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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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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 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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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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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Dec 8, 2025

The UM prohibition would limit the ability of health plans to engage in practices that have been shown to ensure appropriate care while limiting unnecessary costs.

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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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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Dec 8, 2025

Voters Want Democrats to Fight Fire With Fire

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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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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.

theatlantic.com
Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Dec 8, 2025

But I do respect his ability to communicate with these constituencies.

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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.

theatlantic.com
Josh Shapiro
@joshshapiro· Democratic · PA· Dec 8, 2025

Wouldn’t you ask questions if someone was talking to you about forming a partnership and working together?

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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Dec 8, 2025

We’re going to have the health-care debate in full view of the American public, and they’re going to see who’s standing up for them on affordability and who’s not.

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Mike Rounds
@mikerounds· Republican · SD· Dec 8, 2025

The fear is, is if you regulate it, you slow it down. If you don't regulate it, you have people that could get hurt.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Dec 8, 2025

But demonizing an entire group of people by their race and their ethnicity? A very group of people who contribute to the vitality − economic, cultural − of this state, is something I hoped we'd never have to see.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Dec 8, 2025

You commit crimes, you go to jail. Doesn't matter what your race is, what your ethnicity, religion.

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Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Dec 1, 2025

These are the wealthiest and most powerful companies in the history of the world, and they’re profiting off of destroying our kids and destroying our country, and they know it, and it’s very intentional.

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Spencer Cox
@spencercox· Republican · UT· Dec 1, 2025

At some point we have to find an off-ramp, or else it’s going to get much worse.

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