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By today's vote the Democratic Party has been returned to the people.
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The speaker says that the day’s vote has put the Democratic Party back in the hands of the people. “Returned” presents the vote as restoring public ownership or control, rather than leaving the party under the influence of a smaller group. The statement is a confident claim about what the vote achieved.
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