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Flanagan: Tafoya hasn't broken with Trump on tariffs, ICE, health care or food aid

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Peggy Flanagan, running for U.S. Senate in Minnesota, speaks at the MPR News debate against Michele Tafoya. Flanagan says Tafoya has not differed with Donald Trump on tariffs, trade wars, ICE, health care cuts or food assistance cuts, and that 170,000 Minnesotans will lose access to health care. She also says Tafoya called January 6 insurrectionists "really good people" and would be "a vote for Donald Trump."

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Who
Peggy Flanagan
Where
other - MPR News Minnesota U.S. Senate debate
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39 seconds, unedited within the cut
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he has not differed with him on the tariffs, on the trade wars, on the war on Iran until 216 days in, on ice, on cuts to health care and taking food assistance from the from people on the 170 ,000 Minnesotans who are going to lose access to their healthcare. And in fact, she called January 6 insurrectionists really good people. Michelle Tafoya would be a vote for Donald Trump.

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