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Kirsten Gillibrand: “He ran on middle class tax cuts and he ran on paid leave.”

Featuring: Kirsten Gillibrand, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Interview with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on Trump's Policies, Democratic Strategies, and U.S.-Israel Relations

Published | Video Starts at 02:15

But I'm always waiting for that tip to happen and it just doesn't seem to happen. Well, you know, interestingly, when, when he first ran last time, he ran on a lot of Democratic ideas, like He ran on middle class tax cuts and he ran on paid leave. He was much more of a Democrat then, and I feel like he got Shut down on a lot of the bipartisan things he wanted to do in his first presidency by the Republicans around him. (02:15–02:21)

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Asserts that [Trump] campaigned on middle class tax cuts and paid leave.

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