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JOHNSON: “I am smiling because one, yes, Democrats are extremely excited right now. But this moment, we were talking about this in the green room, honestly, the calls that I‘ve been getting beyond the beltway, this really feels like Obama 2008, where my dad was running around saying, 'Fired up and ready to vote.' The coalitions that are already swelling. We all have talked about the black woman. Well, the black men have just been texting me. They had 36,000 people in the call, raised $1.1 million in 3 hours. Latinos are organizing and the AAPI groups are organizing self-organizing. The excitement is here. And when she talks about unity, it is bringing these factions together. I think there‘s so many factions of our party, progressive, moderates, who are like, 'Look, we‘re going to disagree after we get her in office because we know who we have to beat, but we also know the platform that we can run on and folks are confident with her at the helm.'"