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What was your candy of choice? I don't even know. I like 

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the Fruit Roll- Ups. Yeah, I like the, like when ice cream 

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trucks would come around they would also have Big 

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League Chew in there. Yes, I 

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love Big League Chew. I've spent the last year covering 

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Democrats all over the country and it's clear to me that the 

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party is approaching a moment of generational change. 

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Nobody in Congress represents that shift better than AOC. 

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Let's play a lightning round game. I'm gonna be 

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the bad guy, which I'm sure half the room would agree with 

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anyway. These are people from all 

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over. It's Texas, Indiana, Alabama It says 

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don't be a crook. Hi, I'm Charlotte, 

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good to see you. We met very briefly the last time you did a 

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Time interview. There's always this talk 

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about, division within the Democratic Party or like this 

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progressive wing In our ideological differences. 

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Yeah. But I actually think they're generational differences 

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because the America we grew up in is like nothing like the 

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America our parents or grandparents grew up in. We 

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were born after the Cold War. We were children. Literal 

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children during the Clinton administration. So the 

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prosperity of the Clinton administration and like the surplus 

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and all these other stuff. [ SOUND ] Great, bounced budget 

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->> Yeah, yeah, it's right out there with [ INAUDIBLE ] or 

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whatever fruit crash gashers ->> What about like your 

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relationships with your friends? I mean Do you feel like you 

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can go to a bar? Do you feel like you can go to your 

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friends' weddings? Do you feel like you can have brunch 

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or pizza or any of the things that 29 year olds do with 

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their friends? Like, no. [ LAUGH ] Yeah, that doesn't mean 

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I don't do it, because it's really important 

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for me to still do it. There are aspects to this job that 

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can cause you to drift away from the experiences of 

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everyday people. So even though sometimes it's 

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uncomfortable with the increased attention and scrutiny for 

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me to just like go to a taco joint, 

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I still insist on doing it. It's really important for me to keep 

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doing that and for me to be around normal people. 

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[ INAUDIBLE ] to hysteria and the community forward. One. 

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[ APPLAUSE ] Hi everyone good evening. 

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We are slowly by surely just making our way through all 

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the community boards in the district on both the queens 

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side and the block side. And really what we just wanna do 

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is extend our hand and to come to you. You know until like- 

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Elsie is one of the only working classmate Members of 

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Congress. Two years ago she was a bartender. In 2008 

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her family almost lost their home during the financial crisis 

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after her father died of lung cancer. That changed 

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everything. I didn't know that it was gonna be the last time 

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that I talked to my dad, but towards the end of our 

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interaction I started to feel like it was I just 

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feel something different from him, I there is just this, I 

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don't know. Yeah. Just like a certain finality to 

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that interaction and so I was like choking back these tears, 

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I was trying to kind of hide them and he kind of. Hollered 

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out, and I turned around in 

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the door frame and he said, hey, 

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make me proud. And that was the last thing my dad ever 

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said. But the thing that was so nuts was just 

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hundreds of people came out. We had this memorial 

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service Service and it was packed, it was standing room 

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only. All of these people that he had ever touched 

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that my family never even knew and it just showed 

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how you can have no formal 

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power, no title, no position, nothing and 

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you can be enormously Powerful in other people's lives. 

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