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John Hickenlooper: “The real key to winning Republican support is to keep making…”

Featuring: John Hickenlooper, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Colorado

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Published | Video Starts at 51:16

We'll get 12 or 15 Republicans enough so that they feel safety in numbers, and then we'll get a bunch of Democrats and, and we'll, we'll push back. We're certainly, you know, filibustering, slowing things down every way we can. I guess the, The real key to winning Republican support is to keep making sure their folks back home hear about these budget cuts to Medicaid, Medicare. They're talking about Social Security, you know, all these firings and really eviscerating how government's going to work. I mean, when you lay off the kind of people they've laid, they've laid off in Social Security, it's hard to. (51:16–51:26)

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Asserts that informing constituents about budget cuts to Medicaid and Medicare is key to gaining Republican support.

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