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Ruben Gallego: “We need to bring in more baseload energy, and that's going…”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

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Ruben Gallego, Kari Lake face off in Arizona Senate debate

Published | Video Starts at 48:12

Environment plus energy. Well, look, we have to first accept that climate change is happening. And so we prepared by that, by actually having a very resilient grid. We need to bring in more baseload energy, and that's going to have to be nuclear. That's the quickest thing we could do to make sure that we could continue the growth that we have in Arizona with the manufacturing and residential, to make sure that we can meet that. (48:12–48:17)

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Asserts that nuclear energy is necessary to meet Arizona's energy needs.

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