Cori Bush: “Today Black people make up 20 percent of our country's Muslim population and are facing surveillance and…”

On August 4th, St. Louis will do the same.

I put myself on the line with that. But history recorded that, and now we can look back and say, maybe if we had those things right now, we wouldn’t be looking at a president who some people voted for because of the price of eggs.

This cycle, the momentum met me. The community asked me to run. The community came to me and said, ‘Cori, where is our fighter?’

Did I call them fascists? No. There was a rise in fascism, starting with the Trump administration.