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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

We have so many problems at home. We have people sleeping out in the streets. People can't afford health care.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

I think Abdul has run a brilliant campaign, and he's more than capable of making his own political judgments.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

People, many people, experts, including myself, consider what's going on there as a genocide.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

What you had is AIPAC spending 30 million dollars in the Democratic primary trying to defeat Abdul.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

Raising taxes on the rich, making sure that everybody in Wisconsin or America has health care as a right, sounds quite reasonable to me.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

I think she is being outspent seven to one. And, under those circumstances, it's tough for anybody to win.

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Ed Case
@edcase· Democratic · HI· Aug 9, 2026

Certainly, he was speaking to the hopes and fears and concerns of a good solid chunk of the electorate out there.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

We need a candidate like Abdul who has the guts to stand up for working class families.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

We have people sleeping out in the streets. People can't afford health care.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

It is insane that the Democrats would allow somebody to come in, an entity to come in, that will then, if they lose, go into the other party.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

They're sick and tired of massive income and wealth inequality.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

I think Abdul's victory was one of the most extraordinary victories in modern political history.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

People are tired of the status quo politics and establishment policies-they want real change.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

In Michigan, in my view, Abdul's victory was one of the most extraordinary victories in modern political history.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

I think what we're seeing in Minnesota, Margaret, in Michigan, and all across this country is that people understand that we're living with an economy that is rigged.

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James Evans
@jamesevans· Republican · IN· Aug 9, 2026

Politicians are right to highlight personal experiences and it's not right that this comment was made about a fellow member of the Senedd.

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Robert F. Kennedy
@robertfkennedy· NY· Aug 9, 2026

We are removing unnecessary bureaucracy, strengthening nutrition and physical health, trusting parents and local communities, and opening Head Start to hundreds of thousands more children.

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Anna Paulina Luna
@annapaulinaluna· Republican · FL· Aug 9, 2026

That would not have happened had people like the secretary, President Trump, and also Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushing that, and those impacts it has on veterans’ long-term [care] in preventing suicide is incredible.

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Anna Paulina Luna
@annapaulinaluna· Republican · FL· Aug 9, 2026

There’s a lot that goes into that treatment —also something that I think has been brought to the forefront.

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Doug Collins
@dougcollins· Republican · GA· Aug 9, 2026

I think we’re making massive progress in how we diagnose things, but also how we do new treatments, which in the past was more of a wait-and-see approach, and now we’re being more cutting-edge.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· FL· Aug 9, 2026

It was not contingent on incurring massive new debt obligations for constructing a new prison hospital.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 9, 2026

It is beyond unacceptable that in the year 2026, the United States remains the only major country on Earth not to guarantee paid vacation time to workers. This legislation would put an end to that international embarrassment,

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