I fear that the party of Lincoln that led us in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments... is increasingly sounding like the party of Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis.
On the recordSeptember 18, 2019
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Connolly criticizes the Republican party's shift away from Lincoln's values towards voter suppression.
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