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Working Families’ Maurice Mitchell: Voting is a Chess Move
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Working Families’ Maurice Mitchell: Voting is a Chess Move

Season 1 Episode 111

Both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have serious problems. How do we square the contradictions when casting our vote, and how should we think about elections altogether? As National Director of the Working Families Party, what is Maurice Mitchell’s advice in this critical election year? For starters, he says “supporting a candidate is a chess move.”

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