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Mike Johnson: “Democrats are in charge of [the state] and they ran a…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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BREAKING NEWS: Speaker Johnson Reacts To Democratic Victory In Virginia Redistricting Referendum

Published | Video Starts at 00:17

Many of you thought that Republicans would not turn out for that ballot initiative vote and they did in big numbers. We almost turned the tide and that would have been a remarkable achievement in that state because the Democrats are in charge of [the state] and they ran a dishonest gambit to try to rig the system. and it's almost a 5050 margin there. So that's a very good sign for us. It proves that we can turn out our votes when we need to. (00:17–00:23)

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Asserts that Democrats in a certain state attempted to rig the system with a dishonest gambit.

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