Climate activists have been on a hunger strike outside of the White House for almost a week, almost a week now, calling on President Biden to not abandon his climate agenda.
Joy Reid
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American political pundit (1968-)
This will be a huge prize for Republicans, that you know what Youngkin would do with it. He would be one of those Republicans trying to steal the 2024 election for Trump.
I mean, look, the reality is, is that no Republican has been -- has shown that they can resist doing Trump`s bidding. Giving any Republican power seems so dangerous.
If you start seeing an electorate that is older, more conservative and less diverse, which, quite frankly, you saw a little bit in Terry`s first run around, I think that`s really problematic for Democrats and for Terry in Virginia, but…
And now it`s these Southern Republicans who are the new Dixiecrats and are not even pretending they`re not.
Senate Republicans made it clear that they are the anti-democracy party, opposing voting rights legislation for the third time this year.
And so I wonder if there is some way for even a Bernie Sanders, who is literally arguing let`s help people who are poor, when Joe Manchin is from the second poorest state in the entire United States, this is a state full of poor people…
If you look at Sinema, I mean, even -- they`re buying ads that are airing on MSNBC that are all trying to make it sound like allowing the federal government to negotiate prescription drug prices -- it`s the biggest buyer.
It is now the dogma of the Republican Party that the insurrection was good, it was great.
Saving our democracy is a big job. We're going see if he is up to it. Because, you know, you can't save our democracy and also worry about the feelings, the delicate little feelings of MAGA supporters and try to give them exculpation from…
If they get control of any part of that government, and particularly of the governorship, there`s no way to stop them at that point.