But our concerns about this have been clear for a long time, and it is part of what we characterize, I think quite candidly, as a complicated relationship, but an important one.

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But I think many people across the country candidly look at us and say, I don't know if the Democrats are willing to take this on.

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Ms. TAYLOR: Well, you know, certainly there's very few things that they don't agree on candidly, so I think, you know, running against the nominee is really what matters because people are going to cast their ballot for the nominee, not the vice president.

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