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Nancy Mace: “Our lives were put at risk, because the American people, millions of American people were lied to about the election.…”

On the recordJanuary 17, 2021
Our lives were put at risk, because the American people, millions of American people were lied to about the election. Congress had no business, authority or power to overturn the results of the Electoral College and neither did the Vice President, and the President of the United States set the date, the time the location of this event that happened on Capitol Hill and the rhetoric leading up to. It is why all this happened.
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Nancy Mace
Republican · South Carolina

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Nancy Mace discusses the consequences of misinformation regarding the election and the Capitol riot.

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