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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Feb 7, 2024

The number one thing, the number one anvil on the head of this campaign is the American people do not believe he has the mental acuity to serve as president today or for four more years.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Feb 7, 2024

It would've been better off for Joe Biden to have been indicted today than what this report turned out.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Feb 7, 2024

Ultimately, who benefits from all this, the American voter? Well, so that they know exactly what they're dealing with when they go to vote in November.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Feb 7, 2024

This is going to go away and will stop talking about it. The courts have I think decided and will continue to decide that the president is not immune from prosecution.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jan 31, 2024

It's a big problem for him right now. They are four syllables that are aimed at him Genocide Joe.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jan 23, 2024

I was glad that the union, at least leadership recognized that this is a pro-union president, more so than any in my lifetime.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jan 21, 2024

He is trying to put a depressant view on this, which is this was a foregone conclusion and he doesn't want to have another contested state. He's trying to close the door tomorrow night and that really is the closing message to Republicans…

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jan 21, 2024

If she wins, it would be on the strength of non-Republicans. I mean, that's the only way to win here is for Independent non-Republican voters to show up in big numbers.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jan 18, 2024

It's a clown show. How can a Tim Scott who represents decency, who represents civility throw Nikki Haley under the bus in this way to stand next to Donald Trump.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Jan 3, 2024

It takes more commitment to show up at a caucus and sit there and go through all that stuff as opposed to just showing up to vote.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jan 1, 2024

It should have ended the tenure of anyone sitting at a table who can tell the American people that this is not acceptable on a college campus.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Dec 19, 2023

What he said is right. I mean, we all saw him whip up this mob in the mob go attack people in trying to hang his vice president.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Dec 19, 2023

If Mitch McConnell had just done his job, the Republican leader in the House, and convicted Trump for these political crimes, we wouldn't be here.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Dec 19, 2023

People were happy and hopeful that maybe something can happen that would impose some kind of accountability on a runaway train called Donald Trump that has done everything to trash our democracy, to trash our norms, seems to be possibly…

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Dec 18, 2023

We need to end this charade right now. You will need to send a message here in Iowa that this primary is over, and give me the momentum to turn this off, so we can focus all our efforts on Joe Biden.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Dec 18, 2023

This validates everything Donald Trump has been trying to tell the American people, which is that there is a whole system at the federal and now state level trying to keep me away from the White House.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Dec 14, 2023

And for someone to be doing that noble work and then to have this despicable piece of dirt come down from God knows where and just ruin their lives...

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Dec 4, 2023

If the Republican Party is going to stand up and say, there are some guardrails here, the things we won't do, it'd be good to hear that now.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Dec 4, 2023

Democracies can fail. Democracy is the most fragile form of government known to human beings.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Nov 30, 2023

I just like it when the courts got a chance to say someone's guilty or innocent, and then Congress moves. I don't like it when Congress moves ahead of the courts, because that, well then, who gets to decide?

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