Dem Rep. Dingell: ‘We Have to Fight Fire with Fire’; ‘I Am Tough, and I Will Stand Up to Anybody’

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DINGELL: “I‘m never going to accept sexual violence or domestic violence. So, let me be very clear on that. But I also thought Bill Clinton couldn‘t get elected. And I do believe we have to fight fire with fire. I don‘t think we should see redistricting more than once a decade after census. But we can‘t sit on the sidelines as they are destroying this country and stealing African-American votes and gerrymandering for their own sake. You got to fight fire with fire. I have a different style. Representative government means that you have all kinds of people in that fight. Now, I will — I am tough, and I will stand up to anybody. And I am the only elected official that ever wrote an op-ed saying why it‘s important to stand up to Donald Trump. I may not have the same style as some of the other candidates that you‘ve seen, but we all know what we have to do, which is we have to protect the American people, stand up for our democracy, stand up for people that are being hurt every day with exorbitant costs of everything in their life, and also make sure that we are defending our democracies, our basic liberties, and not going to let billionaires be a — there are so many words that I have right now. So, we do have to not be afraid to stand up to Donald Trump.”