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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Jul 31, 2025

And they were mad that the ham sandwiches weren’t toasted. Excuse me. I mean, give me a break.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Jul 31, 2025

First of all, they’re fed the same that the staff is fed… It’s not a prison. It’s a deportation processing center.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Jul 31, 2025

Legacy media made a mistake by concocting a false narrative that can so easily be disproven.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Jul 30, 2025

There was very much security in that building. To have a company hire an off-duty police officer — I don’t know how you get more secure than that.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Jul 30, 2025

New York has some of the strongest gun laws in the nation. We banned assault weapons. We strengthened our Red Flag Law. We closed dangerous loopholes. But our laws only go so far when an AR-15 can be obtained in a state with weak gun laws…

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Jul 30, 2025

We respect all rights, but no one should claim as a constitutional right the ability to bear an arm, and I assure you our Founding Fathers did not contemplate when our constitution was written.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Jul 30, 2025

Congress must have the courage to say ‘we’re a great nation. Our citizens deserve better.’

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 30, 2025

Donald Trump asks for 5 seats and Greg Abbott automatically bends the knee. The 2026 election is being rigged. California won’t sit back and watch this happen.

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Mark Warner
@markwarner· Democratic · VA· Jul 30, 2025

We should be outraged by the firing of April Doss, a deeply principled public servant, apparently for the role that she played in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s bipartisan investigation into Russian election interference.

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Angus King
@angusking· Independent · ME· Jul 30, 2025

My litmus test will be simple: No aid of any kind as long as there are starving children in Gaza due to the action or inaction of the Israeli government.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Jul 29, 2025

I don't know what to say to you to lift this pain off your heart, but I want you to know that we love you, as a city and as a state we love you.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Jul 29, 2025

I said, 'Is there anything we can do for you?' And in her broken English, she just said, 'Pray for us.'

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Jul 29, 2025

Florida got a raw deal from the reapportionment of seats after the 2020 census.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Jul 29, 2025

We, as Democrats, we want people to pay their fair share, but why are we against people being successful like that? We can’t be.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Jul 29, 2025

This is not a game for people. This is not game theory. This is not checkers. They’re real life. These are real lives.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Jul 29, 2025

And then we get upset, and then we’re like, what happened with this group? What happened with that group? And they’re saying like, ‘Yo, what happened to the party?’

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Jul 29, 2025

We just stopped competing. We stopped making the case. We came up with this philosophy where, listen, it all comes down to three states.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Jul 29, 2025

I don’t know…. It’s always challenging if such a large percentage of the country, rightly or wrongly, feel the country is going in the wrong direction.

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