We have a chance for racial solidarity because all of us, unless you`re in the top 1 percent, are really struggling in this economy.

Hopefully folks will look at the good things that I've done over the years, you know, my 10 years in Congress, my 12 years in state legislature, my many years of community organizing for the environment, for police accountability, for criminal justice reform, economic empowerment, trying to fight for small-business people, all these things.

I think that people have been looking at 40 years of flat wages. You know, the reality is you've got folks in diners and hair shops and barber shops all over this country who look at their own lives and think, you know, "My parents did better than I'm doing and my kids might not do as well as I'm doing." And that's because wages have been slashed for so long.

The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision.

I'm particularly good at turnout. So in my district, I had the lowest voter turnout in 2006.

I hope what we can talk about is something that happened, you know, within the last 25 years, the things that are relevant to our country right here, right now, including all people, fighting for the rights of working people, fighting for the rights of people struggling for dignity and respect in our society.

We want to be making clear that if [Donald Trump] tries to deliver on his word, that we will be there to say no.