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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Oct 26, 2025

He's a wrecking ball. Not just the symbolism and substance of the East Wing; he's wrecking alliances, truth, trust, tradition, institutions.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Oct 26, 2025

If you have a Speaker Johnson, we may have a third-term of President Trump, I really believe that.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Oct 26, 2025

[Trump's] presidency de facto ends, if we are successful, we the people are successful, in taking back the House.

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Henry McMaster
@henrymcmaster· Republican · SC· Oct 25, 2025

Every coastal municipality in South Carolina has passed a resolution opposing oil and gas exploration activities offshore. I stand firmly with them.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Oct 24, 2025

This is serious, this is urgent – and requires immediate action.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Oct 24, 2025

Quite literally the center of the universe in startups and innovation, entrepreneurial.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Oct 24, 2025

I mean, we're the center of the universe in terms of artificial intelligence.

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John Fetterman
@johnfetterman· Democratic · PA· Oct 23, 2025

I happen to know and love a lot of people that voted for the president and they are not fascist, they are not Nazis, they’re not trying to destroy the Constitution and all those things.

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John Fetterman
@johnfetterman· Democratic · PA· Oct 23, 2025

I refuse to do those kinds of things because that kind of extreme kinds of rhetoric makes it easier for those kinds of extreme kinds of actions — even like what happened to poor Charlie Kirk.

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John Fetterman
@johnfetterman· Democratic · PA· Oct 23, 2025

If you call the president or someone like a fascist, you are effectively calling the people who are going to vote for him … then they must be fascist too … or they support fascism and those things. And that is just not true.

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John Fetterman
@johnfetterman· Democratic · PA· Oct 23, 2025

When Vice President Harris referred to President Trump as a ‘fascist’ … I knew absolutely we lost the plot at that point.

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John Fetterman
@johnfetterman· Democratic · PA· Oct 23, 2025

Get over yourselves, and just let the Dems in Maine do what they’re gonna do.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Oct 23, 2025

Trump has finally, for once, listened to reason – and heard what we have been saying from the beginning.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Oct 22, 2025

The Trump administration has indicated to New York that it will not allow states to distribute federal funding for SNAP recipients.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Oct 22, 2025

He sends out masked men, he sends out Border Patrol. He sends out ICE, creates anxiety and fear in the community, so that he can lay claim to solving for that by sending in the Guard in the first place.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Oct 22, 2025

I am currently reluctant to impose rigid reporting requirements about operational details on this sector.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Oct 21, 2025

To have this investment at this extraordinary time is a testament to that New York audacity and ambition.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Oct 21, 2025

Instead, agents used batons and pepper spray on street vendors and bystanders on Canal Street.

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