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Colin Allred: “Well, you’re right. I’m on the foreign affairs committee, and I have been doing some traveling now coming out of COVID.…”

On the recordDecember 9, 2021
Well, you’re right. I’m on the foreign affairs committee, and I have been doing some traveling now coming out of COVID. And all around the world our allies and our strategic partners are wondering if our democracy is going to hold. And they’re seeing real democratic backsliding, that if it was happening somewhere else, we would describe it as a failed coup and then that the forces of the ousted regime trying to make it so that their next coup would be successful.
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Colin Allred
Democratic · Texas
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msnbc.com

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Colin Allred expresses concerns about the perception of U.S. democracy by international allies and the potential for democratic backsliding.

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