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Cori Bush: “This was a racist attempt to overturn an election. This was more about trying to disenfranchise the voices of the black…”

On the recordJanuary 12, 2021
This was a racist attempt to overturn an election. This was more about trying to disenfranchise the voices of the black, brown, indigenous people's voices, trying to invalidate our votes, because we turned out in large numbers for this election.
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Cori Bush
Democratic · Missouri
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Cori Bush describes the January 6th insurrection as a racist attempt to undermine the electoral process.

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