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Mike Johnson: “We have people running for Congress on the Democrat side and…”

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

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Johnson campaigns for LePage in Maine

Published | Video Starts at 00:48

A guy who wants socialist takeover of the government and health care and all these other provisions. A guy who would get in lockstep with the dsa. And they have published their platform. We have people running for Congress on the Democrat side and winning primaries and now running in the general election who want to abolish the border. They want to abolish all prisons in America. They want to abolish the U.S. senate. They want to defund the Department of War. They want one unicameral body, the House, to run everything. (00:48–00:56)

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