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On the recordMay 21, 2021
This was an all-out attempted coup. Mike Pence was taken out of the senate chamber something like 60 seconds before these terrorists, insurrectionists got into the Senate chamber. There are things that happened that day that if 60 seconds went differently, if a different door was opened, if a chair wasn`t barricaded in a certain way, we could have a completely different reality right now.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York
Source
msnbc.com

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Ocasio-Cortez describes the events of January 6th as an attempted coup and reflects on how different actions could have changed the outcome.

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