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On the recordApril 27, 2022
It`ll be a mostly new playbook. Because they won`t for example have the vice president of the United States. So the whole play against Mike Pence to get him to declare and announce unilateral unprecedented extra constitutional powers to nullify and vaporize Electoral College votes, just disappearing tens of millions of peoples votes in the country, we won`t see that again but we will see for example efforts to empower GOP legislatures or governors essentially to decide who`s won the election in the state by either reviewing and overturning rulings by boards of elections or packing them turning them from bipartisan bodies in the partisan bodies.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland
Source
msnbc.com

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Raskin explains how the Republican strategy for future elections may change, particularly in light of the January 6 committee's findings.

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