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Ayanna Pressley: “This is moment of national reckoning. The most marginalized communities in response to that national reckoning…”

On the recordNovember 12, 2020
This is moment of national reckoning. The most marginalized communities in response to that national reckoning decisively elected moving this broad deep coalition of black and brown indigenous, disabled, AAPI, young people to turn the page in this dark chapter in our history to defeat Donald Trump.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts
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msnbc.com

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Pressley emphasizes the importance of marginalized communities in the election against Donald Trump.

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