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Adrian Fontes: “There's an emergent set of rhetoric out there... bemoaning…”

Featuring: Adrian Fontes, Democratic | Secretary of State of Arizona

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A Conversation with Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes

Published | Video Starts at 02:03

I think we have seen a series of states moving towards changing rules mid game, which I think is one of the biggest strengths of American democracy, is that it's predictable. We have rules, there's due process. And I think that There's an emergent set of rhetoric out there... bemoaning democracy itself. to a degree, and we've heard it more and more in the mainstream, bemoaning democracy itself, talking about certain groups of people shouldn't be voting and really the notion of … (02:03–02:16)

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Asserts that there is increasing rhetoric against democracy.

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