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Rick Scott
@rickscott· Republican · FL· Jul 18, 2025

If the goal were to lose trillions of dollars and get mired in scandals, Jay Powell would be the gold standard—but that’s not the goal.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 18, 2025

This is a heartbreaking day for California.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Jul 18, 2025

Have you ever seen these Democrats in Florida fight this hard for you as an American citizen?

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Jul 18, 2025

I’m willing to do Blanding once Alligator Alcatraz is filled, and so DHS has started moving in a significant number of people.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Jul 18, 2025

But what I don’t want to do is set up Blanding, if, you know, one is 60 percent full and then the other is 40 percent [full].

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Jul 18, 2025

These are folks — and a lot of them have of criminal records. But that’s what’s happening here, and I think it’s been very effective now.

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Andy Beshear
@andybeshear· Democratic · KY· Jul 18, 2025

Make no mistake, what Trump and his congressional enablers have just done is a direct attack on rural America and on Southerners like us. It is a betrayal.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Jul 17, 2025

Can you imagine threatening individual businesses, saying, ‘you’re going to do this, or I’m going to do this,’ as a leader? If you’re in the business community, shame on you for supporting this guy still.

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Andy Beshear
@andybeshear· Democratic · KY· Jul 17, 2025

When we deliver and make people’s lives better, they’re willing to vote in different ways. They’re willing to support different people, and that’s where we’ve got to be.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Jul 17, 2025

We’re just simply talking about all businesses. What we don’t want is monopolies. We don’t want corruption.

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Andy Beshear
@andybeshear· Democratic · KY· Jul 17, 2025

We’ve got to speak out, even in places where we might be in the super-minority. We’ve got to be unapologetically the Democrats that we are.

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Andy Beshear
@andybeshear· Democratic · KY· Jul 17, 2025

We’ve got to be more than just against someone. We’ve got to be for something, and that overall ‘something’ has to be a better life for the American people.

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Andy Beshear
@andybeshear· Democratic · KY· Jul 17, 2025

We have a huge opportunity right now. Donald Trump is tearing apart our democratic norms.

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Andy Beshear
@andybeshear· Democratic · KY· Jul 17, 2025

The actions of the Trump administration are providing a huge opportunity for Democrats to go out and regain the trust of the American people to be the party of common sense, common ground and getting things done.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Jul 17, 2025

Look, the business community is finding [out] right now how bad a businessman Donald Trump is, crapping on the economy, you know, tariffs back and forth, threatening businesses.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Jul 17, 2025

This was always the constitutionally correct map — and now both the federal courts and the FL Supreme Court have upheld it.

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