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Tim Kaine: Disenfranchisement isn't that you get outvoted up all the other states that you -- in the national popular vote, you…

On the recordJanuary 4, 2021
Disenfranchisement isn't that you get outvoted up all the other states that you -- in the national popular vote, you lose by seven or eight million votes. That just means you pick the loser. You pick the wrong guy.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Kaine clarifies what he believes true disenfranchisement is, contrasting it with the situation of losing an election.

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