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1. “And try to get her there. And she was a close second, and it just didn't quite work. On the other hand, Lauren Underwood, an Illinois 14, actually had the opposite situation. She was one woman. There were five men she won, and she won by a lot. Right. A lot. So we're seeing a little bit of a mix on these. That's okay. We've got more opportunity to win and that's going to work. And I'm really excited about this moment because this isn't just about 18. This is going to be the next decades of leadership. Well, it's a”

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2. “You know, one of the news outlets a couple weeks ago said with more women running there'll be more women losing. I'm like really Yeah, that is true just like there's so many men who lose when they run as well But there'll also be a lot more winning and that's how it should be there's no reason why there isn't isn't a woman in every race in the country period right I mean for the most part men in every race so there should be women Our challenge is to you know marshal our resources”

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3. “California thing's a little bit different. I can address that too, but this is what I would say. I mean, I think this is all in all a good thing. We have been waiting and waiting for this many women to say, yes, I want to run. We're winning a lot of races. I mean, you look at those Virginia delegate races, Democrats picked up 15 seats, 11 of them were Emily's list women who won those seats.”

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4. “Huge historic numbers were seeing that as filing deadlines close over and over and over again. We're on the ground doing some of the recruitment. Sort of, it's almost like trying to get folks in the right places at the right time. This is an issue because it's like I don't even know trying to put boundaries on it. It was just like everybody needs to go. And yeah, we've got more primaries than we've ever had.”

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5. “To pick up twenty three seats, maybe some more, with women. And what that would do to the caucus. But it's so much larger than the house. I mean, that's an important piece of it. I mean, we have a historic number of women running for governor now across the country. And the legislative seats in Virginia.”

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6. “Would like Emily's list to help deliver the majority by delivering the majority. We'd like to elect twenty three women in pick up seats to give you the majority. Some good men can win too, and there are some good ones. Thank you, Connor Lamb. I'm thrilled that you're here. Jason Gro in Colorado. Great job. Like there's some greatly good men. We really feel like there is an opportunity here.”

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7. “You must have that in the top of your. You know, there are hundreds of women. There are hundreds of women running for the house right now across the country. I mean, I think the most, I mean, we're still filing deadlines. We don't even know yet how many. Emily's list is actively involved in races of over 70 now. And these are like key races that are going to swing over. I said to Leader Pelosi.”

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8. “Because they're Think of an avalanche as I like avalanche not because sometimes it sounds dangerous and it is. Avalanches are dangerous. But what's so powerful about an avalanche is it gets bigger as it goes down. That is what's happening. It is getting bigger as we keep moving away. Like this, like it's just growing and growing every day.”

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9. “Have a good looking thing. It's like a unifying thing. It does seem like a unifying. And then to have and to believe it. And I think that's really important. Well, I think it's also important to...”

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10. “In my opinion, to win a presidential campaign. You need to find a way to. Bring the country together and with some excitement or joy or hope. Which you did so well with President Obama Folks are looking to be together, I've always believed. I think Americans want to be together. And so finding ways to bring us all together is the most important thing. And so I do worry about playing as you called it the demographic. We can't be like this niche group and then this group and this group and this group is more that unites us and we make a mistake by not using a vision that unites us together as Americans. There's a set of values and I think they are Democratic Party values that extend into independence and a lot of Republicans. Maybe not all, maybe not like the core base of Trump, but a lot that's like every single American deserves an opportunity to earn a good living.”

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11. “It's amazing. He really does. And so that was not helpful. I'm not sure what I would have done to try to alleviate that situation. Maybe she needed to have more things bad happen. Right. Maybe she needed to have 20 like Donald Trump. Well, let me ask you a few questions. But there is sort of a funny dynamic about that.”

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12. “We've never elected a woman as president, so we don't have any idea really deep down how folks are going to feel about that. So that was sort of the beginning. So that's the beginning challenges. And then we've got what I would say was A constant, constant beating on the emails in Benghazi. And I often said, particularly when we got to the general election, it's like every day it's the same two or three things against Hillary Clinton. It's the same, boom, boom, boom. Donald Trump, there's 20 terrible things to talk about with him today, but there's so many that nobody can focus on one. I still think that's the problem, that he's brilliant at that. I think if we could all stick to one thing.”

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13. “I think you've got to start with what we were going into early. Forget about Donald Trump. When that campaign started, it was clear to us at Emily's list that we had an uphill battle because it was a change environment. We just had eight years of a Democratic incumbent. Not easy to elect a party for it is really hard to elect a party for a third term. It can be done, but that is that so first off, we knew we were going into that environment. We knew in our polling at Emily's list that millennials, the millennial vote wasn't all that excited about, didn't really know her to be honest, which is so hard for you and me. We all know her, right? They knew some things about her, but there wasn't sort of a fully rounded picture of who Hillary was. So that was a problem. We knew that early on. And so you got those things. Oh, and by the way.”

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14. “And that was real. And that happens all the time. So, this is such a complicated moment, and it's so important for us as we move forward. We've got to get clear processes in place for, you know, whether it's, if we can't get them in place in Congress, what is the waitress at the diner going to do? Like we have got such gigantic problems across this country with sexual harassment in the world. We got to start dealing with it right in Congress first and then start putting in there are things we can do in this country to help women and have these conversations. So we've got to start doing it. And I really hope to see that Congress, and I don't even know why this would be a partisan thing. I don't understand why all of the leaders don't get together and go, you know what, the seems to be, there seems to be incidences on both sides. We just got to fix this. Why can't we do that?”

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15. “Exactly. To be blunt? Right, right, exactly. No, it's off of it. The other thing that was happening, though, and I want to speak to this because it was really hard, particularly the women in the Senate were looked upon as the leaders. Like what are we supposed to do? And the press and everybody was on them every single day. And then you have, so there's that. You know, when you start just building up the pressure and the pressure's building, building, building. And we had, and understandably, particularly young women, it's a generational difference we have found on what should be the punishment. But younger women are like done. They're done. They can't even believe we're dealing with this stuff anymore. And so you'd walk into your office and look at your fabulous young staff who's working so hard for you. And they're all looking back at you going, why is this guy still here? Right.”

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16. “And within days of. Well, and you had more women coming out. You know, saying they'd had these not pleasant experiences with the senator before he was in the Senate, by the way. None of it was during the Senate. And so it was just incredibly frustrating. The other frustrating part, because I am heartbroken over the whole thing. The odd thing about it was he.”

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17. “And that's really important. We also need to have processes in place to figure out Like, what should be done and what the ramification of a situation should be? And what the problem, I feel like, was in Congress, and by the way, still is today, is that there's no clear process. Like there was no immediate ethics committee hearing. There was no immediate conversation about what to do next. There's no HR human resources department really in these institutions in Congress. And so there's just no No one really knew what it was going to happen in a real way. And yes, there's going to be an ethics committee, but it was going to be six months later. And that wasn't good enough for that moment. And you're right. Then there was Roy Mar just staring there, like heaven. Well, both parties.”

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18. “But the moment itself, it's so important that we that women feel like they can tell their story and we need to listen. And that's what Me Too is about, right? And thank goodness, because it's been thousands of years where women haven't been listened to at all, right? And they do need to be listened to and they needed to be taken seriously.”

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19. “That's right It was such a painful time for everybody involved and I think that's important to note here. It ended up being a perfect storm that nobody could pull him out of. And that is incredibly frustrating. What I will say, he was never going to do anything that wasn't going to help the people of Minnesota. And when it became clearer and clearer, particularly when the senators started calling for his resignation that he was going to have a hard time doing his work and he loves, loves Minnesota and did not want to do it.”

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20. “Right, and you know, folks ask me because the point of that is we were, we all believe that if the Obama for America plane had landed at the last weekend in Minnesota, that we would have just gotten the few extra votes we needed. And that didn't happen. It landed in Iowa instead. You got to make your decisions. But I do remind people what that cost One, you know, simply it costs $12 million of democratic money to get through the recount and the trial and everything, he didn't get seated. But what it really cost was Was a huge cut in the stimulus package because you needed another vote. And you had to get Olympia snow And to get Olympia snow there, if I remember correctly, there was hundreds of millions of dollars cut out of that stimulus package.”

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21. “And most don't survive. The process itself makes the present. I believe that's true. And I think that's true. That's absolutely true. And it's so, because nobody knows.”

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22. “The recognition that once you're the front runner, you haven't even really thought about being president, and all of a sudden it's not a house race, right? Everything is real.”

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23. “Yes, and you have to have, I mean, I think you just have to have both of those things. You need some experienced hands, but you need the energy of youth and newness to make those work. And one of the things we also did, and it's a failing of I take personal responsibility. I hope others do as well. We ran our guy into the ground. I mean, we really, you know, it was one of the lessons I walked away with. I walked away with many, but you cannot exhaust your candidate. And we exhausted him. It was just, nobody was thinking clearly and everybody, no one was sleeping. And the pressure, and you know this better than anybody because you've done a handful of these presidential campaigns, the pressure of a presidential campaign itself.”

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24. “It was like they're going to come soon, right? I mean, there was sort of a sense of, I'm not sure we can hold this together.”

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25. “Like awesome, good people, but very green of outside of a couple of us and, you know, Joe Trippy, but if you went like under one step under, we're talking folks who these are first campaigns. We're just like, you start thinking about at one point I remember sitting with Joe and saying, when do the people come to help us? Like we were sort of like they're coming, right? Because we're leading and it's time for some of the more established people who do.”

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26. “Nobody was prepared for what happened of you know the explosion happened over the summer. I mean, June was sort of the beginning of that July he was on, he had full covers on two of the three big news magazines, which was a huge deal. Particularly then the next quarter, we raised nearly $15 million, which surpassed the most amount any presidential campaign had ever raised in a quarter by $4 million. But there was also a lot of shakiness going on in the campaign because what we had.”

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27. “Of money. It was all small instruments, and it was small increments from everywhere. It was online, it was direct mail, it was telemarketing. We were doing these events, these meetups we called them, where people are organizing, but they're also making small contributions. I used to call them pay to rally. They'd do rallies and they would just all make contributions. I'm like, this is like a pay-to-rally. You just do that. And we did all these other events too. Everything was on fire. But the June 30th of... Which I am sure many remember on other campaigns because I hear about it still today. We at the Dean campaign decided to go live with how much money we were raising online.”

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28. “And we'd never seen that really before. So I had been watching this and really interested in how it was working, but I did not, I was not in the language of it yet, like Joe was, which was why it's such a good.”

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29. “Joe, in sort of the Yeah. And he was, and he was great and very, very helpful. And I had always been very interested on the online fundraising. And I watched move on, because move on came up in the impeachment hearings of Bill Clinton. That's what move on started. It was move on from the impeachment hearings. And then after that, in 2000, they decided to support a couple of candidates who had defended Bill Clinton in the Senate, or no, excuse me, who had gone against him. That's what it was. And so they did some fundraising and it worked online. Yeah.”

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30. “I was like, we got something going on here. We need help. And then thankfully, Joe Trippy came on board. I hired. And Joe was very”

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31. “And I would get these cash flow documents of income coming in. In the first two weeks, there was this one line that just had numbers. It was like an account and it had money coming in every day. And I went, well, what is this? Where's this coming from? Oh, we don't know. I'm like, what do you mean you don't know where the money's coming from? What is this from? And it took me, this is embarrassing, but it's true. It took us a couple days to figure out it was the merchant account on the website. So nobody was getting money just over the transom on a website. I'd never seen it before. I'd done all these work with Senate races. I had never seen just money over the transom. No email ask. Just coming in. And that's when I knew we had something really different. We didn't even have anybody managing the website at the time.”

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32. “It was a huge amount for him. He was like, well, how are we not going to get to over $30 million? It's a lot of Ben and Jerry's. It's a lot. It's a lot. And we built it. And when I got there, we started putting together. But we'll never forget, this is how new this all was. So there was a website and there was a link on that website to donate.”

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33. “Was like $36 million. That was the max. And so I wrote out a plan to raise $36 million. That was my job and we got to get to $36 million. And I asked Howard, Governor Dean at the time, I said, so, you know, how much do you think he could raise? And he said, oh, I don't know, maybe $10 million. I said, I'm not taking this job unless we're serious about this. Like, we got to do the whole thing. $10 million.”

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34. “You know, so this was the last era where there was a chance that a presidential candidate was actually going to accept the federal matching funds. And there's a whole process to get there. And there's a spending cap. So, if you took the matching funds, you could only spend so much money. And I can't remember exactly how the system worked, but I knew that the maximum we could raise.”

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35. “Yeah, and I was like, and I finally was like, what if I take the job? And that was it. I was on my way to Burlington, Vermont When I got there, I mean, we really had nothing. And it was during the time, nobody will remember this. I mean, I don't even remember this. Remember matching funds”

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36. “You know, I got the call, and they said, and honestly, it was so funny, he was so scrappy and had so little foundation that the call I got from his consultant was Stephanie, do you know anybody that would take this job? Do you have any suggestions?”

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37. “There were. There were a lot of establishment candidates that cycle. And I was more inclined in the fall of that year to go manage. I always wanted to manage at some point. But two things happened to me why I sort of took that diversion to someone who was not seen as the establishment candidate. One was the Iraq war vote, which I was very upset about. Now, you've heard some of my Minnesota, like I went to school in Minnesota. I loved Paul Wellstone. And I was so proud of Senator Wellstone. And he voted, you know, he voted against that war. And I just was so angry at so many of our Democrats at that moment. And I was like, I don't think I can do this anymore. I can't be in this town. You know, I was like, you know, my 20s, you know, we are. We're like, I just can't do this anymore. And then we lost Paul Wellstone.”

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38. “Right after I came, and it was like it caught so fast. And I went, you know, and it was a stage in my career that I had been working at the Democratic senatorial campaign committee, sort of on a establishment path to be honest, just like a very establishment path. And some folks on other presidential campaigns had talked to me about maybe joining them.”

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39. “In the middle of all that As I went into, or as I came out of that presidential campaign, I asked friends I'd known for a while, how long does it take to get over the loss of a presidential campaign? And they're like, at least eight years. And I laughed at them. That may be true. It was so. The campaign itself was the most amazing crazy, thrilling, exciting, exhausting, painful, you just everything hurt at the end of that campaign. I've never felt as physically or emotionally exhausted than I did at the end of that campaign because it was so high, so fast. I mean, folks who may not remember, so I came on, so I came on that campaign. In December of two thousand two, I was like one of the first ten employees. When was that crazy meeting?”

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40. “And I said yes. And that was the beginning of my fundraising career. I learned a ton. And out of all ironies. Emily's list in nineteen ninety six sent out a finance advisor to Mary Reader to teach this punk kid Stephanie how to learn fundraising and how you build finance plans and how do you do call time and sure enough we got Emily's list endorsement and that was the beginning of everything and then she did not win but I stuck with fundraising for a long time until I went to management”

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41. “Right, right. I did not know what I was getting myself into. And I ended up not doing it that long because I showed up on the campaign. They had just fired their finance director. And for every student who's done an internship, hear this one, I had done an internship at a place in Washington, D.C. that doesn't even exist anymore in their development department and they're doing fundraising, sort of. I mean, I didn't really do that much fundraising at the time. But that internship on my resume was enough for that candidate to say, would you like to be my finance director? And I don't know what in the world I was thinking, but I learned that lesson, which is just say yes.”

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42. “It was against Gil Gutenek. And I actually had convinced her that I should be her scheduler because I thought, oh, I'll learn everything about the campaign that way. Because everything has to go through a scheduler. Little did I know then that that is one of the hardest jobs. I didn't know that then. I know this now.”

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43. “My first paying job big deal in campaigns. I got paid, was working for Mary Reader in Minnesota. She was running for Congress in 1996. Guild.”

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44. “I always feel like my journey every step of the way, you probably feel like this too led me to the next thing. Like that's just all tied together. And I tell particularly up and coming young folks who want to do this. I'm like, just keep going. The one thing I tell everybody is just say yes. When the opportunity comes up, if you can, say yes. Don't give it a second thought. Just go. Pack up your car and go or move or do whatever. But I would say.”

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45. “Federal workers, right? Right. Thank you. And these are folks that had to get there. Like, well, we got to change that. Now, this is not some big national bill that's going to be covered on CNN, right? But he sat down, he rolled up his sleeve, he talked to a number of other colleagues. He's like, how do I get this done? And they're like, well, let's see if we can push it through. And it took a little bit of time, but not only did he get it to 23 cents, but I think he ultimately got it to the level of what a federal employee would get, which is what our veterans deserve.”

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46. “In the senator called and he said, Do you think this is true? I'm like, oh, that can't be true. 11 cents a mile? That doesn't get you anywhere. And at the time, I think the federal level was, what, 46 cents probably. I mean, even for those, and this is low too.”

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47. “From Montana, I was his campaign manager. After all my years of politics, I finally actually got to do a race in Montana in 2006. He won, and I became his chief of staff. I'll never forget he was doing, I mean, he's a huge champion of veterans. Montana was and I believe still is the second highest per capita number of veterans in the country. This is a big, important deal. And he was doing a series of town halls and he ran into a veteran who said, you're not going to believe this, but I can't afford to get to the VA hospital at the time there's only one in Montana. Montana is a big state. Because I can't afford the gas, and I only get 11 cents a mile reimbursement.”

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48. “That's right in a democracy And look at what happens when you do have good people in there. It gets lost because the coverage is so often the mess of the big thing that they're trying to get done that everybody forgets to look at all of this a thousand small things that get done every day. Yeah. Everywhere, including in Congress, and people forget that, and we have to remind them as I've recruited a lot of candidates over the years, and now, of course, a lot of women candidates, you know, sometimes the question is, I'm not going to get things done. I'm just going to sit there and get beat up. And I said, you know, it's just not true. And I tell the story, if I may, about working as Senator John Tester's chief of staff. Yeah. which was such an honor and”

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49. “It was. It was. And I always believed in and still do today, believe in the power of good people getting elected and doing good things. And if you get the right people elected, you can make some real change. All the components, right? And yes, you do. And you have. I'm looking at what you've done. And the attitude of politics here.”

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50. “And then I want to say one last thing They close that mine. Then they busted the union. That's what I remember. I remember when they closed that mine. Now I also know they closed the mine because copper prices collapsed at the same time. But as a kid, I saw that company knock out those families. And there was, that was it. They had nowhere to go. And the town went from thirty six thousand to about 24,000 today. And it all started right there in front of me. And I just realized, you have to care about the working people. They have to have jobs. And if you can just knock it out that fast, that is how powerful. Those companies can be, and then we've got to do something about it. So that's where I come from.”

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