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Van Jones
@vanjones· Nov 5, 2016

I think Comey did real damage to the country. I think he did real damage to law enforcement. I think he did real damage to the Hillary Clinton campaign.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Nov 5, 2016

There seems to be no logical explanation for some of these new voting rules, except to go after black voters.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Nov 5, 2016

I think there are two big surges that are happening. I think there's a big Latino surge. I think there may well be a big Republican surge here.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Oct 26, 2016

I think that -- first of all, I think that Michelle Obama now is probably the most effective communicator on planet Earth.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Oct 18, 2016

He gets compared to Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan did something extraordinary. He led an insurgency inside his party and actually captured that party and used it to take over the country.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Oct 18, 2016

I think you have to find the left-wing of our party disgusted and disappointed with the whole system and willing to give a chance now to Hillary Clinton because she's not followed him all the way down the gutter.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Oct 18, 2016

The Bernie Sanders crowd wants a politics of addition and multiplication. Not a politics of division and subtraction.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Oct 17, 2016

There are two different things here. One is looks like a confession from Creamer that they are sending people to the rallies to stir up trouble. That's not illegal. It's distasteful. But you can kind of live with that.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Oct 17, 2016

If somebody goes to a Hillary Clinton rally and says Hillary Clinton is the B-word and then somebody punches that person. The person who did the punching has to take responsibility.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Oct 17, 2016

This is bad for Hillary Clinton, it's good for Donald Trump, but it doesn't matter a whole lot.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 25, 2016

But her great strength is she can actually make a credible claim that he would make it worse. And if you want chaos, he's the chaos bringer.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 25, 2016

I agree with you that in fact people do need to feel like change is coming. And I think that Hillary Clinton because there's been this whole fight about personalities, she hasn't talked about her plans to actually make improvements as she…

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 25, 2016

But the difference is Reagan actually knew the policy. He was having a hard time getting it out. The hard part is there is this grading on a curve. I think it's very, very dangerous.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 22, 2016

When you have people with mental health issues, law enforcement needs to be better trained to talk people down rather than shoot them down.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 22, 2016

If you are black and disabled, another or somebody is days after a car crash, maybe they can't comply. If you are African-American and you cannot comply, deadly force will be applied against you, because the assumption is always, you're a…

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 22, 2016

We've got to get to a better understanding of the whole series of reforms that can lessen the violence.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 22, 2016

This is probably going to turn out to be, in part, a case of a mental health issue being escalated to a point where someone loses their life.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 15, 2016

He's a legitimate president. He was born here. He should have never been forced to suffer this humiliation all this time in the first place.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 5, 2016

I thought he did have a real shot early on just because there are cracks. The Democratic Party, you know, has left some African-Americans feeling frustrated, taken for granted.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 5, 2016

Hillary Clinton has done an extraordinary job. African-American support for her equals and sometimes surpasses Obama himself.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Sep 5, 2016

His tone-deaf attempt to outreach to black folks by insulting black people... I think he blew a real opportunity in this campaign.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Aug 11, 2016

The reason that Trump is so passionate about Pennsylvania is because he cannot win without the Rust Belt because he threw the Sun Belt away by attacking Latinos.

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