On the recordApril 16, 2021
Listen, before I’m a Democrat, I’m an American. And, you know, a threat to our democracy, a threat to the way we live is something that we all should have high on our priority list.
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Jaime Harrison
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msnbc.comJaime Harrison: “Listen, before I’m a Democrat, I’m an American. And, you know, a threat to our democracy, a threat to the way we live is…”
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Harrison expresses the importance of prioritizing the threat to democracy over party affiliation.
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