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Mike Rounds: “Clearly there were more who were opposed to [Betsy DeVos].”

Featuring: Mike Rounds, Republican | U.S. Senate South Dakota

Interview with South Dakota Senator on Trump Administration's Early Days and Key Issues

Published February 14, 2017 | Video Starts at 05:05

What are you hearing from constituents on our new Secretary of Education? We did have people on both sides of the issue make contact, but Clearly there were more who were opposed to [Betsy DeVos]. her. But what we found in going back through a lot of the comments and a lot of it was organized type contacts that we received, but they were pretty substantively the same with a lot of the folks who wrote in personally. (05:05–05:08)

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Asserts that more people were opposed to Betsy DeVos's confirmation than supported it.

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