0:00 for one of our own residents to become the world's first trillionaire while one in five Texas children live in poverty. To me, that is a spiritual sickness. Right now, it's three men to now own more wealth than the entire middle class. As someone who cares about the people in my state, that's not the future I want. We have to have a government of by and for the people. And we have to clean up the corruption in our political system. >> Is the Texas governor corrupt? >> Yes. That's a strong thing to say. Well, I'm an eighth generation Texan. Was born to a single mother, a preacher's daughter. She worked overtime to provide for me. My birth father became abusive,
0:30 so she packed all our stuff into her little Ford Escort. We found a little apartment. There wasn't room for a nursery, so I slept in a crib in her closet. And that fighting spirit, I feel like she passed that along to me. But also, faith has really been the foundation of my life is why I ran for office. And I'm trying to love my neighbor through public policy. >> You're on the verge of potentially becoming the first Democratic senator in Texas since 1988. So change is what we need most right now because everywhere I go, people are struggling to survive, struggling to afford necessities, and people are working harder than they've
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