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Adam Schiff: “I am certainly concerned with the use of the big lie to propel these state laws to disenfranchise people, and…”

On the recordJune 27, 2021
I am certainly concerned with the use of the big lie to propel these state laws to disenfranchise people, and particularly people of color, as well to push these laws that would strip independent secretaries of state of their powers and give them over to someone appointed by partisan legislatures. These laws are just all daggers pointed at the heart of the democracy. And anyone peddling the big lie is doing so at great risk to our whole system of checks and balances.
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Adam Schiff
Democratic · California
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msnbc.com

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Adam Schiff expresses concern about the implications of the 'big lie' on voting rights and democracy.

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