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Mary Gay Scanlon: “Impeachment is not about undoing an election. Elections are for, as the speaker suggested earlier today, that when you…”

On the recordDecember 4, 2019
Impeachment is not about undoing an election. Elections are for, as the speaker suggested earlier today, that when you disagree with someone's morals, where you disagree with their qualifications, or you disagree with their policies, this isn't about any of that. This is about the fact that the current president appears to be undermining our constitution through corruption.
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Mary Gay Scanlon
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Scanlon defends the impeachment process, stating it is about upholding the Constitution rather than political disagreements.

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