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J. D. Vance: “Modern Democrats, elected Democrats, they don't answer to the American people. They answer to far left…”

Featuring: J. D. Vance, Republican | Vice President of the United States | National

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Not to say that I'm perfect or anybody in our administration is perfect, but that is the internal deliberation that we're having every single day. How do we make things better for the people who sent us? Modern Democrats, elected Democrats, they don't answer to the American people. They answer to far left interest groups. Aoc, Talafrico. He wakes up saying, how do I keep the radicals who actually finance my campaign? How do I keep those people off my. That's what he thinks. (17:51–18:00)

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Claims that Democrats are influenced by far-left interest groups rather than the general public.

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