Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100512:17:09:00
>> the likely republican opponent? >> he's going to be the republican nominee in the fall. but he was out at the primary. so i had a clear shot at the nomination and a clear shot being nominated in an off year with the party out of power being in the dominant position. as a matter of principle, i put my political career on the line, which i said on the senate floor, by voting for the stimulus to save this country from sliding into a 1929 depression. now, that was the breaking point. they had always called me a rino, republican in name only, and the republican party had moved so far to the righ...
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