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Summer Lee: “Nobody from the DNC tapped me and said, Summer, you should…”

Featuring: Summer Lee, Democratic | U.S. House Pennsylvania, District 12

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Published | Video Starts at 22:19

The Democratic Party of South Carolina is not the Democratic Party of, you know, Iowa. That's just objectively true. The dnc, as far as, I don't know the dnc, Nobody from the DNC tapped me and said, Summer, you should run for Congress. or summer, you shouldn't run for Congress. Right? Where good people exist and their communities are organized, you have the power to shape what not just the Democratic or the Republican Parties look like, but the government itself. (22:19–22:23)

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Asserts that the DNC did not directly influence her decision to run for Congress.

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