 Folks, I am here with some absolutely fantastic news. It's not often that I get to bring you good news But boy, do I have some good news for you? Paula Jean Swarajan has just won her Democratic primary. She will now be facing off against Republican Shelley Moore Capito in November. I cannot stress How huge this is for the progressive movement? This is a huge victory for us And I honestly am shocked not that, you know, she won because I believed in her I knew she was running a fantastic campaign But it's almost surreal to experience any victory in this era in American politics and she didn't just win She won pretty comfortably Now some things were a little bit bizarre throughout the process as the results came in For example, as brand new Congress points out the Washington Post just reported for a while that she had zero votes They reported the correct percentage for Richard Ojeda, but did not report her votes If you go to NBC News, they didn't even have a picture for her Which is weird because she is a candidate now with quite a bit of name recognition So they should have at least one photo for her and the New York Times Took forever to call this but none of that matters because she won and this is huge This is absolutely huge. She is a fighter and Out of all of the people who are running for Congress, I can tell you she's one of the real ones I think that we have so many great candidates this year But she's one of them that I believe in the most because you know This is a fight for survival the way that she talks about politics the way that she is able to articulate the issues that West Virginians are dealing with Because she's lived it. I mean this is exactly what the country needs what West Virginia needs is someone like her now I had people when I was tweeting about the results coming in ask me why I Wasn't rooting for Richard Ojeda. Why I didn't support Richard Ojeda And I will link you to my interview that I did with Paula Jean Swaringian down below We just did this interview a couple of weeks ago. So it's still relevant And there's a couple of reasons why I don't support Richard Ojeda So first of all back in 2018 when he was running against Carol Miller I thought that he ran a fantastic campaign and I was rooting for him. Although I did have my Resurations I have my skepticism when he announced that he was running for president and then come to find out You know, he was wishy-washy on Medicare for all He admitted that he supported Joe Manchin over Paula Jean Swaringian when you go to his website He doesn't actually really have a platform He was refusing to debate Paula Jean Swaringian He wasn't really consistent when it comes to coal and what he would do But I don't want to beat up on Richard Ojeda because you know, it's over now. He's out of this race Maybe there's you know a position he can run for in the future But just to kind of explain my position and why this is good Why the progressive one in this instance Paula Jean Swaringian is the progressive the true progressive and You know, she is a fighter for people in West Virginia and I don't know much about Richie Rob But I know I have the utmost faith in Paula Jean Swaringian so now we turn our eyes to November we have to try to flip that seat and Man, this is going to be a really tough battle. This is a statewide race This isn't like, you know house races that we've been fighting for which we've kind of become more comfortable with This is a statewide race. It's gonna be tough But if you live in West Virginia now is the time to sign up And if you don't live in West Virginia, you can phone bank for Paula Jean Swaringian You can not just make calls for her. You can I believe text bank for her I don't know if she has that set up yet But I'm sure that she will now that she's going up against the Republican And let me just say that every single penny counts I know that we're all struggling during a pandemic But if you have money to donate to Paula Jean Swaringian She's gonna need that boost Right now because if we want to win She's gonna need to make you know national headlines And you can already see the reluctance of mainstream media to cover her appropriately You know not having a picture of her refusing to call it until the very very end This is going to be a tough battle. But guess what? Paula Jean Swaringian can win and if she wins and makes it to the u.s. Senate You now have the best senator in the united states I would argue she's better than Bernie Sanders So as a country if we actually want change if we want legislation enacted that reflects the will of the people This is our best bet at doing that and I cannot tell you How hard we have to fight to get her elected because this is a game changer If she were to win this would be a game changer and think about this for a minute Let me be petty if you'll indulge me Uh, she lost her primary against Joe Manchin back in 2018. She won her primary this time But imagine her confronting Joe Manchin as a fellow senator A fellow senator a colleague not just a constituent Or an activist She would push him to do better because once you actually become a u.s. Senator and you're representing a state You know, she's going to be able to hold him accountable more easily Uh, so I I just cannot tell you how thrilled I am with these results Paula Jean Swaringian pulled it off and um I honestly don't even know what to say. Uh, when I saw the results. I got chills I was in a sense of disbelief and my heart was pounding watching the results can't come in and uh, she won This is really really great news. Um, congratulations to Paula Jean Swaringian We're rooting for you and uh, you know, we're just getting started We're gonna fight for you because we know that if she wins she's bringing us to congress with her