Turner can electrify a room because it's clear whose side she is on.
I've had these words stuck in my head since I first heard them on an episode of The Breakfast Club. On that podcast, the progressive Democrat Nina Turner, a lifelong advocate for Cleveland and current candidate for Congress in Ohio’s 11th District, recounted a story about spending time-solving jigsaw puzzles with her grandchildren.
Let me be frank: Nina Turner is our missing piece. She's the kind of person who won't be able to rest while others struggle—not many people are like that. People, especially young people, are disaffected with politics, and reasonably so. We see the struggles that people face every day, even on campus for students like me. Cleveland is one of the poorest big cities in the entire country.
Some politicians will say that they support certain things but do nothing about them even when they have the chance. The only reason that Turner isn't an original co-sponsor of Medicare for All and a Green New Deal is that she hasn't gotten to Congress—not yet anyway. Even so, she's been fighting for these policies since day one, using every ounce of her fight for good.
In stark comparison, the moment that Turner walked into the building, the atmosphere changed. Every word she spoke was electric. She arrived with a blank notebook, and carefully wrote down the questions from each student. She had no prepared answers written by consultants, yet spoke eloquently and thoughtfully to actually address the problems that we face.