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Sean Hannity
@seanhannity· Dec 1, 2020

Why wouldn't he just pardon himself and his family on the way out the door? Because I think he would be right to do so, because these people are nuts.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Nov 30, 2020

President Trump's message to Republican voters in Georgia is that Republicans definitely shouldn't bother voting.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Nov 30, 2020

If Republicans win one of those or both of those, they stay in charge in the U.S. Senate. If Democrats win both of those, Democrats will be in charge in the U.S. Senate.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Nov 30, 2020

I think the world will breathe a great bit of fresh air and they would be very, very happy to see sort of normal government in America again.

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Sean Hannity
@seanhannity· Nov 30, 2020

If Biden ever became president, I would tell Trump, pardon yourself and pardon your family.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Nov 25, 2020

But here's the thing, even if they win a 50-50 Senate in which you need every member of our caucus to pass anything is going to be a real uphill battle for big sweeping domestic legislative accomplishments.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Nov 25, 2020

In 56 days, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the President of the United States.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Nov 24, 2020

No election result should be certified at all and instead Republicans in the Wisconsin state legislature should just be allowed to pick their own preferred winner of the presidential election.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Nov 24, 2020

This failed, weird, last-minute lawsuit interruptus effort by the Trump folks today is not going to change that and it's never going to change that.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Nov 23, 2020

Today, President-elect Biden announced his first big raft of high profile appointees.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Nov 23, 2020

It has been a spectacle and a debacle watching the president, who was just voted out of office, try to nevertheless hold on to power by dint of his ability to intimidate and prevail upon local and state elections officials.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Nov 23, 2020

I believe she actually cares whether people have a meal on Thanksgiving. I don't know if Marco Rubio cares, I don't know if Rick Scott cares.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Nov 23, 2020

You have all of these people, Lamar Alexander, Mike DeWine, Chris Christie, Larry Hogan, some of the one who creped out and said, we think, we think, we think, we think Biden won.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Nov 23, 2020

I was there when they tried to storm the TCF Center. I was there. I heard people testify actually today as well about what was happening inside the room with all of these who showed up and just said they were self-anointed poll watchers.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Nov 20, 2020

Our toddler in chief is continuing his obstruction of a peaceful transfer of power to the next president, Joe Biden.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Nov 20, 2020

If you think Joe Biden has it bad now and has it rough now, wait until he's inaugurated. Republican leaders are already signaling they have no interest in bipartisanship and intend to obstruct Biden's agenda, just like they did to…

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Nov 20, 2020

Numbers don't lie. But Emily Murphy continues to lie about numbers. There are no Trump lawsuits pending anywhere in America tonight that can change the outcome of this election.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Nov 20, 2020

What he is trying to do is use this alternate reality to essentially produce the conditions to overturn a democratic election and end 240 years of American history.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Nov 20, 2020

It is obviously crazy town, right, that the president and his allies are even trying to do this.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Nov 18, 2020

Joe Biden is now going to have to govern a country and try to get a virus under control that doesn't care what party you are.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Nov 18, 2020

I think Republicans are enormously grateful to Trump for beating the Clinton machine, for taking on the media everyday, for doing some of the things that they don't think their establishment leaders were willing to do.

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