On election night, NC-11 candidate Jamie Ager tells supporters "we won" and says his campaign started a movement in western North Carolina called the Mountain Democrats. He says he won't be distracted by what people in Washington, DC tell them to do, and promises to fight for the community every single day.
The receipt
- Who
- Jamie Ager
- Where
- rally - election night, Asheville, North Carolina
- Original footage
- WLOS News 13 · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 51 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 111 on Instagram
Read the transcript
And then I got the idea that actually we could win this thing. And guess what? We won! And we started a movement here in Western North Carolina and that movement's called the Mountain Democrats. A lot of people lost trust in the Democratic Party, in national politics, And I'll tell you one thing, we won't be distracted by what the people in Washington, DC tell us what to do here in western North Carolina. I'm going to work so hard to represent western North Carolina in the Congress, and we're going to fight for this community every single day.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.