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Graham Platner: “I think that's why we need to...change the political will of…”

Featuring: Graham Platner, Populist, Progressive | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Maine

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Graham Platner SLAMS Trump, Lays Out Democrats' Strategy for the Midterms

Published | Video Starts at 39:29

And then everyone's gonna hate us and say that we are tied to corporate interests. You know, it's like, it's a hard. Totally. But I also think that that's why. I'll just be entirely upfront. I mean, I think that's why we need to...change the political will of the Democratic Party...people should have gone to prison. To go a little bit further, to. To actually go after. I mean, people should have gone to prison. I mean, Iceland put people in prison. And I understand that. (39:29–39:44)

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Asserts that the Democratic Party needs to change its political will and that people responsible for the financial crisis should have been imprisoned.

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