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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Sep 2, 2025

If Minnesota lets this moment slide and we determine it’s OK for little ones to not be safe in a school or church environment, then shame on us.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Sep 2, 2025

The thing that makes America unique in terms of shootings is we just have more guns and the wrong types of guns are on the streets.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 2, 2025

Trump’s attempt to use federal troops as his personal police force is illegal, authoritarian, and must be stopped in every courtroom across this country.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 2, 2025

Oklahoma’s homicide rate is 47% higher than California’s.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 2, 2025

Mr. Trump's use of the military as his personal police force is illegal, authoritarian, and must be stopped in every courtroom across this country.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 2, 2025

Today, the court sided with democracy and the Constitution. No president is a king — not even Trump — and no president can trample a state's power to protect its people.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 1, 2025

So he needs to never be in the United States of America and our administration is making sure we’re doing all that we can to bring him to justice.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 1, 2025

This individual was a known human smuggler, a MS-13 gang member, an individual who was a wife beater, and someone who was so perverted that he solicited nude photos from minors, and even his fellow human traffickers told him to knock it…

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 1, 2025

He’s not an American citizen and he shouldn’t be here and especially because of his dangerous criminal activities, we should ensure that we leave every avenue on the table.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 1, 2025

The one thing that we will continue to do is to make sure that he doesn’t walk free in the United States of America.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 1, 2025

President Trump and I are putting the American worker FIRST. Happy Labor Day!

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Sep 1, 2025

This Labor Day, America works for Americans again.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Aug 31, 2025

Donald Trump is trying to take that money away. And he isn't listening to the business community here.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Aug 31, 2025

We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Aug 31, 2025

It's anti-American. It's un-American. And I would tell her to maybe check herself for, what does she really believe?

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Aug 31, 2025

What she's doing is inflaming passions and causing disruption that doesn't need to be caused.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Aug 31, 2025

This letter was signed by many people anonymously. There was some who had their names on there.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Aug 31, 2025

We will make sure that he's not released into this country. So, regardless of that, yes, absolutely.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Aug 31, 2025

Donald Trump is now doing the same thing. He's taking away federal funding for those programs which are so important to us.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Aug 31, 2025

This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Aug 31, 2025

For 13 consecutive years, Chicago had more murders than any other American city.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Aug 31, 2025

I'm going to make sure that they go there and they're spent on what's appropriate according to the law.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Aug 31, 2025

We are absolutely more prepared than the last administration and doing a much better job responding to the disasters we've already experienced.

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