"I remember it as a crystallizing moment, " says Doug Heye, the RNC's communications director.

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The Administration think its better micromanage, Ryan said, like picking winners and losers through regulation, or crystallizing, rather than eliminating, Too Big To Fail with Dodd-Frank.

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" Klain called it a "crystallizing moment: the idea that the Republicans, having been rejected by the courts in their efforts to shut down the hand counts, would resort to these sorts of tactics to stop the counting of ballots.

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