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Ron Johnson: “It's an unsustainable state of affairs where you have such a…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Sen. Ron Johnson on Squawk Box: We need to target relief

Published | Video Starts at 06:09

It's incredibly unfortunate. It's one of the problems that I've certainly perceived. One of the reasons I held a hearing on election irregularities. It's an unsustainable state of affairs where you have such a large majority of the American population...not agreeing that the 2016 result was legitimate. Now you've got on the other side, tens of millions of people not believing this election result was legitimate. Our politics are poisonous today. It's just an unstainable state of affairs. (06:09–06:21)

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Asserts that a large portion of the population did not accept the 2016 election results as legitimate.

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