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Graham Platner: “We need to use political power to claw that stuff back.”

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 51:22

We're talking about going after the people who used their wealth and power to change policies in the political system to then consolidate more wealth and power. They cheated. Yeah. And We need to use political power to claw that stuff back. So I think that by becoming the party of representing working folks, we really would be becoming the party of like really representing the vast majority of Americans. (51:22–51:26)

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Asserts the need to use political power to reclaim wealth from those who have consolidated it unfairly.

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