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Karen Bass
@karenbass· Democratic · CA· Nov 2, 2026

“As I was speaking, to see a group of young folks do this while I was speaking” – Bass shows a thumbs down – “cut particularly deep because there were young white folks who consider themselves very progressive.”

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Karen Bass
@karenbass· Democratic · CA· Nov 2, 2026

“By the way, from some of those white people, young white people, I’ve been shocked at the racial insensitivity, shall I say, shocked.” Bass said that there were “very specific examples”, and she offered one.

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Karen Bass
@karenbass· Democratic · CA· Nov 2, 2026

“Every now and then we’re popular, but we go out of popularity very quickly,” Bass said on a recent Friday in Watts at Nickerson Gardens, a large housing development.

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Ro Khanna
@rokhanna· Democratic · CA· Nov 2, 2026

Will we be beholden to billionaire donors and offer platitudes without policy like Gavin Newsom, or will we reclaim our FDR courage and offer a bold vision for our nation’s future?

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Ro Khanna
@rokhanna· Democratic · CA· Nov 2, 2026

It's the most important ballot initiative in America and in the world.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Nov 2, 2026

My voice is meaningful because I don’t have any other agenda beyond just trying to save democracy. Anybody thinking about an election in 2028 or 2026 would be foolish. We are not right now on a glide path to have a free and fair election…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Nov 2, 2026

Rep. Haley Stevens’ staff is right to resign in disgust. They understand that the election in Michigan is far more important than Haley’s fragile ego and that all of us must stand together to elect Abdul, defeat Rogers and end the…

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Adam Schiff
@adamschiff· Democratic · CA· Nov 2, 2026

Think about the fact that the greatest threat to our elections is not some hostile foreign power. It is the meddling of our own president.

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Xavier Becerra
@xavierbecerra· Democratic · CA· Nov 2, 2026

I’m ready to be what the haters fear most – a proud son of immigrants with a law degree and a union card governing America’s most diverse and successful state.

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Xavier Becerra
@xavierbecerra· Democratic · CA· Nov 2, 2026

I have stood up to dangerous authoritarianism before and I’m ready to do it again.

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Haley Stevens
@haleystevens· Democratic · MI· Nov 2, 2026

I woke up this morning clear-eyed, fresh, and, you know, focused on what was in my heart. And, that’s that.

washingtonexaminer.com
Mike Lawler
@mikelawler· Republican · NY· Nov 2, 2026

I think, at a minimum, the Ethics Committee should move forward with an investigation immediately upon our return.

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Randy Fine
@randyfine· FL· Nov 2, 2026

If the evidence shows that she is not an American, she has to be removed immediately and probably put in prison.

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Elissa Slotkin
@elissaslotkin· Democratic · MI· Nov 2, 2026

I was talking about officials who break the law or misuse taxpayer dollars.

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Steve Scalise
@stevescalise· Republican · LA· Nov 2, 2026

President Trump has been pushing to make daylight saving time permanent, and House Republicans delivered by overwhelmingly passing the Sunshine Protection Act. It's a commonsense change and the Senate should take it up.

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Jim Jordan
@jimjordan· Republican · OH· Nov 2, 2026

The way you stop the radicals from making these structural changes to our constitutional form of government, these radical policy positions that they have, the way you stop them is at the ballot box, and that happens on Tuesday.

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Jim Jordan
@jimjordan· Republican · OH· Nov 2, 2026

Any differences that exist in the Republican Party are pretty small compared to the differences between Republicans and the left, the hard left, the radical left, which now controls the Democrat Party.

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