whether they came to the harbor in new york and saw the statue of liberty, whether they first set foot in -- that is who we are as a country. >> and ezra, he's delivering that message in texas to texas voters. >> yeah. i think there's something you're going to be seeing here. and yowl see it with obama and trump. i thought the clips you played of obama earlier were speaking to this. like beto and gillum and many others, there's going to be a fight for democrats to define a version of national identity that acts as a counterpart to donald trump's sort of cramped defensive version of national identity. donald trump is saying there's an america we were and that is the america we should be. and democrats are going to need to find a message and a story about who we are, who we can be that manages to absorb who we're becoming without arousing those fears. look, the republican party is increasingly a white identity

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