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On the recordDecember 20, 2020
It is enormously dangerous. Look, there's going to be -- whether he runs again or he doesn't, there is going to be someone running in the Trump lane, someone running in the xenophobic populist, I don't care about democracy lane. And this President has now made that somehow normal, and you can expect others to propose the same kind of cheating in elections.
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Adam Schiff
Democratic · California

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Adam Schiff warns about the normalization of Trump's undemocratic behavior and its potential influence on future elections.

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