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On the recordJanuary 28, 2018
I am so distraught not as a Democrat, not as a South Carolinian, but just as an American today because the Republican Party has let the tenets of our democracy just fall at the wayside.
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Bakari Sellers
Democratic · South Carolina

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Sellers expresses his disappointment in the Republican Party's failure to uphold democratic principles.

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