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As a coach, I love giving pep talks and the rousing locker room speech is rare, but I sense an opportunity and I would appreciate if you indulge me for a moment.
History is watching what happens tomorrow. As the sun sets and the night before a major election to determine the course of democracy throughout the world, the weight of its importance falls to everyone who will step into a voting booth.
Our children and grandchildren will read these histories, they will learn of these events, and they will ask where we stood. They will ask if we stood at all. The fight doesn't end tomorrow, but this stanza will end tomorrow, however it ends. Stand up and be counted.
Stand among those who have fought from the beginning, who pulled us into this fight. Stand shoulder to shoulder with the texters, the phone bankers, the organizers, and those who have lived and died with every day of this fight.
You owe it to them. Candidates don't win by themselves. Only a movement can build a Presidency, and the groundswells don't come from nowhere. Behind every winning candidate tomorrow night will stand an army of dedicated Americans who decided this was their fight, too.
You owe it to them to vote, to use your voice. For every drop of blood spilled by a soldier, by a citizen, by an activist, by a protestor who fought for your right to vote, you owe it to them to vote. For every scar and injury, you owe it to them to vote.
And there will be times tomorrow where it's hard. The lines will be long, there will be people who tell you that your vote doesn't matter. They're wrong. Remember why you're voting. Hold that reason dear and stand and vote. Your vote matters, if to no one else than to yourself.
This is not the end of the fight. It is a great battle, where lines have been drawn and we will test the mettle of our democracy, and there will be losses. We will not win every clash in this battle tomorrow, but if we are going to win the fight, we must stand in line.
We must hold our line, our position, our voice. Any faltering is a chance at failure. Do not be moved from your spot. Stand and demand you be heard. Be weighed down by the history of the moment. Be weighed down by the responsibility to your nation and your future.
Feel that burden and that weight tomorrow when you vote. Feel the eyes of history judging your actions, and stand in the knowledge that you're voting for goodness and decency, for the American promise of a better union. You're voting for the next fight.
We've been through times like this before. It's bleak, and it's scary, and at times it's hopeless. But it is only hopeless if we don't show up.
History belongs to the victors. It's time to make sure we're holding the pen, and if we're not, then we'd better be ready to take it.
History belongs to the victors. It's time to make sure we're holding the pen, and if we're not, then we'd better be ready to take it.
For everyone who comes after us, let's go take it tomorrow.
And thank you for being in this fight.
And thank you for being in this fight.
