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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Dec 14, 2025

Ms. Machado is a hero. She deserves to win the Nobel Prize. And one of the mistakes the Biden administration made last year... was not put more pressure on Maduro then to leave.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Dec 14, 2025

I want to see the written execution order. I want to see the legal opinion that was about this specific strike.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Dec 14, 2025

The idea of these two survivors hanging on to remnants of a boat, and then America taking a series of additional strikes. The Congress needs to see it, at the very minimum.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Dec 14, 2025

The president needs to come and explain to the American people what the goal is here.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Dec 14, 2025

I think pulling out without a plan would be a mistake, but the president, again, has sent mixed signals.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Dec 14, 2025

Fix the crisis right now. Extend the subsidies, and then let's debate how we fix it.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Dec 14, 2025

The president needs to make the case if he's going to try to put boots on the ground in Venezuela.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Dec 10, 2025

When you're a governor, when you're a president of the United States, you're looked to for that moral clarity.

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Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Dec 10, 2025

We need you now more than ever, this country, if we’re going to make it another 250 years, if we’re going to make it another two point five years, we desperately need you to lay down your swords and treat each other with dignity and…

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Dec 10, 2025

It was time to 'close the book' on the wars.

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Andy Beshear
@andybeshear· Democratic · KY· Dec 10, 2025

Violence has no place in our commonwealth or country. Let’s please pray for the families affected and for our KSU students. Let’s also pray for a world where these things don’t happen.

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Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Dec 10, 2025

To my fellow Americans, to my fellow worshipers, whatever it is, whether you’re in a sacred place like this, whether you’re in a synagogue, whether you’re in a mosque, I don’t care where it is, you are are fellow Americans.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Dec 8, 2025

What this country is gonna need is someone who can actually heal and unify, and someone who can solve problems and get stuff done.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Dec 8, 2025

The fact that people view institutions as incapable or unwilling to solve their problems is leading to hyper-frustration, which then creates anger.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Dec 8, 2025

I think what Democrats need to do is focus not so much on winning litmus tests but on winning elections.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Dec 8, 2025

agents only need reasonable suspicion to make arrests, not probable cause.

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Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Dec 8, 2025

Democrats lost ground in some of these communities by failing to show up and failing to treat people with a level of respect that they deserve.

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