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Hi, I'm Elizabeth Neumann.

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I am first and foremost a
follower of Jesus Christ.

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I'm a wife and a proud mom.

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I voted for Trump in 2016 primarily
because of the pro-life issue.

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I served in the Trump administration
at the Department of Homeland Security,

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and became the Assistant Secretary for
Counterterrorism and Threat Prevention.

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In my role as Assistant Secretary
for Counter Terrorism, we looked at

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emerging threats including the growing
threat from domestic terrorists.

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And over the period of 2017 to
2018, we started to see that rise

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of the white supremacist agenda.

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I and my leadership at the Department
of Homeland Security were very

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clear that we found the ideology
behind white nationalism, white

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supremacy, to be a growing threat.

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A very common refrain that I was
asked was: "does the president's

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rhetoric make your job harder?"

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And the answer is yes.

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The president's actions and his
language are in fact racist.

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Things like "there were good people
on both sides," or "send them

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back to where they came from."

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Those words gave permission to white
supremacists to think that what

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they were doing was permissible.

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And I do think that the president's
divisive language is indirectly

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tied to some of the attacks that
we have seen in the last two years.

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The reason government is supposed
to exist is to plan and prepare

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for external threats, like
we're seeing today with COVID.

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There were plans put in place
for a pandemic for 15 years.

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When we started to see that a pandemic
was on its way to our shores, in

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January, any number of experts told me
we need to be executing on these plans.

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But from January, until March 11th, what
you saw instead was a number of good

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public servants attempting to do their job
and the president telling them to stop,

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because he didn't want
the economy to tank,

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and he didn't want a
distraction from his campaign.

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I'm sorry, Mr.

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President, you were hired to
handle America's worst day

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and you've absolutely failed.

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I do not think that we can afford
four more years of President Trump.

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We are less safe today
because of his leadership.

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We will continue to be less safe
as long as he is in control.

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And this year I'll be
voting for Joe Biden.