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Bernie Sanders: “In Mingo county, [Trump] got 74% [of the vote].”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 06:26

And I'll tell you why. We intentionally selected Mingo County. Yeah. Which in West Virginia, a state where Trump got, I think, 70% of the vote. In Mingo county, [Trump] got 74% [of the vote]. You have that one unlock. Yeah. So we kind of wanted to go into a state and a community that was strongly pro Trump and find out what was going on and chat with the people there. (06:26–06:29)

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Asserts that Trump received 74% of the vote in Mingo County, West Virginia.

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