You had eight that followed through, and you had another five, you know, that voted. Voted no, but hoped for yes to reopen the government. So this was. The Democrats held the American people hostage. They openly said that this was for a leverage point. Their leverage point was try to have a victory on election night. And they got nothing out of it. (01:02–01:07)
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