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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 8, 2021

Republican Governor Ron DeSantis cares more about keeping the state open for business than about keeping people alive.

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Sean Hannity
@seanhannity· Feb 8, 2021

Not perfect, nobody`s perfect, but he`s done a really good job.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Feb 3, 2021

If you get stepped on and if you and the scientists at the CDC for any reason feel like you are not able to lead with public health or you`re not able to say what you think needs to be done, if you get into some politically uncomfortable…

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Feb 3, 2021

What Nancy Pelosi here is doing is -- if you play chess, you know that move at the end of the game, where you try to shrink the space on the board... She is trying to force Republicans to make a choice, repudiate her or embrace her.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Feb 3, 2021

A new Quinnipiac poll shows that nearly two-thirds of Republicans support $1,400 stimulus payment to Americans because A, they`re right.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Feb 3, 2021

The people in the base of the Republican Party want to destroy the opposition.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Feb 3, 2021

The Republican Party right now faces a choice between being the loyal opposition and being essentially a sedition is caucus opposed to democracy.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Feb 2, 2021

We expect that the leadership -- again, this is a U.S. capitol police officer killed in the line of duty protecting members of Congress.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 2, 2021

Guarantee you, if that was a Black Lives Matter protest in D.C., there would already be people shackled, arrested or dead.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jan 29, 2021

No one cares about process and they care about results, so do whatever you got to do to get it done.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jan 29, 2021

Nearly 70 percent of Americans support Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief package.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jan 29, 2021

President Biden's approval rating right now is higher than Donald Trump's has ever been.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 29, 2021

It should come as no surprise that the goal of the Capitol insurrectionists was to exert their perceived white privilege to try to overturn the will of millions and millions of voters, specifically of black voters.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jan 28, 2021

Get unified. Get focused. Dispatch the crazy. Focus on an agenda that would be a reasonable governing alternative to what we have, and you just might trip into some majorities in 2022.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jan 28, 2021

I mean, if this whole thing were to end, and the only person, who suffers any consequences for it, is Representative Cheney that would be a travesty, because she did nothing wrong, except say what was on her heart, and basically speak the…

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jan 28, 2021

Under their leader, Senator Mitch McConnell, you could not get 10 Republican senators to vote for a resolution that said moms are good and ice cream is cold and tasty.

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Ezra Klein
@ezraklein· Jan 27, 2021

If you want to deepen democracy, you have to get rid of the filibuster.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 27, 2021

Now, he’s doing his level best to block everything that 81 million Americans voted for.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jan 26, 2021

We know that the emancipation proclamation was an executive order, right? So executive orders can have power, but they`re also not as permanent as legislation.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Jan 26, 2021

Everything that the last president did not say to Vladimir Putin because he was afraid of Vladimir Putin and because he didn’t care about these things was said today by President Biden in one phone call.

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Ezra Klein
@ezraklein· Jan 25, 2021

If Mitch McConnell and the Republicans are even going to block the resolution to put the Senate together this year, then, of course, they would support the budget -- I’m sorry, the nuclear option in order to get rid of the filibuster even…

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Sean Hannity
@seanhannity· Jan 23, 2021

It is clear no one on the left actually wants to bring 75 million Trump voters into the fold.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Jan 21, 2021

He fought for that. It looks to me like the timeline that was agreed to was exactly what he had asked for.

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