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On the recordJune 14, 2021
I’m confident that we will have them. The reason I’m confident that we will have them is what you just quoted from Jane Mayer’s expose which we know from polling and that is that a conservative tea partier hates special interests, anonymous dark money corrupting American politics, just as much as a Bernie Bro does.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island
Source
msnbc.com

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Whitehouse expresses confidence in bipartisan support against dark money in politics.

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