Jon Ossoff Destroys Trump In Major Altanta Rally Infront Of Obama

[0:02] We've seen masked federal agents with license to kill demanding papers at police checkpoints. [0:13] Each day, Donald Trump digs the moral pit deeper. [0:22] But Pastor Bryant, isn't it in Proverbs that says, [0:26] whoever digs a pit, whoever digs a pit will fall into it. [0:39] And Georgia, over the last year, in defiance of his depravity, [0:43] we've marched together in protest and we've gathered at rallies like this one [0:47] that just keep getting bigger and bigger. [0:55] We've come together in small towns and big cities in the mountains and on the coast [1:00] and on the Georgia farms that feed and clothe the world. [1:03] And now, Georgia, with just six days to go, [1:07] I'm here to tell you I have no doubt our victory is near at hand. [1:21] In six days, our juggernaut coordinated campaign will have turned out the vote like never before [1:27] to elect Josh McLaurin, Penny Brown Reynolds, Tanya Miller and Democrats up and down the ballot. [1:37] In six days, we'll elect a Medicaid-expanding Governor Keisha Lance Bottoms. [1:43] And in six days, Georgia will rebuke the crook President Donald Trump with such clarity and [1:55] power that no president will dare such abuses again for centuries. [2:17] Now remember, he promised to lower prices on day one. [2:30] Instead, under the failed President Donald J. Trump, it costs more than ever in American history [2:36] to fill up your truck, stock your fridge, visit the doctor or power your home. [2:44] They promised to drain the swamp. [2:49] Instead, it's the most corrupt administration of all time and everybody knows it. [2:54] And while the crook President and his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, [3:04] you pay more for everything. [3:07] They doubled your insurance premiums and slashed Medicaid to cut taxes for the rich. [3:12] They lied us into war and spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous [3:17] pedophile. [3:18] You saw it. [3:30] Now remember, they also promised peace. [3:35] They promised peace. [3:40] Instead, today marks eight months of a needless war that the useless draft-dodging commander-in-chief [3:48] can't figure out how to end or how to win. [3:56] Remember, last year, last year, they claimed Iran's nuclear program had been obliterated. [4:01] Do you remember that? [4:04] And then this year, they told us it posed an imminent threat. [4:07] Both times lies. [4:10] On day four of the war, day four, the President declared victory. [4:21] On day 11, Trump said, quote, the war is very complete. [4:27] Day 13, quote, we won. [4:31] Day 21, getting very close. [4:35] Day 32, quote, leaving very soon. [4:39] On day 40, the President declared, quote, total and complete victory. [4:46] Today is day 243. [4:51] 21 Americans are dead and hundreds wounded. [4:55] Iran still has its uranium and drones and missiles, while diesel hits its all-time high. [5:00] They've drained our stockpiles to achieve nothing, while the President builds himself a victory arch. [5:15] And while the world burns, in Washington and at Mar-a-Lago, it's a spectacle of graft [5:23] unprecedented in American history. [5:26] The crypto payoffs and the crooked [5:33] backing Prince Don and Prince Eric's investments. [5:38] Never before has so little effort been made to cover up so much corruption. [5:44] And here's the bottom line. [5:47] If you're involved in any of this, next year, you'll be raising your right hand and swearing to [5:53] tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help you God in front of the United [5:58] States Congress. The Mar-a-Lago Mafia, the Mar-a-Lago Mafia has taken American corruption to [6:28] spectacular new heights. But corruption in American politics runs a lot deeper than Donald Trump. [6:39] It's been running on corporate money, secret money, billionaire money, both sides. [6:46] Citizens United was the most destructive court decision in modern American history. [6:53] Spectacular wealth buys an ever greater share of power over our national affairs. [7:02] And I suspect many of you are here because you recognize that our task is not just to contain [7:11] this one man's wickedness, but to heal the brokenness that gave rise to him. [7:19] That this moment is an opportunity not for restoration, but for reformation. [7:26] And Atlanta, if it takes a constitutional amendment to end Citizens United, we'll deliver a united Georgia [7:32] Georgia to ratify it. A united Georgia. Each day, our wave grows taller and our tent grows bigger. [7:49] Because this isn't just a campaign for Democrats. Folks come up to me at airports or on the street. [7:55] They tell me they're voting for a Democrat for the first time. For the first time. [8:05] Down in Valdosta, the mayor's name is Scott James Matheson, a lifelong Republican. We upgraded Moody Air Force [8:12] together. And then when Hurricane Helene hit, we went together block by block and served hot meals [8:18] to folks who just lost their homes. And when I got back to Washington, I delivered federal disaster [8:23] aid for South Georgia. And now I'm honored to have conservative Republican Mayor Matheson's support [8:29] in this reelection campaign. See, just about every week, I call up Georgia mayors and pastors and [8:41] farmers to find out how I can help. And just up the road from Valdosta in Tifton, [8:47] is Republican Mayor Julie Smith. And one day, Julie told me the Tifton Hospital needed new dialysis [8:54] equipment to serve patients with diabetes in 12 South Georgia counties. So I delivered the funds [9:01] to upgrade that clinic, which can now serve 200 patients. And like Mayor Matheson, Republican Mayor [9:11] Julie Smith supporting this campaign too. Up north in Toccoa, then Mayor Gail Frye, another Georgia [9:23] Republican. She told me Toccoa's gas lines were wearing out. So I got to work and delivered the [9:30] funds to replace them. And Georgia Republican Gail Frye supporting our campaign too. Because see, [9:40] hurricanes and diabetes and gas leaks don't check your party affiliation. And when it comes to serving [9:47] Georgia, I don't either. But there's another reason. There's another reason so many Georgia [9:57] Republicans are backing our campaign. And it's the bigot Congressman Mike Collins. See, see, Brian [10:11] Kemp was right about Mike. There's a reason why Brad Raffensperger refuses to endorse him. Why [10:19] conservative WSB radio host Shelley Winter calls Mike a bottom feeder. Why one of the founders of the [10:28] Tea Party said this summer, quote, I cannot in good conscience vote for Mike Collins. He is unfit for [10:34] our office. And that reason is that Mike Collins is a known bigot under federal investigation for the [10:45] illegal misuse of tax dollars surrounded at work and at home by white nationalists and neo-Nazis and [10:50] unfit for any elected office in the United States. And in his pathetic childlike devotion to Donald Trump, [11:08] Mike Collins sold out our state. He voted every time for the war. He voted every time for the tariffs. [11:17] He voted to double your health insurance premiums. And he voted for the biggest Medicaid cut in history. [11:23] Listen to this. St. Mary's Hospital in Livonia is in Mike's district. And they just closed their [11:34] labor and delivery units citing those Medicaid cuts. So now pregnant women Mike Collins represents have [11:42] to drive an hour in labor to get to a maternity unit. And Georgia, after all that, the bigot Congressman [11:56] is asking for a promotion. But in six days will end his political career instead. [12:12] Now, what could drive Mike Collins to cast a vote that closes a labor and delivery unit in his own [12:20] district? It's not just the money that's corrupted our politics. It's a moral corruption. It's the cynical [12:29] indifference of powerful people. See, my office is known for world-class service. And what amazes me [12:39] is how surprised people are to be treated so well. Nancy Lancey is 81 years old in Jessup. Her husband [12:49] died after years of dementia. She was worn out and alone. And now her fair affairs were all wrapped [12:58] up in a labyrinth between the VA and the IRS and Social Security. So we took care of things for her. [13:04] And I'll never forget what she said about it. She said, this was a new experience to have someone [13:13] caring about me. A new experience to have someone caring about me. How has it come to pass that for [13:26] so many Americans, the experience of genuine care is rare and surprising? Official indifference and [13:37] corporate disrespect have become systemic. Instead of reading your daughter her favorite book, that [13:45] precious spare hour after work, you're on the phone begging the insurance company to cover the medicine [13:50] that prevents her seizures. The army lost the records you need to claim your VA benefits and it takes a [13:57] year and 12 calls to fix it. You report the black mold to your landlord, but he doesn't fix the leak [14:05] and the ambulance for your toddler's asthma attack is followed by a $3,000 bill. Daily life's hard [14:15] enough. And then you see the state of the world. I've got two little girls at home. Eva's four and Lila's [14:28] one. And I'm so grateful to this country for the security and opportunity it affords them. But this [14:34] isn't the world I want to leave them. Soon enough they'll learn there's now plastic in human blood [14:41] and breast milk. That toxic forever chemicals are in half the country's drinking water. Eva loves animal [14:50] documentaries and she'll learn the butterflies are dying off. She'll learn about the nuclear weapons [14:56] that threaten annihilation. She'll ask me why I allowed these things to happen. And see what fills us with [15:06] dread is the crushing weakness of our politics against the massive stakes of our times. Tech titans build [15:15] bunkers while warning the artificial intelligence they're creating risks human extinction. Meanwhile, [15:23] our Congress debates youth sports and the president builds a ballroom. An ancient establishment barely [15:32] capable of email sleepwalks into a technological revolution while the president dismantles precautions [15:38] and calls us fools for worrying. So you see this scenario and it fills you with dread. I get it. [15:47] But Georgia, we can and will reclaim control over our own destiny. We can and will meet our obligations to [16:01] our children. And it begins with victory this fall. Because Georgia, I refuse to leave my girls a world as [16:11] dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become. I refuse to accept that Eva and Lila will grow [16:19] up on a poisoned planet rearming for world war in a country where we have enough nuclear weapons to destroy [16:26] the world a thousand fold, but we refuse to guarantee health care for every citizen. When Eva's old enough to ask me [16:40] why I let this happen, I'm determined to answer truthfully, but I didn't. I'll tell her how the same year she turned five, [16:56] Georgia overcame every doubt and dirty trick to not just win, but to set a new course for our state and our country and our world. [17:04] That our generation didn't shrink from its obligations to hers. That we mastered technology instead of [17:13] letting it master us. That we restored American leadership toward peace and human rights. And that [17:21] we guaranteed health care for every single American. There's a portrait of Congressman Lewis right above my [17:38] desk in my Senate office. And I promise you, his spirit is with us in this place right now. Right now. [17:50] That we all live in one American house. In one world house. Do you remember? See, John Lewis knew and gave [18:07] blood to make real what small men like Donald Trump and Mike Collins will never understand. That our [18:13] national greatness flows not through our genes, but through our ideas and aspirations and care for one [18:19] another. And from our founding ideals, despite our sins and through courageous struggle, the flame of [18:35] American freedom has grown brighter and bolder and given hope to the whole world. But in the winds [18:41] that blow today, that light is flickering. And from the Fulton County raid to the executive order [18:50] attacking voting to the MAGA loyalists on our state election board, the election deniers and insurrectionists [18:56] and their accomplices have made their intentions very clear. But Atlanta, when voting rights and civil [19:02] rights that heroes died to secure are under attack, we defend those rights by using them. [19:07] And that's why Georgia Democrats are answering with a mobilization so massive and a defense of voting [19:19] rights so fierce that no plot against the franchise will foil the will of the people. Because how foolish [19:31] of them to come to the cradle of the civil rights movement to spread those lies and seize those ballots. [19:37] Their attacks have only strengthened our resolve. And if we all do what we must do these next six days, [19:46] the sound of feet marching to the polls will be heard in every corner of our state and way up on high [19:52] where Congressman Lewis will look down and see a job well done. A wave is building. The kind of wave [20:04] that comes once a generation when the people have been pushed too far and decide all together all at once that [20:11] enough is enough. We have six days Georgia and Georgia will bow to no. For nearly two years we've [20:25] seen our government transformed into a tool of one man's personal vengeance and power and enrichment. [20:34] We've seen insurance stripped from cancer patients and hospitals closed services to fund tax cuts for the [20:40] rich. We've seen prison camps for immigrants full of children. We've seen masked federal agents with [20:58] license to kill demanding papers at police checkpoints. Each day Donald Trump digs the moral pit deeper. [21:12] But pastor Bryant isn't it in proverbs that says whoever digs a pit, whoever digs a pit will fall into it. [21:32] And Georgia over the last year in defiance of his depravity, we've marched together in protest [21:38] and we've gathered at rallies like this one that just keep getting bigger and bigger. We've come [21:49] together in small towns and big cities in the mountains and on the coast and on the Georgia [21:54] farms that feed and clothe the world. And now Georgia with just six days to go, I'm here to tell you I [22:01] have no doubt our victory is near at hand. In six days our juggernaut coordinated campaign will have [22:18] turned out the vote like never before to elect Josh McLaurin, Penny Brown Reynolds, Tanya Miller and [22:23] Democrats up and down the ballot. In six days we'll elect a Medicaid expanding governor Keisha Lance [22:35] Bottoms. And in six days Georgia will rebuke the crook President Donald Trump with such clarity and [22:48] power that no president will dare such abuses again for centuries. Now remember he promised to lower prices [23:17] on day one. Instead under the failed President Donald J. Trump, it costs more than ever in American [23:28] history to fill up your truck, stock your fridge, visit the doctor or power your home. They promised [23:38] to drain the swamp. Instead it's the most corrupt administration of all time and everybody knows it. [23:47] And while the crook President and his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, [23:57] you pay more for everything. They doubled your insurance premiums and slashed Medicaid to cut taxes for [24:04] the rich. They lied us into war and spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most [24:09] famous pedophile. You saw it. Now remember they also promised peace. They promised peace. Instead [24:34] today marks eight months of a needless war that the useless draft dodging commander-in-chief can't figure [24:42] out how to end or how to win. Remember last year, last year they claimed Iran's nuclear program had been [24:54] obliterated. Do you remember that? And then this year they told us it posed an imminent threat. Both [25:00] times lies. On day four of the war, day four, the President declared victory. On day 11, Trump said, [25:16] quote, the war is very complete. Day 13, quote, we won. Day 21, getting very close. Day 32, quote, leaving [25:30] very soon. On day 40, the President declared, quote, total and complete victory. Today is day 243. [25:42] 21 Americans are dead and hundreds wounded. Iran still has its uranium and drones and missiles while [25:51] diesel hits its all time high. They've drained our stockpiles to achieve nothing while the President [25:57] builds himself a victory arch. And while the world burns in Washington and at Mar-a-Lago, [26:14] it's a spectacle of graft unprecedented in American history. The crypto payoffs and the crooked [26:26] backing Prince Don and Prince Eric's investments. Never before has so little effort been made to cover [26:34] up so much corruption. And here's the bottom line. If you're involved in any of this, next year, [26:43] you'll be raising your right hand and swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the [26:48] truth so help you God in front of the United States Congress. The Mar-a-Lago mafia, the Mar-a-Lago [27:18] mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights. But corruption in American politics runs [27:29] a lot deeper than Donald Trump. It's been running on corporate money, secret money, billionaire money, [27:35] both sides. Citizens United was the most destructive court decision in modern American history. Spectacular [27:51] wealth buys an ever greater share of power over our national affairs. And I suspect many of you are [27:58] here because you recognize that our task is not just to contain this one man's wickedness, but to heal [28:07] the brokenness that gave rise to him. That this moment is an opportunity not for restoration but for [28:16] reformation. And Atlanta, if it takes a constitutional amendment to end Citizens United, we'll deliver a [28:24] united Georgia to ratify it. A united Georgia. Each day our wave grows taller and our tent grows bigger [28:42] because this isn't just a campaign for Democrats. Folks come up to me at airports or on the street, [28:48] they tell me they're voting for a Democrat for the first time. For the first time. Down in Valdosta, [28:59] the mayor's name is Scott James Matheson, a lifelong Republican. We upgraded Moody Air Force together. [29:06] And then when Hurricane Helene hit, we went together block by block and served hot meals to folks who [29:11] just lost their homes. And when I got back to Washington, I delivered federal disaster aid for [29:17] South Georgia. And now I'm honored to have conservative Republican Mayor Matheson's support [29:22] in this reelection campaign. See, just about every week I call up Georgia mayors and pastors and farmers [29:35] to find out how I can help. And just up the road from Valdosta in Tifton is Republican Mayor Julie Smith. [29:43] And one day, Julie told me that Tifton Hospital needed new dialysis equipment to serve patients [29:48] with diabetes in 12 South Georgia counties. So I delivered the funds to upgrade that clinic, [29:55] which can now serve 200 patients. And like Mayor Matheson, Republican Mayor Julie Smith supporting [30:05] this campaign too. Up north in Toccoa, then Mayor Gail Frye, another Georgia Republican. She told me [30:18] Toccoa's gas lines were wearing out. So I got to work and delivered the funds to replace them and [30:24] Georgia Republican Gail Frye supporting our campaign too. Because see, hurricanes and diabetes and gas [30:35] leaks don't check your party affiliation. And when it comes to serving Georgia, I don't either. But [30:45] there's another reason. There's another reason so many Georgia Republicans are backing our campaign. [30:53] And it's the bigot Congressman Mike Collins. See, see, Brian Kemp was right about Mike. There's a [31:07] reason why Brad Raffensperger refuses to endorse him. Why conservative WSB radio host Shelley Winter [31:15] calls Mike a bottom feeder. Why one of the founders of the Tea Party said this summer, quote, [31:23] I cannot in good conscience vote for Mike Collins. He is unfit for office. And that reason is that [31:33] Mike Collins is a known bigot under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of tax [31:39] dollars surrounded at work and at home by white nationalists and neo-Nazis and unfit for any elected [31:45] office in the United States. And in his pathetic childlike devotion to Donald Trump, Mike Collins sold [32:02] out our state. He voted every time for the war. He voted every time for the tariffs. He voted to [32:10] double your health insurance premiums. And he voted for the biggest Medicaid cut in history. Listen to [32:19] this. St. Mary's Hospital in Livonia is in Mike's district, and they just closed their labor and [32:28] delivery units citing those Medicaid cuts. So now pregnant women Mike Collins represents have to drive [32:35] an hour in labor to get to a maternity unit in Georgia. After all that, the bigot congressman [32:49] is asking for a promotion, but in six days will end his political career instead. Now, what could drive [33:07] Mike Collins to cast a vote that closes a labor and delivery unit in his own district? It's not just [33:16] the money that's corrupted our politics. It's a moral corruption. It's the cynical indifference of [33:23] powerful people. See, my office is known for world-class service. And what amazes me is how surprised [33:34] people are to be treated so well. Nancy Lancey's 81 years old in Jessup. Her husband died after years [33:43] of dementia. She was worn out and alone. And now her fair affairs were all wrapped up in a labyrinth [33:52] between the VA and the IRS and Social Security. So we took care of things for her. And I'll never forget [33:59] what she said about it. She said, this was a new experience to have someone caring about me. A new [34:10] experience to have someone caring about me. How has it come to pass that for so many Americans, [34:21] the experience of genuine care is rare and surprising? Official indifference and corporate [34:31] disrespect have become systemic. Instead of reading your daughter her favorite book, [34:38] that precious spare hour after work, you're on the phone begging the insurance company to cover [34:42] the medicine that prevents her seizures. The army lost the records you need to claim your VA benefits [34:49] and it takes a year and 12 calls to fix it. You report the black mold to your landlord, but he [34:57] doesn't fix the leak in the ambulance for your toddler's asthma attack is followed by a $3,000 bill. [35:07] Daily life's hard enough. And then you see the state of the world. I've got two little girls at home. [35:19] Eva's four and Lila's one. And I'm so grateful to this country for the security and opportunity it [35:25] affords them. But this isn't the world I want to leave them. Soon enough they'll learn there's now [35:33] plastic in human blood and breast milk. That toxic forever chemicals are in half the country's drinking [35:40] water. Eva loves animal documentaries and she'll learn the butterflies are dying off. She'll learn about [35:48] the nuclear weapons that threaten annihilation. She'll ask me why I allowed these things to happen. [35:55] And see what fills us with dread is the crushing weakness of our politics against the massive stakes [36:04] of our times. Tech titans build bunkers while warning the artificial intelligence they're creating [36:12] risks human extinction. Meanwhile our congress debates youth sports and the president builds a ballroom. [36:23] An ancient establishment barely capable of email sleepwalks into a technological revolution while the [36:30] president dismantles precautions and calls us fools for worrying. So you see this scenario and it fills you [36:37] with dread. I get it. But Georgia we can and will reclaim control over our own destiny. We can and will [36:52] meet our obligations to our children. And it begins with victory this fall. Because Georgia I refuse to leave my [37:02] girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become. I refuse to accept that [37:10] Eva and Lila will grow up on a poisoned planet rearming for world war in a country where we have enough [37:17] nuclear weapons to destroy the world a thousand fold but we refuse to guarantee health care for every [37:22] citizen. When Eva's old enough to ask me why I let this happen I'm determined to answer truthfully but I didn't. [37:38] I'll tell her how the same year she turned five Georgia overcame every doubt and dirty trick to [37:52] not just win but to set a new course for our state and our country and our world. That our generation [38:00] didn't shrink from its obligations to hers. That we mastered technology instead of letting it master us. [38:08] That we restored American leadership toward peace and human rights. And that we guaranteed health care [38:16] for every single American. There's a portrait of Congressman Lewis right above my desk in my Senate [38:32] office. And I promise you his spirit is with us in this place right now. Right now. That we all live [38:51] in one American house. In one world house. Do you remember? See John Lewis knew and gave blood to make [39:01] real what small men like Donald Trump and Mike Collins will never understand. That our national greatness flows [39:07] not through our genes but through our ideas and aspirations and care for one another. And from [39:21] our founding ideals despite our sins and through courageous struggle the flame of American freedom [39:28] has grown brighter and bolder and given hope to the whole world. But in the winds that blow today [39:37] that light is flickering. And from the Fulton County raid to the executive order attacking voting to the [39:44] MAGA loyalists on our state election board the election deniers and insurrectionists and their [39:49] accomplices have made their intentions very clear. But Atlanta when voting rights and civil rights that [39:55] heroes died to secure are under attack we defend those rights by using them. And that's why Georgia [40:06] Democrats are answering with a mobilization so massive and a defense of voting rights so fierce that no [40:14] plot against the franchise will foil the will of the people. Because how foolish of them to come to [40:25] the cradle of the civil rights movement to spread those lies and seize those ballots their attacks [40:31] have only strengthened our resolve. And if we all do what we must do these next six days the sound of [40:39] feet marching to the polls will be heard in every corner of our state and way up on high where [40:45] congressman Lewis will look down and see a job well done. A wave is building the kind of wave that comes [40:57] once a generation when the people have been pushed too far and decide all together all at once that [41:04] enough is enough. We have six days Georgia and Georgia will bow to no. For nearly two years we've [41:18] seen our government transformed into a tool of one man's personal vengeance and power and enrichment. [41:27] We've seen insurance stripped from cancer patients and hospitals closed services to fund tax cuts for [41:33] the rich. We've seen prison camps for immigrants full of children. We've seen masked federal agents [41:51] with license to kill demanding papers at police checkpoints. Each day Donald Trump digs the moral pit [42:04] deeper. But Pastor Bryant isn't it in Proverbs that says whoever digs a pit whoever digs a pit will fall [42:20] into it. And Georgia over the last year in defiance of his depravity we've marched together in protest [42:31] and we've gathered at rallies like this one that just keep getting bigger and bigger. We've come [42:42] together in small towns and big cities in the mountains and on the coast and on the Georgia farms [42:47] that feed and clothe the world. And now Georgia with just six days to go. I'm here to tell you I have no [42:55] doubt our victory is near at hand. In six days our juggernaut coordinated campaign will have turned [43:11] out the vote like never before to elect Josh McLaurin, Penny Brown Reynolds, Tonya Miller, [43:16] and Democrats up and down the ballot. In six days we'll elect a Medicaid expanding Governor Keisha Lance [43:28] Bottoms. And in six days Georgia will rebuke the crook President Donald Trump with such clarity and power [43:41] that no president will dare such abuses again for centuries. Now remember he promised to lower prices [44:10] on day one. Instead under the failed President Donald J. Trump it costs more than ever in American [44:21] history to fill up your truck, stock your fridge, visit the doctor or power your home. They promised to [44:31] drain the swamp. Instead it's the most corrupt administration of all time and everybody knows [44:40] it. And while the crook President and his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, [44:50] you pay more for everything. They doubled your insurance premiums and slashed Medicaid to cut taxes [44:57] for the rich. They lied us into war and spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous [45:03] pedophile. You saw it. Now remember they also promised peace. They promised peace. Instead today marks eight [45:29] months of a needless war that the useless draft dodging commander in chief can't figure out how [45:35] to end or how to win. Remember last year, last year they claimed Iran's nuclear program had been [45:47] obliterated. Do you remember that? And then this year they told us it posed an imminent threat. Both times [45:54] lies. On day four of the war, day four, the president declared victory. On day 11, Trump said, quote, [46:09] the war is very complete. Day 13, quote, we won. Day 21, getting very close. Day 32, quote, [46:22] leaving very soon. On day 40, the president declared, quote, total and complete victory. [46:32] Today is day 243. 21 Americans are dead and hundreds wounded. Iran still has its uranium and drones and [46:43] missiles while diesel hits its all time high. They've drained our stockpiles to achieve nothing. [46:49] While the president builds himself a victory arch. And while the world burns in Washington and at [47:06] Mar-a-Lago, it's a spectacle of graft unprecedented in American history. The crypto payoffs and the [47:14] crooked there's backing Prince Don and Prince Eric's investments. Never before has so little effort been [47:26] made to cover up so much corruption. And here's the bottom line. If you're involved in any of this, [47:36] next year, you'll be raising your right hand and swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth and [47:41] nothing but the truth. So help you God in front of the United States Congress. The Mar-a-Lago mafia, [48:10] the Mar-a-Lago mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights. But corruption in American [48:21] politics runs a lot deeper than Donald Trump. It's been running on corporate money, secret money, [48:28] billionaire money, both sides. Citizens United was the most destructive court decision in modern American [48:38] history. Spectacular wealth buys an ever greater share of power over our national affairs. And I [48:50] suspect many of you are here because you recognize that our task is not just to contain this one man's [48:58] wickedness, but to heal the brokenness that gave rise to him. That this moment is an opportunity not [49:08] for restoration, but for reformation. And Atlanta, if it takes a constitutional amendment to end Citizens [49:16] United, we'll deliver a united Georgia to ratify it. A united Georgia. Each day our wave grows taller [49:33] and our tent grows bigger because this isn't just a campaign for Democrats. Folks come up to me at airports [49:40] or on the street. They tell me they're voting for a Democrat for the first time. For the first time. [49:51] Down in Valdosta, the mayor's name is Scott James Matheson, a lifelong Republican. We upgraded Moody [49:57] Air Force together. And then when Hurricane Helene hit, we went together block by block and served hot [50:03] meals to folks who just lost their homes. And when I got back to Washington, I delivered federal disaster [50:09] aid for South Georgia. And now I'm honored to have conservative Republican Mayor Matheson's support [50:15] in this reelection campaign. See, just about every week, I call up Georgia mayors and pastors and [50:27] farmers to find out how I can help. And just up the road from Valdosta in Tifton is Republican Mayor [50:34] Julie Smith. And one day, Julie told me the Tifton Hospital needed new dialysis equipment to serve [50:41] patients with diabetes in 12 South Georgia counties. So I delivered the funds to upgrade that clinic, [50:48] which can now serve 200 patients. And like Mayor Matheson, Republican Mayor Julie Smith supporting [50:58] this campaign too. Up north in Toccoa, then Mayor Gail Frye, another Georgia Republican. She told me [51:11] Toccoa's gas lines were wearing out. So I got to work and delivered the funds to replace them. And [51:17] Georgia Republican Gail Frye supporting our campaign too. Because see, hurricanes and diabetes and gas [51:28] leaks don't check your party affiliation. And when it comes to serving Georgia, I don't either. [51:38] But there's another reason. There's another reason so many Georgia Republicans are backing our campaign. [51:46] And it's the bigot Congressman Mike Collins. See, see, Brian Kemp was right about Mike. [52:00] There's a reason why Brad Raffensperger refuses to endorse him. Why conservative WSB radio host [52:07] Shelley Winter calls Mike a bottom feeder. Why one of the founders of the Tea Party said this summer, [52:15] quote, I cannot in good conscience vote for Mike Collins. He is unfit for office. [52:24] And that reason is that Mike Collins is a known bigot under federal investigation for the illegal [52:31] misuse of tax dollars surrounded at work and at home by white nationalists and neo-Nazis and unfit for [52:37] any elected office in the United States. And in his pathetic childlike devotion to Donald Trump, [52:54] Mike Collins sold out our state. He voted every time for the war. He voted every time for the [53:02] tariffs. He voted to double your health insurance premiums and he voted for the biggest Medicaid cut [53:08] in history. Listen to this. St. Mary's Hospital in Livonia is in Mike's district and they just closed [53:20] their labor and delivery units citing those Medicaid cuts. So now pregnant women Mike Collins [53:27] represents have to drive an hour in labor to get to a maternity unit in Georgia. After all that, [53:40] the bigot congressman is asking for a promotion, but in six days will end his political career [53:47] instead. Now, what could drive Mike Collins to cast a vote that closes a labor and delivery unit in his [54:06] own district? It's not just the money that's corrupted our politics. It's a moral corruption. It's the cynical [54:15] indifference of powerful people. See, my office is known for world-class service. And what amazes me [54:25] is how surprised people are to be treated so well. Nancy Lancey is 81 years old in Jessup. Her husband [54:35] died after years of dementia. She was worn out and alone. And now her fair affairs were all wrapped up [54:45] in a labyrinth between the VA and the IRS and Social Security. So we took care of things for her. And I'll [54:52] never forget what she said about it. She said, this was a new experience to have someone caring [55:00] about me. A new experience to have someone caring about me. How has it come to pass that for so many [55:12] Americans, the experience of genuine care is rare and surprising? Official indifference and corporate [55:24] disrespect have become systemic. Instead of reading your daughter her favorite book, That Precious Spare Hour [55:32] after work, you're on the phone begging the insurance company to cover the medicine that prevents her [55:36] seizures. The army lost the records you need to claim your VA benefits and it takes a year and 12 [55:43] calls to fix it. You report the black mold to your landlord, but he doesn't fix the leak and the [55:52] ambulance for your toddler's asthma attack is followed by a $3,000 bill. Daily life's hard enough. [56:04] And then you see the state of the world. I've got two little girls at home. Eva's four, [56:13] and Lila's one. And I'm so grateful to this country for the security and opportunity it affords them. [56:19] But this isn't the world I want to leave them. Soon enough they'll learn there's now plastic in human [56:27] blood and breast milk. That toxic forever chemicals are in half the country's drinking water. Eva loves [56:35] animal documentaries and she'll learn the butterflies are dying off. She'll learn about the nuclear weapons [56:42] that threaten annihilation. She'll ask me why I allowed these things to happen. And see what fills us with [56:52] dread is the crushing weakness of our politics against the massive stakes of our times. Tech [57:00] titans build bunkers while warning the artificial intelligence they're creating risks human extinction. [57:08] Meanwhile, our Congress debates youth sports and the president builds a ballroom. An ancient [57:17] establishment barely capable of email sleepwalks into a technological revolution while the president [57:23] dismantles precautions and calls us fools for worrying. So you see this scenario and it fills you [57:30] with dread. I get it. But Georgia, we can and will reclaim control over our own destiny. We can and will [57:45] meet our obligations to our children. And it begins with victory this fall. Because Georgia, I refuse to leave [57:55] my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become. I refuse to accept [58:03] that Eva and Lila will grow up on a poisoned planet rearming for world war in a country where we have [58:10] enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world a thousand fold, but we refuse to guarantee health care for [58:15] every citizen. When Eva's old enough to ask me why I let this happen, I'm determined to answer truthfully, [58:31] but I didn't. I'll tell her how the same year she turned five, Georgia overcame every doubt and dirty [58:45] trick to not just win, but to set a new course for our state and our country and our world. That our [58:53] generation didn't shrink from its obligations to hers. That we mastered technology instead of letting it [58:59] master us. That we restored American leadership toward peace and human rights. And that we guaranteed [59:08] health care for every single American. There's a portrait of Congressman Lewis right above my desk in [59:25] my Senate office. And I promise you, his spirit is with us in this place right now. Right now. [59:43] That we all live in one American house, in one world house. Do you remember? See, John Lewis knew and gave [59:53] blood to make real what small men like Donald Trump and Mike Collins will never understand. That our national [59:59] greatness flows not through our genes, but through our ideas and aspirations and care for one another. [1:00:06] And from our founding ideals, despite our sins and through courageous struggle, the flame of American [1:00:21] freedom has grown brighter and bolder and given hope to the whole world. But in the winds that blow today, [1:00:30] that light is flickering. And from the Fulton County raid to the executive order attacking voting to the [1:00:37] MAGA loyalists on our state election board, the election deniers and insurrectionists and their [1:00:42] accomplices have made their intentions very clear. But Atlanta, when voting rights and civil rights [1:00:48] that heroes died to secure are under attack, we defend those rights by using them. And that's why [1:00:59] Georgia Democrats are answering with a mobilization so massive and a defense of voting rights so fierce [1:01:06] that no plot against the franchise will foil the will of the people. Because how foolish of them [1:01:18] to come to the cradle of the civil rights movement to spread those lies and seize those ballots. Their [1:01:24] attacks have only strengthened our resolve. And if we all do what we must do these next six days, [1:01:32] the sound of feet marching to the polls will be heard in every corner of our state and way up on high [1:01:38] where Congressman Lewis will look down and see a job well done. A wave is building. The kind of wave that [1:01:50] comes once a generation when the people have been pushed too far and decide all together all at once [1:01:57] that enough is enough. We have six days, Georgia, and Georgia will bow to no. For nearly two years, [1:02:10] we've seen our government transformed into a tool of one man's personal vengeance and power and enrichment. [1:02:20] We've seen insurance stripped from cancer patients and hospitals closed services to fund tax cuts for [1:02:26] the rich. We've seen prison camps for immigrants full of children. We've seen masked federal agents [1:02:44] with license to kill demanding papers at police checkpoints. Each day, Donald Trump digs the moral pit [1:02:57] deeper. But Pastor Bryant, isn't it in Proverbs that says, whoever digs a pit, whoever digs a pit will [1:03:12] fall into it. And Georgia, over the last year, in defiance of his depravity, we've marched together [1:03:23] in protest and we've gathered at rallies like this one that just keep getting bigger and bigger. [1:03:34] We've come together in small towns and big cities in the mountains and on the coast and on the Georgia [1:03:40] farms that feed and clothe the world. And now, Georgia, with just six days to go, I'm here to tell you, [1:03:47] I have no doubt our victory is near at hand. In six days, our juggernaut coordinated campaign will [1:04:03] have turned out the vote like never before to elect Josh McLaurin, Penny Brown Reynolds, [1:04:08] Tonya Miller and Democrats up and down the ballot. In six days, we'll elect a Medicaid expanding [1:04:19] Governor Keisha Lance Bottoms. And in six days, Georgia will rebuke the crook President Donald Trump [1:04:32] with such clarity and power that no president will dare such abuses again for centuries. [1:04:56] Now, remember, he promised to lower prices on day one. Instead, under the failed President Donald [1:05:12] J. Trump, it costs more than ever in American history to fill up your truck, stock your fridge, [1:05:17] visit the doctor or power your home. They promised to drain the swamp. Instead, [1:05:29] it's the most corrupt administration of all time. And everybody knows it. [1:05:38] And while the crook President and his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, [1:05:43] you pay more for everything. They doubled your insurance premiums and slashed Medicaid to cut taxes [1:05:50] for the rich. They lied us into war and spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most [1:05:55] famous pedophile. You saw it. Now, remember, they also promised peace. They promised peace. Instead, [1:06:20] today marks eight months of a needless war that the useless draft dodging commander in chief can't [1:06:27] figure out how to end or how to win. Remember, last year, last year, they claimed Iran's nuclear [1:06:39] program had been obliterated. Do you remember that? And then this year, they told us it posed an imminent [1:06:45] threat both times lies. On day four of the war, day four, the president declared victory. On day 11, [1:07:01] Trump said, quote, the war is very complete. Day 13, quote, we won. Day 21, getting very close. [1:07:14] Day 32, quote, leaving very soon. On day 40, the president declared, quote, total and complete victory. [1:07:24] Today is day 243. 21 Americans are dead and hundreds wounded. Iran still has its uranium [1:07:35] and drones and missiles while diesel hits its all-time high. They've drained our stockpiles [1:07:41] to achieve nothing while the president builds himself a victory arch. And while the world burns [1:07:58] in Washington and at Mar-a-Lago, it's a spectacle of graft unprecedented in American history. [1:08:05] The crypto payoffs and the crooked backers backing Prince Don and Prince Eric's investments. [1:08:17] Never before has so little effort been made to cover up so much corruption. And here's the bottom [1:08:24] line. If you're involved in any of this, next year, you'll be raising your right hand and swearing to [1:08:32] tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help you God in front of the United States [1:08:37] Congress. The Mar-a-Lago mafia, the Mar-a-Lago mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new [1:09:08] heights. But corruption in American politics runs a lot deeper than Donald Trump. It's been running on [1:09:19] corporate money, secret money, billionaire money, both sides. Citizens United was the most destructive [1:09:28] court decision in modern American history. Spectacular wealth buys an ever greater share of power over [1:09:39] our national affairs. And I suspect many of you are here because you recognize that our task is not just [1:09:49] to contain this one man's wickedness, but to heal the brokenness that gave rise to him. That this moment [1:09:59] is an opportunity not for restoration, but for reformation. And Atlanta, if it takes a constitutional [1:10:07] amendment to end Citizens United, we'll deliver a united Georgia to ratify it. A united Georgia. [1:10:24] Each day our wave grows taller and our tent grows bigger because this isn't just a campaign for [1:10:29] Democrats. Folks come up to me at airports or on the street. They tell me they're voting for a Democrat [1:10:36] for the first time. For the first time. Down in Valdosta, the mayor's name is Scott James Matheson, [1:10:48] a lifelong Republican. We upgraded Moody Air Force together. And then when Hurricane Helene hit, [1:10:54] we went together block by block and served hot meals to folks who just lost their homes. [1:10:59] And when I got back to Washington, I delivered federal disaster aid for South Georgia. And now [1:11:04] I'm honored to have conservative Republican Mayor Matheson's support in this reelection campaign. [1:11:09] See, just about every week I call up Georgia mayors and pastors and farmers to find out how I can help. [1:11:22] And just up the road from Valdosta in Tifton is Republican Mayor Julie Smith. And one day, [1:11:30] Julie told me the Tifton Hospital needed new dialysis equipment to serve patients with diabetes in 12 [1:11:36] South Georgia counties. So I delivered the funds to upgrade that clinic, which can now serve 200 [1:11:43] patients. And like Mayor Matheson, Republican Mayor Julie Smith supporting this campaign too. [1:11:58] Up north in Toccoa, then Mayor Gail Fry, another Georgia Republican, she told me Toccoa's gas lines were [1:12:05] wearing out. So I got to work and delivered the funds to replace them. And Georgia Republican Gail Fry [1:12:12] is supporting our campaign too. Because see, hurricanes and diabetes and gas leaks don't check [1:12:22] your party affiliation. And when it comes to serving Georgia, I don't either. But there's another reason. [1:12:34] There's another reason so many Georgia Republicans are backing our campaign. And it's the bigot [1:12:40] Congressman Mike Collins. See, see, Brian Kemp was right about Mike. There's a reason why Brad [1:12:54] Raffensperger refuses to endorse him. Why conservative WSB radio host Shelley Winter calls Mike a bottom [1:13:02] feeder. Why one of the founders of the Tea Party said this summer, quote, I cannot in good conscience [1:13:10] vote for Mike Collins. He is unfit for office. And that reason is that Mike Collins is a known bigot [1:13:22] under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of tax dollars, surrounded at work and at home by [1:13:27] white nationalists and neo-Nazis and unfit for any elected office in the United States. And in his [1:13:44] pathetic childlike devotion to Donald Trump, Mike Collins sold out our state. He voted every time for [1:13:53] the war. He voted every time for the tariffs. He voted to double your health insurance premiums and he [1:13:59] voted for the biggest Medicaid cut in history. Listen to this. St. Mary's Hospital in Livonia is [1:14:10] in Mike's district and they just closed their labor and delivery units citing those Medicaid cuts. [1:14:16] So now pregnant women Mike Collins represents have to drive an hour in labor to get to a maternity [1:14:24] unit. And Georgia, after all that, the bigot congressman is asking for a promotion. But in six [1:14:37] days will end his political career instead. Now, what could drive Mike Collins to cast a vote that closes [1:14:57] a labor and delivery unit in his own district? It's not just the money that's corrupted our politics. [1:15:05] It's a moral corruption. It's the cynical indifference of powerful people. See, my office is known for [1:15:14] world-class service. And what amazes me is how surprised people are to be treated so well. [1:15:24] Nancy Lancey is 81 years old in Jessup. Her husband died after years of dementia. She was worn out and [1:15:33] alone. And now her fair affairs were all wrapped up in a labyrinth between the VA and the IRS and Social [1:15:41] Security. So we took care of things for her. And I'll never forget what she said about it. She said, [1:15:48] this was a new experience to have someone caring about me. A new experience to have someone caring [1:15:59] about me. How has it come to pass that for so many Americans, the experience of genuine care [1:16:11] is rare and surprising? Official indifference and corporate disrespect have become systemic. [1:16:21] Instead of reading your daughter her favorite book, that precious spare hour after work, you're on the [1:16:26] phone begging the insurance company to cover the medicine that prevents her seizures. The army lost [1:16:33] the records you need to claim your VA benefits and it takes a year and 12 calls to fix it. You report [1:16:41] the black mold to your landlord, but he doesn't fix the leak and the ambulance for your toddler's asthma [1:16:46] attack is followed by a $3,000 bill. Daily life's hard enough. And then you see the state of the world. [1:16:58] I've got two little girls at home. Eva's four and Lila's one. And I'm so grateful to this country [1:17:09] for the security and opportunity it affords them. But this isn't the world I want to leave them. Soon [1:17:17] enough they'll learn there's now plastic in human blood and breast milk. That toxic forever chemicals [1:17:24] are in half the country's drinking water. Eva loves animal documentaries and she'll learn [1:17:31] the butterflies are dying off. She'll learn about the nuclear weapons that threaten annihilation. [1:17:38] She'll ask me why I allowed these things to happen. And see what fills us with dread is the crushing [1:17:47] weakness of our politics against the massive stakes of our times. Tech titans build bunkers while warning [1:17:56] the artificial intelligence they're creating risks human extinction. Meanwhile our congress debates youth [1:18:03] sports and the president builds a ballroom. An ancient establishment barely capable of email sleepwalks [1:18:13] into a technological revolution while the president dismantles precautions and calls us fools for [1:18:18] worrying. So you see this scenario and it fills you with dread. I get it. But Georgia we can and will [1:18:29] reclaim control over our own destiny. We can and will meet our obligations to our children. And it begins [1:18:42] with victory this fall. Because Georgia I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as [1:18:52] this one threatens to become. I refuse to accept that Eva and Lila will grow up on a poisoned planet [1:18:59] rearming for world war. In a country where we have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world a [1:19:05] thousand fold but we refuse to guarantee health care for every citizen. When Eva's old enough to ask me [1:19:19] why I let this happen I'm determined to answer truthfully but I didn't. I'll tell her how the same year [1:19:34] she turned five Georgia overcame every doubt and dirty trick to not just win but to set a new course [1:19:41] for our state and our country and our world. That our generation didn't shrink from its obligations to [1:19:48] hers. That we mastered technology instead of letting it master us. That we restored American leadership [1:19:57] toward peace and human rights. And that we guaranteed health care for every single American. There's a [1:20:14] portrait of Congressman Lewis right above my desk in my Senate office. And I promise you his spirit is [1:20:25] with us in this place right now. Right now. That we all live in one American house in one world house. Do [1:20:41] you remember? See John Lewis knew and gave blood to make real what small men like Donald Trump and Mike [1:20:50] Collins will never understand that our national greatness flows not through our genes but through [1:20:55] our ideas and aspirations and care for one another. And from our founding ideals despite our sins and [1:21:12] through courageous struggle the flame of American freedom has grown brighter and bolder and given [1:21:16] hope to the whole world. But in the winds that blow today that light is flickering. And from the Fulton [1:21:27] County raid to the executive order attacking voting to the MAGA loyalists on our state election board the [1:21:32] election deniers and insurrectionists and their accomplices have made their intentions very clear. [1:21:38] But Atlanta when voting rights and civil rights that heroes died to secure are under attack we defend [1:21:44] those rights by using them. And that's why Georgia Democrats are answering with a mobilization so massive [1:21:56] and a defense of voting rights so fierce that no plot against the franchise will foil the will of the [1:22:02] people. Because how foolish of them to come to the cradle of the civil rights movement to spread those [1:22:14] lies and seize those ballots. Their attacks have only strengthened our resolve. And if we all do what [1:22:22] we must do these next six days the sound of feet marching to the polls will be heard in every corner [1:22:28] of our state and way up on high where Congressman Lewis will look down and see a job well done. [1:22:34] A wave is building. The kind of wave that comes once a generation when the people have been pushed [1:22:46] too far and decide all together all at once that enough is enough. We have six days Georgia and Georgia [1:22:58] will bow to no. For nearly two years we've seen our government transformed into a tool of one man's [1:23:08] personal vengeance and power and enrichment. We've seen insurance stripped from cancer patients and [1:23:16] hospitals closed services to fund tax cuts for the rich. We've seen prison camps for immigrants full [1:23:26] of children. We've seen masked federal agents with license to kill demanding papers at police checkpoints. [1:23:44] Each day Donald Trump digs the moral pit deeper. But Pastor Bryant isn't it in Proverbs that says [1:23:57] whoever digs a pit, whoever digs a pit will fall into it. And Georgia over the last year in defiance of his depravity [1:24:15] we've marched together in protest and we've gathered at rallies like this one that just keep getting bigger and bigger. [1:24:21] We've come together in small towns and big cities in the mountains and on the coast and on the Georgia farms [1:24:33] that feed and clothe the world. And now Georgia with just six days to go. I'm here to tell you I have no doubt [1:24:41] our victory is near at hand. In six days our juggernaut coordinated campaign will have turned out the vote [1:24:57] like never before to elect Josh McLaurin, Penny Brown Reynolds, Tonya Miller and Democrats up and down the ballot. [1:25:04] In six days we'll elect a Medicaid expanding Governor Keisha Lance Bottoms. And in six days Georgia will [1:25:22] rebuke the crook President Donald Trump with such clarity and power that no president will dare such [1:25:29] abuses again for centuries. Now remember he promised to lower prices on day one. Instead under the failed [1:26:04] President Donald J Trump it costs more than ever in American history to fill up your truck, stock your [1:26:09] fridge, visit the doctor or power your home. They promised to drain the swamp. Instead, it's the most corrupt [1:26:23] administration of all time and everybody knows it. And while the crook President and his crook family rake in [1:26:34] billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything. They doubled your insurance premiums and [1:26:41] slashed Medicaid to cut taxes for the rich. They lied us into war and spent most of the last year covering up for the [1:26:48] world's most famous pedophile. You saw it. Now remember, they also promised peace. They promised peace. [1:27:12] Instead, today marks eight months of a needless war that the useless draft dodging commander in chief [1:27:20] can't figure out how to end or how to win. Remember last year, last year they claimed Iran's nuclear program [1:27:32] had been obliterated. Do you remember that? And then this year they told us it posed an imminent threat. [1:27:39] Both times lies. On day four of the war, day four, the president declared victory. On day 11, Trump said, [1:27:55] quote, the war is very complete. Day 13, quote, we won. Day 21, getting very close. Day 32, quote, [1:28:08] leaving very soon. On day 40, the president declared, quote, total and complete victory. [1:28:17] Today is day 243. 21 Americans are dead and hundreds wounded. Iran still has its uranium and drones and [1:28:29] missiles while diesel hits its all time high. They've drained our stockpiles to achieve nothing. [1:28:35] While the president builds himself a victory arch. And while the world burns in Washington and at Mar-a-Lago, [1:28:53] it's a spectacle of graft unprecedented in American history. The crypto payoffs and the crooked [1:29:05] backing Prince Don and Prince Eric's investments. Never before has so little effort been made to cover [1:29:12] up so much corruption. And here's the bottom line. If you're involved in any of this, next year you'll be [1:29:23] raising your right hand and swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. [1:29:28] So help you God in front of the United States Congress. The Mar-a-Lago mafia, the Mar-a-Lago [1:29:57] mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights. But corruption in American politics [1:30:07] runs a lot deeper than Donald Trump. It's been running on corporate money, secret money, [1:30:13] billionaire money, both sides. Citizens United was the most destructive court decision in modern [1:30:23] American history. Spectacular wealth buys an ever greater share of power over our national affairs. [1:30:35] And I suspect many of you are here because you recognize that our task is not just to contain [1:30:42] this one man's wickedness, but to heal the brokenness that gave rise to him. [1:30:51] That this moment is an opportunity not for restoration, but for reformation. And Atlanta, [1:30:59] if it takes a constitutional amendment to end Citizens United, we'll deliver a United Georgia to ratify [1:31:06] it. A United Georgia. Each day our wave grows taller and our tent grows bigger because this isn't just [1:31:22] a campaign for Democrats. Folks come up to me at airports or on the street. They tell me they're [1:31:27] voting for a Democrat for the first time. For the first time. Down in Valdosta, the mayor's name, [1:31:39] Scott James Matheson, a lifelong Republican. We upgraded Moody Air Force together. [1:31:45] And then when Hurricane Helene hit, we went together block by block and served hot meals [1:31:50] to folks who just lost their homes. And when I got back to Washington, I delivered federal disaster [1:31:55] aid for South Georgia. And now I'm honored to have conservative Republican Mayor Matheson's support [1:32:01] in this reelection campaign. See, just about every week, I call up Georgia mayors and pastors and [1:32:13] farmers to find out how I can help. And just up the road from Valdosta in Tifton is Republican Mayor [1:32:20] Julie Smith. And one day, Julie told me the Tifton Hospital needed new dialysis equipment to serve [1:32:27] patients with diabetes in 12 South Georgia counties. So I delivered the funds to upgrade that clinic, [1:32:34] which can now serve 200 patients. And like Mayor Matheson, Republican Mayor Julie Smith supporting [1:32:44] this campaign too. Up north in Toccoa, then Mayor Gail Frye, another Georgia Republican, [1:32:56] she told me Toccoa's gas lines were wearing out. So I got to work and delivered the funds to replace [1:33:03] them. And Georgia Republican Gail Frye supporting our campaign too. Because see, hurricanes and diabetes [1:33:14] and gas leaks don't check your party affiliation. And when it comes to serving Georgia, I don't either. [1:33:24] But there's another reason. There's another reason so many Georgia Republicans are backing our campaign. [1:33:32] And it's the bigot Congressman Mike Collins. See, see, Brian Kemp was right about Mike. There's a reason [1:33:47] why Brad Raffensperger refuses to endorse him. Why conservative WSB radio host Shelley Winter calls [1:33:54] Mike a bottom feeder. Why one of the founders of the Tea Party said this summer, quote, [1:34:01] I cannot in good conscience vote for Mike Collins. He is unfit for office. And that reason is that [1:34:12] Mike Collins is a known bigot under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of tax [1:34:18] dollars surrounded at work and at home by white nationalists and neo-Nazis and unfit for any elected [1:34:24] office in the United States. And in his pathetic childlike devotion to Donald Trump, Mike Collins sold [1:34:41] out our state. He voted every time for the war. He voted every time for the tariffs. He voted to double [1:34:50] your health insurance premiums. And he voted for the biggest Medicaid cut in history. Listen to this. [1:35:01] St. Mary's Hospital in Livonia is in Mike's district, and they just closed their labor and delivery units [1:35:07] citing those Medicaid cuts. So now pregnant women Mike Collins represents have to drive an hour in labor [1:35:16] to get to a maternity unit. And Georgia after all that, the bigot congressman is asking for a promotion, [1:35:29] but in six days will end his political career instead. Now what could drive Mike Collins to cast [1:35:49] a vote that closes a labor and delivery unit in his own district? It's not just the money that's [1:35:56] corrupted our politics. It's a moral corruption. It's the cynical indifference of powerful people. [1:36:03] See, my office is known for world-class service. And what amazes me is how surprised people are to be [1:36:13] treated so well. Nancy Lancey is 81 years old in Jessup. Her husband died after years of dementia. [1:36:23] She was worn out and alone. And now her affairs were all wrapped up in a labyrinth between the VA [1:36:32] and the IRS and Social Security. So we took care of things for her. And I'll never forget what she said [1:36:39] about it. She said, this was a new experience to have someone caring about me. A new experience [1:36:51] to have someone caring about me. How has it come to pass that for so many Americans, [1:37:01] the experience of genuine care is rare and surprising? Official indifference and corporate [1:37:10] disrespect have become systemic. Instead of reading your daughter her favorite book, [1:37:17] that precious spare hour after work, you're on the phone begging the insurance company to cover [1:37:21] the medicine that prevents her seizures. The army lost the records you need to claim your VA benefits [1:37:28] and it takes a year and 12 calls to fix it. You report the black mold to your landlord, [1:37:36] but he doesn't fix the leak. And the ambulance for your toddler's asthma attack is followed by a $3,000 [1:37:41] bill. Daily life's hard enough. And then you see the state of the world. I've got two little girls at [1:37:56] home. Eva's four and Lila's one. And I'm so grateful to this country for the security and opportunity it [1:38:04] affords them. But this isn't the world I want to leave them. Soon enough, they'll learn there's now [1:38:11] plastic and human blood and breast milk. That toxic forever chemicals are in half the country's drinking [1:38:19] water. Eva loves animal documentaries and she'll learn the butterflies are dying off. She'll learn about the [1:38:27] nuclear weapons that threaten annihilation. She'll ask me why I allowed these things to happen. And see, [1:38:37] what fills us with dread is the crushing weakness of our politics against the massive stakes of our [1:38:43] times. Tech titans build bunkers while warning the artificial intelligence they're creating risks human [1:38:52] extinction. Meanwhile, our Congress debates youth sports and the president builds a ballroom. An [1:39:02] ancient establishment barely capable of email sleepwalks into a technological revolution while the [1:39:08] president dismantles precautions and calls us fools for worrying. So you see this scenario and it fills you [1:39:16] with dread. I get it. But Georgia, we can and will reclaim control over our own destiny. We can and will [1:39:31] meet our obligations to our children. And it begins with victory this fall. Because Georgia, I refuse to leave [1:39:41] my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become. I refuse to accept that [1:39:49] Eva and Lila will grow up on a poisoned planet rearming for world war in a country where we have enough [1:39:56] nuclear weapons to destroy the world a thousand fold, but we refuse to guarantee health care for every [1:40:01] citizen. When Eva's old enough to ask me why I let this happen, I'm determined to answer truthfully, but I [1:40:17] didn't. I'll tell her how the same year she turned five, Georgia overcame every doubt and dirty trick to [1:40:31] not just win, but to set a new course for our state and our country and our world, that our generation [1:40:39] didn't shrink from its obligations to hers, that we mastered technology instead of letting it master us, [1:40:47] that we restored American leadership toward peace and human rights, and that we guaranteed health care for [1:40:55] every single American. There's a portrait of Congressman Lewis right above my desk in my Senate office, [1:41:14] and I promise you, his spirit is with us in this place right now, right now, that we all live in one [1:41:31] American house, in one world house. Do you remember? See, John Lewis knew and gave blood to make real what [1:41:40] small men like Donald Trump and Mike Collins will never understand, that our national greatness flows not [1:41:46] through our genes, but through our ideas and aspirations and care for one another. And from our [1:42:00] founding ideals, despite our sins, and through courageous struggle, the flame of American freedom [1:42:07] has grown brighter and bolder and given hope to the whole world. But in the winds that blow today, [1:42:16] that light is flickering. And from the Fulton County raid to the executive order attacking voting to the [1:42:23] MAGA loyalists on our state election board, the election deniers and insurrectionists and their [1:42:28] accomplices have made their intentions very clear. But Atlanta, when voting rights and civil rights that [1:42:34] heroes died to secure are under attack, we defend those rights by using them. And that's why Georgia [1:42:45] Democrats are answering with a mobilization so massive and a defense of voting rights so fierce that [1:42:52] no plot against the franchise will foil the will of the people. Because how foolish of them to come to [1:43:04] the cradle of the civil rights movement to spread those lies and seize those ballots. Their attacks [1:43:10] have only strengthened our resolve. And if we all do what we must do these next six days, the sound of [1:43:18] feet marching to the polls will be heard in every corner of our state and way up on high where [1:43:24] Congressman Lewis will look down and see a job well done. A wave is building. The kind of wave that comes [1:43:36] once a generation when the people have been pushed too far and decide all together all at once that [1:43:43] enough is enough. We have six days, Georgia, and Georgia will bow to no. For nearly two years, [1:43:56] we've seen our government transformed into a tool of one man's personal vengeance and power and [1:44:03] enrichment. We've seen insurance stripped from cancer patients and hospitals closed services to fund [1:44:11] tax cuts for the rich. We've seen prison camps for immigrants full of children. We've seen masked [1:44:29] federal agents with license to kill demanding papers at police checkpoints. Each day, Donald Trump [1:44:41] digs the moral pit deeper. But Pastor Bryant, isn't it in Proverbs that says, whoever digs a pit, [1:44:56] whoever digs a pit will fall into it. And Georgia over the last year in defiance of his depravity, [1:45:08] we've marched together in protest and we've gathered at rallies like this one that just keep getting [1:45:13] bigger and bigger. We've come together in small towns and big cities in the mountains and on the [1:45:24] coast and on the Georgia farms that feed and clothe the world. And now Georgia with just six days to go, [1:45:32] I'm here to tell you I have no doubt our victory is near at hand. In six days, our juggernaut coordinated [1:45:49] campaign will have turned out the vote like never before to elect Josh McLaurin, Penny Brown Reynolds, [1:45:54] Tonya Miller and Democrats up and down the ballot. In six days, we'll elect a Medicaid expanding [1:46:05] Governor Keisha Lance Bottoms. And in six days, Georgia will rebuke the crook President Donald Trump [1:46:18] with such clarity and power that no president will dare such abuses again for centuries. [1:46:42] Now remember, instead, under the failed President Donald J. Trump, it costs more than ever in [1:46:56] American history to fill up your truck, stock your free visit the doctor or power your home. [1:47:05] They promised to drain the swamp. Instead, it's the most corrupt administration of all time and [1:47:14] everybody knows it. And while the crook President and his crook family rake in billions from all over [1:47:25] the world, you pay more for everything. They doubled your insurance premiums and slashed Medicaid to cut [1:47:32] taxes for the rich. They lied us into war and spent most of the last year covering up for the world's [1:47:37] most famous pedophile. You saw it. Now remember, they also promised peace. They promised peace. [1:48:02] Instead, today marks eight months of a needless war that the useless draft dodging commander-in-chief can't [1:48:10] figure out how to end or how to win. Remember, last year, last year they claimed Iran's nuclear [1:48:21] program had been obliterated. Do you remember that? And then this year they told us it posed an imminent [1:48:27] threat. Both times lies. On day four of the war, day four, the president declared victory. On day 11, [1:48:43] Trump said, quote, the war is very complete. Day 13, quote, we won. Day 21, getting very close. Day 32, [1:48:57] quote, leaving very soon. On day 40, the president declared, quote, total and complete victory. [1:49:07] Today is day 243. 21 Americans are dead and hundreds wounded. Iran still has its uranium and drones and [1:49:18] missiles while diesel hits its all-time high. They've drained our stockpiles to achieve nothing [1:49:24] while the president builds himself a victory arch. And while the world burns in Washington and at Mar-a-Lago, [1:49:42] it's a spectacle of graft unprecedented in American history. The crypto payoffs and the crooked [1:49:54] backing Prince Don and Prince Eric's investments. Never before has so little effort been made to [1:50:01] cover up so much corruption. And here's the bottom line. If you're involved in any of this, [1:50:11] next year you'll be raising your right hand and swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth, [1:50:16] and nothing but the truth. So help you God in front of the United States Congress. The Mar-a-Lago mafia, [1:50:45] the Mar-a-Lago mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights. [1:50:55] But corruption in American politics runs a lot deeper than Donald Trump. It's been running on [1:51:01] corporate money, secret money, billionaire money, both sides. Citizens United was the most destructive [1:51:10] court decision in modern American history. Spectacular wealth buys an ever greater share [1:51:20] of power over our national affairs. And I suspect many of you are here because you recognize that [1:51:29] our task is not just to contain this one man's wickedness, but to heal the brokenness that gave [1:51:36] rise to him. That this moment is an opportunity not for restoration, but for reformation. [1:51:45] And Atlanta, if it takes a constitutional amendment to end Citizens United, we'll deliver a united [1:51:53] Georgia to ratify it. A united Georgia. Each day our wave grows taller and our tent grows bigger, [1:52:10] because this isn't just a campaign for Democrats. Folks come up to me at airports or on the street, [1:52:16] they tell me they're voting for a Democrat for the first time. For the first time. Down in Valdosta, [1:52:28] the mayor's name is Scott James Matheson, a lifelong Republican. We upgraded Moody Air Force [1:52:33] together. And then when Hurricane Helene hit, we went together block by block and served hot meals [1:52:39] to folks who just lost their homes. And when I got back to Washington, I delivered federal disaster [1:52:44] aid for South Georgia. And now I'm honored to have conservative Republican Mayor Matheson's support [1:52:50] in this reelection campaign. See, just about every week I call up Georgia mayors and pastors and farmers [1:53:03] to find out how I can help. And just up the road from Valdosta in Tifton is Republican Mayor Julie Smith. [1:53:10] And one day, Julie told me the Tifton Hospital needed new dialysis equipment to serve patients [1:53:17] with diabetes in 12 South Georgia counties. So I delivered the funds to upgrade that clinic, [1:53:24] which can now serve 200 patients. And like Mayor Matheson, Republican Mayor Julie Smith [1:53:33] supporting this campaign too. Up north in Toccoa, then Mayor Gail Frye, another Georgia Republican, [1:53:45] she told me Toccoa's gas lines were wearing out. So I got to work and delivered the funds to replace [1:53:52] them and Georgia Republican Gail Frye supporting our campaign too. Because see, hurricanes and diabetes [1:54:03] and gas leaks don't check your party affiliation. And when it comes to serving Georgia, I don't either. [1:54:13] But there's another reason. There's another reason so many Georgia Republicans are backing our campaign. [1:54:21] And it's the bigot Congressman Mike Collins. See, see, Brian Kemp was right about Mike. [1:54:35] There's a reason why Brad Raffensperger refuses to endorse him. Why conservative WSB radio host [1:54:42] Shelley Winter calls Mike a bottom feeder. Why one of the founders of the Tea Party said this summer, [1:54:50] quote, I cannot in good conscience vote for Mike Collins. He is unfit for office. And that reason [1:55:01] is that Mike Collins is a known bigot under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of tax [1:55:07] dollars surrounded at work and at home by white nationalists and neo-Nazis and unfit for any elected [1:55:13] office in the United States. And in his pathetic childlike devotion to Donald Trump, Mike Collins sold [1:55:30] out our state. He voted every time for the war. He voted every time for the tariffs. He voted to double [1:55:39] your health insurance premiums. And he voted for the biggest Medicaid cut in history. Listen to this. [1:55:48] St. Mary's Hospital in Livonia is in Mike's district, and they just closed their labor and delivery unit [1:55:57] citing those Medicaid cuts. So now pregnant women Mike Collins represents have to drive an hour in labor [1:56:05] to get to get to a maternity unit in Georgia. After all that, the bigot congressman is asking for a [1:56:18] promotion, but in six days will end his political career instead. Now, what could drive Mike Collins [1:56:37] to cast a vote that closes a labor and delivery unit in his own district? It's not just the money that's [1:56:45] corrupted our politics. It's a moral corruption. It's the cynical indifference of powerful people. [1:56:55] See, my office is known for world-class service. And what amazes me is how surprised people are to be [1:57:03] treated so well. Nancy Lancey is 81 years old in Jessup. Her husband died after years of dementia. [1:57:14] She was worn out and alone. And now her fair affairs were all wrapped up in a labyrinth between the VA [1:57:22] and the IRS and Social Security. So we took care of things for her. And I'll never forget what she said [1:57:28] about it. She said, this was a new experience to have someone caring about me. A new experience [1:57:40] to have someone caring about me. How has it come to pass that for so many Americans, [1:57:50] the experience of genuine care is rare and surprising? Official indifference and corporate [1:57:59] disrespect have become systemic. Instead of reading your daughter her favorite book, [1:58:06] that precious spare hour after work, you're on the phone begging the insurance company to cover [1:58:10] the medicine that prevents her seizures. The army lost the records you need to claim your VA benefits [1:58:17] and it takes a year and 12 calls to fix it. You report the black mold to your landlord, but he [1:58:25] doesn't fix the leak in the ambulance for your toddler's asthma attack is followed by a $3,000 bill. [1:58:35] Daily life's hard enough. And then you see the state of the world. I've got two little girls at home, [1:58:47] Eva's four and Lila's one. And I'm so grateful to this country for the security and opportunity [1:58:53] it affords them. But this isn't the world I want to leave them. Soon enough, they'll learn there's [1:59:01] now plastic in human blood and breast milk. That toxic forever chemicals are in half the country's [1:59:07] drinking water. Eva loves animal documentaries and she'll learn the butterflies are dying off. [1:59:15] She'll learn about the nuclear weapons that threaten annihilation. She'll ask me why I allowed these [1:59:23] things to happen. And see, what fills us with dread is the crushing weakness of our politics against [1:59:31] the massive stakes of our times. Tech titans build bunkers while warning the artificial intelligence [1:59:40] they're creating risks human extinction. Meanwhile, our Congress debates youth sports and the president [1:59:47] builds a ballroom. An ancient establishment barely capable of email sleepwalks into a technological [1:59:57] revolution while the president dismantles precautions and calls us fools for worrying. So you see this [2:00:04] scenario and it fills you with dread. I get it. But Georgia, we can and will reclaim control over our own [2:00:14] destiny. We can and will meet our obligations to our children. And it begins with victory this fall. [2:00:28] Because Georgia, I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one [2:00:34] threatens to become. I refuse to accept that Eva and Lila will grow up on a poisoned planet rearming [2:00:42] for world war in a country where we have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world a thousand [2:00:48] fold, but we refuse to guarantee health care for every citizen. When Eva's old enough to ask me why I [2:01:02] let this happen, I'm determined to answer truthfully, but I didn't. I'll tell her how the same year she turned [2:01:17] to say that. In 2015 Georgia overcame every doubt and dirty trick to not just win, but to set a new [2:01:22] course for our state and our country and our world. That our generation didn't shrink from its obligations [2:01:30] to hers. That we mastered technology instead of letting it master us. That we restored American leadership [2:01:39] toward peace and human rights. And that we guaranteed health care for every single American. There's a [2:01:56] portrait of Congressman Lewis right above my desk in my Senate office. And I promise you, his spirit [2:02:07] is with us in this place right now. Right now. That we all live in one American house. In one world house. [2:02:23] Do you remember? See, John Lewis knew and gave blood to make real what small men like Donald Trump and [2:02:32] Mike Collins will never understand. That our national greatness flows not through our genes, but through [2:02:37] our ideas and aspirations and care for one another. And from our founding ideals, despite our sins and [2:02:54] through courageous struggle, the flame of American freedom has grown brighter and bolder and given hope [2:02:59] to the whole world. But in the winds that blow today, that light is flickering. And from the Fulton [2:03:09] County raid to the executive order attacking voting to the MAGA loyalists on our state election board, [2:03:14] the election deniers and insurrectionists and their accomplices have made their intentions very clear. [2:03:20] But Atlanta, when voting rights and civil rights that heroes died to secure are under attack, [2:03:26] we defend those rights by using them. And that's why Georgia Democrats are answering with a mobilization [2:03:37] so massive and a defense of voting rights so fierce that no plot against the franchise will foil the will [2:03:44] of the people. Because how foolish of them to come to the cradle of the civil rights movement to spread [2:03:56] those lies and seize those ballots. Their attacks have only strengthened our resolve. And if we all do [2:04:04] what we must do these next six days, the sound of feet marching to the polls will be heard in every [2:04:10] corner of our state and way up on high where Congressman Lewis will look down and see a job well done. [2:04:22] A wave is building. The kind of wave that comes once a generation when the people have been pushed too [2:04:28] far and decide all together all at once that enough is enough. We have six days, Georgia and Georgia will [2:04:40] bow to no. For nearly two years, we've seen our government transformed into a tool of one man's [2:04:50] personal vengeance and power and enrichment. We've seen insurance stripped from cancer patients and [2:04:58] hospitals closed services to fund tax cuts for the rich. We've seen prison camps for immigrants full [2:05:09] of children. We've seen masked federal agents with license to kill demanding papers at police checkpoints. [2:05:27] Each day, Donald Trump digs the moral pit deeper. But Pastor Bryant, isn't it in Proverbs that says, [2:05:40] whoever digs a pit, whoever digs a pit will fall into it. And Georgia over the last year in defiance [2:05:56] of his depravity, we've marched together in protest and we've gathered at rallies like this one that [2:06:01] just keep getting bigger and bigger. We've come together in small towns and big cities in the [2:06:13] mountains and on the coast and on the Georgia farms that feed and clothe the world. And now, [2:06:18] Georgia, with just six days to go, I'm here to tell you I have no doubt our victory is near at hand. [2:06:35] In six days, our juggernaut coordinated campaign will have turned out the vote like never before [2:06:41] to elect Josh McLaurin, Penny Brown Reynolds, Tanya Miller and Democrats up and down the ballot. [2:06:51] In six days, we'll elect a Medicaid expanding Governor Keisha Lance Bottoms. [2:07:02] And in six days, Georgia will rebuke the crook President Donald Trump with such clarity [2:07:09] and power that no president will dare such abuses again for centuries. Now, remember, [2:07:33] he promised to lower prices on day one. Instead, under the failed President Donald J. Trump, [2:07:47] it costs more than ever in American history to fill up your truck, stock your fridge, [2:07:52] visit the doctor or power your home. They promised to drain the swamp. Instead, [2:08:04] it's the most corrupt administration of all time and everybody knows it. And while the crook [2:08:14] president and his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything. [2:08:21] They doubled your insurance premiums and slashed Medicaid to cut taxes for the rich. [2:08:26] They lied us into war and spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile. [2:08:32] You saw it. Now, remember, they also promised peace. They promised peace. [2:08:52] Instead, today marks eight months of a needless war that the useless, draft-dodging commander-in-chief [2:09:02] can't figure out how to end or how to win. Remember, last year, last year, they claimed Iran's nuclear [2:09:14] program had been obliterated. Do you remember that? And then this year, they told us it posed an imminent [2:09:21] threat. Both times lies. On day four of the war, day four, the president declared victory. On day 11, [2:09:36] Trump said, quote, the war is very complete. Day 13, quote, we won. Day 21, getting very close. [2:09:49] Day 32, quote, leaving very soon. On day 40, the president declared, quote, total and complete victory. [2:10:00] Today is day 243. 21 Americans are dead and hundreds wounded. Iran still has its uranium and drones and [2:10:11] missiles while diesel hits its all-time high. They've drained our stockpiles to achieve nothing [2:10:17] while the president builds himself a victory arch. And while the world burns, in Washington and at [2:10:34] Mar-a-Lago, it's a spectacle of graft unprecedented in American history. The crypto payoffs and the [2:10:42] crooked backing Prince Don and Prince Eric's investments. Never before has so little effort [2:10:54] been made to cover up so much corruption. And here's the bottom line. If you're involved in any [2:11:03] of this, next year, you'll be raising your right hand and swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth, [2:11:09] and nothing but the truth. So help you God in front of the United States Congress. The Mar-a-Lago mafia, [2:11:35] the Mar-a-Lago mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights. But corruption in American [2:11:49] politics runs a lot deeper than Donald Trump. It's been running on corporate money, secret money, [2:11:56] billionaire money, both sides. Citizens United was the most destructive court decision in modern [2:12:05] American history. Spectacular wealth buys an ever greater share of power over our national affairs. [2:12:18] And I suspect many of you are here because you recognize that our task is not just to contain this [2:12:25] one man's wickedness, but to heal the brokenness that gave rise to him. That this moment is an [2:12:35] opportunity not for restoration, but for reformation. And Atlanta, if it takes a constitutional amendment [2:12:43] to end Citizens United, we'll deliver a united Georgia to ratify it. A united Georgia. Each day, [2:13:00] our wave grows taller and our tent grows bigger because this isn't just a campaign for Democrats. [2:13:07] Folks come up to me at airports or on the street. They tell me they're voting for a Democrat for the [2:13:11] first time. For the first time. Down in Valdosta, the mayor's name, Scott James Matheson, a lifelong [2:13:24] Republican. We upgraded Moody Air Force together. And then when Hurricane Helene hit, we went together [2:13:30] block by block and served hot meals to folks who just lost their homes. And when I got back to [2:13:35] Washington, I delivered federal disaster aid for South Georgia. And now I'm honored to have [2:13:40] conservative Republican Mayor Matheson's support in this reelection campaign. See, just about every [2:13:53] week, I call up Georgia mayors and pastors and farmers to find out how I can help. And just up [2:13:58] the road from Valdosta in Tifton is Republican Mayor Julie Smith. And one day, Julie told me the [2:14:06] Tifton hospital needed new dialysis equipment to serve patients with diabetes in 12 South Georgia counties. [2:14:14] So I delivered the funds to upgrade that clinic, which can now serve 200 patients. And like Mayor [2:14:23] Matheson, Republican Mayor Julie Smith supporting this campaign too. Up north in Toccoa, then Mayor [2:14:36] Gail Frye, another Georgia Republican. She told me Toccoa's gas lines were wearing out. So I got to work [2:14:43] and delivered the funds to replace them. And Georgia Republican Gail Frye supporting our campaign too. [2:14:49] Because see, hurricanes and diabetes and gas leaks don't check your party affiliation. And when it [2:15:01] comes to serving Georgia, I don't either. But there's another reason. There's another reason so [2:15:11] many Georgia Republicans are backing our campaign. And it's the bigot Congressman Mike Collins. See, [2:15:23] see, Brian Kemp was right about Mike. There's a reason why Brad Raffensperger refuses to endorse him. [2:15:33] Why conservative WSB radio host Shelley Winter calls Mike a bottom feeder. Why one of the founders [2:15:42] of the Tea Party said this summer, quote, I cannot in good conscience vote for Mike Collins. He is unfit [2:15:48] for office. And that reason is that Mike Collins is a known bigot under federal investigation for the [2:15:59] illegal misuse of tax dollars surrounded at work and at home by white nationalists and neo-Nazis and [2:16:05] unfit for any elected office in the United States. And in his pathetic, childlike devotion to Donald [2:16:22] Trump, Mike Collins sold out our state. He voted every time for the war. He voted every time for [2:16:30] the tariffs. He voted to double your health insurance premiums. And he voted for the biggest Medicaid cut [2:16:36] in history. Listen to this. St. Mary's Hospital in Livonia is in Mike's district, [2:16:47] and they just closed their labor and delivery unit, citing those Medicaid cuts. [2:16:52] So now pregnant women Mike Collins represents have to drive an hour in labor to get to a maternity [2:17:00] unit. In Georgia, after all that, the bigot congressman is asking for a promotion. But in [2:17:12] six days, we'll end his political career instead. Now, what could drive Mike Collins to cast a vote that [2:17:32] closes a labor and delivery unit in his own district? It's not just the money that's [2:17:38] corrupted our politics. It's a moral corruption. It's the cynical indifference of powerful people. [2:17:45] See, my office is known for world-class service. And what amazes me is how surprised people are to be [2:17:56] treated so well. Nancy Lancey's 81 years old in Jessup. Her husband died after years of dementia. [2:18:07] She was worn out and alone. And now her affairs were all wrapped up in a labyrinth between the VA [2:18:15] and the IRS and Social Security. So we took care of things for her. And I'll never forget what she [2:18:21] said about it. She said, this was a new experience to have someone caring about me. A new experience [2:18:33] to have someone caring about me. How has it come to pass that for so many Americans, the experience of [2:18:45] genuine care is rare and surprising. Official indifference and corporate disrespect have become [2:18:53] systemic. Instead of reading your daughter her favorite book, that precious spare hour after [2:19:01] work, you're on the phone begging the insurance company to cover the medicine that prevents her [2:19:04] seizures. The army lost the records you need to claim your VA benefits and it takes a year and 12 [2:19:12] calls to fix it. You report the black mold to your landlord, but he doesn't fix the leak. And the [2:19:20] ambulance for your toddler's asthma attack is followed by a $3,000 bill. Daily life's hard [2:19:30] enough. And then you see the state of the world. I've got two little girls at home. Eva's four and [2:19:41] Lila's one. And I'm so grateful to this country for the security and opportunity it affords them. [2:19:48] But this isn't the world I want to leave them. Soon enough, they'll learn there's now plastic in human [2:19:55] blood and breast milk. That toxic forever chemicals are in half the country's drinking water. Eva loves animal [2:20:04] documentaries and she'll learn the butterflies are dying off. She'll learn about the nuclear weapons [2:20:10] that threaten annihilation. She'll ask me why I allowed these things to happen. And see, what fills [2:20:20] us with dread is the crushing weakness of our politics against the massive stakes of our times. [2:20:28] Tech titans build bunkers while warning the artificial intelligence they're creating risks human [2:20:34] extinction. Meanwhile, our Congress debates youth sports and the president builds a ballroom. [2:20:44] An ancient establishment barely capable of emails sleepwalks into a technological revolution while [2:20:51] the president dismantles precautions and calls us fools for worrying. So you see this scenario and [2:20:58] it fills you with dread. I get it. But Georgia, we can and will reclaim control over our own destiny. [2:21:12] We can and will meet our obligations to our children. And it begins with victory this fall. [2:21:21] Because Georgia, I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one [2:21:27] threatens to become. I refuse to accept that Eva and Lila will grow up on a poisoned planet rearming for [2:21:35] world war in a country where we have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world a thousand fold. But we [2:21:41] refuse to guarantee health care for every citizen. When Eva's old enough to ask me why I let this happen, [2:21:57] I'm determined to answer truthfully, but I didn't. I'll tell her how the same year she turned five, [2:22:10] Georgia overcame every doubt and dirty trick to not just win, but to set a new course for our state [2:22:17] and our country and our world. That our generation didn't shrink from its obligations to hers. That we [2:22:24] mastered technology instead of letting it master us. That we restored American leadership toward peace and [2:22:33] human rights. And that we guaranteed health care for every single American. There's a portrait of [2:22:51] Congressman Lewis right above my desk in my Senate office. And I promise you, his spirit is with us [2:23:01] in this place right now. Right now. That we all live in one American house, in one world house. Do you [2:23:16] remember? See, John Lewis knew and gave blood to make real what small men like Donald Trump and Mike [2:23:25] Collins will never understand that our national greatness flows not through our genes, but through [2:23:30] our ideas and aspirations and care for one another. And from our founding ideals, despite our sins and [2:23:47] through courageous struggle, the flame of American freedom has grown brighter and bolder and given hope [2:23:52] to the whole world. But in the winds that blow today, that light is flickering. And from the Fulton County [2:24:03] raid to the executive order attacking voting to the MAGA loyalists on our state election board, [2:24:08] the election deniers and insurrectionists and their accomplices have made their intentions very clear. [2:24:13] But Atlanta, when voting rights and civil rights that heroes died to secure are under attack, [2:24:19] we defend those rights by using them. And that's why Georgia Democrats are answering with a mobilization [2:24:30] so massive and a defense of voting rights so fierce that no plot against the franchise will foil the will of [2:24:38] the people. Because how foolish of them to come to the cradle of the civil rights movement to spread those [2:24:49] lies and seize those ballots. Their attacks have only strengthened our resolve. And if we all do what [2:24:58] we must do these next six days, the sound of feet marching to the polls will be heard in every corner of [2:25:04] our state and way up on high where Congressman Lewis will look down and see a job well done. [2:25:10] A wave is building the kind of wave that comes once a generation when the people have been pushed too [2:25:21] far and decide all together all at once that enough is enough. We have six days Georgia and Georgia will bow to [2:25:34] no. For nearly two years we've seen our government transformed into a tool of one man's personal [2:25:44] vengeance and power and enrichment. We've seen insurance stripped from cancer patients and hospitals [2:25:52] closed services to fund tax cuts for the rich. We've seen prison camps for immigrants full of children. [2:26:10] We've seen masked federal agents with license to kill demanding papers at police checkpoints. [2:26:20] Each day Donald Trump digs the moral pit deeper. But Pastor Bryant, isn't it in Proverbs that says [2:26:33] whoever digs a pit, whoever digs a pit will fall into it. And Georgia over the last year in defiance of [2:26:49] his depravity, we've marched together in protest and we've gathered at rallies like this one that just [2:26:55] keep getting bigger and bigger. We've come together in small towns and big cities in the mountains and on the [2:27:07] coast and on the Georgia farms that feed and clothe the world. And now Georgia with just six days to [2:27:13] go. I'm here to tell you I have no doubt our victory is near at hand. In six days our juggernaut [2:27:30] coordinated campaign will have turned out the vote like never before to elect Josh McLaurin, Penny Brown [2:27:36] Reynolds, Tonya Miller and Democrats up and down the ballot. In six days we'll elect a Medicaid expanding [2:27:47] governor Keisha Lance Bottoms. And in six days Georgia will rebuke the crook President Donald [2:28:00] Trump with such clarity and power that no president will dare such abuses again for centuries. Now [2:28:25] remember he promised to lower prices on day one. Instead under the failed President Donald J. Trump it [2:28:41] costs more than ever in American history to fill up your truck, stock your fridge, visit the doctor or [2:28:46] power your home. They promised to drain the swamp. Instead it's the most corrupt administration of [2:28:59] all time and everybody knows it. And while the crook President and his crook family rake in billions [2:29:10] from all over the world you pay more for everything. They doubled your insurance premiums and slashed [2:29:17] Medicaid to cut taxes for the rich. They lied us into war and spent most of the last year covering up [2:29:23] for the world's most famous pedophile. You saw it. Now remember they also promised peace. They promised [2:29:45] peace. Instead today marks eight months of a needless war that the useless draft dodging commander-in-chief [2:29:55] can't figure out how to end or how to win. Remember last year, last year they claimed Iran's nuclear [2:30:07] program had been obliterated. Do you remember that? And then this year they told us it posed an imminent [2:30:13] threat. Both times lies. On day four of the war, day four, the President declared victory. On day 11, [2:30:29] Trump said, quote, the war is very complete. Day 13, quote, we won. Day 21, getting very close. Day 32, [2:30:43] quote, leaving very soon. On day 40, the President declared, quote, total and complete victory. [2:30:53] Today is day 243. 21 Americans are dead and hundreds wounded. Iran still has its uranium and drones and [2:31:04] missiles while diesel hits its all-time high. They've drained our stockpiles to achieve nothing. [2:31:10] While the President builds himself a victory arch. And while the world burns, in Washington and at [2:31:27] Mar-a-Lago, it's a spectacle of graft unprecedented in American history. The crypto payoffs and the crooked [2:31:35] backers backing Prince Don and Prince Eric's investments. Never before has so little effort [2:31:47] been made to cover up so much corruption. And here's the bottom line. If you're involved in any of this, [2:31:57] next year you'll be raising your right hand and swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth, [2:32:02] and nothing but the truth. So help you God in front of the United States Congress. The Mar-a-Lago [2:32:27] mafia, the Mar-a-Lago mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights. But corruption [2:32:41] in American politics runs a lot deeper than Donald Trump. It's been running on corporate money, secret [2:32:48] money, billionaire money, both sides. Citizens United was the most destructive court decision in modern [2:32:58] American history. Spectacular wealth buys an ever greater share of power over our national affairs. [2:33:10] And I suspect many of you are here because you recognize that our task is not just to contain [2:33:18] this one man's wickedness, but to heal the brokenness that gave rise to him. That this moment is an [2:33:28] opportunity not for restoration, but for reformation. And Atlanta, if it takes a constitutional amendment to [2:33:36] end Citizens United, we'll deliver a united Georgia to ratify it. A united Georgia. Each day, [2:33:53] our wave grows taller and our tent grows bigger because this isn't just a campaign for Democrats. [2:34:00] Folks come up to me at airports or on the street. They tell me they're voting for a Democrat for the [2:34:04] first time. For the first time. Down in Valdosta, the mayor's name, Scott James Matheson, a lifelong [2:34:17] Republican. We upgraded Moody Air Force together. And then when Hurricane Helene hit, we went together [2:34:23] block by block and served hot meals to folks who just lost their homes. And when I got back to Washington, [2:34:29] I delivered federal disaster aid for South Georgia. And now I'm honored to have conservative Republican [2:34:34] Mayor Matheson support in this reelection campaign. See, just about every week, I call up Georgia mayors [2:34:48] and pastors and farmers to find out how I can help. And just up the road from Valdosta in Tifton [2:34:54] is Republican Mayor Julie Smith. And one day, Julie told me the Tifton Hospital needed new dialysis [2:35:01] equipment to serve patients with diabetes in 12 South Georgia counties. So I delivered the funds [2:35:08] to upgrade that clinic which can now serve 200 patients. And like Mayor Matheson, Republican [2:35:18] Mayor Julie Smith supporting this campaign too. Up north in Toccoa, then Mayor Gayle Frye, [2:35:30] another Georgia Republican, she told me Toccoa's gas lines were wearing out. So I got to work and [2:35:36] delivered the funds to replace them and Georgia Republican Gail Frye supporting our campaign too. [2:35:42] Because see, hurricanes and diabetes and gas leaks don't check your party affiliation. [2:35:53] And when it comes to serving Georgia, I don't either. But there's another reason, [2:36:02] there's another reason so many Georgia Republicans are backing our campaign. [2:36:07] And it's the bigot Congressman Mike Collins. See, see, Brian Kemp was right about Mike. [2:36:21] There's a reason why Brad Raffensperger refuses to endorse him. Why conservative WSB radio host [2:36:28] Shelley Winter calls Mike a bottom feeder. Why one of the founders of the Tea Party said this summer, [2:36:36] quote, I cannot in good conscience vote for Mike Collins. He is unfit for office. [2:36:45] And that reason is that Mike Collins is a known bigot under federal investigation for the illegal [2:36:52] misuse of tax dollars surrounded at work and at home by white nationalists and neo-Nazis and unfit for [2:36:58] any elected office in the United States. And in his pathetic childlike devotion to Donald Trump, [2:37:15] Mike Collins sold out our state. He voted every time for the war. He voted every time for the [2:37:23] tariffs. He voted to double your health insurance premiums. And he voted for the biggest Medicaid cut [2:37:29] in history. Listen to this. St. Mary's Hospital in Livonia is in Mike's district, [2:37:40] and they just closed their labor and delivery units citing those Medicaid cuts. [2:37:45] So now pregnant women Mike Collins represents have to drive an hour in labor to get to a maternity [2:37:52] unit. In Georgia, after all that, the bigot congressman is asking for a promotion. But in [2:38:05] six days will end his political career instead. Now, what could drive Mike Collins to cast a vote that [2:38:25] closes a labor and delivery unit in his own district? It's not just the money that's [2:38:31] corrupted our politics. It's a moral corruption. It's the cynical indifference of powerful people. [2:38:38] See, my office is known for world-class service. And what amazes me is how surprised people are to be [2:38:49] treated so well. Nancy Lancey's 81 years old in Jessup. Her husband died after years of dementia. [2:39:00] She was worn out and alone. And now her affairs were all wrapped up in a labyrinth between the VA [2:39:08] and the IRS and Social Security. So we took care of things for her. And I'll never forget what she [2:39:14] said about it. She said, this was a new experience to have someone caring about me. A new experience [2:39:25] to have someone caring about me. How has it come to pass that for so many Americans, the experience of [2:39:38] genuine care is rare and surprising. Official indifference and corporate disrespect have become [2:39:46] systemic. Instead of reading your daughter her favorite book, that precious spare hour after [2:39:54] work, you're on the phone begging the insurance company to cover the medicine that prevents her [2:39:57] seizures. The army lost the records you need to claim your VA benefits and it takes a year and 12 [2:40:05] calls to fix it. You report the black mold to your landlord, but he doesn't fix the leak. And the [2:40:13] ambulance for your toddler's asthma attack is followed by a $3,000 bill. Daily life's hard [2:40:23] enough. And then you see the state of the world. I've got two little girls at home. Eva's four and [2:40:34] Lila's one. And I'm so grateful to this country for the security and opportunity it affords them. But [2:40:41] this isn't the world I want to leave them. Soon enough they'll learn there's now plastic in human blood [2:40:48] and breast milk. That toxic forever chemicals are in half the country's drinking water. Eva loves animal [2:40:57] documentaries and she'll learn the butterflies are dying off. She'll learn about the nuclear weapons [2:41:03] that threaten annihilation. She'll ask me why I allowed these things to happen. And see what fills [2:41:13] us with dread is the crushing weakness of our politics against the massive stakes of our times. [2:41:21] Tech titans build bunkers while warning the artificial intelligence they're creating risks human [2:41:27] extinction. Meanwhile our congress debates youth sports and the president builds a ballroom. An [2:41:37] ancient establishment barely capable of emails sleepwalks into a technological revolution while [2:41:44] the president dismantles precautions and calls us fools for worrying. So you see this scenario and it [2:41:51] fills you with dread. I get it. But Georgia we can and will reclaim control over our own destiny. We can [2:42:05] and will meet our obligations to our children. And it begins with victory this fall. Because Georgia, [2:42:15] I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become. [2:42:21] I refuse to accept that Eva and Lila will grow up on a poisoned planet rearming for world war. In a [2:42:30] country where we have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world a thousand fold. But we refuse to [2:42:35] guarantee health care for every citizen. When Eva's old enough to ask me why I let this happen, I'm determined to [2:42:51] answer truthfully but I didn't. I'll tell her how the same year she turned five Georgia overcame every [2:43:05] doubt and dirty trick to not just win but to set a new course for our state and our country and our world. [2:43:13] That our generation didn't shrink from its obligations to hers. That we mastered technology [2:43:19] instead of letting it master us. That we restored American leadership toward peace and human rights. [2:43:26] That we guaranteed health care for every single American. There's a portrait of Congressman Lewis [2:43:45] right above my desk in my Senate office. And I promise you, his spirit is with us in this place [2:43:55] right now. Right now. That we all live in one American house. In one world house. Do you remember? [2:44:09] See, John Lewis knew and gave blood to make real what small men like Donald Trump and Mike Collins will [2:44:19] never understand. That our national greatness flows not through our genes but through our ideas and [2:44:24] aspirations and care for one another. And from our founding ideals, despite our sins, and through [2:44:40] courageous struggle, the flame of American freedom has grown brighter and bolder and given hope to the [2:44:45] whole world. But in the winds that blow today, that light is flickering. And from the Fulton County raid, [2:44:56] to the executive order attacking voting, to the MAGA loyalists on our state election board, [2:45:00] the election deniers and insurrectionists and their accomplices have made their intentions very clear. [2:45:06] But Atlanta, when voting rights and civil rights that heroes died to secure are under attack, [2:45:12] we defend those rights by using them. And that's why Georgia Democrats are answering with a mobilization [2:45:23] so massive and a defense of voting rights so fierce that no plot against the franchise will foil [2:45:30] the will of the people. Because how foolish of them to come to the cradle of the civil rights movement [2:45:41] to spread those lies and seize those ballots. Their attacks have only strengthened our resolve. [2:45:49] And if we all do what we must do these next six days, the sound of feet marching to the polls will [2:45:55] be heard in every corner of our state and way up on high where Congressman Lewis will look down and [2:46:01] see a job well done. A wave is building the kind of wave that comes once a generation when the people [2:46:13] have been pushed too far and decide all together all at once that enough is enough. We have six days, [2:46:23] Georgia, and Georgia will bow to no. For nearly two years, we've seen our government transformed into a [2:46:35] tool of one man's personal vengeance and power and enrichment. We've seen insurance stripped from [2:46:43] cancer patients and hospitals closed services to fund tax cuts for the rich. We've seen prison camps [2:46:54] for immigrants full of children. We've seen masked federal agents with license to kill demanding papers [2:47:07] at police checkpoints. Each day, Donald Trump digs the moral pit deeper. But Pastor Bryant, isn't it in [2:47:24] proverbs that says, whoever digs a pit, whoever digs a pit will fall into it. And Georgia over the last [2:47:41] year in defiance of his depravity, we've marched together in protest and we've gathered at rallies [2:47:46] like this one that just keep getting bigger and bigger. We've come together in small towns and big [2:47:58] cities in the mountains and on the coast and on the Georgia farms that feed and clothe the world. And now [2:48:04] Georgia with just six days to go. I'm here to tell you I have no doubt our victory is near at hand. [2:48:21] In six days, our juggernaut coordinated campaign will have turned out the vote like never before [2:48:27] to elect Josh McLaurin, Penny Brown Reynolds, Tonya Miller and Democrats up and down the ballot. [2:48:37] In six days, we'll elect a Medicaid expanding Governor Keisha Lance Bottoms. And in six days, [2:48:50] Georgia will rebuke the crook President Donald Trump with such clarity and power that no president [2:48:56] will dare such abuses again for centuries. Now remember, he promised to lower prices on day one. [2:49:30] Instead, under the failed President Donald J. Trump, it costs more than ever in American history to fill [2:49:36] up your truck, stock your fridge, visit the doctor or power your home. They promised to drain the swamp. [2:49:49] Instead, it's the most corrupt administration of all time and everybody knows it. And while the crook [2:50:00] President and his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything. [2:50:07] They doubled your insurance premiums and slashed Medicaid to cut taxes for the rich. They lied us into [2:50:13] war and spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile. You saw it. [2:50:30] Now remember, they also promised peace. They promised peace. Instead, today marks eight months of a [2:50:44] needless war that the useless draft dodging commander in chief can't figure out how to end or how to win. [2:50:56] Remember, last year, last year they claimed Iran's nuclear program had been obliterated. Do you remember [2:51:02] that? And then this year they told us it posed an imminent threat. Both times lies. On day four of the war, [2:51:14] day four, the president declared victory. On day 11, Trump said, quote, the war is very complete. [2:51:27] Day 13, quote, we won. Day 21 getting very close. Day 32, quote, leaving very soon. On day 40, [2:51:40] the president declared, quote, total and complete victory. Today is day 243. 21 Americans are dead and [2:51:54] hundreds wounded. Iran still has its uranium and drones and missiles while diesel hits its all-time [2:52:00] high. They've drained our stockpiles to achieve nothing while the president builds himself a victory [2:52:06] arch. And while the world burns in Washington and at Mar-a-Lago, it's a spectacle of graft unprecedented [2:52:23] in American history. The crypto payoffs and the crooked there's backing Prince Don and Prince Eric's [2:52:35] investments. Never before has so little effort been made to cover up so much corruption. And here's the [2:52:45] bottom line. If you're involved in any of this, next year you'll be raising your right hand and swearing [2:52:53] to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help you God in front of the United States [2:52:58] Congress. The Mar-a-Lago mafia, the Mar-a-Lago mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights. [2:53:34] But corruption in American politics runs a lot deeper than Donald Trump. It's been running on [2:53:40] corporate money, secret money, billionaire money, both sides. Citizens United was the most destructive [2:53:49] court decision in modern American history. Spectacular wealth buys an ever greater share of power over [2:54:00] our national affairs. And I suspect many of you are here because you recognize that our task is not [2:54:10] just to contain this one man's wickedness, but to heal the brokenness that gave rise to him. [2:54:19] That this moment is an opportunity not for restoration, but for reformation. And Atlanta, [2:54:27] if it takes a constitutional amendment to end Citizens United, we'll deliver a United [2:54:32] Georgia to ratify it. A United Georgia. Each day our wave grows taller and our tent grows bigger. [2:54:49] Because this isn't just a campaign for Democrats. Folks come up to me at airports or on the street. [2:54:55] They tell me they're voting for a Democrat for the first time. For the first time. Down in Valdosta, [2:55:06] the mayor's name is Scott James Matheson, a lifelong Republican. We upgraded Moody Air Force together. [2:55:13] And then when Hurricane Helene hit, we went together block by block and served hot meals to folks who just [2:55:19] lost their homes. And when I got back to Washington, I delivered federal disaster aid for South Georgia. [2:55:25] And now I'm honored to have conservative Republican Mayor Matheson's support in this reelection campaign. [2:55:31] See, just about every week, I call up Georgia mayors and pastors and farmers to find out how I can help. [2:55:43] And just up the road from Valdosta in Tifton is Republican Mayor Julie Smith. And one day, [2:55:51] Julie told me that Tifton Hospital needed new dialysis equipment to serve patients with diabetes in 12 [2:55:57] South Georgia counties. So I delivered the funds to upgrade that clinic, which can now serve 200 [2:56:04] patients. And like Mayor Matheson, Republican Mayor Julie Smith supporting this campaign too. [2:56:19] Up north in Toccoa, then Mayor Gail Frye, another Georgia Republican. She told me Toccoa's gas lines [2:56:26] were wearing out. So I got to work and delivered the funds to replace them. And Georgia Republican Gail Frye, [2:56:33] supporting our campaign too. Because see, hurricanes and diabetes and gas leaks don't check your party [2:56:44] affiliation. And when it comes to serving Georgia, I don't either. But there's another reason. There's [2:56:55] another reason so many Georgia Republicans are backing our campaign. And it's the bigot Congressman [2:57:02] Mike Collins. See, see, Brian Kemp was right about Mike. There's a reason why Brad Raffensperger [2:57:16] refuses to endorse him. Why conservative WSB radio host Shelley Winter calls Mike a bottom feeder. [2:57:26] Why one of the founders of the Tea Party said this summer, quote, I cannot in good conscience vote [2:57:32] for Mike Collins. He is unfit for office. And that reason is that Mike Collins is a known bigot [2:57:43] under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of tax dollars surrounded at work and at home by [2:57:48] white nationalists and neo-Nazis and unfit for any elected office in the United States. [2:58:03] And in his pathetic childlike devotion to Donald Trump, Mike Collins sold out our state. [2:58:12] He voted every time for the war. He voted every time for the tariffs. He voted to double your health [2:58:18] insurance premiums. And he voted for the biggest Medicaid cut in history. Listen to this. St. Mary's [2:58:30] hospital in Livonia is in Mike's district and they just closed their labor and delivery units citing [2:58:36] those Medicaid cuts. So now pregnant women Mike Collins represents have to drive an hour in labor [2:58:44] to get to a maternity unit. And Georgia, after all that, the bigot Congressman is asking for a promotion, [2:58:58] but in six days will end his political career instead. Now, what could drive Mike Collins [2:59:16] to cast a vote that closes a labor and delivery unit in his own district? It's not just the money [2:59:24] that's corrupted our politics. It's a moral corruption. It's the cynical indifference of [2:59:30] powerful people. See, my office is known for world-class service. And what amazes me [2:59:39] is how surprised people are to be treated so well. Nancy Lancey is 81 years old in Jessup. Her husband died [2:59:50] after years of dementia. She was worn out and alone. And now her fair affairs were all wrapped [2:59:58] up in a labyrinth between the VA and the IRS and social security. So we took care of things for her. [3:00:05] And I'll never forget what she said about it. She said, this was a new experience to have someone [3:00:13] caring about me. A new experience to have someone caring about me. How has it come to pass that for so [3:00:26] many Americans? The experience of genuine care is rare and surprising. Official indifference and [3:00:37] corporate disrespect have become systemic. Instead of reading your daughter her favorite book, [3:00:45] that precious spare hour after work, you're on the phone begging the insurance company to cover the [3:00:49] medicine that prevents her seizures. The army lost the records you need to claim your VA benefits and [3:00:56] it takes a year and 12 calls to fix it. You report the black mold to your landlord, but he doesn't fix the [3:01:05] leak and the ambulance for your toddler's asthma attack is followed by a $3,000 bill. Daily life's [3:01:15] hard enough. And then you see the state of the world. I've got two little girls at home. Eva's four [3:01:27] and Lila's one. And I'm so grateful to this country for the security and opportunity it affords them. [3:01:34] But this isn't the world I want to leave them. Soon enough, they'll learn there's now plastic and human [3:01:41] blood and breast milk. That toxic forever chemicals are in half the country's drinking water. Eva loves animal [3:01:50] documentaries and she'll learn the butterflies are dying off. She'll learn about the nuclear weapons [3:01:56] that threaten annihilation. She'll ask me why I allowed these things to happen. And see, what fills [3:02:06] us with dread is the crushing weakness of our politics against the massive stakes of our times. Tech [3:02:14] titans build bunkers while warning the artificial intelligence they're creating risks human extinction. [3:02:22] Meanwhile, our Congress debates youth sports and the president builds a ballroom. An ancient [3:02:31] establishment barely capable of email sleepwalks into a technological revolution while the president [3:02:37] dismantles precautions and calls us fools for worrying. So you see this scenario and it fills you [3:02:44] with dread. I get it. But Georgia, we can and will reclaim control over our own destiny. We can and will [3:02:59] meet our obligations to our children. And it begins with victory this fall. Because Georgia, I refuse to [3:03:09] leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become. I refuse to accept [3:03:17] that Eva and Lila will grow up on a poisoned planet rearming for world war in a country where we have [3:03:24] enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world a thousand fold, but we refuse to guarantee health care for [3:03:29] every citizen. When Eva's old enough to ask me why I let this happen, I'm determined to answer truthfully, [3:03:45] but I didn't. I'll tell her how the same year she turned five, Georgia overcame every doubt and dirty [3:03:59] trick to not just win, but to set a new course for our state and our country and our world. That our [3:04:07] generation didn't shrink from its obligations to hers. That we mastered technology instead of letting it [3:04:13] master us. That we restored American leadership toward peace and human rights. And that we [3:04:21] guaranteed health care for every single American. There's a portrait of Congressman Lewis right above [3:04:38] my desk in my Senate office. And I promise you, his spirit is with us in this place right now. Right [3:04:50] now. That we all live in one American house, in one world house. Do you remember? See, [3:05:05] John Lewis knew and gave blood to make real what small men like Donald Trump and Mike Collins will [3:05:11] never understand. That our national greatness flows not through our genes, but through our ideas and [3:05:17] aspirations and care for one another. And from our founding ideals, despite our sins and through [3:05:33] courageous struggle, the flame of American freedom has grown brighter and bolder and given hope to the [3:05:38] whole world. But in the winds that blow today, that light is flickering. And from the Fulton County raid, [3:05:49] to the executive order attacking voting, to the MAGA loyalists on our state election board, the election [3:05:54] deniers and insurrectionists and their accomplices have made their intentions very clear. But Atlanta, [3:06:01] when voting rights and civil rights that heroes died to secure are under attack, we defend those rights [3:06:06] by using them. And that's why Georgia Democrats are answering with a mobilization so massive and a [3:06:18] defense of voting rights so fierce that no plot against the franchise will foil the will of the [3:06:24] people. Because how foolish of them to come to the cradle of the civil rights movement to spread those [3:06:35] lies and seize those ballots. Their attacks have only strengthened our resolve. And if we all do what we [3:06:44] must do these next six days, the sound of feet marching to the polls will be heard in every corner of our [3:06:50] state and way up on high, where Congressman Lewis will look down and see a job well done. A wave is [3:07:02] building the kind of wave that comes once a generation when the people have been pushed too far and decide [3:07:09] all together all at once that enough is enough. We have six days, Georgia, and Georgia will bow to [3:07:20] no. For nearly two years, we've seen our government transformed into a tool of one man's personal [3:07:30] vengeance and power and enrichment. We've seen insurance stripped from cancer patients and hospitals [3:07:38] closed services to fund tax cuts for the rich. We've seen prison camps for immigrants full of children. [3:07:55] We've seen masked federal agents with license to kill demanding papers at police checkpoints. [3:08:06] Each day, Donald Trump digs the moral pit deeper. But Pastor Bryant, isn't it in Proverbs that says, [3:08:19] whoever digs a pit, whoever digs a pit will fall into it. And Georgia, over the last year, [3:08:34] in defiance of his depravity, we've marched together in protest and we've gathered at rallies like this one [3:08:40] that just keep getting bigger and bigger. We've come together in small towns and big cities in the [3:08:52] mountains and on the coast and on the Georgia farms that feed and clothe the world. And now, [3:08:57] Georgia, with just six days to go, I'm here to tell you I have no doubt our victory is near at hand. [3:09:14] In six days, our juggernaut coordinated campaign will have turned out the vote like never before to [3:09:20] elect Josh McLaurin, Penny Brown Reynolds, Tonya Miller and Democrats up and down the ballot. [3:09:25] In six days, we'll elect a Medicaid expanding Governor Keisha Lance Bottoms. And in six days, [3:09:43] Georgia will rebuke the crook President Donald Trump with such clarity and power that no president [3:09:49] will dare such abuses again for centuries. Now, remember, he promised to lower prices on day one. [3:10:23] Instead, under the failed President Donald J. Trump, it costs more than ever in American history to fill up [3:10:30] your truck, stock your fridge, visit the doctor or power your home. They promised to drain the swamp. [3:10:42] Instead, it's the most corrupt administration of all time and everybody knows it. And while the crook [3:10:53] President and his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything. [3:11:00] They doubled your insurance premiums and slashed Medicaid to cut taxes for the rich. They lied us into [3:11:06] war and spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile. You saw it. [3:11:23] Now, remember, they also promised peace. They promised peace. Instead, today marks eight months of a [3:11:37] needless war that the useless draft dodging commander in chief can't figure out how to end or how to win. [3:11:49] Remember, last year, last year, they claimed Iran's nuclear program had been obliterated. Do you remember [3:11:55] that? And then this year, they told us it posed an imminent threat. Both times lies. On day four of [3:12:05] the war, day four, the President declared victory. On day 11, Trump said, quote, the war is very complete. [3:12:20] Day 13, quote, we won. Day 21, getting very close. Day 32, quote, leaving very soon. On day 40, [3:12:33] the President declared, quote, total and complete victory. Today is day 243. 21 Americans are dead and [3:12:47] hundreds wounded. Iran still has its uranium and drones and missiles while diesel hits its all-time [3:12:53] high. They've drained our stockpiles to achieve nothing while the President builds himself a victory [3:12:59] arch. And while the world burns in Washington and at Mar-a-Lago, it's a spectacle of graft unprecedented [3:13:16] in American history. The crypto payoffs and the crooked backing Prince Don and Prince Eric's [3:13:28] investments. Never before has so little effort been made to cover up so much corruption. And here's [3:13:38] the bottom line. If you're involved in any of this, next year, you'll be raising your right hand and [3:13:45] swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help you God in front of the [3:13:50] United States Congress. The Mar-a-Lago mafia, the Mar-a-Lago mafia has taken American corruption [3:14:21] to spectacular new heights. But corruption in American politics runs a lot deeper than Donald [3:14:30] Trump. It's been running on corporate money, secret money, billionaire money, both sides. [3:14:39] Citizens United was the most destructive court decision in modern American history. Spectacular [3:14:51] wealth buys an ever greater share of power over our national affairs. And I suspect many of you are [3:14:58] here because you recognize that our task is not just to contain this one man's wickedness, [3:15:06] but to heal the brokenness that gave rise to him. That this moment is an opportunity not for [3:15:15] restoration, but for reformation. And Atlanta, if it takes a constitutional amendment to end Citizens United, [3:15:23] we'll deliver a united Georgia to ratify it. A united Georgia. Each day our wave grows taller [3:15:41] and our tent grows bigger because this isn't just a campaign for Democrats. Folks come up to me at [3:15:47] airports or on the street. They tell me they're voting for a Democrat for the first time, for the first [3:15:53] time. Down in Valdosta, the mayor's name, Scott James Matheson, a lifelong Republican. We upgraded Moody [3:16:04] Air Force together. And then when Hurricane Helene hit, we went together block by block and served [3:16:10] hot meals to folks who just lost their homes. And when I got back to Washington, I delivered federal [3:16:16] disaster aid for South Georgia. And now I'm honored to have conservative Republican Mayor Matheson's [3:16:21] support in this reelection campaign. See, just about every week I call up Georgia mayors and pastors [3:16:34] and farmers to find out how I can help. And just up the road from Valdosta in Tifton is Republican [3:16:41] Mayor Julie Smith. And one day, Julie told me the Tifton Hospital needed new dialysis equipment to [3:16:48] serve patients with diabetes in 12 South Georgia counties. So I delivered the funds to upgrade that [3:16:55] clinic, which can now serve 200 patients. And like Mayor Matheson, Republican Mayor Julie Smith [3:17:05] supporting this campaign too. Up north in Toccoa, then Mayor Gail Fry, another Georgia Republican, [3:17:17] she told me Toccoa's gas lines were wearing out. So I got to work and delivered the funds to replace [3:17:24] them. And Georgia Republican Gail Fry is supporting our campaign too. Because see, hurricanes and diabetes [3:17:35] and gas leaks don't check your party affiliation. And when it comes to serving Georgia, I don't either. [3:17:45] But there's another reason. There's another reason so many Georgia Republicans are backing our campaign. [3:17:53] And it's the bigot Congressman Mike Collins. See, see, Brian Kemp was right about Mike. [3:18:07] There's a reason why Brad Raffensperger refuses to endorse him. Why conservative WSB radio host [3:18:14] Shelley Winter calls Mike a bottom feeder. Why one of the founders of the Tea Party said this summer, [3:18:22] quote, I cannot in good conscience vote for Mike Collins. He is unfit for office. And that reason [3:18:33] is that Mike Collins is a known bigot under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of tax dollars [3:18:39] surrounded at work and at home by white nationalists and neo-Nazis and unfit for any elected office in [3:18:46] the United States. And in his pathetic childlike devotion to Donald Trump, Mike Collins sold out our [3:19:03] state. He voted every time for the war. He voted every time for the tariffs. He voted to double your health [3:19:11] insurance premiums and he voted for the biggest Medicaid cut in history. Listen to this. St. Mary's [3:19:23] Hospital in Livonia is in Mike's district, and they just closed their labor and delivery units citing [3:19:29] those Medicaid cuts. So now pregnant women Mike Collins represents have to drive an hour in labor [3:19:37] to get to a maternity unit. In Georgia, after all that, the bigot Congressman is asking for a promotion, [3:19:51] but in six days will end his political career instead. Now, what could drive Mike Collins to cast [3:20:10] a vote that closes a labor and delivery unit in his own district? It's not just the money that's [3:20:17] corrupted our politics. It's a moral corruption. It's the cynical indifference of powerful people. [3:20:24] See, my office is known for world class service. And what amazes me is how surprised people are to be [3:20:35] treated so well. Nancy Lancey is 81 years old in Jessup. Her husband died after years of dementia. [3:20:44] She was worn out and alone, and now her affairs were all wrapped up in a labyrinth between the VA [3:20:54] and the IRS and Social Security. So we took care of things for her. And I'll never forget what she said [3:21:00] about it. She said, this was a new experience to have someone caring about me. A new experience [3:21:11] to have someone caring about me. How has it come to pass that for so many Americans, [3:21:21] the experience of genuine care is rare and surprising? Official indifference and corporate [3:21:31] disrespect have become systemic. Instead of reading your daughter her favorite book, [3:21:38] that precious spare hour after work, you're on the phone begging the insurance company to cover [3:21:42] the medicine that prevents her seizures. The army lost the records you need to claim your VA benefits, [3:21:49] and it takes a year and 12 calls to fix it. You report the black mold to your landlord, [3:21:57] but he doesn't fix the leak and the ambulance for your toddler's asthma attack is followed by a $3,000 bill. [3:22:07] Daily life's hard enough. And then you see the state of the world. I've got two little girls at home. [3:22:19] Eva's four and Lila's one. And I'm so grateful to this country for the security and opportunity it affords them. [3:22:27] But this isn't the world I want to leave them. Soon enough they'll learn there's now plastic in human [3:22:34] blood and breast milk. That toxic forever chemicals are in half the country's drinking water. Eva loves [3:22:42] animal documentaries and she'll learn the butterflies are dying off. She'll learn about the nuclear weapons [3:22:49] that threaten annihilation. She'll ask me why I allowed these things to happen. And see what fills us with [3:22:59] dread is the crushing weakness of our politics against the massive stakes of our times. Tech titans build [3:23:08] bunkers while warning the artificial intelligence they're creating risks human extinction. Meanwhile, [3:23:16] our Congress debates youth sports and the president builds a ballroom. An ancient establishment barely capable of [3:23:26] email sleepwalks into a technological revolution while the president dismantles precautions and calls us fools for [3:23:33] worrying. So you see this scenario and it fills you with dread. I get it. But Georgia, we can and will [3:23:43] reclaim control over our own destiny. We can and will meet our obligations to our children. And it begins [3:23:57] with victory this fall. Because Georgia, I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel [3:24:06] as this one threatens to become. I refuse to accept that Eva and Lila will grow up on a poisoned planet [3:24:13] rearming for world war in a country where we have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world a [3:24:19] thousand fold, but we refuse to guarantee health care for every citizen. When Eva's old enough to ask me [3:24:33] why I let this happen, I'm determined to answer truthfully, but I didn't. I'll tell her how the same [3:24:48] year she turned five, Georgia overcame every doubt and dirty trick to not just win, but to set a new [3:24:54] course for our state and our country and our world, that our generation didn't shrink from its [3:25:02] obligations to hers, that we mastered technology instead of letting it master us, that we restored [3:25:10] American leadership toward peace and human rights, and that we guaranteed health care for every single [3:25:18] American. There's a portrait of Congressman Lewis right above my desk in my Senate office, [3:25:35] and I promise you, his spirit is with us in this place right now, right now, that we all live in [3:25:52] one American house, in one world house. Do you remember? See, John Lewis knew and gave blood to make [3:26:01] real what small men like Donald Trump and Mike Collins will never understand, that our national [3:26:06] greatness flows not through our genes, but through our ideas and aspirations and care for one another. [3:26:20] And from our founding ideals, despite our sins and through courageous struggle, the flame of American [3:26:28] freedom has grown brighter and bolder and given hope to the whole world. But in the winds that blow [3:26:35] today, that light is flickering. And from the Fulton County raid to the executive order attacking voting [3:26:44] to the MAGA loyalists on our state election board, the election deniers and insurrectionists and their [3:26:49] accomplices have made their intentions very clear. But Atlanta, when voting rights and civil rights that heroes [3:26:56] died to secure are under attack, we defend those rights by using them. And that's why Georgia Democrats [3:27:07] are answering with a mobilization so massive and a defense of voting rights so fierce that no plot [3:27:14] against the franchise will foil the will of the people. Because how foolish of them to come to the [3:27:25] cradle of the civil rights movement to spread those lies and seize those ballots. Their attacks have only [3:27:32] strengthened our resolve. And if we all do what we must do these next six days, the sound of feet marching to the polls [3:27:41] will be heard in every corner of our state and way up on high where Congressman Lewis will look down [3:27:47] and see a job well done. A wave is building the kind of wave that comes once a generation when the people have [3:27:59] been pushed too far and decide all together all at once that enough is enough. We have six days, Georgia, [3:28:11] and Georgia will bow to no. For nearly two years, we've seen our government transformed into a tool of [3:28:21] one man's personal vengeance and power and enrichment. We've seen insurance stripped from cancer patients [3:28:30] and hospitals closed services to fund tax cuts for the rich. We've seen prison camps for immigrants [3:28:40] full of children. We've seen masked federal agents with license to kill demanding papers at police [3:28:54] checkpoints. Each day, Donald Trump digs the moral pit deeper. But Pastor Bryant, isn't it in Proverbs that [3:29:11] says, whoever digs a pit, whoever digs a pit will fall into it. And Georgia over the last year in [3:29:27] defiance of his depravity, we've marched together in protest and we've gathered at rallies like this [3:29:33] one that just keep getting bigger and bigger. We've come together in small towns and big cities in the [3:29:45] mountains and on the coast and on the Georgia farms that feed and clothe the world. And now, [3:29:50] Georgia, with just six days to go, I'm here to tell you I have no doubt our victory is near at hand. [3:30:07] In six days, our juggernaut coordinated campaign will have turned out the vote like never before [3:30:13] to elect Josh McLaurin, Penny Brown Reynolds, Tonya Miller and Democrats up and down the ballot. [3:30:23] In six days, we'll elect a Medicaid expanding Governor Keisha Lance Bottoms. And in six days, [3:30:35] Georgia will rebuke the crook President Donald Trump with such clarity and power that no president will [3:30:43] dare such abuses again for centuries. Now remember, he promised to lower prices on day one. Instead, [3:31:17] under the failed President Donald J. Trump, it costs more than ever in American history to fill up your [3:31:23] truck, stock your fridge, visit the doctor or power your home. They promised to drain the swamp. Instead, [3:31:36] it's the most corrupt administration of all time and everybody knows it. And while the crook President [3:31:46] and his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything. They [3:31:53] doubled your insurance premiums and slashed Medicaid to cut taxes for the rich. They lied us into war and [3:31:59] spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile. You saw it. Now, [3:32:16] remember, they also promised peace. They promised peace. Instead, today marks eight months of a needless [3:32:30] war that the useless draft dodging Commander-in-Chief can't figure out how to end or how to win. Remember, [3:32:42] last year, last year, they claimed Iran's nuclear program had been obliterated. Do you remember that? [3:32:50] And then this year, they told us it posed an imminent threat. Both times lies.