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Graham Platner: “We need to get rid of the structural impediments that…”

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

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Graham Platner Speaks to PACKED Augusta Crowd

Published | Video Starts at 37:20

Better to block the transformational change that. That you are prescribing. Well, one of the things we need to do is We need to get rid of the structural impediments that allowed [Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema] to do that in the first place. One of those being the three fifths filibuster. The filibuster has been used for a very long time as a weapon against policy that is good for the working class of this country. Country. (37:20–37:30)

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Asserts the need to eliminate the three-fifths filibuster to remove structural impediments in the Senate.

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