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Sheldon Whitehouse: “How do you have an issue that you win 74 [percent] to 12 [percent] and you don’t ride that horse as hard as you can?”

On the recordJuly 11, 2025
How do you have an issue that you win 74 [percent] to 12 [percent] and you don’t ride that horse as hard as you can?
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island
Source
motherjones.com
Jul 11, 2025

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Whitehouse questions the Democratic strategy on climate action.

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