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Stephanie Murphy: “I think that the American people should take heart in the fact that despite the fact that if this document did exist…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 2022
I think that the American people should take heart in the fact that despite the fact that if this document did exist, that you know, our institutions worked as they should have, and despite the fact that there might have been violence and an effort to overturn the outcome of an election, we returned that evening on January 6th and certified the election as the voters intended us to do so.

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Murphy discusses the importance of institutional integrity in the face of attempts to overturn the election results.

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