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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 15, 2020

If Democrats want to put a stop to Republicans' minority rule power grab, they need to take back control of the Senate.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 14, 2020

Whether or not our friends and loved ones' sex marriages will remain legal in all 50 states and LGBT civil rights in general and whether women will lose the right to control what happens to our own bodies is at stake.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 14, 2020

Literally everything is at stake y'all, literally everything.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 13, 2020

The DOJ has been rebranded. It's now for all intents and purposes the law firm of Trump, Trump and Trump.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 13, 2020

I can't think of any other logical explanation, other than they think herd immunity is the way to go.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Oct 13, 2020

Under the Constitution and federal law, there is no provision for the president of the United States to unilaterally delay an election.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 13, 2020

If your whole strategy is to suppress the vote, that means you are not getting votes.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 11, 2020

Donald Trump is a man incapable of self-reflection or empathy or basic concern for the health and safety of other people, even his own MAGA super-fans.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Oct 9, 2020

The country is going to be in even worse shape. It's in terrible shape now.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 8, 2020

It's scandalous the way that the Republican Party and Trump are behaving in this virus situation.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 7, 2020

The fact that they could have saved a lot of lives by modeling that behavior because his base will do whatever he says.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Oct 7, 2020

He certainly did not. And he talked about mail-in ballots being very full of fraud.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Oct 7, 2020

He is defending a normal Republican presidency which is not what we are experiencing.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 6, 2020

It's all a big distraction from what's looking like a total Trumpian collapse in the polls.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 6, 2020

Pence has the difficult task of defending the indefensible as new polls show the bottom dropping out of the Trump campaign.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 4, 2020

Donald Trump clearly sees the same polls we do, and must realize he's losing the election, so he and his party are trying to stop Americans from voting.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 4, 2020

He is doing it for pure ego. He is doing it simply because he can.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 4, 2020

He wants video of himself looking like himself so he doesn't wear a mask? I mean, it's just like I could not imagine a greater act of selfishness by a human being, let alone the president of the United States, who is supposed to protect…

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Oct 2, 2020

It is understandable. It is more than understandable to be enraged at the president and at this White House for endangering all the other people whose lives they have risked and squandered.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Oct 2, 2020

He has gleefully flouted health guidelines designed to keep people from getting infected.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Oct 2, 2020

There is no reason to expect that the president is going to die from this.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Oct 2, 2020

Like, we should all look out for each other and we should all care for each other. And this pandemic should be an opportunity for us to do that.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Oct 2, 2020

This moment is not just a moment, frankly, of one man's health. His behavior has made that an impossibility. This is a moment in which we have to ask if someone who was so unable to care for the American people that he got ensnared and was…

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