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Raphael Warnock: “We think it’s so important that we changed the rule in order to get there in order to save the economy. Well, the…”

On the recordDecember 14, 2021
We think it’s so important that we changed the rule in order to get there in order to save the economy. Well, the warning lights on our democracy are blinking right now. And we seem unwilling to respond with the same urgency to protect the democracy that we have to protect the economy.
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Raphael Warnock
Democratic · Georgia
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Senator Warnock draws a parallel between the urgency shown in changing rules to save the economy and the need to protect democracy.

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