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Jamie Raskin: “They wanted that because in a contingent election, we don’t vote one member, one vote. We vote one state one vote and…”

On the recordJuly 1, 2021
They wanted that because in a contingent election, we don’t vote one member, one vote. We vote one state one vote and the GOP had 27 states in the bag at that point.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland
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msnbc.com

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Raskin explains the implications of a contingent election and how it could have benefited the GOP.

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