>> At last night's CNN Equality Town hall, there was a lot of serious discussion, but
there were few moments that got a little bit lighter, even a few laughs.
Here is a great example of that.
>> And a supporter approaches you and says, Senator, I'm old fashioned, and my faith teaches
me that marriage is between one man and one woman, what is your response?
>> Well, I'm gonna assume it's a guy who said that.
>> And I'm gonna say then just marry one woman.
>> I'm cool with that.
>> Assuming you can find one.
>> Okay, that was funny.
She has been criticized, I've seen, quite a bit for that.
Not necessarily from people I always agree with on anything, but a lot of people, probably
more centrists, maybe eve right-wingers are like well, you can write off Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin.
They started listing all the states that because you are so callous in your disdain for Christianity,
you have no chance of winning these states now.
>> And I bet the people that are gonna show up and fill in that space are the Gen-Z'ers
who live for meme culture.
And there are also going to be a lot more LGBTQ people.
This is probably one of my favorite moments with Warren.
She was having fun.
You could totally see she was having fun.
In fact, this is her signature move now, and when she rubs her hands together, she's literally
releasing the hair follicles from snatching the entire audience bald with these like quick,
funny, this is her new thing.
>> She did the same thing when she made the comment about if you're gonna just ask, say,
we can't, why run for president, and then she's like, that's her signature.
>> I never noticed that, let alone- >> She has a tell.
>> Yeah, let alone the why she's doing it that you just explained.
I wanna be clear and fair.
You're an advisor to Elizabeth Warren.
>> I'm a surrogate.
The wonderful thing that I love about it, and this is part of the conversation I even
had around the town hall too last night, is that the campaign, all honesty, has never
asked me to not speak about things that are more important to me.
I'm still friends with other people from different campaigns.
There's a lot of cross-collaboration.
Because I think, ultimately, the slate of candidates that we have, there's a lot of
shared ideals.
And I think that this is why all of the kind of back and forth, it's unnecessary.
Cuz I think at the end of the day, whoever wins the primary is gonna be someone who has
an idea what kind of conversations need to be happening, and what kind of moves they
need to make to represent us in the general.
>> All right, and now, I wanna address John's point.
So this is something that happens all the time, and it's also a point about privilege.
>> So whenever a Progressive criticizes anyone in the Right, it's very predictable, not just
the Right-wing, but a lot people in the mainstream media come out and go you can kiss Pennsylvania
goodbye now.
Okay, so let's break that down a little bit.
So I guess you assume that Pennsylvannia is bigoted, right?
They are homophobic, etc.
This talk of well that means you insulted all Christians.
Wait a minute, you're not speaking for all Christians.
You're talking about the fundamentalist Christians who hate gay people.
Okay, but if you notice, if someone goes after African-Americans, who's a Republican, nobody
ever says kiss Philadelphia goodbye, and without Philly you can't win Pennsylvania.
Forget Pennsylvania.
I can't believe this idiot would dare to criticize African-Americans.
Trump today doing a rally or yesterday attacking Somali immigrants who are African-Americans
and Muslims, and nobody's saying kiss Michigan goodbye cuz you just offended all Muslims,
kiss Pennsylvania goodbye because of African-American vote that is significant in that state, etc.
Because the people in power don't relate to black folks, don't relate to poor folks, don't
relate to Muslims.
They relate to other people, so they automatically assume well, okay, that's it.
Since you offended someone like me, even if I don't agree with them, but fit my demographic,
I'm assuming you're gonna lose.
And I'm gonna tell everybody you're gonna lose, thereby hurt your candidacy.
But if you offend people that are not in power, that are a significant voting block, no one
cares.
>> And let's be real.
Did you actually believe that they necessarily had it to being with?
It's one of those things where that would have been the same response no matter what
was said, what the outcome was, it would have been just that.
And even with Elizabeth Warren, if she were too rigid and serious, she needs to loosen
up.
She's like the same thing they did with Hillary.
But now, she's cracking jokes and she got her hand game going on and her crapshoot moves,
and now she's just not taking this serious.
She's just, gay rights.
At the end of the day, most of what they're adding to the conversation has no real merit
or validity or any factual data supporting their belief.
>> So that's the last thing I was gonna say, cuz it's so important.
You're not gonna get the racist, bigoted homophobic Trump voter anyway.
>> Yeah.
>> Stop it.
>> It's total nonsense.
It's not like there's somebody sitting in the middle of Pennsylvania going man, you
know I hate gay people and I hate black people and stuff, but I was thinking about voting
for Warren instead of Trump.
But when she said that comment about I should marry one woman, which I agree with, that
really made me mad, and now I am not gonna vote.
That is gas lighting 101, okay?
And it was never the case.
But I want you to know what's real intent.
The people who do it, they might not even consciously know it.
I would actually guess that most of them don't consciously know it.
But the intent is if you're Progressive, don't speak up.
Don't fight back, cuz then I'll tell you you're stupid and you're gonna lose the election.
Cuz what is their assumption?
The country is center-right.
That's not remotely true.
If you look at the polling, it's the exact opposite.
Two-thirds of the country is Progressive, and I have proven to you in two dozen polls.
But everyone on television assumes, everyone in the pundit class assumes, the country's
Right-wing, country hates gay people, right?
What an idiot supporting gay people?
You're gonna lose Pennsylvania, right?
Well, then why are we having the forum?
Why do we even have a Democratic Party?
No, the whole point is to try to get people like Elizabeth Warren to shut up.
Well, she doesn't agree, and she won't do it.
And nevertheless, she persisted.
And that's what people like about her.
And guess what, that's why she's right now the front runner in the race.
It's not like being more Progressive hurt her, it took her from near bottom to the very,
very top.
How many times have you heard pundits on television go, you know what, it was a brilliant move
by Elizabeth Warren to be really, really Progressive.
It took her from anonymity nearly, and I mean, they wrote her off in the beginning.
You remember that.
After the Native American heritage so-called scandal controversy, etc.
Every so-called smart analysts on TV was like she's done, we're done with her, right?
Now, she's number one.
How did she get there?
Through bold Progressive plans.
>> And credit.
One of the things I love the most about Elizabeth Warren, she gives credit where it's due.
So she will give Bernie credit.
She will give Castro credit.
She will say you hade this amazing idea, I support that.
I may not understand the nuts and bolts of it, but you know what, you're working on this,
I support that.
And I think that it's gonna take a candidate who's gonna be able to unify.
And so, that two-thirds that you're talking about, I think it's because we're all starting
to see through the gas lit fog of the GOP and these talking heads and political hacks
who are just trying to scare us.
Because really, they're afraid.
Because they know tick-tock, time's up.