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On the recordMarch 19, 2021
Those of us who have the honor of representing the people in both houses of Congress, the only reason where there and able to argue about anything, is because somebody voted for us to be there. And so this, this whole cell systemic effort to disenfranchise millions of Americans is a threat to the democracy itself.
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Raphael Warnock
Democratic · Georgia
Source
msnbc.com

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Warnock speaks about the threat to democracy posed by efforts to disenfranchise voters.

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