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23 Oct, 5 tweets, 10 min read
WATCH: @mikeallen, @margarettalev & @StefWKight host a conversation on the upcoming election, featuring @RepKarenBass, @VotoLatino President @MariaTeresa1 and @HooverInst Fellow and former national security adviser H.R. McMaster.
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@mikeallen @margarettalev @StefWKight @RepKarenBass @votolatino @MariaTeresa1 @HooverInst .@VotoLatino President @MariaTeresa1: We're encouraging people to go vote in person. We're seeing a surge in Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Arizona...it's a concerted effort by the civil rights organizations to ensure that people are confident in their vote.
@mikeallen @margarettalev @StefWKight @RepKarenBass @votolatino @MariaTeresa1 @HooverInst .@MariaTeresa1 on states Latino voters are likely to have big impact: "We have registered over 567,000 new voters in 6 key battleground states ... these states have become a battleground for the most part: Arizona, Texas, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia [and] Florida."
@mikeallen @margarettalev @StefWKight @RepKarenBass @votolatino @MariaTeresa1 @HooverInst .@RepKarenBass on priorities the Congressional Black Caucus has for a Biden admin: "I will tell you that our number one, number two and number three priority is COVID. It absolutely has to be because the impact on the African-American population has been absolutely devastating."
@mikeallen @margarettalev @StefWKight @RepKarenBass @votolatino @MariaTeresa1 @HooverInst .@RepKarenBass: "I'm really worried that the President of the United States is going to agitate violence during and after the election."

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