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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 19, 2020

If we have one, four more years of Trump, the country will end.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 19, 2020

Donald Trump has shown he will do anything to stay in power, even if it means tearing down the institutions he is sworn to protect.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Aug 18, 2020

They will try to make it stick to Kamala Harris in a way that they know they won't be able to stick it to Joe Biden.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 18, 2020

I think the healthcare argument is one of the strongest arguments that Joe Biden has because it's the thing that Republicans so want to take away.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Aug 18, 2020

It'll also be interesting to see, Brian, I think formatically, one of the things that we're looking for and thematically we got an explicit mention from Tracee Ellis Ross, who I thought was actually very good tonight.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Aug 15, 2020

I think moving forward, what the president has to do is try to reframe his administration's response because right now people don't believe it's been good.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Aug 13, 2020

There is going to be a big fight back here. I don't want to only focus on the repressive activities coming from the White House, there is real resistance.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Aug 13, 2020

It is, and African Americans and our allies died for the right to vote, we shouldn't have to die in, you know, COVID infested voting lines exercising that right.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Aug 13, 2020

But obviously we won't be watching for that tomorrow because the U.S. Senate left town today.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Aug 13, 2020

The attorney general then shortly thereafter forced out the U.S. attorney in that office.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Aug 13, 2020

It seems crazy that Cohen is warning that, you know, Trump will scuttle the election or refuse to leave office if he loses the election.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 11, 2020

The job of a president's staff is to make sure he doesn't look like an idiot.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Aug 11, 2020

I think part of this is that Joe Biden wants her to prosecute the case against Donald Trump.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 11, 2020

He showed maturity saying I can not only listen to these activists who are making these demands of me... And he listens to these demands from people who said, put a black woman on the ticket and he did it. He gets credit for that.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 11, 2020

He needs maximum enthusiasm, determination. He needs black women to not just give him 90 percent of their votes, but to come out, in record numbers, the way that they did for Obama. And what gets you that? The opportunity to make history…

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 10, 2020

An historic day is ahead, as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris make their first public appearance as the Democratic ticket.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 10, 2020

I think he should get in the gym and start getting ready, because he might get punched in the face, verbally punched in the face.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Aug 10, 2020

Donald Trump is using to justify these maneuvers is applicable under a federally declared disaster and we don't have a federally declared disaster.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Aug 10, 2020

If the postal service can deliver the mail as it always has when delivering mail-in ballots, Donald Trump is going to lose the presidential election.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Aug 10, 2020

As a former district attorney and state attorney general, Kamala Harris is well-equipped to take the fight to Donald Trump and his cronies.

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