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Ruben Gallego: “We over performed, still lost, but over performed in the Red…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 02:10

And sometimes you have to go in places that are uncomfortable. You have to go to these red areas. And one of the things that helped us probably also win is that We over performed, still lost, but over performed in the Red areas of Arizona. But because we actually put ourselves out there and we actually tried to talk to the voters and, and right now the way Democrats operate is we only kind of go to our safe spaces. (02:10–02:16)

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Asserts that Democrats overperformed in traditionally Republican areas of Arizona.

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