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Well, first of all, thank you guys very much
for

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being here.

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I mean, it really means a lot to us.

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Really not means a lot to us candidates.

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There are three things that we struggle here
with Texas.

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One is low voter turnout.

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Two is the gerrymandering, and three is making
sure we

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have to have candidates to uh run for office.

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Now, I got good news for you from there.

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First of all, uh in Denton County, we have a

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three out of five state house races run
unimposed last

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time.

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This time, we do not have any Republican in
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state house seat throughout all Texas not
being uh unimposed.

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So we have candidates.

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So we're making progress there.

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Jurymandering's a problem too, but I've got
good news for

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you there, they can only redistrict every 10
years.

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And both California and Texas are the two top
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in the country with the largest growing
population spikes.

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And as our population increases, as we begin
to develop

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more homes here, as more people move here,
that works

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against their gerrymandering because
eventually this makes their gerrymandering
outdated

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over time as our population increases.

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Now, all that said, and voter turnout is still
something

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that we struggle with, but it's not something
we're gonna

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fix overnight, but we're gonna fix it over
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The unit's still young.

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I don't really know how these things are gonna
happen

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quite yet.

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You never know.

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I remember back in 2016 how I really thought
Hillary

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was going to win.

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I remember back in my primaries and home
offer, I

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was being a little pessimistic.

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You really never know how things are gonna
turn out

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until early the end of the night or sometimes
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the next day.

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But I look forward to seeing what happens, and
I

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want to thank you all for coming out.

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Well, I'm not no matter what happens, the
fight is

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not ending.

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We are not a deep red state.

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We're a non voting state, and we're very much
a

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purple state past that.

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If we can get everyone out to vote every
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time, we will flip blue eventually over time.

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Thank you.