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This is what people do in America. They get out. They demonstrate. They let their voices with heard.

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Keith Ellison
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 4
Lawyer
Politician
U.S. Representative
Detroit
Michigan
Keith Maurice Ellison
People
Demonstrate
Voices
Heard
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America

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Worked hard on [our message of strengthening the middle class, working people], but it didn't come through in places like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.It really should have, because people are struggling. And the Democratic message and the Democratic platform would help them, but somehow it didn't come up the way it should have. But it will.
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Even Hamas - Hamas is a terrorist group - do you know that Hamas came out in opposition to [Donald ]Trump`s statement? That puts the Republican Party, the Democrat Party, and everybody else in the establishment and [Barack]Obama on the same side Hamas is on. And over here all by himself is Donald Trump.
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Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.
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I think it's a good idea to be - to fairly identify where things could have gone better once you get the facts, once you get the data and once you're able to review.
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One of the most important things we can do right now is empower ordinary working Americans who really do deserve a fair shot in this economy. But I'm not afraid to talk about any issue. But I do believe it is a distraction.
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We need to invest at the local party unit and focus our energy on turn out. That's how we come back, and we can come back.
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Vehicle emissions standards directly sparked the development and application of a wide range of automotive technologies that are now found throughout the global automobile market.
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I do believe that we should have to - make the voters first not the donors first.
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Trump is trying to tell all of us Americans that we are our own problem, not him. And that's not true. He's the problem.
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Our message of strengthening the middle class, working people, we just didn't penetrate well enough and we didn't have the kind of turn out that we really needed or expected.
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I think that you need all perspectives to reflect the needs of the country. If you only give people one perspective, inputting their views into the congressional process, you're going to have a skewed outcome.
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We want to be making clear that if [Donald Trump] tries to deliver on his word, that we will be there to say no.
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I think that Paul Ryan could be a great leader for our country. But I think that he is in a moral choice moment, and so far, he`s choosing wrong Donald Trump.
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I'm particularly good at turnout. So in my district, I had the lowest voter turnout in 2006.
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[Coming back for Democrats] is simply a matter of energy and resources.
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We think all over this country we need to rebuild everything from transit, fiber optic broadband in our rural areas and urban areas.
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After I win the job and even in the course of seeking it, we're going to be building bridges. And we're going to be meeting people and addressing the concerns that they have.
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Now [in 2016] I have the highest turnout in the state of Minnesota. And Minnesota is the highest turnout state in the country.
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The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision.
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To strengthen the grassroots at the party - at the party unit, at the county level, at the precinct level, and then to help motivate and facilitate the local grassroots to get out there and turn out the vote and boost turn out. And then to help govern in places where we do hold city councils and state legislatures.
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