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Today, we prove that the positive defeats the negative. Today, we showed that the politics of addition can defeat the politics of division and that's gonna be the key to finally flipping the swing seat and winning in November. Now we all know we face a lot of serious challenges in our community and our country. But this, this is the time and this is the place to be happy warriors. No, we are fighting the good fight together side by side and unafraid. I want to congratulate Nancy Goroff on running a hard fought race. But now now is the time for all Suffolk County Democrats to come together. We need to unite so we can fire up the base. And then because Democrats are in fact the last big tent party that believes in bipartisanship. We need to reach out with clarity and confidence and get the real business going of winning this election and winning back Congress. Now from the beginning of this campaign just 100 and 25 days ago, I was clear about our goals and vision for winning. I said that we would build a broad patriotic coalition to defend American democracy by defeating Donald Trump and winning back the house, take her anxieties and emotions hanging around this election. But we know that action is the best antidote to anxiety. Right? And we here in Suffolk County are lucky to live in a swing district. Most Americans don't. That's the problem. Right. That's what's led to all this poisonous hyperpartisanship. It frustrates so many of us, but here we can do something about it. We can be the change we want to see because winning in a swing district requires the politics of addition and not division. It requires reaching out and bringing people together. And that's what we've done to date. Even in this democratic primary, bringing together leaders like the new Democratic coalition in Congress leaders like Tom Suozzi and Greg Meeks, as well as labor leaders like the hard working teachers union that they have and the heroic healthcare workers of 1199. Sciu I didn't thank everyone who worked their hearts out in this campaign and I'm surrounded by them and my friends and fellow comrades in arms. This is our victory. This is your victory. Brian Serena Kyle Shilla Patrick. Let me thank you, Shash John Lapp, Katie Moore, Matray, Eric Coton, and all the volunteers and interns who walked on the doors and walked the long miles to spread the word and gave us a sense that this day would be what it seems. The leaders of the Democratic Democratic Town committees of Southampton and East Hampton, Southold and Riverhead Huntington. Yeah, Steve Israel, so many others. And now we're just beginning the work of bringing people together in the next stage of the campaign because the real work you all know it starts right now. You can feel in this room the democratic base is fired up and ready to go this fall. But we got to do more. We've got to reach out to independent voters and the good news is there are more independent voters here in New York, one than any other district in our state. We need to reach out, we need to reach out to the voters on the center, right? All people of good faith who believe as I do. And as you do that, there is always more that unites us than divides us as Americans because that's how you build a broad patriotic coalition to win a general election. Now I'm a common sense. Democrat, I would say said left is between the head and the heart. The common sense term gets thrown around a lot gets abused a bit. So I want to define our terms. We common sense, Democrats, Suffolk County, Democrats, we're liberal patriots and pragmatic problem solvers. We believe in defending democracy, standing up to extremism and promoting broad prosperity by rebuilding the middle class. We try to practice the politics of the golden rule. We believe in individual liberty and equal opportunity and gene generational responsibility. We find common ground to pursue the common good. That's just common sense. That's what most Americans want, right? Reasoning together over a common set of facts to solve the common problems we face. It shouldn't be too hard. And yet Washington has not been setting the best example, but we know that together we can address the affordability crisis by finally restoring the state local tax deduction. We can expand the child tax status, childhood poverty in half in one year and we can bring it back. We can protect reproductive rights and protection Act. Welcome back, climate change pass comprehensive immigration reform. We can strengthen American democracy for the 21st century because that's what we need to do. But to do that, democrats need to play office on the issue people care about and that means flipping the script on Republicans like Nick la loo, these keyboard warriors who talk tough about law and order but back the candidate who's a convicted criminal who wants to pardon people who attack the US capital on his behalf. I mean, these folks literally were voted to defund the police trying to cut the FBI by more than 400 million, cut the cops program which supports local law enforcement. We're not gonna let him pretend to be the party that takes immigration reform seriously either because when the Senate delivered the toughest bipartisan border security bill anyone had ever seen, they said no Trump pulled the plug and Nick Lolo took the knee. What we all know they want a fear monger of immigration. They want to fundraise off those fears, but they don't want to fix it. And that's a firing offense. And I'm not gonna let Nick Lo Low to play the same old game we've seen here on, on, on Long Island, Suffolk County while pretending to be moderate home. And then Bo Maga in Washington, I'm not gonna let folks forget that he celebrated the overturning of Roe V Wade and then said state should be your partner. I'm not gonna let him forget that the Republican study committee that he's a part of just endorsed the bill that would try to ban IBF. It's not remotely common sense. We compassionate about, go get him. That's right. We know the good fights that are ahead. We know that we can achieve them together by reaching out and reasoning together. But I wanna close tonight with this. I've always believed that politics is history in the president's heads. Now, this is our chance to write a new chapter of the American story. Amen. My grandparents were immigrants and they taught me never to take the blessings of American democracy for granted. So, you know, I write history books on the side because everyone needs a hobby. I believe that the cause of defending American liberty and democracy is as honorable as winning it in the first place. Different generations are called on to rise to the challenge of their times. My grandfather fought in the Second World War. When many people thought that autocracies might overwhelm democracies. Those cynics were wrong then and they're wrong now because the defining struggle of our time is democracy versus autocracy at home and abroad. But one of the defining moments of my life that I carry with me and many of, you know, wearing as I often do bracelet honoring Jerry Hat, the captain of rescue. One was writing the eulogies for the 343 fallen firefighters, 37 port authority police officers and 23 members of the NYPD were murdered in the destruction of the World Trade Center. And that experience will always define who I am. Let me tell you those brave men and women did not die nearly a quarter of a century ago to see our nation tear itself apart now. So our generation is called on to overcome extremism and division and to prove once again, the fundamental strength and character of American democracy, we're always a perfect people, but we are working to form a more perfect union.

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