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The good news is that when we started this campaign we said we were going to do something different. We said we weren't going to take PAC money. We weren't going to take money from federal lobbyists. Because I wanted to be accountable to you. And there were all kinds of people who said well he can't, you know, he's not going to be able to compete against all those big money interests in Washington. But you know what they didn't understand? They didn't understand you. They didn't understand that you were tired of a politics that was all about turning each other down. You wanted a politics that was about lifting each other up. They didn't understand. They didn't understand that you were going to finance my campaign with $25 contributions and $50 contributions. They didn't understand that you would help build the best political organization out there. That could compete with anybody no matter how many big endorsements the other candidates got, we had the people on our side. And so I'm here to say to you, all of my friends in labor, that you have funded my campaign. I am accountable to you. Those lobbyists they have not funded my campaign. They will not run our White House and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I'm President of the United States of America. And because you have somebody who's listened to you, who's been working.