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Tim Kaine: “The turnout that we had last night was about 10% higher than…”

Featuring: Tim Kaine, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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Tim Kaine Celebrates High Voter Turnout In Virginia's Recent Election

Published | Video Starts at 06:17

And my friend Jay Jones, who I've known since he was 11 years old, was elected to be Virginia's first African American attorney general. They also saw a big increase in turnout. The turnout that we had last night was about 10% higher than the turnout that we saw in 2021. So the point that I just wanted to make by standing here is my colleagues have talked about the variety of threats there may be to ballot access, whether it's … (06:17–06:24)

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