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welcome to amped up this is your host Ryan Knight and our guest today is Princess Blanding.

Princess Blanding is an independent candidate running for Governor of Virginia under the newly formed Liberation Party.

Princess, welcome to Amped Up.

Thank you so much for having me.

Thank you for being here.

It's a joy to have you.

And thank you for taking the time off the campaign trail to come and talk to us today.

Your video last week of you at that debate kind of lit the movement on fire, so I can't wait to talk to you about that but before we

get into that I first want to give you an opportunity to kind of introduce

yourself to my audience and introduce yourself to people who maybe aren't familiar with your campaign.

You are running for a governor under the newly formed Liberation Party in Virginia.

What is the Liberation Party all about and what policies are you running on to deliver

much needed results for everyday Virginians?

Absolutely.

So in the nutshell, I am the chair of the Liberation Party which is a new political party and we believe that liberation is a human right not a privilege and when we say that we mean for example, you know housing for all food sovereignty med

medicare excuse me medicare for all those are just basic necessities for

survival for all of us and we feel that those should be treated as human rights and not a privilege.

And do you maybe want to talk a little bit and share with us a little bit about your political

journey particularly what experiences led you to realize that our two-party

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