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Democrat Cait Conley beats Mike Lawler in New York's 17th district: "This was a patriotic fight"

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Now playing on All Clips Democrat Cait Conley beats Mike Lawler in New York's 17th district: "This was a patriotic fight" Cait Conley129 plays Watch on Instagram · Transcript & source

Cait Conley speaks to supporters on election night in NY-17. "For this moment, we did it," she says, adding that the movement started almost two years ago because the district and the country "deserved better." She says "this wasn't a partisan fight, this was a patriotic fight."

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Who
Cait Conley
Where
rally - election night, NY-17 victory speech
Original footage
News 12 · watch the full video from this moment
Length
54 seconds, unedited within the cut
Plays
129 on Instagram
Read the transcript

But for this moment, for this moment, we did it. Come on! Two years ago, almost we started this movement because we knew that this district and our country deserved better. We started this because we knew that America, the land of promise and opportunity, was on the wrong path. But we knew if we came together, if we brought people together, that we could fix it. And tonight we showed that this fight, this wasn't a partisan fight, this was a patriotic fight.

Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.

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