I love you, too. Let me tell you why though. Bernie sanders is one of the only candidates that has the consistent in his message from 1610 now. [applause] from 16 intel now. Bernie sanders has been the only candidate that is constant we said we to make sure no matter where you were, you deserve a livable wage. [applause] as one of the fight for 15 workers back in 2016 when we protested come he was the only candidate out of the to mecca said we want to 15. He said i will make sure you guys get it because you deserve it. [applause] Bernie Sanders has also been the only consistent candidate that has said we need to make sure everybody has health care for when you make sure medicaid is expanded for everybody no matter if your income, erase, your gender, your pronoun jerk you deserve it. [applause] Bernie Sanders has been the only candidate that says we must tackle our criminal Justice System because we have known. [applause] that no matter your zip code, no matter your race, you shouldnt be locked up ten times more than somebody who does not live like you. [applause] Bernie Sanders has made it very clear, we need to fix student debt because young people, too many young people are going to college taken on this debt and then coming out not being able to find a job in their industry. And thats not right. [applause] you know, i could be up here all day and talk about how consistent Bernie Sanders didnt but we all know he has been, right . [applause] right . [applause] so its very simple. We i have. 4 hours away for making sure that he wins misery this time we are 24 hours away from making sure that he wins misery this time. Outside of yourselves going to the polls and vote, take a friend. I just take a friend, take your family. I just take a family, use some you walking down the street, asking if they voted. If they didnt say i will take you to the polls, okay . [applause] we have an opportunity and its critical time to elect somebody who cares about everybody and not the 1 , the 99 . [applause] we know weve got to do. We got to get fired up. [applause] are you all fired up . Are you already devote . Are you all ready to invite Bernie Sanders as our next president of United States . [cheers and applause] we going to do it. When i say feel, you say bern. Feel bern. When i say feel come you say bern feel. Bern. Not me, us. Please welcome the treasurer of the city of st. Louis [cheers and applause] good morning, st. Louis. [applause] im the treasurer of the city of st. Louis but to my friends [applause] but to my friends and supporters im also not as the peoples mayor. [applause] as treasurer a few of the things that im late to focus on our poverty income inequality, a closing the racial wealth gap. See, you see, both of my grandfathers in both world wars and neither of them received a g. I. Bill benefit after the war. And even when they could afford to buy a home, racist Deed Restrictions and redlining kept them from building generational wealth to pass down to the children and their grandchildren. Over 50 years later even though the own homes for more than two generations, both of these homes did nothing but lose value and my cousins and i are left with nothing because banking policies determine that my community was worth investing in. Because of this and more, the median wealth of white families in american is ten times that of black families. Let me repeat that. The median wealth of white families in america is ten times that of black families, and its not getting better. And what if i black families have zero wealth or negative wealth. So what do we do . It simple. We should root out racism can rebuild black neighborhoods, revolutionize the Higher Education system. [cheers and applause] make college free for everyone, eliminate student debt. [applause] expand medicare for all of the everyone a living wage. [cheers and applause] this is kind of radical change that will make the future better for my son who was you with me today. My son, aidan. And this is a kind of radical change that will make the future better for all children, not for you come for me, everyone. In the midst of these trying times our neighbors may say this election is too risky to go with senator sanders. I say hell no. [cheers and applause] right now is not the time for incrementalism. Speaking of big ideas, did you see the stock market today . So you know whats going to happen, right . Were going to see some big banks lining up for socialism like they did in 2008. [applause] when they receive government bailout. So dont let some of the same people who supported government helping big banks stopped from getting the government to provide the same type of help for working americans. [applause] when i ran for mayor of this great city in 2017 i said i was running to change in the city. Not to light and committal change. I mean real change. And that is why Bernie Sanders is running for president. He knows that and committal change only changes allies for a few picky wants to change lives for the magic. [applause] so i did all of you to do me a favor. Tomorrow is my birthday, my 48th birthday. [applause] and the only gift i want from you is a victory for Bernie Sanders in missouri. [applause] thank you. God bless. [cheers and applause] please welcome missouri cochair cory bush. [cheers and applause] [chanting] cory, cory, cory. Whats up, st. Louis . [applause] yall, this is amazing. Let me say this. This has been four years in the making for some of us. We had been doing this work for four years and now we are here. [applause] so for those that dont know, my name is cory bush. Im a single parent. Im a registered nurse. Im a community activist, and im also your candidate for u. S. Congress for this missouris first district. [cheers and applause] and ive been endorsed by senator sanders. [applause] so let me say, going back to 2015 i have to think about when i first started supporting senator sanders. Right after ferguson, actually, it wasnt actually after. It was like towards the end of the ferguson uprising. I remember i went to this event and at this event i remember being treated like what people are calling us pick the recalling his terrorists. Theyre saying we the people that burned down buildings and the retreating as i we didnt belong in this country and they were stalking us and terrorizing us and we are traumatized and all of that. And so were city, i was sitting in this event and this meant get up and he started to speak. He was announced as someone who is running for president , and i just member this man got up and one thing that he said that struck me, i didnt pay him any attention until i heard him say one thing. He said, because black lives matter. [cheers and applause] that was in 2015. In 2015 he was saying black lives matter when other people were calling us terrorists, and other candidates were saying all lives better. He stood with us. [applause] see, back then he was fighting for some he did know. He didnt care about being popular. He cared about being right in doing the right thing. [applause] during the ferguson boba and come during the ferguson uprising we didnt hit the streets thinking oh, his processes happen for me put on my organizer hat. Let me put a organized hat and a become out and look special try to get a name for myself, like thats not what were doing. We didnt have them foster will be did know is were about to make history. We didnt allow, we didnt set out to make you too. We did try to make a name for ourselves. We wanted justice for black and brown people. We want to justice for the 18yearold baby that was murdered. [applause] so we were fighting for someone we didnt know. People say you know, if i was born back in such and such time, you know, i wouldve done this. Why let me say this. When youre in the history making moment, you dont know that youre in the history making moment. So let me say, we did know we were making history. We did know we would touch the entire world, regular everyday folks like us but we did know so let me say this. All of you sitting here under the sound of my voice, we are making history right now. This is a history making moment. [applause] so yeah, i know you tie your shoes assembly. I know you put your make upon the same way. You did all of that. I understand, but understand the moment that you were in. If we dont do it, only, only missouri can make this happen for missouri tomorrow. Only missouri can make this happen. We are the ones that will make change. With the ones that will make history. So this is our moment. This is our moment, black, brown, white, asian, indigenous, immigrant and descendent of africans who enslaved in america and firstgeneration refugees, this is our moment. [cheers and applause] gaze, straight, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, asexual, trans and. [cheers and applause] this is our moment. Young young and elder, religiou, atheist and spiritual. This is our moment. [applause] the disabled, then this gendered, the marginalized, they counted out and pushed aside. This is our moment. [applause] the incarcerated, the out on parole, workingclass students, the poor. This is our moment. [applause] the undocumented and uncounted, unable to vote or unwilling to hope, the overlooked, the exploited, the builders, the shakers and the laborers. This is our moment. [applause] teachers, nurses, farmers, veterans, hotel workers, firefighters and service members, engineers and electricians, those unemployed and those retired. This is our moment. [applause] artists, activists, musicians, leaders, innovators and organizers, janitors, servers, union workers, postal workers and sex workers. This is our moment. [cheers and applause] every Single Person right now who is grieving because they lost a loved one by gun was a lost a loved one to war or to Drug Overdose or to suicide. This is our moment. [cheers and applause] to foster children and children in cages, the single mother and single father fighting to the net to reunite with her babies come those living with Mental Illness and those burning with the debt, it is our moment. To the black women, to the black women making 61 cents on the dollar, black, so had to just make it home safely, baby talk, this is our moment. [cheers and applause] this is our moment to the immigrant families living in fear of deportation. The trans person avoids medical care for fear of discrimination or worse, assault. This is our moment. [cheers and applause] so, so to you, you and you, ts is our moment to him, her, we ended them. This is our moment. So let me tell you [applause] lets say this is what we need to do. We have a choice to go in and make this history moment. I know that some of you will say yes, cori, i have knocked on 400 doors thank you. Thank you for that. Thank you. What were trying to make history here. We only have today and tomorrow to finish this work. Let me say this. It doesnt come back again. We dont have Bernie Sanders running this race against this person at this time to take this presidency coming back again so this is our moment. This is our moment, missouri. We have to take it. What were going to do is they already announced with we need you to signup. I know you you may be type of levittown how tired you will be if we had the wrong person in office so whats going to look like in four years . [applause] so we need you to kick in, kick in exponential. I know youre done great work. We know youve done it and we thank you for it but lets say desperate we do not want to wake up on wednesday morning or go to sleep on tuesday night knowing we missed it by 1000 votes. This is of the thing. Ive got to go home because my kids and you know, you know, ive got to make it a meeting at it got to do know, what weve got to do is make this happen. We are calling on you. Every single one of you are important. Every single one of you has what it takes to help us meet this need even if you say i dont canvas. Yet something we can do. Lets make sure people show up and lets take this for burning. [cheers and applause] for bernie. So now the moment that we have been waiting for, the moment we have been waiting for. Some call them uncle bernie. Some call him i call him unc bernie, the next president of these United States, senator Bernie Sanders. [cheers and applause] thank you. [applause] [chanting] thank you. Thank you so much. What a great turnout. Thank you, st. Louis. [cheers and applause] let me thank those who have gone before, the band. [applause] or the woman making green. [applause] union activist, sarah katz. Representative rasheen aldridge. [applause] tishaura jones. [applause] and last but certainly not least, cori bush. [applause] let me kind of pick up where cori left off, and that is to say, all of you remember Nelson Mandela. And Nelson Mandela was one of the great Freedom Fighters of the 20th century. He spent a lot of his life in hard labor in south africa fighting apartheid. And what he said, he said in his lifetime, he made a statement which to me was an extraordinarily profound and relevant to this moment. He said, everything seems impossible until it is done. Do to understand what i mean . Everything seems impossible until it is done. And what happens for a variety of reasons, and i dont know them all, but what happens is human beings into accepting the status quo unnecessarily. We are told by congress what our options are. We are told by the media what our options are. And sometimes we forget to take a hard look at what goes on around us, and where we want to go as a nation and as a people. [applause] so what our campaign is about, what our campaign is about is asking people to take a hard look at America Today, at the world today, and ask questions like why are we when we are . Where should we be going . And let me do what no other campaign will do, take a hard look at America Today. In america, the richest country in the history of the world, you have three people owning more wealth than the bottom half of america. [booing] in other words, we have more income and wealth inequality in America Today then anytime in the last 100 years. You got the top 1 who, over the last 30 years, have seen a 120 trillion increase in the wealth. Top 1 owning more wealth than the bottom 92 . [booing] now, you dont hear about that much any media. Thats not what is going to be talked about because those are the guys go media. They own the congress. Today in missouri, my saying missouri right or is it missouri wax i i know, its a tough one. But here in missouri in my own state of vermont youve got a lot of working people working two or three jobs. Youve got workers who are worried they cant afford to send the kids to college. Youve got half of the Older Workers in america, people 55 or older, do you know how much they have in the bank saved for retirement . Nothing. Now think about it. Youre a 60yearold worker in st. Louis or kansas city, you work your whole life. Youre worried about retirement. Youve got nothing in the bank. Maybe you have 15,000 a year Social Security, if they dont cut it. You are a working mom in st. Louis. Maybe youre a single mom. You are going to work today, and god bless the single moms in this country and how they survive. [cheers and applause] dont know how they do it, but think of the mom making 15 bucks an hour. Where are you going to find quality affordable childcare for your kid . Virtually impossible. Youre a young person coming from a workingclass family, you want to go to college, you want to go to a trade school but you cant afford it to your dreams being destroyed. Maybe youve made it through college and you leave school 50, 80,000 bucks in debt. You went to graduate school, maybe youre a couple hundred thousand dollars in debt. That is the reality. I grew up in a family, didnt have any money. Live paycheck to paycheck. And half of the American People in this richest country in the history of the world, half of our people today are living paycheck to paycheck. [booing] and if you are africanamerican or latino, you got a whole bunch of additional hurdles youve got to overcome. You have to deal with the racism that exists in the Healthcare Industry, the racism that exist in the financial sector, the racism that exists in education. So if you are black in st. Louis, if youre a black all over america, the likelihood, not always but the likelihood it is your kids are going to get an even worse education than white kids are going to get. So youve got all that stuff out there, and what is our job today . It is not hard. Its to say that within a corrupt political system where billionaires by elections, our job is to reinvigorate democracy so we have one person, one vote, not billionaires buying elections. [cheers and applause] and that means as cori was to say, it means to reinvigorate democracy, we need to activate our people. A lot of people in this country, and this is a sign of aces problem, ive given up on the political process, they are at the working long hours for low wages worried about their kids. They dont think anybody in washington cares about them. Do you know what . Thats not totally untrue. So what our job is is to bring people into the political process so that we can create a government that works for working families, not just the 1 . [applause] this is hard stuff, and again getting back to what mandela said, were not supposed to be thinking about what you want to go. Were not supposed to be looking at countries around the world who have already made major gains are we havent. Give you an example. Question. How many major countries on earth do not guarantee healthcare to all people as human right . Does anybody know . [shouting] all right. Take a step back now, okay. Ill end up off the stage here. How does it happen next i i lie 50 miles away from the canadian border. Canada for decades, every person, rich, poor, middle class, those to any doctor the water, ghost in hospital they want. If you end up in hospital in canada for a month, what is your bill when you leave the hospital . Sure, by the way in canada they spent half as much per capita on health care as we stand. You got it . So were spending 11,000, 11,000 11,000 for every man, woman and child for healthcare, and yet at the end of the day weve got 87 bring people uninsured or underinsured. [booing] we have conservatively this is very conservative. At least 30,00