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Ben Wikler: “[Nancy Pelosi] was the first person to call for all her…”

Featuring: Ben Wikler, Democratic | Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 04:46

And I was meeting with her regularly with a group of allies and partners in the fight against Affordable Care act repeal. She [Nancy Pelosi] was the first person to call for all her members to do protests in their districts in December of 2016 to stop ACA repeal. And there was this one day when the vote was going to go through, it was going to go through the House. The Republicans claimed they had the votes. (04:46–04:57)

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Asserts that Nancy Pelosi initiated protests against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act in December 2016.

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