, that we would encourage women. and some self recruited, they had the confidence to do that. and with the belief that nothing is more wholesome to a political and governmental process than the increased participation of women and in fact, diversity writ large.

>> so our caucus is now 70% women. people of color, lgbtq, and that, it isn't that women are better than men, it's just that you have to have them at the table, otherwise, you are missing something very important. so of course, we would like to see a woman president of the united states and that seems to be, no, it is in grasp. i do think it is what we will celebrate. coming up, j.d. vance is trying and failing to land a blow against tim walz. i have got some thoughts about that when we come back. n we af? great question. like everything, it takes a little planning. or, put the money towards a down-payment... ...on a ranch

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okay, folks, i'm just going to state the obvious. the presidential race has changed and donald trump and his campaign has suddenly found themselves, well, a little bit back on their heels. and that dynamic, it only became more clear after the announcement of kamala harris ' running mate, minnesota governor tim walz. well, they seem to be doing whatever they can to attack the new vice presidential nominee. >> they are calling him tonight tampon tim. >> the media tools can't stop drooling over the midwest are

whack job. >> he doesn't own a single stock. >> he's never invested in america. >> here is twitchy tim on stage, waving profusely in a very unsettling mentoring. very unsettling. men should not move this way. is not the way we move. >> if you've ever wonder what flailing looks like, well, there you are. i'll be the first to admit, it is extremely hard to attack a guy whose resume includes high school teacher, assistant football coach, and 24 year veteran of the national guard but that hasn't stopped republicans and republican vice president nominee j.d. vance. >> what bothers me about tim walz is the stolen valor garbage. do not pretend to be something that you are not. if you want to criticize me for getting an ivy league education, i am proud of the fact that my ma'am off supported me. that i was able to make selling it myself. i would be ashamed if i was myself and light about my military service like he did. >> okay. that's get into the facts, shall we, governor walz served

in the national guard for 24 years. in may of 2005, he retired from service ahead of his first congressional bid. three months later, in august of 2005, his unit was issued a mobilization order for the iraq war. while we are talking about service, let's take a look at the top -- the top of his ticket, shall we, okay. buckle up. donald trump's bone spur diagnosis let him avoid being drafted into the vietnam war. he said that dating and avoiding stds was his own personal vietnam. he notoriously said that he likes people who weren't captured and according to his own former chief of staff, he called -- fallen american soldiers suckers and losers. so, to senator vance, i know the campaign is flailing is probably a little painful for you right now. but as governor walz's service record what you really want to be throwing -- served three

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turning on your beliefs to be the running mate for a man you once described as a moral disaster. 20 me now is democratic congressman jason crow of colorado. he is a former army ranger who served three tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan. welcome, congressman. it's a real pleasure. you call j.d. vance attacks on tim walz and i really want to go right to this point, a flat out disgrace. could you tell us why that hit you the way it did? >> well, michael, military service is hard so when you are in a military unit, particularly when you are deployed, you learn to rely on your brothers and sisters, your comrades. they are like family to you. so there are very few things that are more sad to me then to see a fellow veteran unfairly attacking another veteran out of greed, out of ambition and that is what j.d. vance is doing. right now mark there are people

in this world who make sure that their positions match their principles. unfortunately, j.d. vance appears to always be changing his principles to match his positions and to appease his now boss, donald trump. it is unfair, it is unjust, and frankly, it is just sad to see a veteran do that to another veteran. >> it's interesting. i really take the heart of your framing there, attacking a fellow veteran. it brought me back to the swift voting of john kerry back in the day. many, many campaigns ago and a lot of this is reminiscent of that. when you are looking at how the trump and vance campaign has chosen this particular line of attack against governor walz. how do you assess that, do you see them trying to connect to that.

in a way that just won't work this time, not just because of the political environment being different, but to the heart of what you just said, it really is appalling to a lot of veterans to see a fellow veteran go after one of their own. >> well, it is pretty clear, michael, what's happening here. it reeks of desperation. it reeks of fear. tim walz, a 24 year veteran of the national guard, who served honorably, who raised and rose to one of the highest rings you can as an enlisted soldier. he started as a private. actually started my career as a private. which is the lowest enlisted ring. i later became an officer and finish my time as a captain. tim walz continue to be an enlisted man, and what's exciting about this is he is actually the highest ranking enlisted person to ever be on a presidential ticket, which is an incredible story for working- class america. you have this person who has served as a football coach, a teacher, pragmatic governor, a long time military enlisted

leader who is now running at a presidential ticket and i don't know what to do so they are making up lies and fabricating things. it's really sad and it's a shame that they are going to have to do that. >> moving from the dark into the joy. let us look at the joy of this campaign so far. you are seeing the surge of enthusiasm among democrats and quite honestly, just be honest, independent voters out there, as well as some republicans i know. that's only grown since walz has joined the ticket. from a lot of republicans i hear, he grounds -- grinds down with them a little bit. they like that feel from him. what is it about this new ticket and this enthusiasm that you think gives such a different flavor to this campaign from what we saw before?

>> michael, first of all, we had to take a moment and recognize why we are in this position right now. we are here because of the selfless act of service and love for country of president joe biden, who did something that, as you know in politics, people almost never do. decide their own position, their own decision -- and he's decided to help lead this country and people are excited, not only because of that selfless act of service and its own right, but because it is ushering in that next generation of leadership, that ticket that represents america. people from across the country to the midwest to the coast to the south see themselves in this ticket. they see the journey, tim walz and vice president harrison they see themselves and they know that they have champions for working-class america. i grew up in a working class household, i work construction to put my way through college.

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