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Van Jones
@vanjones· Oct 21, 2024

The worst thing that Kamala Harris could do, maybe bad tax policy. We may not have a Constitution by the time that someone like this is president with no guardrails.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 30, 2024

This is not acceptable behavior on the part of anybody in our American life. And I'm very glad that you have someone like Coach Walz who has stood up for underdogs, who stood up for gay kids.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 30, 2024

Look, the most important thing that you do in the campaign is you pick who your vice president is going to be. And so, you can tell a lot about who the president is by the VP.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Sep 26, 2024

It's not that it took them too long. It's that they actively worked to undo everything Donald Trump had done during his time in office.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 26, 2024

If there's a border crisis now, it is Donald Trump's fault because it could have been fixed in a bipartisan way and Donald Trump threw banana peels on the sidewalk, marbles on the stairs, and made sure America couldn't respond.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Sep 26, 2024

I think the Trump campaign line today ought to be arsonist returns to scene of crime. I mean, look at the last three-and-a-half years, we've got the border is effectively been opened.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 26, 2024

She's got something to say. She's going to a border that the Biden administration has secured. It took a while and they took a lot of beating, but they got it done. And so, she can say we got it done. Donald Trump stood in the way.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 10, 2024

If he cared about this immigrant crisis, and there are some negative aspects of it, but not this racist lie he is telling, but it is tough on some of these communities to have new folks coming in.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 10, 2024

Kamala Harris went out there, whooped his butt and made it look easy -- made it look easy.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Sep 9, 2024

I think all the pressure is on Harris it's a change election. The polling is clear. Trump is seen as the change agent in this election. And she's not and she's going to have a very difficult time arguing that keeping the same people in…

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 9, 2024

Even on the -- even on the economic stuff, it's all pro-inflation stuff, tariffs. He wants tariffs, which means Americans got to pay more. He wants to roll back all advances on prescription drugs. So you got to pay more for drugs. He wants…

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 9, 2024

This is a job interview for her. This is not about Donald Trump. This is not about insult. This is not about nonsense.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 9, 2024

This guy is losing it. The fizz is coming out of the soda with Donald Trump. It's time to turn the page.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Sep 9, 2024

If you're unhappy, you need to assess what your level of unhappiness is and whether she's responsible for it.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 8, 2024

But she does need to create this distance from Biden because Biden has never taken credit for energy under his administration.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Sep 4, 2024

He talked about terminating the Inflation Reduction Act which by the way Joe Biden admitted today they totally lied about. He admitted they should have called it a climate change bill.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Sep 3, 2024

The ticket to victory for the middle and for some of these male voters that they're competing for is really to talk about the economy.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Sep 3, 2024

I agree with Kate, I think it's an incredibly close race. Either of these candidates could win any of these states we're talking about.

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