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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Mar 19, 2025

By the way, not one person ever in my office has ever used the word Latinx.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Mar 19, 2025

My job as governor is to make sure that whomever the very smart voters of this city want as their mayor is someone that I will work with, who will work with me to continue my efforts, to make our subways safer, to make sure that we're…

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Mar 19, 2025

I can't make that up. They start cutting that kind of money. I can't make that up. People are going to suffer.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Mar 19, 2025

I know how I'll spend it as a Democrat and I'll make sure it goes to the right place. Haven't helped the Republican states who might take that money and do something that's not focused on feeding hungry kids, helping kids with disabilities…

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Mar 19, 2025

Listen, we have benefited tremendously here in the state of New York of having the influence of the majority leader for the Senate, our home senator. Look at the CHIPS and Science Act. We have Mike Rahn with 50,000 jobs coming to upstate…

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Mar 19, 2025

She's not wrong. But you look at a state like New York, examine the record, what are we delivering for people? Child care, $7 billion that we're investing in our families. The affordability agenda that I have in my budget. I have a path…

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Mar 19, 2025

People are frustrated. I mean, first of all, they're exhausted. There's enormous fatigue that there's so much incoming all the time. The voters were promised lower prices on Inauguration Day. And let's talk about what's happened since…

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Mar 16, 2025

Nobody in my office ever used the term 'Latinx'.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Mar 16, 2025

It was deeply unfair to allow transgender women and girls to compete in female sports.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Mar 16, 2025

The judges orders do not therefore apply to them and that they should continue on.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Mar 16, 2025

What DOGE is doing has been disastrous, where there's just been these arbitrary firings of thousands of Marylanders.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Mar 16, 2025

A federal government shutdown would have been destructive to the state of Maryland. It would have definitely pushed us into a national recession.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Mar 16, 2025

I think the answer is not about how do you change a message. The answer is about results.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Mar 16, 2025

I want you to thank me. I want you to thank me for closing the border.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Mar 16, 2025

As of today, we’re starting 7 new miles of construction, we’re going to continue to make America safe again.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Mar 15, 2025

Everybody, I'm here in Arizona, and right at this spot you can see where the border wall ends. As of today, we're starting seven new miles of construction. We're going to continue to make America safe again.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Mar 15, 2025

We are going to take legal action to make sure that there are legal consequences for making these decisions.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Mar 15, 2025

Tariffs are a tool. They're not an ideology.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Mar 15, 2025

This is a direct attack and a direct assault on law enforcement.

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