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James Talarico: “The billionaires who run this political system, who run this…”

Featuring: James Talarico, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 50

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1 Texas Democrat vs 20 Undecided Voters | Surrounded

Published | Video Starts at 1:08:57

It's top versus bottom. Hi. What's your name? Krista. Krista, spending eight years in the middle of this broken political system, I've come to realize that the biggest divide is between The billionaires who run this political system, who run this economy, who increasingly run this whole country versus the rest of us. whether we're Democrats or Republicans, progressives or conservatives. And I've seen how those billionaires pit us against each other with their algorithms, with their cable news networks. (1:08:57–1:09:05)

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Asserts that billionaires control the political system, economy, and country.

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