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Eric Hovde: “Real wages have gone down over the last three and a half…”

Featuring: Eric Hovde, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 09:42

And I'll tell you what people are talking about. They're not talking about the 2020 election. You know what they're talking about? Inflation, how it's crushing them. Real wages have gone down over the last three and a half years. We are in such a precarious economic position today. We have $35 trillion in debt. We have racked up more debt in the last three and a half years than our country's first 230 years. (09:42–09:46)

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