Discussion
BREAKING VIDEO: Chris Van Hollen for Senate Majority Leader
I've been listening. On election day, the American people, they spoke loudly and clearly. They voted against a war they never asked for, against rising costs and rampant corruption, against a White House that traffics in cruelty and impunity, and against a politics that is too timid to stand up.
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Van Hollen for Majority Leader (cont)
We need to earn the people's trust. That means a bold agenda to bring down costs for working people, ending the war in Iran immediately, and aligning our policies with our values at home and around the world. As Democrats, we are the keepers of a profound inheritance. We are the party that fights for workers, for social security and Medicare, for public education, and for civil rights.
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Van Hollen for Majority Leader (cont)
But we have drifted, my friends. We become a party that too often trims its sales. too cautious, too rudderless, too attached to polewashed, pundant rinsed, and donor dried messages. It's time to turn the page.
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Van Hollen for Majority Leader (cont)
I was not planning to seek a Senate leadership role. And this is not about any one individual. It's about whether at this moment of choosing, we fight for the kind of country and party the American people deserve. They are ready for a new day. And that's why I've decided to run for Senate Majority Leader.
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Van Hollen for Majority Leader (cont)
All over America, we the people will not stand for tyranny. So many of our candidates ran not left versus right, progressive versus moderate versus conservative, but on the idea that we're all in this together to take on a rigged
system that is powered by a corrupt political system.
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