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Elissa Slotkin: “We made the decision to include as original co-sponsors…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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I want to thank my colleagues who are behind me, Senator Padilla, who heads up a lot of our election work, but then Senators Baldwin, Gallego, Kelly, and Klobuchar, who aren't here. Rosen, Warnock. We made the decision to include as original co-sponsors those of us from swing states, from states that have been targeted for our voter rolls. for states that are right now being sued by the Trump administration for our voter rolls, and where President Trump has shown a bit of an oppressive or obsessive focus on our elections in particular, it's an important signal that we're doing this together. (05:27–05:32)

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Asserts that co-sponsors of the bill are from swing states targeted for voter rolls.

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