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Yvette Clarke: I walk with that trauma every day. Every single day.

On the recordOctober 2, 2019
I walk with that trauma every day. Every single day.
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Yvette Clarke
Democratic · New York

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Yvette Clarke expresses the ongoing trauma from gun violence affecting her and her colleagues.

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