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Jamie Raskin: “In fact, to try to stop the counting of electoral college votes in a presidential election he had lost. Absolutely…”

On the recordJuly 11, 2022
In fact, to try to stop the counting of electoral college votes in a presidential election he had lost. Absolutely unprecedented, nothing like that had ever happened before.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Raskin emphasizes the unprecedented nature of Trump's actions related to the electoral college on January 6th.

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