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Alex Wagner

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

the government, then it's going to be a hell of a lot harder to do those things.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

And so I think restoring that trust is incredibly important.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

And getting that money out of our politics is incredibly important for the economy as well, because people understand... Can every Iowa voter explain the difference between a 527 or a C4?

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

No, of course not.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

But do people understand that there is a direct connection between how

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

rigged the economy is and how corrupted our politics have become by these super PACs and billionaires and dark money.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

Like, yeah, absolutely.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

Everybody gets that.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

You know, Donald Trump was not wrong when he said that we need to drain the swamp.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

The problem is that he's not draining the swamp at all.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

If anything, he's like floating in it.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

Just building in these swamps.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

Totally.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

Totally.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

Like Pete Hegsath in there and a bunch of other douchebags.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

I mean, look, so first of all, there was no federal independent expenditure of that organization at all.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

Right.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

So it's a complete apples and oranges situation.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

But I would tell you, I think like a lot of young voters of our generation, I'm going to say our generation here, I think that concern about money and politics has been something that we've seen for a long time.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

And part of that, I think, is growing up in the post-Citizens United era, going back to 2010.