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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Oct 2, 2020

Never ever has it been more apparent that everyone, every single American deserves access to good quality health care.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Oct 1, 2020

So this smells a bit dangerous. There's a lot of confusion. There's not any clarity on why they're actually doing what they're doing.

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Mehdi Hasan
@mehdihasan· Sep 30, 2020

People keep saying, he didn't denounce the proud boys. Much worse than not denouncing them, he said, somebody has to deal with these left-wingers.

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Mehdi Hasan
@mehdihasan· Sep 30, 2020

I know, we have very, very short memories in 2020, but this year, there was a chance to remove the President of the United States. One Republican senator voted to do so, Mitt Romney.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Sep 28, 2020

He can dismiss Trump's lies, but he has a real opportunity here, which is just to explain how he would be a better president.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Sep 28, 2020

Trump paying almost nothing in taxes is I think we can say fairly not an electoral game-changer, but it is worth considering that it is also pretty politically toxic.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 27, 2020

So if the president is getting advice from someone who is not a public health leader, who is not infectious disease expert and he's leading with that advice, the whole nation suffers.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 27, 2020

Donald Trump is the greatest conman in America and the foundational myth of his entire political career was evident from the moment he announced his run for the presidency.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 26, 2020

His brand is 'I'm strong.' His brand is 'I'm independent.' His brand is 'Nobody can tell me what to do.' If it turns out he is a weak loser who is in hock to other countries, he is basically not in office trying to solve your financial…

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Sep 26, 2020

I think Biden can play this one of two ways. He could go out and try to fully engage. The smarter way might be to just say, look, I'm going to ignore this guy.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 24, 2020

There's a plain-as-day disconnect between what Trump says and what he does.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Sep 23, 2020

The off-ramp, the remedy to avoid all this is just a historic mobilization of the country's anti-Trump pro-Democratic majority coming out to vote.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 23, 2020

Cindy Hyde-Smith is not exactly somebody who's big on racial issues by saying she'd be front row at a hanging.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Sep 22, 2020

Now, Joe Biden has been consistently in the lead in that state. He's up by 4.5 points in the latest FiveThirtyEight polling average, but that's still fairly close.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Sep 22, 2020

The president is trying to ignore those types of questions and protect -- pretend the Coronavirus crisis doesn't exist, but there are 200,000 American families whose loved ones have been killed and they're harder to ignore.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Sep 22, 2020

In April of this year, as the country headed toward its first big peak in coronavirus cases and deaths, one of the CDC's elite disease detective teams, one of their Epi-Aid teams got called in to investigate one of the worst coronavirus…

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Sep 22, 2020

The Trump administration, though, has cut them off at the knees.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Sep 22, 2020

The Commission on Presidential Debates released a statement today headlined: Moderator announces topic for presidential debate.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Sep 22, 2020

Joe Biden will surely be bringing that up at next week's presidential debate, which might or might not provoke Donald Trump to attack John McCain once again for being captured and tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Sep 21, 2020

Despite the President's constant lies about his amazing health care plan that does not exist, it is a fact that his Justice Department is right now trying to destroy the entirety of the Affordable Care Act.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Sep 21, 2020

Mitch McConnell is unshamable and ruthless and he's going to maximize his power however he can.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 21, 2020

So, I think we do need to step back and imagine how this is going to look to historians who say, how did more than 400,000 Americans die? What were you saying, what were you thinking?

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 20, 2020

They can't find the time to pass the HEROES Act that the House already passed, which would put some $3 trillion into the hands of unemployed Americans, cities, and small businesses, hospitals, and first responders.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Sep 20, 2020

This naked hypocrisy reveals that this Republican Party is all about power and maintaining power through the courts through white, Christian men-centric American demographics changed.

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