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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “I think that those of us and those Democrats who really acknowledge the existential threat and the assault on the right…”

On the recordJune 8, 2021
I think that those of us and those Democrats who really acknowledge the existential threat and the assault on the right to vote -- and really, when I say recognize it, I mean, they`re putting the pieces together between what the Republican Party is doing on the state level, and the assaults on the right to vote in Georgia, Texas, Arizona, really across the state around -- and across the country, and how that is being pieced together federally with this idea that we cannot pass legislation to protect the right to vote because those who are attacking it, won`t vote to protect it.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York
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msnbc.com

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Ocasio-Cortez discusses the urgency of defending voting rights amidst Republican actions that threaten them.

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