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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 10, 2020

After the demoralizing four years of troops being left to get sick on a ship and Donald Trump's misuse of the military like tinker toys.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 10, 2020

The choice shattered nearly 50 years of norms and required a special exemption from both chambers of Congress.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Dec 9, 2020

Republicans did everything they possibly could to suppress the vote in Georgia which Joe Biden still won because of the determination of Georgia voters to not be suppressed by those techniques.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 9, 2020

I have compared in the recent book I read about Trump, and on air, I will say it again, that the Republican Party at this point is essentially identical in many ways to the national party, the nationalist party in South Africa, that…

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 9, 2020

This sort of crackpot theory that the votes in particularly primarily African-American cities, in cities where lots of black folks live, are, by default, invalid, they must be made invalid by the conservative majority on the court.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 9, 2020

These Republicans are simply saying, in effect, they do not and will not accept that black voters should be allowed to cast votes, however legal those may be, to overrule the desires of a majority of white voters and tip elections and pick…

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 9, 2020

President-elect Joe Biden will be confronted by not one but two viruses when he takes office in 42 days. The first, of course, being the pandemic, but the second virus is the more pernicious long-term threat to our country, the disease of…

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Dec 7, 2020

It is legally impossible and that it is unconstitutional for the governor or the state legislature to try in any way to reverse Joe Biden's win in Georgia.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Dec 7, 2020

The most important piece of that 'Washington Post' reporting tonight is that Pennsylvania's Republican speaker of the house, Brian Cutler, twice told the president that it is impossible for the Pennsylvania legislature to overturn the…

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Dec 7, 2020

Tomorrow is called the safe harbor day for that process because any state that picks its electors in accordance with the election results in their state, in accordance with state law in their state -- any state that gets that done, that…

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 4, 2020

Donald Trump is fighting so hard to keep a job he's not even doing.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 4, 2020

Perhaps if he had put the same energy into fighting COVID and caring for anyone other than himself, the election might have turned out differently.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Dec 4, 2020

Even it came to light, there were mass protests across the country for weeks, demanding that families belong together.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Dec 4, 2020

Trump and the Republicans have been trying to kill it off ever since.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Dec 4, 2020

But one thing that does happen, a lot of them do reach a breaking point. We saw with Doug Doocy in Arizona during the summer surge.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Dec 2, 2020

Trump's unprecedented lame duck effort to tie Biden's hands on foreign policy, especially in Iran.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Dec 2, 2020

Donald Trump's share of the vote ranked 10th and 11 out of 12. He is an historically unpopular president.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Dec 2, 2020

But there are also a lot of opportunities for the Biden administration.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Dec 2, 2020

Yes, there's a lot of talk about how much impact this show will have on the vote in Georgia.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Dec 2, 2020

Biden is second in victory margins, only behind Obama's 2008 margin.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Dec 2, 2020

The elimination of that office, that central hub, will, quote, almost certainly slow the flow of counterterrorism information to Biden transition aides.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Dec 2, 2020

Why with 49 days left in office is President Trump stacking the top ranks of the pentagon with, forgive me, a bunch of junior-level screwballs?

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Dec 2, 2020

Nobody quite knows what Republicans are prepared to do about this divergence between what the president wants for himself and what the Republican Party needs to hold on to power.

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