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Graham Platner: “In the 1990s in the Clinton administration...the party sold…”

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

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Graham Platner Is Staying in the Race | The New Yorker Radio Hour

Published | Video Starts at 16:26

Other people can disagree. The lesson that was learned was that, like, oh, the money matters and we do have to kind of lean into this government's bad. We should lean into In the 1990s in the Clinton administration...the party sold out organized labor. and the party in many ways sold out that kind of, that. The movement side. Did you feel that Barack Obama, for example, was in the same camp as Bill Clinton? (16:26–16:57)

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Asserts that the Democratic Party abandoned organized labor during the Clinton administration in the 1990s.

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