John Hickenlooper: “Almost every senator has been threatened one time or another…”

“… and Murkowski and Susan Murkowski, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski are two of the best examples, but there are a lot of others. The, the trick is that, I mean, Almost every senator has been threatened one time or another by Elon Musk or some other billionaire. that if they go against the appointment of one of Trump's cabinet members, they will get a primary opponent who's going to have tens of millions of dollars behind them in a primary.” (50:05–50:12)

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