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🗓️ 21 March 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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0:00.0 | In our coverage of town halls during the congressional recess, we've been reporting on the latest pushback Republicans have seen when they're facing their constituents. |
0:09.7 | Tonight, a Democratic perspective and how a representative from Virginia is handling concerns from voters. |
0:16.4 | Our Lisa Desjardin reports. |
0:19.9 | For usually sleepy Warrington, Virginia, a throng. |
0:24.2 | Drawn here by a congressional town hall and by more, a thirst to respond to President Trump. |
0:29.9 | If you had told me, you know, five, six years ago that this would be the state we'd be in, |
0:35.9 | I'd say, no, that just is incomprehensible to me. |
0:40.1 | This is a Republican area, but we found no current Republican voters here. Instead, a spectrum of |
0:46.4 | former Republicans, independents, and progressives. Their Democratic congressman, Suha Subramaniam, |
0:53.9 | has been in office all of 76 days. |
0:57.0 | He has an advantage over Republicans facing these crowds. These voters want him to lead them. |
1:03.0 | He's saying that we're going to fight back, whether it's through the courts or in Congress, and I really like that he's standing up for us. |
1:08.0 | That us includes many military veterans and some federal workers. |
1:13.2 | It's hail. |
1:14.8 | Sleepless nights. |
1:16.4 | You don't know what's going to happen the next day. |
1:18.1 | Every day you turn around is another executive order. |
1:20.9 | Disamomal, everything of this country is what it stood for all these years. |
1:24.7 | Inside Super Monium addresses that. |
1:26.8 | We're not in normal times anymore. |
1:28.3 | And I'll say that right now, the American people, I think, want us to fight. |
1:33.3 | They want us to be bold and they want us to act. |
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