And the point that I'm making here, whether it's in my speeches that I've been giving at rallies across Georgia or this video we put out today, is we have to recognize that political corruption in the United States is systemic. Yes, The Trump administration has taken overt, brazen corruption to a whole new level. and there has to be accountability for that. But in some ways, in my view, Trump's rise is itself a symptom of the deeper systemic failure, especially since Citizens United, which just opened the floodgates to secret spending. (35:19–35:27)
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