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Tim Kaine: “We came very close. We missed by a very small margin of votes.”

On the recordSeptember 13, 2017
We came very close. We missed by a very small margin of votes.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine discusses the narrow defeat of the public option in Congress.

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