'Fight Of Our Lives': Jamie Raskin Describes Path Forward Under Trump
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"What else can we do? This is not a game of volleyball or badminton where we're going to quit the game or something," the Maryland lawmaker said.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) offered a frank message about the path forward for Democrats in the wake of their loss to President-elect Donald Trump.
The prominent lawmaker shared his two cents after MSNBC’s Chris Hayes asked him on Wednesday what action Democrats will take as Trump makes “very obvious noises and very obvious actual decisions designed to subvert the American rule of law.”
“Look, we lost an election by around 3 million votes,” Raskin said. “Joe Biden had beaten Donald Trump four years before that by more than 7 million votes. So obviously, the country is closely divided.”
“So we’re going to alter some tactics and strategies and figure out how the right has captured a lot of the social media, and I think we have been outflanked there,” he said.
He said he stands by the “massive ground game” strategy Democrats deployed for this year’s election, but “there are clearly some changes that need to be made.”
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The Vermont independent noted he'll be 89 at the end of his upcoming Senate term: "You can do the figuring."
"One new brace for my wrist and some ice for my arm and it’ll heal just fine," the South Carolina Republican said.
“It's a very disturbing sort of thing to be living in a place where something so horrific could happen, and we have no idea why or how, or if it could ever happen again,” said Amy Fletcher, Maggie Long's theater teacher.
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