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Adrian Fontes
@adrianfontes· AZ· Sep 22, 2022

It was a crime scene. And it wasn`t just any old crime scene or any old riot. This was an attempted overthrow of the government of the United States of America, where they had a gallows setup to hang Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi. This was…

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Adrian Fontes
@adrianfontes· AZ· Sep 22, 2022

When we have conspiracy theories and lies like the ones Mr. Finchem has just shared, based in no real evidence, what we end up doing is eroding the faith that we have in each other as citizens.

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Jocelyn Benson
@jocelynbenson· MI· Sep 21, 2022

I think we've seen on every level a lot of evidence that this is a nationally coordinated effort whether it is to try to gain access to our voting machines, whether it is trying to run candidates who are spouting misinformation to become…

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 20, 2022

In our democracy, your vote is one of your most powerful tools for driving change. So given that today is National Voter Registration Day, please make sure that you each are registered to vote is a website vote.gov, because there is an…

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 19, 2022

In our democracy, your vote is one of your most powerful tools for driving change.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 17, 2022

The border is secure, but we also have a broken immigration system, in particular over the last four years before we came in, and it needs to be fixed.

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Jena Griswold
@jenagriswold· CO· Sep 15, 2022

I have confidence that Americans are going to reject this extremism and save American democracy in November.

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Jena Griswold
@jenagriswold· CO· Sep 15, 2022

I did join the governor of Colorado, Governor Polis in saying the state of Colorado will not extradite for the criminalization of abortion in other states.

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Jena Griswold
@jenagriswold· CO· Sep 15, 2022

The Big Lie has been used to suppress the vote, threatened election workers, incentivize insider threats, like in Mesa County.

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Jena Griswold
@jenagriswold· CO· Sep 15, 2022

These races are incredibly important. And what we are seeing, as you noted, in Arizona, and Nevada, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, election deniers are running to be chief election officers.

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Jena Griswold
@jenagriswold· CO· Sep 15, 2022

In 2020, civil servants and elected officials rejected the lies coming out of the White House to make sure that Americans could vote safely and securely during a pandemic and with a sitting president trying to seize the presidency.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 10, 2022

However, that was – it is a Jackson, Mississippi that is an example of why we were pushing for the infrastructure law that now is the law of the land.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 10, 2022

Listen, the president has been very clear that he intends to run again. And if he does, I will be running with him proudly.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 10, 2022

There are practical solutions, which include creating a pathway to citizenship, fixing a broken immigration system.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 10, 2022

The border is secure, but we also have a broken immigration system.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 10, 2022

I believe government should not be telling women what to do with their bodies.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 10, 2022

Ideally, we codify Roe, we put into law a protection for what I believe is a constitutional right for women to make these decisions, and it would be bipartisan. Ideally, yes, it would be bipartisan.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 10, 2022

It means that we had an established right for almost a half a century, which is the right of women to make decisions about their own body as an extension of what we have decided to be the privacy rights to which all people are entitled.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 10, 2022

Our president has said he will not let the filibuster get in the way. If the Senate, through a majority vote, votes to pass the Women's Health Protection Act, he will sign it into law.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 10, 2022

I think that what we have to focus on is that in 60 days as of this interview, in less than two months, we are looking at a midterm election in which so much is on the line.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 9, 2022

I think that our country is a country that has gone through different periods of time where the unthinkable has happened. And where there has been a call for justice, and justice has been served. And I think that`s potentially going to…

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