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Chuck Schumer: “Yes, I thought Sheldon Whitehouse's presentation was so powerful. What it showed was for 30 years, there's been a group…”

On the recordOctober 13, 2020
Yes, I thought Sheldon Whitehouse's presentation was so powerful. What it showed was for 30 years, there's been a group of hard-right oligarchs who knew that even if they control the elected branches of government, the presidency, the House, and Senate, they couldn't get what they wanted, because they were so far over so far to the right from the average American, even the average Republican.
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York
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msnbc.com

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Chuck Schumer discusses the influence of hard-right oligarchs on the judicial process and their inability to align with average Americans.

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