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Mark Pocan: “We couldn't even do the speaker vote again without having to…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Rep. Mark Pocan Talks Democratic Strategy & Wisconsin Pizza

Published | Video Starts at 08:23

The problem is the Republican caucus is, you know, a mess, a hot mess at best. And because of that, they have a hard time passing anything. We couldn't even do the speaker vote again without having to have a long pause while they went and had Donald Trump call people. and twisting arms and whatever else they gave away in order to do it. So, you know, I understand why they have to do one big bill with everything important … (08:23–08:30)

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Asserts that Donald Trump had to intervene in the speaker vote.

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