WATCH: Shontel Brown Talk About The Importance of Voting

Shontel Brown discusses on Paint The Polls Black that it&#039;s important for to take our power back and vote and encourage young people.

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00:00I mean, we heard Donald Trump say himself,

00:03if you vote this time, you'll never have to vote again.

00:06Now, I don't know about y'all,

00:08but that is very, very concerning for me.

00:12And because I know that when it comes to power

00:17in this country, that whether you are black, white,

00:20rich, poor, gay, straight, Democrat, Republican,

00:24everybody gets one vote.

00:26So we need to make sure that we are taking this power back

00:30and that we are using it

00:31and that we're not being selfish in that

00:34and that we're spreading the power

00:35and empowering young people, empowering our community

00:39to make sure that they understand the power that they hold

00:42because this election is truly going to be

00:45the most consequential of our life.

00:47These people aren't playing games.

00:49One of the things that I respect

00:51is that they are relentless about their pursuit of power.

00:53We have to vote from the top of the ticket to the bottom

00:56because every position matters in this game called politics.

01:03If we win the presidency,

01:04but we don't have a House or a Senate

01:06to support that presidency,

01:08then we're gonna be in big trouble.

01:09So we have to make sure that we are crystal clear

01:12about what's at stake and what we need to do

01:15to preserve this fragile thing called democracy.