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Jon Ossoff: “Thousands died per day.”

Featuring: Jon Ossoff, Democratic | U.S. Senate Georgia

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Jon Ossoff's Rally Speech in Atlanta: A Call to Action Against Corruption and Fear

Published | Video Starts at 04:06

We've been in this fight a long time together. And you'll recall five years ago, we faced a different sort of crisis. It was the deadliest pandemic since 1918. Thousands died per day. Tens of millions were out of work. The lines for the food banks, do you remember? They ran for miles. And Donald Trump was president then, too. (04:06–04:08)

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Asserts that during the pandemic, thousands of people died daily.

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