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On the recordMarch 6, 2025
It doesn’t win elections to speak to just the base of the party.… if it did, Kamala Harris would be president.
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Elissa Slotkin
Democratic · Michigan

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Slotkin argues that appealing only to the party's base is ineffective in elections.

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