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Tom Vilsack
@tomvilsack· Democratic · IA· Jul 15, 2025

It is physically demanding and at times dangerous.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 15, 2025

The National Guard’s deployment to Los Angeles County has pulled troops away from their families and civilian work to serve as political pawns for the President.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 15, 2025

It will be resolved when [Trump] doesn’t get any attention.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 15, 2025

It’s weakness masquerading as strength. That’s what I don’t like about this son of a bitch. I don’t.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 15, 2025

They’re sitting there on horses with American flags, running through soccer fields, scaring kids that are playing soccer in the middle of the day at a summer camp. For what? Just toughness.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 15, 2025

As the federal government turns its back on innovation and commonsense, California is making our clean energy future a reality.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 15, 2025

It was an assault on Democracy and invoked authoritarian regimes who begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jul 15, 2025

For more than a month, the National Guard has been pulled away from their families, communities and civilian work to serve as political pawns for the President in Los Angeles.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 14, 2025

That’s what this memo was confirming, and that’s all been negotiated with that country through the State Department.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 14, 2025

Incredibly important to make sure we get these worst of the worst out of our country

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Jul 14, 2025

Tonight was not our night. Tonight was Assemblyman Mamdani’s night.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 14, 2025

And it’s discouraging. It’s discouraging that during this time, when we have such a loss of life, and so many people’s lives have turned upside down, that people are playing politics with this, because the response time was immediate.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 14, 2025

It’s just false. Those contracts were in place. Nobody—no employees were off of work. Every one of them were answering calls. So false reporting, fake news.

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Andy Beshear
@andybeshear· Democratic · KY· Jul 14, 2025

Please pray for everyone affected by these senseless acts of violence, and let’s give thanks for the swift response by the Lexington Police Department and Kentucky State Police.

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Brian Kemp
@briankemp· Republican · GA· Jul 14, 2025

It’s really a tragedy it [pulling the game] ever happened. But, in some ways, it helped galvanize our state.

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Brian Kemp
@briankemp· Republican · GA· Jul 14, 2025

They didn’t know what was in the bill, and we did, and we stood our ground, and we stood for our values of having secure, accessible, and fair elections in Georgia and making it easy to vote and hard to cheat, and they were just wrong on…

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Brian Kemp
@briankemp· Republican · GA· Jul 14, 2025

It’s good for the Braves organization. It’s good for all the vendors and small business people in and around the ballpark and in the city of Atlanta, up in Cobb County, and really for our whole state.

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Brian Kemp
@briankemp· Republican · GA· Jul 14, 2025

We’re excited about the game finally being here. It should have been here several years ago. They never should have pulled it to start with, but thankfully the game’s coming back.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Jul 14, 2025

I wish they would have said that back during the Biden administration and back when the Democrats were in the White House when they were piling people on top of each other on cement floors and they didn’t have two feet to move. They never…

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