-How are you, Emily? -I'm great. How are you?
-I'm really good. I'm very happy to have you here.
-So happy to be here. -You have many accomplishments.
I don't know if this counts as an accomplishment --
You have a huge social media following.
-I think that -- -I do. I think it does, yeah.
I didn't mean to undersell it, but 25 million followers.
We have less on our show page. -Oh, yeah.
-And don't take this the wrong way.
I feel like my followers are --
-They interact more. -They're more committed.
Yeah. -They interact more.
-So, we had a challenge backstage.
We each took a selfie...
-Yeah. -...and posted it.
And we're just gonna check in to see how many likes we each have.
So, here to take a look.
There's one we took, very nice, and I'm up to 499.
What do you got? -I've got 90,000.
-90,000. Okay. [ Laughter ]
So, you might have a Russian bot problem.
[ Laughter ] -Oh, that's --
Definitely. They're coming for me.
-They're coming for you. -They're coming for me.
-So, you have been engaged with politics for a very long time.
-You're a vocal Bernie supporter.
You have your own clothing line,
and you have combined the two in a way --
I don't think a lot of people in the past have done this
for the politicians that they love.
-This is true. -You have a lot of Bernie wear.
-That's in 2016. -That's 2016.
You were an early adopter. -Yes. Yeah.
[ Cheers and applause ] In your home state, actually.
-I wanted to ask, 'cause you did --
You appeared at a New Hampshire rally for Bernie.
-Yes. So, as you can see, it was snowing quite heavily.
I'm a California girl,
so it was a little bit of a shock to the system.
Getting this photo was a real commitment.
I was wearing, basically, a giant fur jacket,
or down jacket.
And yeah, it was pretty -- It was interesting.
It was different, and there were a lot,
a lot of people out for Bernie,
even in 2016, even in the show.
-You do Bernie events.
Bernie must be happy that you have --
Here's one that I like here. Rage Against the Machine.
There's a Bernie there. -Yep.
I wear Bernie's face a lot. -You wear Bernie's face a lot.
-Has Bernie ever returned the favor?
Has he ever walked around with a Emily sweater?
-No, but I actually would like you to bring that up to him.
-Yeah. -If you could do me a favor?
-I mean, I feel like, if he walked out
in a big old sweater that said Emily on it,
that would be a lot of fun. -I mean, I would die.
-You would die. -I would f-- faint.
He's like, Paul McCartney
or, like, some kind of classic heartthrob for me,
but he's an older Jewish man. -Yeah.
-But, you know, whatever works. -Whatever works, yeah.
Your support of him, which was --
I believe you first maybe announced on social media --
led to a hashtag that I don't think anybody
could have predicted when they first saw Bernie Sanders.
The hashtag was, I believe, #hotgirlsforbernie.
-That's correct.
[ Laughter ]
-This was not something you started, right?
-No. No.
-You sort of were the catalyst for it.
-I think it was sort of a response to this picture.
-Okay. So here's this picture again.
-Because I posted my endorsement,
my video, and then I posted this,
and you know, a lot of people were like,
"Oh, you know, pretty girl,
like, stay out of politics, stay in your lane,"
which I don't agree with.
I think we're all citizens.
We should all be talking about politics.
-Yep. [ Cheers and applause ]
I agree with that. -Thank you.
And, you know, I think it's a myth --
the Bernie bro myth,
and I think that a lot of Bernie supporters
were like, "Hey, we need to cancel this
Bernie bro, you know, hashtag
with something new and different,"
and sort of in response to people's comments about,
"Oh, stick to your lane," whatever,
#hotgirlsforbernie was born,
and now there's a filter on Instagram
so you all can be hot girls for Bernie, too.
-What does the filter do? -Okay.
So it says one cheek, "Hot Girls For"
and then the other one, it says "Bernie Sanders."
Please put that on tonight.
-Okay, well -- -Please.
-There you go.
You're a hot girl for Bernie Sanders.
-Well, now -- I'll do anything it takes
to get more than these 499 likes.
-Yeah, it's competition now. -By the way,
it really hurt my feelings that I said I had 499,
and then you said 90,000,
which means you just rounded to the nearest thousand,
and I didn't even have the confidence
to round up to 500. [ Laughter ]
That's the difference of the game.
-You kind of set yourself up for this one.
-I'm gonna be totally honest with you.
-I set myself up for failure.
You know, obviously,
we're filming this before the results tonight.
-Yeah.
-And we don't know how it's going to go.
You now having supported Bernie Sanders
through two elections... -Yeah.
-...even if he's not the nominee, you must feel good
about how he has moved the party.
There are certain things --
outliers that Bernie talked about four years ago
that are now considered
a little bit more centrist to the party.
-Would you take that as a victory,
if he is not the nominee?
-I mean, I think that there's so much --
I'm actually doing an event tomorrow with a bunch of women.
I'm moderating a conversation
with a bunch of women who work on the Bernie campaign,
and one of the things that we talked about --
because we obviously don't know
what it's going to look like tonight --
is that no one thought that,
you know, making the party more left,
having Bernie become the nominee would be easy,
and I think, at one point,
everyone sort of thought that was going to be true,
and we're still working.
We're still doing it, and his politics and ideas are
so much larger than just him.
So, yeah.
I do think that in the future, even if it's not Bernie,
there is going to be an incredible movement
that's been organized, and that's really exciting.