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Marco Rubio: “Our voter base from the right has long been a working class…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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Future Secretary of State Marco Rubio on China & American Economic Policy

Published | Video Starts at 34:16

The question is, are you optimistic about more union workers embracing a conservative economic vision? And does the right need to reassess its relationship with labor unions? Well, I think the right. So first of all, Our voter base from the right has long been a working class base. And I think that that has only accelerated over the last five years, primarily because of many of the cultural issues from the far left that have really alienated working class voters who basically live life on the basis of common sense and not Loomis. (34:16–34:21)

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Asserts that the right's voter base has traditionally been working class.

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