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Time again. frequently, we voted in over 60% levels on fairly oppressive policies, like a 15 dollar minimum wage, restoring voting rights to felons. we do it over and over again in florida. we'll do it again, and abortion will be protected in the state. >> what should we in the rest of the country being looking at for milestones in terms of now and november. what are the things that are most important that have been in the near and term future for this effort? >> our immediate hurdle, the last hurdle on the ballot, is the florida supreme court needs to sign off on our ballot language. we need ...

Manchin of west virginia, and it any hope of filibuster reform, who have prevented democrats from pursuing what president biden's most ambitious agenda, by requiring the support of ten republicans for most legislation. sinema also dramatically weakened the initial biden proposal, which was basically shared by all democrats to allow medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices. it was extremely popular with just about everyone except rich pharmaceutical executives. she killed another effort to close the carried interest loophole which serves wealthy hedge fund managers to avoid paying their f...

Trying to make it seem like, you know, neo-liberal economics works, when it doesn't. i think that you go into most parts of the country, and people want a 15 dollar minimum wage, the people who are out of touch are the republican senators who do not want to move that forward. and similarly, with universal health care, with so many of the things that we talk about, but we do have to go and listen, and we do have to go and make sure that everybody understands. we are open to everybody being -- everyone who really wants to move the country forward, we want to be the party, we are the party, democ...

Hoping for. and occasionally, the vote-a-rama does produce some real revelations. there was a voter in a revote aroma two or three cycles ago that showed that the democrats did not have the votes for the 15 dollar minimum wage. they had seven democrats vote with the republicans against. that's why can we produce some real news. the key is, at the end of, it if the democrats all stick together, they can move the bill probably sunday morning, maybe monday, depending on how long it takes. and then steady old here will call the house back on friday, and both chambers, and that's the plan. but it's...

And democrats are successful. how do you see the process for extending the supreme court as you said? >> it's like every other movement that went from, you know, something considered very difficult or, something considered unusual becomes typical. and becomes part of the discourse, and that moves, and then it moves again. look at the fight for marriage equality. in the space of less than a decade, went from something a lot of political servers thought was impossible to becoming the actual law of the land and the right for the whole country. and that right needs to be protected. marriage equali...