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“The analogy I use is, if you’re a musician and you go out on tour and you’ve got an A side and a B side set of tracks that you’re playing, you go, you do your concert, and you play all your songs, A side, B side songs, those are the ideas. The platform is what the crowd chants back. It’s the lyrics that the crowd has memorized that they love and that you can stop singing, turn the microphone around, and they’re singing it into the microphone. We can’t know that platform until we go out and sing out some ideas.”
US Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA)
US Rep. Jake Auchincloss on the next Democratic party platform.

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