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Mark Pocan: “We had several hundred people and turned people away at the…”

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

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Why are Republicans Avoiding Town Halls Rep. Mark Pocan on MSNBC

Published | Video Starts at 05:02

He's lying, right? So he's saying a lie that these are crowds that are paid for somehow. Look, the one we had last Saturday in Belmont, Wisconsin, population 1,000, We had several hundred people and turned people away at the door [at the town hall in Belmont, Wisconsin]. We had people looking through the windows, trying to watch the town hall through open windows. This was farmers. This is people who have kids who are getting Medicaid and are afraid it's going to be cut from them. (05:02–05:11)

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