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Joy Reid: Mitch blinked. And so I think that he was afraid that we would just procedurally change the rules and once we get used…

On the recordOctober 5, 2021
Mitch blinked. And so I think that he was afraid that we would just procedurally change the rules and once we get used to that, there is a lot of different things that we can do, including on the Freedom to Vote Act, which is, of course, as you’ve covered many times and emphasized, is voting rights is an existential threat to our democracy.
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Joy Reid
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Joy Reid discusses Mitch McConnell's fear of Democrats changing the rules regarding voting rights.

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