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Rahm Emanuel: “500,000 voters across those seven states have decided the president 2016, 2020, 2024.”

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They haven't walked yet into the Democratic Party building a broad based coalition that allows this election not to be transactional with those voters but transformational. And if you, I also go back, Kristin, three presidential elections, seven states, 500,000 voters across those seven states have decided the president 2016, 2020, 2024. We as Democrats have to decide in all those states from North Carolina to Georgia to Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. (09:50–09:57)

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Asserts that 500,000 voters in seven states have been decisive in presidential elections.

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