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Bernie Sanders: “$50 million in one state, the state of Michigan.”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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We cannot allow billionaire super PACs to destroy American democracy.

Published | Video Starts at 08:00

Unbelievably, and I want you to please hear, AIPAC and allied billionaire funded super PACs have already spent, already spent nearly $50 million to defeat Abdul in the Democratic Senate primary. $50 million in one state, the state of Michigan. And there is still three weeks left to go. And that, it turns out, is almost 15 times all of the spending in support of Abdul. (08:00–08:05)

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