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Joe Biden: “If anything's going to happen, it has to happen instantaneously, to sort of capitalize in a very perverse way of using…”

On the recordMarch 22, 2021
If anything's going to happen, it has to happen instantaneously, to sort of capitalize in a very perverse way of using that word on this tragedy that's happening twice now in a week.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the urgency of legislative action on gun control following recent mass shootings.

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