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I had a conversation with a young lady and she said I
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just wanna say that I like what you have to say but
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I voted for Trump and I like what ICE is doing she
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said I mean my parents are Mexican but we can't have everybody
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come in there and in that conversation I asked her,
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can I ask you if your parents came legally or not?
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They overstayed their visa.
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so they broke the law and she said,
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they shouldn't have done it and I said it's very easy for
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you to say that after the fact that because they sacrificed for
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you, you're now an American citizen and you're happy to be
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here be consistent. Familia,
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me too, please help me welcome Bobby Pulido.
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You went, I went from hearing you at quinceaneras and seeing
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Like what got you to decide to go from music to politics
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I didn't like what I was seeing.
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It's just something that I,
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I was a political science major in college,
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so I've always loved politics,
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and I, I studied it.
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I feel like I'm not out of my element when I'm talking
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about politics. And There's a lot of things healthcare is ridiculously
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expensive. Musicians don't have health care,
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right? Because we don't work for,
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we don't have unions,
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we don't have no protection.
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Musicians are very, very much like it's a gig economy,
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man. Unless you're a super big star,
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and so you got to go fight the system and.
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I live a simple life.
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I don't think I'm crazy for being an artist and stuff like
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I just wanna go fight the good fight even if it takes
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making it would make a huge pay cut for me and you're
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also mixing culture with politics.
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OK, like politics shouldn't mix with like sports they shouldn't mix
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culture or music. Why do you disagree?
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but I'm not the normal.
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Musician, I was a political science.
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I'm a political nerd like that's,
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I study history. I love,
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I've also looked at it my career is like a as an
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escape, so I've always said like my music's for Republicans and
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Democrats because I want when you go to my concert to escape
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conflict in your life.
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I wanna be like a de-stressor right?
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but that doesn't mean I don't have an opinion that's separate my
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opinion is my opinion,
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but when I'm on stage I never like to preach.
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yeah, and, and speaking of like you talking though,
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like publicly about, you know,
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your political views or asking the people of theirs,
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you're basically hosting carne asadas as many town halls,
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which I think is really cool and different,
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tell me about your ranch halls on,
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It's really unique because we have conjunto music in the background where
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you're eating carnezada, right?
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And then I go talk to you about politics and I talk
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to you what I wanna fight for what I think needs fixing
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Then I take everybody's questions.
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And people just go and ask questions and then afterwards I do
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close with one or two songs.
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I haven't heard of anyone else doing something like that.
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The type of campaigning that I am doing right now is the
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hardest campaigning that anybody can do.
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When I decided to run,
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I know people were looking at me and saying he's a singer
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What does he know about politics?
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That's the top typical thing that most question people would have.
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So me going out there in person,
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answering their questions. And talking to them about the issues that
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are important to them,
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it's not just talking,
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it's listening. You gotta listen to the people and that's what
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we want is people from politicians.
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I feel like there's a lot of talking going on,
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but nobody's who's listening exactly and the district you hope to represent
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is a border town of it and what is your stance on
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immigration and how undocumented immigrants have been treated by the current administration
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I know you touched on it.
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They've they've been demonized unfairly.
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Jenny, listen, immigrants have been paying into Social Security and
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they never get that money back.
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Here's the thing, they get paid low wages,
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they should get paid better.
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We, we need to raise the minimum wage.
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OK, because they've been getting paid low wages.
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Then they get crapped on.
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By they pay into Social Security and never get that money back
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They've been actually helping Social Security.
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Keep it solvent if not and it already is gonna go down
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because a lot of them are not working anymore because they're deporting
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them, our economy and Social Security is gonna go down and
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I'm American. As Americans come.
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And I'm gonna advocate for American people,
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but we don't have to be cruel.
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You know, I had a conversation with a young lady.
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After one of these talks and she came up to me and
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she said I wanna say that I like what you have to
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say but I voted for Trump.
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And I like what ICE is doing.
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My parents are Mexican.
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but we can't have everybody come in there.
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And in that conversation,
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I asked her, can I ask you if your parents came
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legally or not? Well,
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they overstayed their visa.
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so they broke the law and it's OK for them to have
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done it, but you're saying that other people should not break
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make that make sense and she said,
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they shouldn't have done it and I said it's very easy for
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you to say that after the fact that because they sacrificed for
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you. You're now an American citizen and you're happy to be
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here. Be consistent.
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And, and here's the thing.
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As a Latino, as a Hispanic.
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We have something in common,
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I believe. We're very family oriented.
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And we always, always,
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always want our kids to do better.
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Than we did and for the first time in American history,
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the first time. Statistically,
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our kids will not do as well as we did.
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Now I've gotten questions in town halls by young people said,
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what are you gonna do for us?
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I said I'm actually running to try to help you.
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But my, my opinion to you is this,
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People that wanna get elected follow the votes.
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If young people do not vote.
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Can you expect people to actually listen to you and do something
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for you? The only way you get politicians or people from
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running for office attention,
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and I'm not talking about myself,
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is to vote and be a power.
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Definitely and I know you're from the Rio Grande Valley right
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why is it such an important factor in the next
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election? Our area has,
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has been trending more Republican right historically over the last,
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I don't know, it was basically since Hillary Clinton we started
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losing when she ran against Trump in 2016.
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And why do you think that is?
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It's many reasons it's not just one.
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But I think a lot of it has to do with the
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fact. That as Tejanos down there we're very aspirational,
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OK. And Republicans have always framed themselves as the party of
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success. And as Democrats We need to do better to show
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that we're also successful,
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so I, I think a lot of people and I tell
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people I got many Republican friends.
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That are very good people,
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That say like, I think that the poor people are taking
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advantage of the system.
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And I said, here's my problem with what the Republican Party
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first of all, Their whole philosophy is the rich,
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the billionaires, they don't wanna pay their taxes.
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And they're dumping it on you.
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And then they want you to blame the people that don't have
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it because they're not paying.
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Like Donald Trump, I,
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I, I, I kid you not,
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paid $700.01 year. Other years he didn't pay anything.
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And he flies with a plane with his name on it and
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I paid a lot more money in taxes.
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I'm not mad at the people that don't have it.
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I'm mad at the system that lets that guy get away with
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doing that. And I tell my Republican friends too I said
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the one thing that you have not put up with is the
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race part of the issue and the equation because in the Rio
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Grande Valley we're like 90% Hispanic.
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I said, so you're around other people that look just like
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you. I said just go up to this a redneck
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area where there's not a lot of Hispanics you're gonna know,
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buddy, you're gonna know,
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and this is not a knock on white people that I don't
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I don't wanna say that.
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But, but race is an elephant in the room that a
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lot of times we don't see in the Rio Grande Valley because
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we're surrounded by people that look just like us.
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Mhm. I know that you spoke about like Donald Trump and
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upon election your first two years in the House of
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Representatives would be under the Trump administration.
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how would you like to navigate or plan to manage
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your priorities and decisions in Congress?
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The platform that I have right now is.
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We need to fix our health care system because it's out of
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control. OK, there's a lot of things that need fixing
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lots of things, but you have to kind of look and
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see as what are the things that are that need the most
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fixing right away and I think comprehensive immigration reform.
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We need it But too often.
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Both political parties kick the immigration and they use it,
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they kick it's like a football they kick it over here,
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they kick it over here and they never try to get to
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If somebody like Trump were to say I agree and let's fix
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it, I would work with him.
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I I don't think he'd wanna fix it because he's got a
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white nationalist guy right next to him but if he were to
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And Monica de la Cruz,
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she, well, going back to,
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the topic we talked about earlier how you say,
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you say Monica de la Cruz,
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and she says Monica de la Cruz.
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Once flipped the 15th district from blue to red,
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why after they gerrymandered it there you go,
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yeah, yeah, nobody talks about that,
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right? Nobody talks that they actually went,
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oh, we need to try to get her in.
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Let's draw the district to help her get in.
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That's what got her elected.
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It's not that she was this candidate that people loved.
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And why shouldn't people re-elect her?
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She's terrible. Like,
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look, I'll give you an example.
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She wrote a letter to the Speaker of the house.
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This is why she's gonna be very hard.
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She's never won the Rio Grande Valley,
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by the way, even though she represents it,
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she has never won the Rio Grande Valley,
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and I promise you in November she's gonna lose it huge.
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She wrote a letter to the Speaker of the House and said
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Johnson, don't cut because I have a lot of people that
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are gonna be affected in my district and just like 4 days
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later. They had a vote And she voted for those same
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So you actually took a vote you knew would hurt the majority
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of the people you serve.
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That shows me that you're a puppet for your the administration.
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The adminis Mr. Trump says you better vote this way.
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If not, we're gonna get somebody else,
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yeah, I'll vote for it.
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And I also wanted to touch on what has happened to
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with ICE and you know the people that.
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Were killed by ICE agents now that Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo
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Gutierrez are identified as the agents in Alex Pretty's shooting and reported
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as Latino how might this affect the community's sense of safety
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healing, or reconciliation?
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I don't know. I don't,
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I don't know, and I,
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and I say that because normally in a normal situation.
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There would be an independent investigation,
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but what this administration is doing.
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they're having their own Department of Justice handle those investigations and not
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letting the Minnesota state authorities know anything about it.
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You're talking about. A dictatorship in the Republican Party.
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Nothing goes through Trump without his approval.
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Nothing goes on there.
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They tell the Department of Justice that serves at the pleasure of
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Nothing happened here. I don't trust it.
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That's the problem. Look,
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there's one quarter that they can't control.
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The court of public opinion because everybody knows what you saw with
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for sure there were different angles,
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different angles, different perspectives.
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Well, you saw it with your own eyes.
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We're not stupid, but We can't do much right now.
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They have a majority in the Senate they have a majority in
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the House of Representatives.
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They have the Supreme Court 6-3.
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The only thing we can do right now,
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the biggest thing we can do is to flip the house.
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If we flip the house,
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we'll put the brakes on him.
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Now does that mean that everything's changed?
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No, he's still gonna be president,
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but it becomes harder because now you have one branch of government
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That's checking him,
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so get involved, donate to my campaign,
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Bobby Pulido for Texas,
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but get involved in the process and you can get from anywhere
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in the United States.
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I know this is a big switch,
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but,, we've been talking about,
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I wanna talk about your music,
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I know we've been talking a lot about young people
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I have to bring it up because I was,
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I honestly, I love that song.
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it's such a classic,
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and one of my favorite artists,
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who is a big fan too,
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she recently did a video,
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where she was listening to it and singing to it
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And how does it feel to see like young fans enjoying
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your music the most as a as an artist it's the most
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incredible feeling I'd be lying if I told you as an artist
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I don't care about my musical legacy.
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I do. Everyone does.
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And as long as my music can can travel from generation to
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generation. It'll still be alive and that to me is the
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greatest blessing as a singer that you could have.
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And you know what's so funny though,
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and I have to mention it and I know you've spoken about
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it before and you're probably tired of getting this question but it
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wasn't for Selena. Is that right?
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Yes, you were right.
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I did not write that song.
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Jorge Avena wrote that song.
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OK. But here's the deal.
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I did have a crush on her.
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There we go. That's what I wanted to get.
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who did it? I know that's true,
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I knew her since we were younger.
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She was always dynamic.
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She was always beautiful and extremely talented,
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Even naming all the beautiful qualities.
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She was really nice and that's like the biggest quality that came
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so when I recorded this velado is when she passed.
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And I heard the lyrics,
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it obviously took you right there for sure.
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right? But it wasn't written for that.
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It was just destiny.
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Definitely. Well, thank you so much.
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We really appreciate you and honestly your words,
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honestly I, I relate to a lot what you were saying
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but thank you so much.
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wait, wait, we actually did want you to too late
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OK, so you want me to sing.
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Is that what you want?
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Just a little, just a little,
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just the desvelado part.
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I ain't alright, let's go.
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by the way. It's OK,
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boy despeladoporeases esperando in contrasabosquequirodian despelado.
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porque pier. Thank you for that.
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Not bad for a politician was good.
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