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Chuck Schumer: “It's become much more polarized in part because of the super…”

Featuring: Chuck Schumer, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Interview with Senator Chuck Schumer on Brooklyn, Politics, and Key Issues

Published | Video Starts at 06:00

How do you feel in like your very, very long political career? How has it changed? Has politics become nastier? I feel that's the general impression. Absolutely. It's become much more polarized in part because of the super PACs. Yeah, there aren't very middle of the road people who do a super pac. A few on the far left, but mostly on the far right. And they are nasty. (06:00–06:05)

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Asserts that political polarization has increased due to the influence of super PACs.

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