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John Fetterman: “If you want to show ID, that's not Jim Crow.”

Featuring: John Fetterman, Democratic | U.S. Senate Pennsylvania

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Published | Video Starts at 1:07:26

And that's why I always refuse, you know, and this idea about autocracy and those things, you know, you want an autocracy is That's Iran voter ID, Jim Crow 2.0. Really? Yeah. That's. That's another thing. Like, I've pushed back, too. It's like, If you want to show ID, that's not Jim Crow. That's not, you know, it's because that, that diminishes the, the sin of, like, true Jim. Jim Crow was. It's like, you know, you just trivialize. (1:07:26–1:07:30)

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Asserts that requiring ID for voting is not equivalent to Jim Crow laws.

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