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I want to play for you some audio made a lot of buzz this weekend it was on meet the press

it was an exchange between Chuck Todd and Vivek Ramaswami about, well, you know, he was somewhat vague in the debate over whether or not he would have certified the results of the election.

So listen to this exchange between Vivek and Chuck Dodd.

Let me bring up a couple questions.

You didn't get a chance to answer at the debate.

Most of the candidates on stage Wednesday night said Mike Pence did the right thing on January 6th.

Do you agree?

I would have done it very differently.

I think that there was a historic opportunity that he missed to reunite this country in that window.

What I would have said is this is a moment

for a true national consensus where there's two elements of what's required for a functioning

democracy in America. One is secure elections and the second is a peaceful transfer of power.

When those things come into conflict, that's an opportunity for heroism. Here's what I would have said.

We need single-day voting on election day.

We need paper ballots, and we need government-issued ID matching the voter file.

And if we achieve that, then we have achieved victory.

And we should not have any further complaint about election integrity.

So I would have driven it through the Senate.

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