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Bob Casey Jr.: “We had a record turnout, the highest presidential turnout in…”

Featuring: Bob Casey Jr., Democratic | Former U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey on "The Takeout" | January 14, 2024

Published January 14, 2024 | Video Starts at 36:33

Trump or Biden. Exactly. And it was insulting, it was erroneous. It was all based upon a lie. There was nothing in Pennsylvania that was inappropriate about that election. We had a record turnout, the highest presidential turnout in the history of our state. A dramatic increase in voting from 2016 to 2020. I think it was more than an 800,000 vote increase in the middle of a pandemic because we had, thankfully, a mail in ballot law in effect. (36:33–36:40)

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Asserts that the 2020 presidential election had the highest turnout in Pennsylvania's history.

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“I missed 13 days of work and was voting on, I think, the 13th day.”
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