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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 3, 2022

This is a sinister figure, not a person that should be normalized in a game show-type television show.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Feb 2, 2022

In political terms, his absence from the Senate erases the Democrats` razor thin majority and, of course, it`s happening just as President Biden prepares to nominate and try to confirm a new justice to the Supreme Court.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 2, 2022

Mitch McConnell knows what he did was wrong. But they hope to benefit from the things that he did.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Feb 2, 2022

This is all part of the greater effort to keep Trump in power against the will of the American people.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 31, 2022

But even worse is the cavalier way that the state of Texas has treated the people they have forced to implement their failed mission.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 31, 2022

It is bad enough that Operation Lone Star has led to inhumane treatment for immigrants and that the state has spent a whopping $3 billion on immigration enforcement in 2021.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 31, 2022

It hasn't been a good week for GOP governors cosplaying as autocratic leaders.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 31, 2022

And then there's Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who has spectacularly bungled his Trumpy fever dream of a performance art piece at the Mexican border.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 31, 2022

There's Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, who created a Kremlin-style tip line for parents to report anything divisive taught in schools.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 31, 2022

If Trumpelstiltskin has his way, this guy here, right here, will be in charge of certifying the next presidential election in Georgia.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 28, 2022

So, we see this coming together to promote the worst instincts in society in order to pander to voters and we should know that that`s wrong and we have to do better than this.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 28, 2022

Pennsylvania’s Republican Senator Pat Toomey voted against the bill, calling it too expensive and excessive.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 28, 2022

President Biden toured the site today while, coincidentally, in the state to talk infrastructure.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jan 28, 2022

There`s no hiding from this at this point. And these are -- some of these are elected officials. They`re known entities. They`re going to have to answer for what they did.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 28, 2022

I want to just commend him for really putting it all on the line for democracy.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 28, 2022

Why? Because infrastructure spending isn’t just politically popular. It’s critically necessary.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 28, 2022

Rick Scott voted against that bill, and he’s far from the only one to pull this tomfoolery.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jan 27, 2022

I think Joe Biden is highly likely to choose a very liberal person, but that doesn't mean we can't be happy about it.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jan 27, 2022

I think the Republicans are going to focus on this person's record and experience and stated views, I think there's little doubt that the people Joe Biden is looking at are all highly qualified, highly experienced, and highly liberal.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jan 27, 2022

Joe Biden has an atrocious record and I think our hearts ought to be full, that an African American female can finally get past Joe Biden's record.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 27, 2022

So, stand down on the right if you guys are going to talk about people who are being -- people who are qualified for jobs, because you all voted for Donald Trump.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jan 27, 2022

They actually created these fake documents purporting to be the real certifications of them as electors.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jan 26, 2022

Lies like that are broadcast to millions of people every night.

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