democrats or republicans? guest: it used to be mark -- a lot more common, particularly in the middle of the century. people were more willing to vote for a liberal republican or conservative democrat across the country. we saw that increase. there were a lot of competitive races and ideological mixing, where the most liberal or conservative house member was not necessarily a democrat or republican. that his decreased as partisanship has become stronger and ideology has caused more sorting between democrats and republicans, as a result there is still some ticket splitting. we've seen with governors races, we have seen republicans elected -- >> joined me as we invoke the presence of our lord.

lord, our creator, savior and sustainer, we come to you at this moment in time, first giving you thanks for life in all that you have done as we count our many blessings, we consider it to be a blessing to just see another day, and to be in your care. we thank you for allowing us to see another sunrise, we we understand that it is through your grace and mercy. we welcome to this place, through the power of the holy spirit, he lists with your piece, shower us with your loving spirit, and shower us with your grace. we thank you for our daily bread, and we ask you that you give us this day, all of the provisions that that you have in store for us, as we look over our lives we can rejoice in knowing that you have robbed us

a very long way. therefore, we can testify that every day is a day of thanksgiving. as we look to the future and fill our hearts with compassion for those who are suffering and long to feel the burdens of life, lifted. we pray for a future that considers that the least of these, those that stand on the margins of society, pray for a future that offers hope for all, continue to grind us -- continue to guide us as we recognize that freedom, justice and liberty does not come without -- obligation. we pray for our leaders so that they can lead with compassion and justice. let justice roll down as waters and rise as a mighty stream. we pray for our nation, we pray

for worlds of peace, grant us peace that surpass all understanding so that we can live together as a loved community. we know peace comes from love, love that looks beyond race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, and class, here are the prayers of our forefathers who fought and died for the right to vote in this nation. and, here are prayers as you have heard those who fought for equality. here are prayers -- hear our prayers. we call in today because we know you are our shepherd, we know that if it seems we are walking through the valley of the shadow

of death, we are your shop -- you are our shepherd. and we find security in knowing that you prepare our table in the presence of the opposition. we know that your mercy follow us all are days of our lives, our creator, our savior and sustainer. our gracious god, we will not fail to give you praise, glory, and honor. we have seized many blessings in your precious name. amen. [applause]

[applause] >> give it up for the pastor. get excited today. we are going to start this off by honoring our mission. i want you to keep in mind all of those that are safeguarding us in uniform, in our streets and communities, in every state covering the united states, keep them in mind, in the frontlines of our neighborhoods, to those that will honor us by defending our country every day as veterans. give it up for our veterans. [applause] i ask you to put your hand over your heart, stand up straight as

we begin with the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. outstanding. here we go. [applause] ♪ oh say can you see, by the don's -- dawn's early light. what so proudly we hailed at

the twilight's last gleaming. whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, o're the ramparts we watched were so galantly streaming. and the rocket's red glare. the bomb's bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

oh, say does that star spangled banner yet wave? o're the land of the free, and the home of the brave. ♪ [applause] >> hello, everyone, that is a tough act to follow.

my name is rachel and i am in organizer for the wisconsin democrats here in milwaukee. the man that we are all here to see today truly needs no introduction. earlier this week, we were task with making phone calls and inviting folks to this event, and at that time we were giving a date and a tentative location, and every person we spoke to confirmed they would be here without missing a beat. [applause] one of my first political memories was watching americans of all walks of life come together to elect the first black president of the united states. [applause] at eight years old, i saw what could happen when we were brought together under his presidency. and at 16 i saw what happened

when we were divided and fearful. at 18, clinging to the same hope i cast my first vote. at 22, i brought -- two wisconsin to ensure that we elect our first black senator. [applause] -- hope called on many of you to get to your streets and knock on many doors. but our work and dedication of thousands of volunteers like yourselves and wisconsin sent voters in droves to the polls in november. each of us has a different story and reason for why we got involved. the thing that unites all of us in this room is the understanding that it is

absolutely critical that we elect democrats up and down the ballot this november. [applause] tony eve verse, mandela barnes, and the whole democratic ticket -- we need to do our part. we have the power to change the outcome of this election. the last three outcomes in election have come down to just three votes -- it means our work is absolutely vital in getting democrats across the finish line. we need you to mobilize your network and get out and vote. our vote is crucial to winning this november. thank you. [applause]

♪ how can i ever change, baby-- if i could i would give you my word. you can go your way, you can call it another lonely day. you can go your own way. ♪

-- if i could, baby i would giv you my word -- you can go your own way. you can call it another lonely day. ♪

♪ you can go your own way, you can call it another lonely day. ♪ ♪

>> please welcome, chair of the democratic party wisconsin, ben whitaker. [applause] >> hello, wisconsin. [applause] i am the chair of the democratic party of wisconsin, we have any democrats in the house today? [applause] there are some moments that change everything. this is one of those moments. what you do between now and the

moment the polls close at 8:00 p.m. tuesday, november 8, will change the rest of your life. it will change the rest of our kids lives, it will change the rest of the lives of every scones night and every person in this nation because these -- wisconsinite, and every person in this nation because many races are tied. which means that you can tip the balance. [applause] wisconsin, you have a superpower. the rest of the country doesn't get a say at this moment, but your ballot is a superpower.

your time knocking on doors is a superpower. are you ready to use your superpower to win this election? [applause] we know what this feels like, because we have been here before. we live in the most closely divided state in the whole country. we are the only state where the last four of the last of six presidential elections came down to less than one percentage points. the other two, were obama landslides. [applause] who here helped win those obama landslides? [applause] we know what this feels like, because we remember 2018, when three guys named tony evers,

josh kaul, and mandela barnes, they were on the bar -- they were on the ballot then -- and it was tied that. we remember in 2020 when joe biden and kamala harris took down donald trump. it was just about tied then, and you came through. we won those races by the tiniest margin. who here voted in those elections? who here volunteered in those elections? [applause] we know how to do that, we done this before. who here is ready to vote? [applause] who here is ready to organize, and knock on doors for truth, your friends, family, your

superpower, and your time? folks, millions of us, we saved democracy and 2018, and 2020, democracy needs you now. we have 10 days to save our democracy, to save our freedom, to save the progressive spirit of the state that we love. 10 days. are you ready to give this everything that you have? forward, wisconsin. [applause] fired up? [applause] it is my honor to introduce our next speaker the secretary of the deckard -- the democratic national committee, and a proud wisconsinite, given up for james

-- >> good afternoon, milwaukee. november's elections are so important. it is about a choice. do we keep doing a better america, or do we allow extremists to take our nation backwards? i am fort building eight -- i am for building a better nation for everyone and that is why we need to elect mandela barnes as u.s. senator. we need to give tammy baldwin a real partner in washington. we absolutely must reelect governor tony e verse -- tony e vers. he is the last line of defense to protect our democracy, and keep our democracy alive. we must elect democrats up and down the ballot.

the contrast between our candidates and the far right ultra-maga agenda couldn't be more clear. from their plans to cut social security to theirs and on reproductive rights. but voters are on our side. they want to see us work for them. that's exactly what people like tony devers, president biden, and mandela barnes are doing to build a better wisconsin and a better america for all. we can shape the future in wisconsin right here and right now, with the time and energy that we put in this last week getting out the vote for a candidate -- if you've already voted, thunk you. if you haven't voted yet, make a

plan. check your registration status, call five friends and asked them to vote. every extra phone call that you make, every extra door that you knock will help us turn out votes for candidate and help us when. -- win. with your help we will reelect tony devers, and we will elect mandela barnes. let's give it up wisconsin. [applause] it is now my honor to introduce my friend, someone who works every day to make the city a better place, these welcome milwaukee where -- milwaukee mayor, cavalier johnson. [applause]

>> all right, milwaukee. are we energized to vote for change? thank you, for that warm introduction. folks as a graduate of milwaukee public schools -- [applause] not just a graduate of milwaukee public schools but the mayor of this great city, i want to offer a warm welcome to each and every one of you. but most importantly, i went to well -- i went to offer a warm welcome to the great state of milwaukee, the former president of the united states, barack obama. the lucky, are you excited to see president obama? [applause]

i am as well. this election is critical. it is important for our entire country, for all of the united states. i knew you know this much, but let me tell you what's at stake. my wife, dominique and i have a 12-year-old son and four-year-old twin daughters. madison and bella are our daughters. our kids go to milwaukee public schools as well. [applause] there schools need investment so that there schools can be great, so that all of our kids can have the future that we can depend on. that they can depend on. those kids, especially my girls and my wife, they need access to health care and the full range of health care. full range. [applause] i want my kids, my three kids,

to grow up in a world where climate change hasn't damaged our land. i want my kids to grow up in a world where climate change hasn't damaged our water and opportunities beyond repair. i want my kids to have a fair shot at making a living and knowing the american dream. i want these kids to grow up knowing freedom, i want my kids growing up, all of our kids growing up, knowing what a functioning democracy looks like. [applause] milwaukee, that is what's at stake here. that's why all of us, each and every one of us has a job to do. we have a job to do. we have to reelect josh kaul to be the attorney general of the

state of wisconsin. you, me, all this together have to work together to make sure that sarah rodriguez is the next federal governor -- and ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you this, we have got to work to make sure that we reelect tony evers to be our senator in the state of wisconsin. -- to be our governor in the state of wisconsin. i was his campaign treasurer -- we need to elect my friend come up mandela barnes, to be the next united states senator for the state of wisconsin. yes we do. we have to do it because our opponents do not believe in

reproductive freedom, they don't believe in building the middle class, they don't believe in democracy. they are giving rise to the worst impulses in our nation. black, latinos, native americans, face hate crimes in our nation. that's not rights. governor e verse -- governor eve r's birthday is november 8. get your friends and family to get up get out and cast their ballot. get your cousins out, your workmates out, get we need every single one of us in milwaukee to vote. our nation is on the line.

let's get it done. god bless you, milwaukee. i love you. in may god bless the united states of america. [cheers and applause] and with that, my honor, my privilege, a longtime friend, a fighter for equality and equity in our community. give it up for milwaukee county executive, david crowley. [cheers and applause] david: good afternoon, milwaukee! oh, i love it. what a great day, right? if you know me, i always say every day is a good day. something feels a little bit

different about today doesn't it? it is not only a good day, because we have great weather outside, but today, we have president barack obama joining us right here in milwaukee county. joining us in the great state of wisconsin, and i know all of you, all of you, too often, we always say this is the most important election in our time, that this, the decisions that we are making are some of the most crucial in our time for our nation, and this election will

reverberate for many generations. now, too often, that is true, but it seems like every election , we seem to be fighting against forces who oppose democracy. they want fewer citizens to actually vote. you know what? we are going to continue to battle. we will continue to preserve our freedoms. and i don't know about you, but it seems like we have transported back in time almost half a century and we are almost clawing back the rights that were not only establish, but were won long ago. now, there is this old saying that was made popular in a former time that, politics ain't being bad, it ain't -- it is not a game. because the false rhetoric, the

fear mongering, and the bald-faced lies coming out of republicans mou our politics at its worst. we are not here for politics. we are here for the people of wisconsin. we are here to preserve, to protect, and to promote all the rights that always can some families deserve to have. that not only goes for milwaukee county, because that goes for brown county, dane county, la crosse county, rinsing county, winnebago -- racine county, winnebago county, all counties in wisconsin. we have to take advantage of our moment, and that time is now. there is no more time for excuses.

and we can no longer take any more days off, because on election day, we need each and every single one of you to exercise that right afforded to us as citizens, and not only reelect governor tony evers, but the attorney general. [cheers and applause] who is equally important as far as having those two gentlemen leading us in wisconsin. we have to make sure that lieutenant governor mandela barnes joins tammy baldwin in washington is united states senator. [cheers and applause] we have to. now, i will be the first to say that is not only on honor, but it is certainly a dream come true to be on a stage that is welcoming president barack obama. [cheers and applause]

am i inspired? absolutely, but like everyone else in this room, we are ready to go. we are fired up and ready to go and ready to get to work, because the moment, right here with all of you, has me invoking marvin gaye, and you know it they said? they said, i do not know what is in store, but together we can open any door. and we can open any door. so thank you to all of you. thank you, mr. president. god bless the great state of wisconsin, and may god bless the united states of america. now let's go vote, everybody. [cheers and applause]

>> please welcome sarah rodriguez, candidate -- [indiscernible] [cheers and applause] sarah: hey. hello, milwaukee. oh my goodness. look at this crowd. i'm so excited to be here, with your vote, support, and action. i will be your next lieutenant governor. [cheers and applause] sara: i am so excited to share the stage with president obama. i still remember taking my babies to the voting booth to vote for him, and i cannot believe he is here, but he knows how important wisconsin is, so service has been a big part of my life and career, whether as a peace corps volunteer where i worked on hiv/aids and

reproductive health, all the way to being a leader within the health care system, but in my heart, at my core, i am a public health nurse. [cheers and applause] that is the lens i bring to the lieutenant governor's office, it is one of investment in our kids in communities, and one as prevention, because as a clinician, i know it is a tiny fraction of your health care. it is about where you live, the air you breathe in the water you drink, and whether you have a good paying union job to put food on the table. [cheers and applause] so i represent district 13 within the assembly today. those of the western suburbs of milwaukee, and i flipped that

district in 2020. red to blue. [cheers and applause] and i live in waukesha county. so, when they say it cannot be done, if we can't get it done in waukesha county, we can't get it dumped all across the state of wisconsin. [cheers and applause] i love wisconsin. my roots run deep. my mom grew up on a dairy farm outside richmond center, where she went to a one-room school house eighth grade. that is how rule she grew up. i am raising my two kids here, 13 and 15. the 15-year-old is learning how to drive. it is terrifying. [laughter] and now i know i'm my mother had that imaginary brake pedal on the passenger side of the car when i was 15. i am just saying, if you seek us in waukesha county, give us a wide berth he is learning.

why did i want to run for lieutenant governor? why was this important to me? because i could think of nothing more important to our day-to-day lives than reelecting governor eaters this november. -- governor evers this november. [cheers and applause] this man has invested in us over $1 billion in small businesses and family farms, over $1.5 million in job training programs and apprenticeships. we have the lowest unemployment we have ever had in the state of wisconsin. [cheers and applause] our economy is strong and it is because of governor e vers.he has cut taxes for the middle class, put money in your pocket, and i would be remiss if i did not say it, he is fixing the damn roads.

[cheers and applause] and what does tim michael's want to focus on? what does he want to do. [booing] radical, divisive, out of touch policies. he does not support marriage equality. he wants to ban same-sex marriage. [booing] he wants to lower the funding for public schools. he wants to defund our public schools. [booing] he wants to put firearms on school grounds. [booing] and he keeps telling us, hey, i am a businessman. i will figure it out. where have we heard that before? well, what do we know about the michaels corporation, multiple instances of sexual harassment and abuse in women reported it, they were fired. guess what, tim leadership

starts, at the top. do not want that culture in wisconsin. [cheers and applause] and something that is personal to me as a mother by choice and as a nurse, he says this archaic, cool, medically unfound 1849 abortion law is an exact mirror of his views. a, look, i am on the health committee in the assembly. i get to see their agenda up close, and when all these antiabortion bills and all these men, and they were all men, who testified, i asked simple, clinical, medical questions, and what did the chair of the committee do? he gaveled me so i should stop asking questions and called a nasty woman.

so for all you other nasty women out there. [cheers and applause] i will not shut up. i will not be quiet. and we will fight whitehill. -- fight like hell!. [cheers and applause] all of this on the ballot this november, and i know you are here because you want us to win and get across that finish line, but i am going to have to ask you to dig a little deeper. we have 10, folks. you need to make those phone calls, knock on those doors, and you need to vote, and bring three people with you. [applause] ok. i live in waukesha county.

i have traveled across the state of wisconsin. i know that there is more that unites us than divides us. we are on the right side of history for this election. [cheers and applause] so, i am so excited to be your nominee for lieutenant governor, and i am so excited to make sure that you vote this november 8, but i also have to introduce somebody else who has been fighting for you for the past four years, and that is your attorney general. [cheers and applause] >> hey, can we hear it from your next lieutenant governor, sarah rodriguez. [cheers and applause] hello, milwaukee. it is great to be here. what a crowd. this is outstanding. what an incredible four years it has been. four years ago wisconsin night's

voted for a change in huge numbers, and it has been for years i don't think anybody could have imagined. we had unprecedented republican obstructionism. a once in a century pandemic, and attempt to overturn the results of a presidential election. [booing] but after four years, i am proud to stand before you to say on issue after issue that we talked about in 2018, we have delivered for wisconsinites. [applause] now, as your attorney general, my top priority is public safety, and we have put murderers, sex offenders, and drug traffickers behind bars. we have also worked to hold big pharma accountable for its role in the opioid epidemic and help secure over $400 million that

will go to communities across the state to fight that crisis. we have also worked to make our schools safer, launching a 24/7 hotline anybody can contact to get resorts or to help kids and keep our kids safe. [cheers and applause] we have helped -- held polluters accountable as well. when we get the toxic chemicals out of our water, it needs to be those who polluted it cleaning it up, not wisconsin taxpayers. [cheers and applause] i worked with democrats and republicans to reform our sexual assault kit laws so every kit get submitted to crime labs and we never have another backlog of untested sexual assault kids. [cheers and applause] we also got wisconsin -- sexual

assault kits. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, ag kaul: after those four, wisconsin voters have a choice. the fundamental question is this, do you want to build on the progress we made in keep wisconsin moving forward? or, do you want to see wisconsin taken backwards, in some cases way backwards? [booing] barack obama is not on the ballot this year, but a lot of the ideas and policies that he fought for our on the about in 2022. [applause] -- on the ballot in 2022. [applause] on public safety, i have

proposed investing 100 $15 million in safer communities through community policing, officer recruitment, retention, wellness, services, mental health crisis response, advocacy for people struggling with substance abuse disorder, reentry programs, and common sense gun safety measures like universal background checks. [cheers and applause] and that is a clear difference in the attorney general's race. my opponent has offered no solution for funding in wisconsin. he has opposed common sense gun safety legislation, not even speaking out in favor of universal background checks. on universal freedom, the stakes are clear as well. we have begun to hear some of the horrific stories that people knew what happened if roe v. wade were overturned. there is the 10 you will rape victim in ohio who had to travel to indiana to get the health care she needed. in wisconsin, one woman had a partial miscarriage and was left

for 10 days before a doctor was able to intervene. i heard from one ob/gyn who said when people come in with planned pregnancies, what are usually the most joyous appointments she has, she says now sometimes parents come in and they are terrified and worried about what happened if there is a complication that they were not expecting. i remember those appointments with my kids, i assume the parents here do as well, the ultrasound to count the fingers and the toes. idea that parents have to be worried that if they get pregnant that the kids at home might be left without apparent because of a troponin, backwards, 19th-century law. it is wrong. four days after roe versus wade was overturn by announced a lawsuit to block enforcement of that backwards law. [cheers and applause] now, we will keep fighting to block enforcement of the law and

restore freedom, but this election presents a crystal-clear choice on that issue as well. my republican opponent will not rule out enforcement in cases involving rape and an says and that we should empower district attorneys in neighboring counties to prosecute abortions. do you want our district attorneys to turn into roving abortion ban enforcers? the stakes on that issue are huge. and last but not least with the stakes for our democracy are in norma's in this election. before the 2020 election, my election defended against efforts to purge tens of thousands of voters, and we won. [applause] we stood up to the sham investigation, and while it lasted longer than it should, we won. [applause] and when donald trump and his allies tried to overturn the

will of wisconsin voters in lawsuit after lawsuit, we defended the will of wisconsin voters and we won every single case. [cheers and applause] but there is a warning in those cases too, because one was decided 4-3 in our state supreme court. that is how close we were to chaos. imagine if our attorney general had been a friend of michael gable and ann supported his education -- investigation and said that they should be removed from office because they broke the law? you do not have to be that imaginative because that is my opponent in this election week need an attorney general who stands up for democracy, not one who stands with michael gableman . [cheers and applause] so, this is wisconsin, and as you may have heard, we sometimes

have close elections here. [laughter] in 2018, i won .65%. four of our last six presidential elections were decided by less than 1%. governor evers won by a landslide. [laughter] we will have close elections again this year. you have it within your power to decide what direction the future of our state takes, to decide if we go backwards or we go forward. you have that power, so what i'm asking everybody here to do is make sure you get out the vote to do more than that. make sure to talk to your friends, family, neighbors and make sure they are registered and get out to vote. talk to your friends and everybody you know about the stakes in the selection, because if wisconsinites vote in this election, we will win.

if we vote, we win, so get out and vote, keep the state moving forward, and with that, i had the privilege of introducing one of the great members of congress and the united states, her congresswoman grinned more -- congresswoman gwen moore. [cheers and applause] congresswoman gwen moore: what is up, people? [cheers and applause] you know, josh, i am a little disappointed, because i thought you would introduce me as the former president. [laughter] because, people are excited to see the former president. and i am the former president of

the student council of north division high school. [cheers and applause] go blue devils! so, you know, listening to our wonderful attorney general josh kaul, it is hard not to be reminded of what is at stake. he talked about that 1849 abortion law. uh, that the republicans gaveled in -- my son is in the state legislature -- he said they gaveled in and gaveled out. he told me they gaveled in and dabbled out in 16 seconds. i found out that he lied. it was 17 seconds. [laughter] i want to tell y'all something.

i am a mother. i am a grandmother. i am a great-grandmother. [applause] that makes me a triple-g. great-grandmother gwen. i am an upper case g. for all you worried about how to make ends meet, inflation, imagine what it's going to be like with forced childbirth. i am just saying. i am just saying. you know what? one of the questions come let me keep it real with y'all today. one of the questions i get asked a lot, because people are in distress. it has been horrible. two years of the pandemic, uncertainty, all the stuff.

they will say, well, why, why should i vote? [laughter] i don't know nothing about what is happening. i'm telling you, this is the truth. real conversations. i have been voting, eight nothing change. why should i vote? who will i vote for? i will ask the same question janet jackson asked, what have you all done for me lately? i want you to relax. i'm gonna run down a few things. they have some guy from hawaii back there who would tell you more, but right now, i have the mic. [laughter] now, who gave you $1200 survival checks? democrats. come on. help me with this. who was it?

who, what governor put those shots in her arms and got the schools back going? was that a democrat or republican? who was it? that kept you off from getting evicted? was that a democrat or republican? who was that? who helped to build the strongest economy in the world, invested in workers, rebuilding the infrastructure without one single republican vote. that was democrats, y'all. [applause] all y'all. all y'all. union members. [cheers and applause] can i get a witness? who was it that saved the state

pensions? everybody talked about the supply chain problems. i was on the science committee along with the ways and means committee, so i helped get you all those child tax credits. did you all appreciate that? all right. i was also on the science committee to get the chips back, and let me tell you, milwaukee is going to be back as the machine maker of the world. [cheers and applause] we have addressed the scourge of gun violence, not one republican vote for doing something around gun violence. historic investments in climate change. and who was it that for gave that student debt? -- that forgave that student

debt? who stood up to big pharma and capped the cost of insulin? who was it that put an amazing principal black woman on the supreme court? [cheers and applause] baby, i can go on and on, but they got lots of speakers that want me to get off so they can tell you what we done done for you lately. and let me just say, if you didn't know, now you know. [cheers and applause] now you know. [cheers and applause] now, if y'all want us to deliver on the rest of this democratic agenda, yell got to vote --y'all got to vote. it is simple as that. you have got to vote.

let me tell you. my whole life is wrapped up in that child tax credit and in getting pre-k for kids. y'all come at science is in. wisconsin was the first state to have kindergarten, but i bet they need an education before they turn five. [applause] women, all of y'all women who will be forced to be pregnant, how you going to go to work with childcare? these are the kinds of things ron johnson would not vote for. [booing] that's right. you have got to put him out if you want us to finish the rest of the agenda. i'm telling you, what did maya angelou say when they tell you who they are, believe them. ron johnson has shown you who he is. he says those people at the u.s. capitol were just tourists, that

it was black lives matter that was the reason we got violent. he said we are going to save social security and medicare by putting it on the chopping block every year. he is giving tax breaks to his donors, and let me tell you, our corporate profits are higher than they have been for 17 years right now. while all of us are suffering. mandela barnes will be our ally in the senate, and let me tell you, we are, the next question i get asked, in case you did not know mandela barnes is black, i'm going to out him right now. can he win? [cheers and applause]

have the pollsters called your cell phone? no. let me tell you something, our community, our state wants a senator who does not traffic in racist, dog whistle politics. somebody who cares about him being able to breathe, having clean air, clean water, affordable housing. they want a senator who cares about them. [applause] hey, they may not hear our voices through this polling, but they will hear our voices at the polls, y'all. what are we going to do, y'all?

>> vote. congresswoman gwen moore: now is not the time to give up! now is not the time to give in! now is not the time to give out. if you're going to give out, get out and vote. i'm going to introduce you to somebody who has worked very, very hard in the u.s. senate she is the reason you can keep your kids on your insurance until they 26 years old. [cheers and applause] she is somebody who has been committed to health care for all and has made that one of her stall wart stewardship's in the u.s. senate, but guess what,

y'all, she is the junior senator from wisconsin. boo. we want to make her the senior senator from wisconsin. [cheers and applause] and that would be none other than our own beloved not state senator tammy baldwin. sen. baldwin: thank you. oh my goodness. thank you. hello, milwaukee. [cheers and applause] it feels so great to be with you here with only 10 days before election day. i hope you are as fired up as i

am right now. so i could not be more excited to welcome president barack obama back to the badger state. [cheers and applause] because, simply put, he knows how critical the next 10 days will be. he also knows that wisconsin is ground zero for so many of the issues we care so deeply about, whether that is protecting our very democracy, access to abortion care, affordable health care, or giving everyone a fair shot at getting ahead. president obama is here because he knows exactly what is at stake here in the state of wisconsin and frankly for the entire nation. i want to make this case for you. wisconsin deserves to have two

senators fighting for working people and families, not just one. [applause] and, the last few months, let alone the last 12 years are a perfect example of what i mean. last month, democrats passed a historical bill that will make big corporations pay their fair share, while lowering out-of-pocket expenses for working families on energy, on prescription drugs, and on health care. i was so proud to vote for that big. -- bill. [applause] that fights inflation and delivers some fairness and relieved to wisconsin working families. do know what our other senator

was proud to do? he was proud to stand on the sidelines on the shoulder with big corporations, drug companies, oil companies, those who have profited from inflation's rising costs. now mind you, this comes one week after he voted for the bipartisanship's back -- bipartisan chips back. to me, it was so simple, we need made in america microchips to better support are maiden wisconsin manufacturing economy. [cheers and applause] but apparently ron johnson is all talk when it comes to supporting wisconsin businesses and jobs, because he voted against his common sense bill too. i think folks in the badger state deserve better, don't you?

[applause] we deserve somebody who will unite us rather than divide us. we deserve someone who will fight on behalf of wisconsin workers and families, and not just the wealthy and well-connected. we deserve someone who will bring new, good paying, family-supporting jobs to the badger state, not someone willing to ship wisconsin jobs overseas. we deserve someone who is a public servant at heart, not only in this to serve himself. [applause] we deserve someone who is going to protect a woman's right to choose, and not someone who tells women in the state to either suck it up or move out of state. that sum i'm talking about, of course, is mandela barnes!

[cheers and applause] now, mandela barnes has this unprecedented ability to unite wisconsinites in a coalition that includes farmers, union leaders, teachers, business owners, and working people all across the state. he has the ability to build these coalitions because he gets us. he is a proud product of wisconsin's middle-class. he is somebody who has dedicated his life to public service as a community organizer state legislator, and as our lieutenant governor. i cannot think of a better person to be my partner in the united states senate, as we fight to protect the right to choose, bring good union jobs back to wisconsin, and rebuild the middle class so that

everyone has a fair shot at the american dream. [applause] but, we can't stop there. we have to reelect tony evers. [cheers and applause] rather than focusing on what divides us, tony is committed to bringing people together and working to address rising costs, business, expanding internet, and giving kids the education they need to thrive. tony is doing the right thing for wisconsin. now, not only do we need to reelect him, we need to protect his veto pen. [applause] tony has had to veto more bills than any governor in modern history. he has protected our state from republican efforts to make voting harder, to harm our public schools, and to roll back

environmental protections, but republicans are only one seat away in the state senate and five seats away in the assembly from being able to override his veto. and that is why it is so important that we reelect tony and support democratic candidates up and down the ticket. [cheers and applause] so, so there you go, folks, that is what is at stake. and i am here to tell you that we will have to fight really, really hard to protect everything we care deeply about. now is the time to kick things into high gear and do everything we can over the next 10 days for mandela barnes, tony, sarah rodriguez, gwen moore, and every

other democrat up and down the ballot. [cheers and applause] wisconsin elections are close. we need to remind everybody what is at stake in this election. democracy and our right to vote is at stake in this election. access to abortion care in a woman's ability to control her own body is on the ballot. protecting our climate is on the ballot. so, it is up to us, wisconsin, to do what our state motto always encourages us, forward. we must move forward. [cheers and applause] i hope you will join me in giving mandela, tony, sarah, josh, gwen and all our candidates your support and

every ounce of energy in the next 10 days. thank you for being here. let's get this job done! [cheers and applause] >> please welcome lieutenant governor mandela barnes, candidate for u.s. senate. [cheers and applause] lieutenant governor mandela barnes: thank you so much.

alright, alright, alright. how are we feeling today? [cheers and applause] thank you so much, milwaukee, thank you so much. i am excited to be here. i am mandela barnes, her lieutenant governor, and in 10 days, with your help, we will send ron johnson packing. [cheers and applause] i cannot tell you how much it means to be back here at home, especially at north division, even though i am a proud product of marshall high school. [cheers and applause] hey, i have to give a shout out. i see my history teacher over here from high school. [cheers and applause] and i say that to say i would not be here if there were not for my public school education. [cheers and applause]

i also would not be here if it were not for the opportunities that wisconsin manufacturing and the strength of our labor unions. [cheers and applause] i am just so grateful for the way things came together in this community that has given me so much. that is why i owed this community so much in return, so that we can all rise together. today has a special meaning for me, because 18 years ago in the summer of 2004, i came back from whatever summer job i was working that year, turned on the tv, then saw state senator barack obama give the keynote speech at the democratic national convention. [cheers and applause] it was quite literally what changed my life, because things

started to click for me. i did not consider politics. i did not see people who shared my experience the people who lived life like i lived life. there were not a lot of elected leaders who wanted to give me in my community the time of day. unfortunately, that is still the case, but there was someone whose story sounded a little bit like mine, someone who talked about the same issues i saw date in and day out, and seeing barack obama on that stage it inspired me and made me realize that maybe, if i work hard enough, i could have the power to make a difference too. [cheers and applause] as i mentioned, my story is a very wisconsin story, a story i am incredibly proud of, a story i show and speak about wherever i go. my grandfather moved to the city after his service in world war ii. he got a union job as a

steelworker at a.o. smith. it does not get more milwaukee than a.o. smith. but he walked into the factory one day and walked out 35 years later. he was able to retire comfortably, lay a foundation, and unfortunately when companies like that, when factories like that close their doors and move their operations out of state or overseas, we saw the decline in opportunity, and in full joy, we saw a rise in other things that made it tough for folks to get ahead. now, i don't come from a wealthy or well-connected family. i grew up right here in the city of milwaukee in a union household. it was enough for me. that is all i needed. [cheers and applause] it was my parents union job that was the ticket to the middle class come about and for joint those tickets are in short supply. it is a shame to think it was easier for my granddad after

world war ii to get into the middle class than people my age, and that is why things need to change. are we tired of being left behind by politicians who would rather serve wealthy donors than us? [cheers and applause] are we tired of the politicians who put their own profits before our lives? [cheers and applause] i am talking about people like ron johnson. [booing] a person who doubled his own wealth in the u.s. senate, but has made everybody else's life worse. a person who for 12 long years has turned his back on every single person in this room, every single person in the state , but this november in the next 10 days we can turn our backs on ron johnson. [cheers and applause] because the reality is any

politician who wants to take away a woman's right to choose, who wants to put our social security and medicare on the chopping block, or send our jobs out of state or overseas, does not deserve our consideration, vote, and certainly does not deserve their seat in office. [cheers and applause] and while senator johnson tries to divide us and distract from the fact he supported a national abortion ban. he supported a national abortion ban with no exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of mother, or his biggest achievement was delivering millions to his two biggest donors, a person who wants to raise the retirement age to 70 years old. [booing] if ron johnson wants to raise the retirement age for us, for the next 10 days, we do the work

to lower the retirement age for ron johnson. [cheers and applause] because what he does not understand, in rooms like this and all across the state regardless of zip code, where we were born, the language we speak, who we love, how we identify them that we have more in common with one another than any self-serving, out of touch politician like him. [cheers and applause] and the reality is that it is not always left/right, red/blue, it is the few ron johnson has kept propped up at the top. if we change washington, we have to send the people we change to washington. [cheers and applause]

ron johnson said women who don't like the laws of their state, like our 1849 criminal abortion ban can just move. [booing] it is careless, callous, but i do believe that the women of the state will band together and move ron johnson out of the u.s. senate. [cheers and applause] >> we love you, mandela. lieutenant governor mandela barnes: i love you back. i'm doing this for the people like one person who had to drive to a funeral home to use the wi-fi. like my friends at oshkosh who said absolutely be building that next generation of vehicles. [cheers and applause]

in fort little girls like chase here in milwaukee who should be able to grow up and determine her own future, which includes making her own health care decisions. [cheers and applause] i do believe that better is possible and you believe the same thing. it is why you showed up today. people are looking for the same things, good schools to attend their children to school, and send them safely and have them return safely without the threat of gun violence. people want to go a doctor and not worry about a surprise big or local politician popping up in making their decisions for them. [cheers and applause] and people one a good job that puts food on the table. people just want opportunity, but we will never get that

opportunities as long as ron johnson is in office, and that is why we continue to fight. [cheers and applause] this is about leading with our values and their vision for the next 10 days, showing up, letting people know what we stand for letting folks know we can no longer leave people behind. people like ron johnson have had their day. it is our time now. [cheers and applause] but i need your help to make this reality possible. i need you to help us knock on every door. i need you to help us make the phone calls. and before he start clapping to her, i send you those text i know you love. [cheers and applause] we have to give it absolutely everything we have got, because this is a fight for freedom, fairness, our future. with your help, i promise you this is a fight we will win and

we will all move forward together, everybody. thank you very much. thank you for being here. thank you, milwaukee. let's bring it home! thank you also much. thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you. >> [chanting] mandela barnes! mandela barnes! mandela barnes! >> thank you. thank you all. [cheers and applause] and now i am so incredibly proud to introduce somebody who has been a partner to me, a partner with me, leading to state through some incredibly difficult times, a person i am proud to call a friend, a champion for the working people of wisconsin, someone who truly embodies the wisconsin idea, the

same idea that made wisconsin become the first state to ratify the 19th amendment, the right to vote. [cheers and applause] i got a little encore for you all. because we are a state that advances the cause of women rights, not take them away. we are the first state to declare the fugitive slave act unconstitutional, the first state to have anti- discrimination laws based on ability on the books, and the first state to have antidiscrimination laws based on sexual orientation on the books. [cheers and applause] some one who has diligently held up that honor, taken us boldly into the future my good friend in your governor, tony evers, everybody. [cheers and applause] gov. evers: hello, everybody.

thank you. >> [chanting] tony! gov. evers: thank you, milwaukee. thank you so much. thank you for being here today. let's hear it again for mandela barnes. [cheers and applause] he has been such a great partner for me. i can't wait to see him in the u.s. senate working alongside tammy baldwin. [cheers and applause] i also want to really have a shout out for every candidate here today. you know, whether it is state, federal, or local, we need to have more stronger, better people running for office, and thank you all for taking that up today. thank you so much. [cheers and applause] so, it is great to be here running for reelection, folks. it is an honor to have a great

group, a small group, i guess? oh, hello over there. great people. we will win this campaign because of all of you. [cheers and applause] let us not -- but it is not does you, we also have president barack obama with us today, and i cannot wait to hear from him in just a few minutes if you would give me a few minutes. [laughter] first, i am proud of what we have been able to accomplish for wisconsin over the past seven years. we have delivered on the promises i made and have focused on common sense solutions for wisconsin and wisconsin values. >> [indiscernible] governor evers: yes. when we do the right thing, wisconsin is better, stronger. and our kids have access to a quality education, they have a foundation for a lifetime of success, so i worked with both

parties, schools, colleges, and the uw system, more than the last two decades, folks. [cheers and applause] because we know what is best for our kids is best for our state. we are not done yet. i will continue to create opportunities for all of our kids by investing more in special education. [cheers and applause] more in mental health. [cheers and applause] and more for smaller class sizes. [cheers and applause] as wisconsin not are dealing --wisconsinites are dealing with rising costs, we put more money in your pockets. we cut income tax for the middle class 15% and will continue directing income tax cuts and relief to working families who need it the most in the state of wisconsin. [cheers and applause]

let's talk about broadband. we have expanded affordable axis -- access to 300 87 households and businesses in the state of wisconsin so far, and we will expand access to another 300,000 in the next couple of years. [cheers and applause] and, in case you did not know it, i have fixed the damn roads. [cheers and applause] there were a handful out there, as you remember. we fixed nearly 5000 miles of highway and bridges. if you lay that out into end, you can drive from here to miami and back on smooth highways in my second term. we will do it. [cheers and applause] we have opened and expanded more

than 6000 small businesses through our main street bounce back program. [cheers and applause] but we can also do lots more for the state, and i know we will. but, my opponent wants to stop that progress. [booing] and frankly, he does not share in our belief that we are doing the right thing. he would take wisconsin in a radically wrong way, if we are not successful. tim michaels supports radical, dangerous policies for the state of wisconsin and it has nothing to and he is open to reducing school funding by as much as 40%. if that happens, we may as well close the doors on our public schools, period. he says the 1849 criminal ban is an exact mirror on his position.

you cannot afford a governor who believes in the no exception abortion ban that would lock up doctors. i will always trust women to make these decisions for themselves. [cheers and applause] michael's said overturning a 2020 election results that means overturning the will of the people of course will be on the table when he becomes governor. good lord. [booing] >> there is a really pro-choice between doing the right thing for wisconsin and what to michael's wants to do for our estate. first, i know i am not the flashiest guy in the room, folks. and this is a big room, but i believe compassion, respect, and fairness and i believe wisconsin is the strongest when we are working together.

[cheers and applause] just remember this, mr. rogers was not the flashiest guy in the room either. [applause] we can choose to keep doing the right thing or go down a rabbit hole path. we cannot do that, we cannot allow that to happen. i know would be organize, bring people together and talk to our neighbors about the future we want to build for this state, we win, and all of you can make that difference. [applause] but, there is someone else here today who knows a thing or two about the power of organizing. [applause] someone who has delivered results really for some time and someone whose leadership is best --left a positive mark on this

entire nation. that is why i am so excited to introduce our next speaker today, who really needs no introduction. he has been a champion of the working people, made historic strides in everything from health care to public health. [indiscernible] [cheering] barack obama. ♪ [cheers and applause] mr. obama: hello, milwaukee. ♪ [cheers and applause] mr. obama: how is everybody doing today? it is good to be back in wisconsin. [applause]

great to be back in the midwest. especially when it is 67 degrees in october. [cheers] my nephews are here and i was talking about the fact that we used to go trick-or-treating in chicago, we had no idea what their costumes were because they had those thick down jackets on, that this is some good trick-or-treating whether right here. and it is great to be back at north division high. this is actually the third time that i have spoken here. the last time was back in 2018, and for some reason i am the only one who looks older. which is a little disturbing.

it is good to see you. now, we are not going to talk about the bears or the packers. maybe next month, but not right now. we went to keep this an upbeat affair. [laughter] the reason i am here is simple. i am here to ask you to vote. [cheers] i am here to ask you to vote for my dear friend, the three g's, representative glenn mo, your attorney general, for your next lieutenant governor sarah rodriguez, for your outstanding governor believers -- tony

evers, and your next united states senator mandela barnes. [cheers and applause] that is why i am here. and you do not have to wait for november 8 to cast your ballot. you can devote early in person through november 5 here in milwaukee or you can vote at your polling place on november 8, and if you are not sure about how and where and all of that go to iwillvote.com, find out what you were supposed to do and make a plan, because you do not want to sleep through the election. and while you're doing that, help your friends and family make a plan. take them with you if you vote early. if you vote in person, take them with you on election day,

because this election requires every single one of us to do our part. it is that important. now, i think it is fair to say this country -- and i am sure it is no different in milwaukee and wisconsin, this country as gone through some tough times these past few years. we have been through some stuff. we are just now coming out of a historic pandemic that wrecked havoc on families and schools and businesses and communities. everybody was impacted. michelle is good, but she was impacted. [cheers] michelle talks about this publicly, even for folks obviously we were in so many ways advantage, we did not have to worry about paying rent, food and stuff, but emotionally it

was hard for everybody, but some folks were more impacted than others. people lost loved ones. nurses, teachers, essential workers, meaning folks who actually do work, they were really affected. and more at risk. and the pandemic also highlighted and in some cases made worse problems that we have been struggling with for years. an economy that too often works for those at the very top but not for everybody else. communities where too many kids are out of school, and then they end up being out of work, and then they are out of hope, and sometimes that leads to violence and despair. and then there was a shift.

and this is a long-term trend, but we saw it get worse of just the breakdown of basic stability, of basic neighborliness, and no where did you see it more than in our politics where suddenly you had politicians doing their best deliberately to stir up division, to make us angry and afraid of each other. just for their own advantage. and all of this was amped up, hyped up 24/7 on cable and then on social media that finds it profitable to promote controversy and conflict instead of facts and truth. >> i got that. mr. obama: you got that? ok. [laughter] and we are still seeing the aftermath of that. i want you take a moment just to say a prayer for a friend of

mine, mr. paul pelosi, 82 years old. attack, somebody broke into his house looking for his wife, the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. beats him with a hammer. doctors fortunately believed that he is going to be ok, and we will let the investigators do their job, but, but, i think one thing is clear. this habit that we have seen completely contrary to what tony was talking about, this habit of saying the worst about people, demonizing people. that creates a dangerous climate , and if elected officials do not do more explicitly to reject the kind of over-the-top, crazy rhetoric, if they keep on ignoring it or passively

supporting it or in some cases encouraging it, if they are telling supporters you have got to stand outside polling places armed with guns and dressed in tactical gear, that is the kind of thing that ends up getting people hurt. and just as significantly it violates the basic precepts, the basic spirit of who we are supposed to be as a democracy. >> [indiscernible] mr. obama: so i get why people are anxious. i understand why you might be worried about the course of the country. i understand why you might sometimes just want to tune out. just watch football. [laughter] or hd tv -- hgtv, or the great british baking show.

[laughter] it's a cute show. national park's, that's a good show. but i am here to tell you that tuning out, milwaukee, is not an option. because the only way to make this economy fairer, to make it work for everybody is if we all fight for it. the only way to make our democracy stronger is if we nurture it and work for it. and that starts with electing people who know you, who see you , who care about you, who know what you are going through. [applause] and you did that two years ago when you sent joe biden to the white house. he is fighting for you every day, es got your back. [cheers]

mr. obama: he is doing everything he can to put more money in your pockets, to make your streets safer, to bring more good paying jobs to wisconsin. you did it when you elected tony evers governor, you did it when you sent brent moore and tammy baldwin to washington to fight for you, and now you have got to do it again. [cheers and applause] because here is the thing, wisconsin. there are a lot of issues at stake in this election, but the most basic question, the fundamental issue you should be asking yourself right now is who will fight for you? who cares about you? that is the choice in this election. all of the other stuff is distraction. anybody can run pbs, these days

they can say anything. no one is fact checking anything, your gut you should have a sense of who cares about you. who is going to fight for working people struggling to pay the bills? glenn was talking about it. inflation is a real problem now, and by the way, it is not just here in america. it is worldwide. it is one of the legacies of the pandemic. it threw off supply and demand. folks who were in the auto industry, certainly you could not get spare parts, people wanting to buy cars and there were not enough cars. all of this stuff is created inflation, it has put pressure on prices, and then on top of that you have got a war in ukraine. and that sent gas prices through the roof, and look, whatever the reasons, when gas prices go up, went grocery prices go up that takes a bite out of people's

paychecks. that hurts. but the question you should be asking is who is actually going to do something about it? the republicans are having a field day running ads talking about it, but what is the actual solution to it? i will tell you. they went to got social security and medicare and then give some more tax breaks to the wealthy. and the reason i know that is their agenda is because, listen, that is their answer to everything. when inflation is low, what do you want to do? cut taxes. when unemployment is high, let's cut taxes on the wealthy. that will solve that. i was joking down in georgia, if there was an asteroid headed toward earth, they would be like

two weeks, if you went into the republican congress and said what do you want to do? well, we need a tax break for the wealthy. that is going to help. [laughter] i am only barely exaggerating. that is their only economic policy, the only one. and it is been there only one for the last 20 years. it would be nice if every problem you had you just said one answer. those of you who are young, still in school you were going into math exam, every answer is, number eight, just write eight, you would get an a. but that is not how the world works. they do not have a plan, that is why democrats actually have plans to take on drug companies

to lower prices, to get oil industry to clean up its act, to pass laws to make housing more affordable, to make sure big corporations that are already getting tax break create jobs here in wisconsin instead of overseas. [applause] that is the choice in this election. that is what this is about. i know you guys must be sick of these television ads. i mean -- look, let's talk about another one. there was a lot of talk about crime right now. i guess folks in milwaukee do not have any idea. listen -- oh yeah. violent crime has gone up over the last seven years, not just the last two. they act like the other guy was not president when some of this stuff was happening. it has gone up in conservative

and rural areas, not just in the city. so who will fight to keep you and your family safe? is it going to be republican politicians who want to flood our streets with more guns? who actually voted against more resources for police departments or is it leaders like tammy baldwin and glenmore who worked with president biden to vest the first major gun safety legislation in nearly 30 years. that is what is at stake right now. [cheers and applause] who will fight for your freedoms? is it republican politicians and judges you think they should get to decide when you start a family or how many children you should have or who you marry or who you love?

or is it democratic leaders who believe that the freedom to make these most intimate, personal decisions belong to every american, not politicians, mostly men sitting somewhere in washington. [cheers and applause] mr. obama: that is the question this election, that is what you have got to decide. and you have got to decide who will make our political process, our democracy work for you. look, you can watch the news, read what they say. these republican politicians have promised -- they are on record. if they get control of congress will spend the next two years investigating president biden and their political opponents. that is all they want to do. they see it as payback. some of us said they have already gotten prepared that

they are going to impeach biden. they are not sure what for. [laughter] but apparently that is beside the point, and you are laughing, accept that they have actually said that. they have literally said we are not sure what the theory is, but we are going to come up with one. now how is that going to help you pay your bills? how is that going to help your kids find a good job and career? how is that going to help wisconsin compete? or do you stand a better chance with president biden, democratic leaders who have worked together sometimes with republicans where possible to pass an infrastructure bill that creates new jobs, who made prescription drugs more affordable, who made

the single largest ever investment in fighting climate change. that is the choice of this election. [cheers] mr. obama: you have a choice between folks will say anything and do anything to get power and leaders who share our values. who are decent, good people, who are inspired by mr. rogers. [cheers and applause] mr. obama: leaders who want to help make your lives better and move this country forward. look, let me be clear, because i have been out your campaigning for the last few days. this has not always been a partisan thing. my favorite president was a guy from my home state of illinois

named abe lincoln, helped -- the republican party. it used to be there were gop leaders who champion civil rights and will of love. -- rule of law. folks who were with me in the 2008 election, we talked about bringing people together and spoke to all people regardless of party about how we could move the country forward, so that is my instinct. i am not somebody who believes that some party label defines us , but i have to speak the truth, which is these days just about every republican politician seems to adjust with just two things, owned the -- own the

libs and getting donald trump's approval. that is their agenda. don't boo. nobody can hear you boo outside of this auditorium, but they will hear your vote. [cheers and applause] this current crop of republican politicians, they are not interested in solving problems. they are interested in making you angry and then finding somebody to blame, and they are hoping that will distract you from the fact that they do not have any answers of their own. that is their obsession. that is their formula. that is their answer to everything. i can tell you what tony evers is obsessed with. he is obsessed with great wisconsin's economy, making sure every child gets a good

education in this state. you heard him mention that his opponent wants to make it easier for people to sue public school districts. he is opponent proposes to that is opponent calls a position -- people are out there saying we are ruled by giant lizards and that elvis is alive. you cannot think of anything crazier than investing more in our schools and our children? [laughter] let me tell you, if that is crazy, then tony is a good crazy , because he is a lifelong educator and the governor. [applause] he has worked with leaders from both parties to invest more in education that was cotton as it must two decades. [cheers and applause]

he has vetoed republican bills that try to make it harder to vote. he vetoed bills that would make it easier to carry concealed weapons. i can tell you where mandela barnes' priorities lie. as were senator, he will not go off on some wacky conspiracy theory. you do not see him trying to make you afraid of everybody just so he can grab power. he is going to work to bring manufacturing jobs to wisconsin and help small businesses and family farms compete against huge megacorporations. that is his agenda. [cheers and applause] i want to say something here, i know that there are some folks,

maybe not in this auditorium, but elsewhere in wisconsin, and i know the ads are running this way -- just because mandela was named mandela, just because he is a democrat with a funny name, you must not be like you. he must not share your values. i mean, we have seen this. it sounds pretty familiar, doesn't it? get that birth certificate. get ready. [applause] [laughter] mr. obama: that was the good old days. do you remember when that was the craziest thing people said?

think about that. like, that was not that long ago. everyone is like that was some crazy stuff. now it does not even make the top 10 list of crazy. [laughter] but the truth is, i was just talking to mandela's parents. they were in the photo line. this year is the son of a third shift autoworker and a public school teacher, grew up in one of milwaukee's poorest neighborhoods. work as an organizer, served as a state legislator, not lieutenant governor. he fought every step of the way to make sure wisconsinites have opportunities to get ahead just like he did. if that is not a true blooded wisconsin american, i do not know what is. [cheers and applause]

and then there is mandela's opponent. don't waste your vocal cords going -- booing. vote. you got the idea. ron johnson. as your senator -- now remember, the question is who is going to fight for you? who is on your side, he was thinking about you? ron johnson, as a senator, held give millions of dollars in tax deductions to some of the biggest donors who funded his campaign. and after he voted for a tax plan that allows people to write

off the cost of private planes. i have been trying to get this thing closed since i was president. if you can avoid -- afford a private plane, then you do not need a tax break. he fought for this, and then his adult children but not one, not two, but three private planes, because apparently carpooling was not an option. now -- i mean, you need three? [laughter] meanwhile, senator johnson voted to raise the retirement age to 70, supported the plan that would put social security and medicare on the chopping block every single year.

each year you would have to vote to renew this thing. think about it, because washington works so well. you want your social security and medicare reliant on congress every year. he has called social security a ponzi scheme. says it cannot just be given away. the point is, some of you here are on social security. some of your parents are on social security. some of your grandparents are on social security. do you know why they have social security? because they worked for it. they worked hard jobs for it. [applause] they have chapped hands for it. they had long hours and sore backs and bad knees to get that social security, and if ron

johnson does not understand that , if you get to tax breaks to private planes more than he understands making sure that seniors who have worked all of their lives are able to retire with dignity and respect, he is not the person he was thinking about you and knows you and sees you, and he should not be your senator from wisconsin. [cheers and applause] i mean, the message he is sending is pretty clear, if you are related him -- related to him, or you donate to his campaign you get a deal. if you are not you were on euro. when you see the ad saying mandela is dangerous were different, ask yourself, who

knows more about your life? this millionaire looking up for his rich friends or a guy from a working class family? who understands what wisconsinites are going to each and every day and once to make your lives better? whose dad knows when that is like to work hard with his hands, whose mom knows what it is like to work hard as a teacher. do not fall for it, wisconsin. you deserve a senator like a mandela barnes. [cheers and applause] see through the surface of things. just go a little deeper. >> i love you. mr. obama: i love you too. [applause] you also deserve so many who stand up for a woman's right to make her own health care decision.

[cheers and applause] mr. obama: abortion has been controversial since i have been around. and i genuinely believe that there good people of conscience who may differ with me on this issue, we should all agree that women everywhere should be able to control what happens with their own bodies. [applause] and it should not be controversial to say that the most personal of health care decisions, the most profound personal choices should be made by a woman and her doctor and not by a bunch of mostly male politicians and estate capital or washington and do not know nothing about -- [cheers and applause]

mr. obama: and that is why when the supreme court struck down roe v. wade it was a wake-up call for a lot of young people. especially young women, who maybe took roe for granted. it was a reminder that a politicized court can reinterpret well-settled constitutional rights. we can go backward, not just forward. if republicans take back the house and senate, we could be one presidential election away from a nationwide ban on access to abortion, and that might just be the beginning. i taught constitutional law for a decade. if a court does not leave in a zone of privacy that allows each of us to make certain decisions without the government interfering, like it is not their business, other freedoms that we take for granted are at risk, and justice clarence thomas already said as much.

he wrote it in the dobbs decision. there is no right to privacy, same-sex marriage could be at risk. the same idea of a right to privacy was the basis for saying that states could not ban interracial marriage. there is no actual right to marriage written down in the constitution. just like there was no right to contraception and the constitution, so almost every republican in the house of representatives have already voted against the right to use contraception. now you think about that? if they take that power, there is no guarantee that will not be next. now here in wisconsin, governor evers' opponent wants to ban abortions with no exceptions. according to him, i am quoting, it is not unreasonable for the

government to force rape victims to give birth. but, vote. supports a criminal abortion ban passed more than 70 years before women got the right to vote. that could put doctors in jail for trying to save a patient's life, because part of what people do not think about is there are few people who want to bring a child to term, something goes wrong and if you do not have exception to the are being criminalized, they do not train to deal with those situations. they will not know what to do in some cases or you will not have a lot of people who can deal with it. the good news is, if you vote for tony, that is not going to happen. two days after the supreme court heard arguments in the case that would overturn roe v. wade he

vetoed five republican bills that would have eliminated or limited access to abortion. as long as tony evers as governor, he will keep doing whatever it takes to make sure that women have the power to make their own health care decisions, and that is how it should be. [cheers and applause] all of these issues are at stake. >> [indiscernible] mr. obama: gracias. all of these issues are at stake. if that is not worth 15 minutes of your time, i do not know what is. but if you do need another reason to vote, consider the fact that democracy is also on the ballot. [applause] i mentioned earlier, things have

changed in terms of our political discourse, and i have to admit it wears on me. sometimes the idea of going up on the campaign trail feels a little harder and not just because i am older and a little grayer. back when i was first running for office, people did not agree with me on everything. and i was driving myself, i did not even have a driver. i am dating myself because we used maps, paper maps. you never knew how to fold a backup so they were sitting in your passenger seat. we would go out to rural areas, farm country. a lot of folks were not named barack or look like me and a lot of these were conservative for areas and i would stop by a vfw hall or i would talk to somebody

at a fish fry. might stop by the local paper, and you sit down maybe at a diner over a piece of pie and coffee, and they did not agree with me on everything, but you know, we could have a nice conversation and we could talk about the things we had in common, our hopes for our kids, problems we were seeing with farm prices. you could have a conversation about health care or an ailing mom, and over the course of the conversation maybe we kind of learn from each other and persuade each other a little bit. and folks did not all vote for me just because i had that conversation, but you felt as if you could make a connection, and that is why i ended up getting a bunch of republican votes, and then after i won for the presidency, my opponent, john mccain, first thing he did,

graciously conceded. got on stage, wish me luck for the good and the sake of the country. that was the basic foundation of our democracy. that is how it works. [cheers and applause] some sense of mutual respect. we can disagree without being disagreeable. and that is at risk right now. and listen. you know, you may not hear this a lot of times a democratic rally, immigrants are not perfect. [laughter] mr. obama: i was not perfect as president. i am the first to admit it, politicians just like all of us can make mistakes. even with the best of intentions. but, for the most part just about unanimously democrats

still abide by the basic norms and rules of how the democracy is supposed to work. like in 2016 when my successor won, i was not feeling good, but i stayed up until 3:00 in the morning until it was finally decided and then i had to call them and say congratulations. because that is how democracy is supposed to work. and we ensured a peaceful transition of power. [applause] [cheers] now today, with just a few notable exceptions, and i give credit to some courageous publicans who lost their seats because they believed in the rules, but the vast majority of

republican politicians, whether it is because they actually believe it or it is because they are scared to say otherwise, they are not even pretending that the rules apply anymore. they are literally just making stuff up. mandela's opponent as done more than just about anybody in congress to spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. he has a gold medal in that event. he said the attacks on law enforcement at that capitol on generation x were by and large, peaceful protests -- january 6 were by and large, peaceful protests although he did say the rioters taught us all how to use a flagpole as a weapon.

if that is a lesson you take away from storming a capitol building, a violent insurrection, i do not know what to say. but you probably should not be serving as wisconsin's representative in the u.s. senate, because that is not how our democracy is supposed to work. [applause] if that does not elicit uniform outrage, what will? what does it take? tony's opponent said if he is elected governor, he will dissolve the bipartisan elections commission. he was to decide on his own elections turned out or not. he even said is open to sending a bill to overturn the results of the last election. and to state the obvious, if somebody is openly obsessed with

changing the last election, keep probably should not be in charge of overseeing this one coming up. [cheers and applause] you have a republican in the wisconsin state legislator trying to get themselves power to do whatever they want. here in wisconsin, already the map is so gerrymandered, the only have to win 44% of the votes to get a majority of the assembly. think about that. think about any other thing you do in life where 44% on one side, 56% on the other side, and 44 wins. it does not make sense. that is correct. and if they pick up a few more seats in both chambers they will be able to force through extreme , a popular laws and everything from education to guns to

abortion, and there will not be anything the democrats can do about it. right now the only person standing in the way is tony evers, and let me say this. i know tony is low-key, self-deprecating. he is got a little more of a clark kent five than superman vibe, but do not let the glasses and the necktie full you, because tony is tough. he is single-handedly keeping republicans from driving the car off the road. he might be democracy's best hope in wisconsin. that is one more reason that he deserves your vote. [cheers and applause] mr. obama: so, i get democracy

right now today might not seem like a top priority. especially because people are worried about gas bills, food bills, they are worried about their paychecks, worried about their kids. i get that. i understand why when you do not see enough progress on issues that matter to you or your family you might just say, i do not have time to think about something so abstract like democracy. but, you know what? we have seen throughout history what happens when we lose democracy. we can see it right now around the world and of the countries where the government tells you what books you can read, and what books you cannot read that question your loyalty if you do not worship the way they want you to worship. countries that put dissidents and reporters in jail. countries where it really does not matter who you vote for, because the game really is

fixed, and people will do anything to keep the power they got and where corruption is rampant because there was absolutely no accountability. i have seen it. when i was president, i dealt with countries like that all the time. and once that goes away, once self-government goes away, it is hard to get it back. it is dangerous, and people get hurt, and you can have real-life consequences, and that is why generations of americans, my grandfather in world war two -- world war ii, folks in every generation have fought and died for the idea of self-governance. that is why folks marched down in selma, and some folks died to make sure that the rules were fair. that is what women suffragists

marched and fought so that they could be included in self-government. so that we could set up rules that were fair to give everybody a voice. rules that we teach our kids when they are little about being honest and about being fair. rules about how we should debate decisions. if we are in a group everybody gets a saint, everybody gets a turn. if you do not get your way, you did not throw a tantrum in the sandbox. you do not pick up your ball and go home. we teach our kids this stuff. we tell our kids, you know, you get over it. you tried to do better next time . i mean, i -- i lost my first

election for congress, i got whipped. i did not say, you know, while -- wow, this election was rigged. i did not say let's go storm the capitol. that is what i mean when i say democracy is at stake and that is why it is not enough to elect democrats like mandela barnes and tony evers. you have to with that up and down the ballot because if things get close, they could make all of the difference. and guess what, the good news, because i know some of this is been a little dark, but here is the good news. you get to make a difference. your vote will make a difference. that is why our opponents are working so hard to stop you, and that is what you cannot let them. we joke in my house that between

me and michelle, michelle can be the glass half person sometimes, and i am more of the class have full guide, i am the hope and change guy. i am usually a little more optimistic at the dinner table, and sometimes when she gets done about the state of the country or the world, she has been reading too much news, i tell her, honey, everything is going to be ok. and i believe it will. but i also know things will not be ok on their own. we have to fight for it. we have to work for it. not just on election day but every day in between. that is why this election matters, wisconsin. [applause] and i know these are tough times, but we have been through

tough times before. the important thing is to resist the temptation just to throw our hands up and turn inward and see politics as a zero-sum game where rules are basically broken , and the only way for people like us to win is for them to lose. to sink into cynicism. you know, even in our darkest moments -- and i remind michelle and i tell my children, this country has seen darker moments before. underneath it all, i believe we have had more in common than our politics and our politicians suggest. even when times are tough, i believe what unites us to be stronger than what divides us.

there have always been certain values that bind us together as citizens, no matter who we are or will become from or what we look like or who we love. we think about our kids and me think about working hard and we think about being honest and being fair. homespun values. it does not matter whether you are out on a farm somewhere or the inner city. people have a sense of that. it does not matter what your last name is. that is the promise of america. that is who we at least want to be. and in this election, you have a chance to do that, to make america live up to what we hope it can be. [laughter] mr. obama: you have a chance to

vote for leaders like glenn moore, you have a chance to vote for sarah rodriguez, you have got a chance to vote for a great and decent governor like tony evers. you have got a chance to vote for an outstanding young man who work hard for you, mandela barnes. you have got a chance to vote for this hole to get -- whole ticket that will fight for a hopeful and inclusive america that we believe in. in america where we might not fix all of our problems overnight but where we can make things better. and better is worth fighting for. [cheers] mr. obama: so if you are anxious, if you are frustrated. do not complain. >> vote. mr. obama: do not do not. >> vote.

mr. obama: do not get bamboozled. >> vote. mr. obama: vote. get off your couch. put down your phones for a minute and -- >> vote. mr. obama: vote for this democratic wisconsin ticket and do -- and tell people to do the same. enough of us make our voices heard we will be better, and we will build a country that is more fair and more just in a equal and more free. let's go do this, wisconsin. thank you, milwaukee. i love you. let's get to work. [cheers and applause] ♪

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