We make each other stronger. Can we agree to that?
When it's working, but it's not working.
We can make it work. We can accomplish that future I saw when we first got married. It was us, as partners, real partners. Let's run together again. Not just as husband and wife.
[stunned] You don't mean...
Yes.
I'm worried about you, Claire. You're not making any sense. You've let your ego get in the way...
I've always been your running mate. You just didn't want to see it.
As my vice president? Jesus, do you have any idea...
I've put a lot of thought into this.
You can't have thought it through! Because if you did, you have thought of a million...
She has no experience, she's never run for anything, no children, nepotism, arrogance. I've run through them all. You can't win without me.
I would rather have a spineless Donald Blythe as my vice president than a woman who has never held elected office.
You're losing to a woman who's never held elected office.
You don't deserve it. You have no idea what it means to have nothing. You don't value what we have achieved! I have had to fight for everything my entire life! [gets the picture of his father with a Klansman] Do you know why I kept this? Do you know why? Because it was the one time I was proud of my father. Because this man, in this moment, as despicable as it was, is fighting to survive! He is doing whatever it took! And so will I, with or without you. So no, I will not have this conversation. I refuse to indulge you any further. You have to let this go.
I can be a part of your campaign, or I can end it. I'll do whatever it take, too. Just like your father. But I will not let this go.
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