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We need to invest at the local party unit and focus our energy on turn out. That's how we come back, and we can come back.
Keith Ellison
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Keith Ellison
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 4
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Keith Maurice Ellison
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I'm particularly good at turnout. So in my district, I had the lowest voter turnout in 2006. And now I have the highest turnout in the state of Minnesota. And Minnesota is the highest turnout state in the country.
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Even Hamas - Hamas is a terrorist group - do you know that Hamas came out in opposition to [Donald ]Trump`s statement? That puts the Republican Party, the Democrat Party, and everybody else in the establishment and [Barack]Obama on the same side Hamas is on. And over here all by himself is Donald Trump.
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