We have a bit of a major announcement.
Well, who's that next to me?
That's smashing young man.
Michael Shure, running for Congress.
So there you go.
[MUSIC] Michael Shure, longtime TYT guest host,
in fact the whole time, since the beginning for over 20 years now.
How cool would it be to have a TYT host in Congress?
So he's running here in LA and Karen Bassett's old seat.
Karen Bass, it was a really good progressive and now he's running for
mayor of LA, so that seat is now open, and Michael has thrown his hat into the ring,
and so, first of all, ShureforCongress.com,
that's where you'll see that stunning picture of Michael, okay, [LAUGH]?
I thought they did a good job with that.
It's just a splash page that gives you a rough sense of who Michael is and
of course you can donate through there.
He does not take corporate Pac contributions, okay?
So he needs real people, grassroots donations, etc.
And historically you might have seen me and
Michael have a lot of discussions on air, sometimes disagreements, right?
So this is important guys, Michael has historically been to the left of me and
if you've seen us sometimes battle on air, you might say really, no,
we mainly disagree on strategy from time to time, right?
So I'm a little bit more wild eyed, I know that comes as a surprise to you guys.
[LAUGH] >> But if you're running for Congress,
his way of doing things might be a little bit more helpful.
So he's got an excellent shot at this thing, ShureforCongress.com,
I'm super proud of him, and it's totally winnable and
it would be an amazing pickup for progressives if he wins that seat.
>> I'll be voting for him cuz I'm in his district.
>> Yeah, I love that you said that Helen because I'm in his district,
[LAUGH] >> So Michael sure would be our Congress
person.
And that's just incredible to have like a friend who's actually your
congressman would be just unheard of.
>> Who's legit, who's legit.
Like not a bandwagon person, but someone who's been talking the talk and
walking the walk for 20 years, like you said.
Yeah, but I'm totally voting for him.
I won't be voting him for him because I'm pretty sure I'm not in his district,
I wouldn't anyway, but I'm kidding.
[LAUGH] >> I looked at the map, I believe that
I'm a bit south of it, but yeah it's like expected that is the heart of LA,
like that is a no messing around district, but Michael's awesome.
Many of you might be new to the channel, you might have seen Michael as much
although he has appeared on the Damage Report with me a little bit recently, but
what would you say?
He's come on TYT 500 times, 1000 times.
So there's a lot of candidates, are total wild cards,
you have no idea what they think about the most important consequential issues,
Michael has put it out there for literally decades about everything he thinks,
about everything he cares about, what his priorities are.
And so basically there's a few candidates that have been vetted as much as
Michael Shure and he's an all around great guy too.
>> Yeah.
And we bragged about how AOC was on TYT,
featured on TYT 34 times before she won her primary.
Note the general election, when no one was covering, 34 times.
We can't do the math on Michael.
[LAUGH] >> Michael was on 712 times before he won
his primary.
But it would be amazing.
You've got a wide range of folks who have been on TYT within the Democratic Party.
All people with most importantly a lot of heart, they care, they care,
that's why they were on TYT, that's why they care about the news and
they care about changing the country.
And guys this is the district you might wonder LA it's got some
incredibly wealthy parts, it's got some not so wealthy parts and so
this district is actually not so wealthy.
So I have, [INAUDIBLE] [LAUGH] >> Yeah, that check,
I can attest, not so wealthy.
[LAUGH] >> Yeah,
which makes it a little bit more progressive, so that's good news.
Okay, that's among the reasons why it's winnable.
The next week, Michael Shure of course will be on the conversation on Tuesday,
so make sure you check that out, that's at 5:30 PM Eastern.
The conversation is always before the Young Turks right here on the same
channel, so you will make sure you're catching that live and
Michael will be on and we'll get to talk about the issues and his strategy as well.
So make sure you're supporting him right now ShureforCongress.com.
And already the comments are coming in.
Mary Animal on twitch said we're donating and we don't even live in the state,
Congress impacts us all.
That is definitely true.
So this is not like, hey, that's a city council, but I don't live in that city,
no, they go to the federal government and every vote matters.
And so that's a great idea and
you should definitely support him throughout the country, no question.
And if you live anywhere near around here, volunteer as well.