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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Sep 19, 2025

Jay Jacobs’ leadership is critical to keeping the Democratic Party rooted in common sense, rejecting the march toward socialism, and ensuring that extremists do not hijack our values.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Sep 19, 2025

At a time when our party must be focused on safety, opportunity, and keeping New York strong, it is deeply troubling to see support given to Zohran Mamdani — a politician whose reckless rhetoric and dangerous policies threaten to divide…

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Sep 19, 2025

When you go to the restaurant, you see a symbol on the door that a man or woman can use the restaurant facilities.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Sep 19, 2025

I haven’t read the letter. I don’t know what’s in it. I have no idea.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Sep 19, 2025

I’m not quite sure why people think it’s all right for a young man in high school to go into a shower where young girls are. I mean, that just doesn’t make any sense to me. It’s not safe.

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Pete Buttigieg
@petebuttigieg· Democratic · IN· Sep 18, 2025

I’m not talking about changing what’s inside of a machine. I’m not talking about changing a vote that went one way and making it look like it came another way. I’m talking about a form of cheating that is happening right out in the open.

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Pete Buttigieg
@petebuttigieg· Democratic · IN· Sep 18, 2025

They’re admitting it out loud that they don’t have to do that to manipulate the results of an election.

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Pete Buttigieg
@petebuttigieg· Democratic · IN· Sep 18, 2025

If they do the wrong thing, we will be here to hold them politically accountable.

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Pete Buttigieg
@petebuttigieg· Democratic · IN· Sep 18, 2025

They are being pressured to change the rules so that voters don’t have a say anymore. And they know that that is wrong.

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Pete Buttigieg
@petebuttigieg· Democratic · IN· Sep 18, 2025

We are here because Indiana Republicans are being pressured by Washington Republicans to do something that they know in their hearts is wrong.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Sep 18, 2025

This was a failure of a society that allows 16-year-olds to get so close to shooting up a school and potentially killing classmates and teachers.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Sep 18, 2025

We have to recommit ourselves to saving these children. We’re seeing it every day. Younger and younger people are participating in these acts. This is a real wake-up call for our city, for our country.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Sep 18, 2025

If you are a parent and if you’re not concerned about what we’re seeing unfold in our city, we have to question ourselves. This is a 16-year-old with a semiautomatic weapon, and indicating he’s going to take the life of the students. That…

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Sep 18, 2025

We potentially saved the lives of a lot of students and staff today, and I don’t want to imagine a world where we would be making a different announcement right now.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Sep 18, 2025

I don’t support that. And I’m not going to succumb to it.

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Eric Adams
@ericadams· Democratic · NY· Sep 18, 2025

I’m not going to do that. And I’m not for boys going into the same bathroom with little girls.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 18, 2025

Obviously Charlie Kirk was a master at not only the work he did online but offline, and his capacity to organize

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Sep 18, 2025

Calls on 10,000 men to step up as mentors, coaches, and tutors

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Zohran Mamdani
@zohranmamdani· Democratic · NY· Sep 18, 2025

Political violence has no place in our country.

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Pete Buttigieg
@petebuttigieg· Democratic · IN· Sep 18, 2025

Should not have run, and if he had made that decision sooner, [Democrats] might have been better off.

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Pete Buttigieg
@petebuttigieg· Democratic · IN· Sep 18, 2025

Politics is about the results we can get for people and not about these other things.

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Pete Buttigieg
@petebuttigieg· Democratic · IN· Sep 18, 2025

You just have to go to voters with what you think you can do for them.

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