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Gavin Newsom: “We weren't focusing on America, quote, unquote. First in…”

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Newsom STICKS DAGGER In Trump With NEWS HE FEARED MOST!

Published | Video Starts at 34:12

… in the hard land and reinvest in factories and industries, in communities that have been completely torn asunder because of the WTO and nafta where both parties were complicit and We weren't focusing on America, quote, unquote. First in that respect, a progressive tax policy that he argued for, where he wanted to see increase in corporate taxes, increase the tax on the richest 1%. as opposed to what the big beautiful betrayal did in the bill. And so I think in that respect, that's very much aligned with aspects of where Bernie Sanders is and the populism and that. (34:12–34:24)

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Asserts that [Steve Bannon] argued for a progressive tax policy with increased corporate taxes and taxes on the richest 1%.

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