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On the recordJune 14, 2021
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 highlights bipartisan opposition to dark money in politics.

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