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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Nov 2, 2021

Democrats have a remedy. And, in fact, they have two, the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Nov 2, 2021

We saw the normalization of an armed, violent, insurrection and attempted coup against the United States by the party that was the instigator, the planners and the plotters, if you will, and the voters of Virginia and the voters of New…

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Nov 1, 2021

The problem with that is that legal claims of executive privilege belong exclusively to the president of the United States, who is joe Biden, not Donald Trump.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Nov 1, 2021

The great American city of Atlanta will get a new mayor as of tomorrow.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Nov 1, 2021

Democrat Eric Adams heavily favored in that mayor race tomorrow.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Nov 1, 2021

Republicans are hoping to stop all of that and presumably roll it all back and then some.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Nov 1, 2021

Democrats have been in power for the in Virginia for the past couple years.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Nov 1, 2021

Virginia this year became the 23rd state in the country to formally abolish the death penalty.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Nov 1, 2021

If you are looking for a parallel here, for this odd situation, it’s a Lisa Murkowski.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Oct 28, 2021

Donald Trump defines a good Republican as loyalty to him, and in some cases, you have people who are quite loyal to Trump, who are also conservatives.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 28, 2021

No one ever followed a leader who led from fear. Fear is not a leadership quality.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Oct 27, 2021

We need something like a truth and reconciliation commission this country to get to the bottom of how the Trump administration and everyone and all of the public health origins of this country allowed a once in a century pandemic to spiral…

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Oct 27, 2021

The provocation for these people is the very existence of the Biden presidency and we know there’s at least three more years of that.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Oct 26, 2021

Right now, they’re fighting between a whole bunch of different priorities and have come to a situation where they have paired the paid leave back from 12 weeks to four weeks.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Oct 26, 2021

Democrats have to go it alone as they have to do on many of these things.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Oct 26, 2021

Right now, there should be honestly, if you went to the floor tomorrow, 535 votes in the U.S. Congress for 12 weeks of guaranteed maternal leave, just tomorrow.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Oct 26, 2021

It was interesting, the judge was told by defense lawyers that Sibick’s mom and dad had different political views.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 24, 2021

One could argue that he`s simply trying to represent his constituents, who overwhelmingly voted for Trump, but he also appears to be acting in his own self-interests.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 24, 2021

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.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 24, 2021

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.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 24, 2021

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.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 24, 2021

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…

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Oct 22, 2021

Clark was subpoenaed by the committee last week. He’s a lifelong Republican lawyer who served both in private practice and in the George W. Bush DOJ ultimately becoming Acting Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ’s Civil Division at the…

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Oct 22, 2021

The select committee investigating January 6 has been very clear that they are not messing around. If you refuse to come and testify willingly, they will come after you.

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