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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 23, 2020

There is no question that Breonna Taylor and her family deserved justice yesterday, today and tomorrow.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 22, 2020

I serve on the Senate Intelligence Committee. And I will tell you please believe everything that has been published. Russia interfered in the election of the president of the United States in 2016, and they will do it again.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 22, 2020

I want to make sure everybody votes. And that they vote early, whoever you vote for. It is your constitutional right.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 22, 2020

Donald Trump will never use the term Black Lives Matter. It is outdated. It is wrong headed thinking to think that the only way you are going to get communities to be safe is to put more police officers on the street. What we have to do…

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 20, 2020

I'm open to this conversation about extending the number of people on the United States Supreme Court.

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Jena Griswold
@jenagriswold· CO· Sep 16, 2020

I have confidence in postal workers, and I thought that the attorney general's statements about postal workers being bribed was just outlandish.

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Jena Griswold
@jenagriswold· CO· Sep 16, 2020

We have a president of the United States willing to try to cheat to keep power. And that is so undemocratic. It's so un-American. And we have to do everything we can to safeguard our democracy.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 15, 2020

I would not trust Donald Trump, and it would have to be a credible source of information.

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Jena Griswold
@jenagriswold· CO· Sep 14, 2020

Every American should be able to have access to safe and accessible and secure elections.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 11, 2020

It is not just massive destruction of lives but also a possible great depression while at the same time feeding into the largest civil unrest in close to 50 years.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 11, 2020

The fact that the president, at his disposal in February, when he knew that we could actually protect ourselves through masks, the only protection that we knew was reliable, he stigmatized it, so he was directly responsible for the cause…

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 10, 2020

In February and January, he had all this information. Yet he held rallies. He suggested that to wear a mask is a sign of weakness, as opposed to a sign of strength.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 10, 2020

He knew it was airborne, that people would breathe it. You know, Joe Biden said it well. He said, well, I guess we now know he knows how to read. He knew the facts of it. We continue to have examples of the fact that this is an individual…

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 9, 2020

I just have to say, this is why, on November 3, we need to get Joe Biden and Kamala Harris into the White House.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 9, 2020

This is why, on November 3, we need to get Joe Biden and Kamala Harris into the White House.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Sep 7, 2020

Folks want to be seen. And Joe sees people, through those aviator glasses and without them. He really does see people. It's a very special thing about him.

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Jena Griswold
@jenagriswold· CO· Sep 2, 2020

But I am concerned at the length that the president is going to try to undermine our elections. And just undermine confidence. Not only is he attacking the post office because he believes it's a way to stop Democrats from voting. He is…

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Jena Griswold
@jenagriswold· CO· Sep 2, 2020

It is a system that works in Colorado and I think the whole nation should have access to vote by mail for all.

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Jena Griswold
@jenagriswold· CO· Sep 2, 2020

It's disgusting the length that the president and the attorney general are trying to go. You know, it doesn't take much to realize what they're trying to do. They're trying to undermine confidence in the election and suppress turn-out in…

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Aug 28, 2020

For Congressman Lewis, the brutal murder of Emmett Till his blood shook loose, the activists inside him. It was the start of a lifelong journey towards service and driving change the same journey that countless young leaders are building…

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Aug 28, 2020

This is a moment we are -- we are two months practically, a little bit more, away from an election to decide who will become the next president of the United States while we are in the midst of at least four crises. And the American…

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Aug 28, 2020

The road ahead, it is not going to be easy. But if we work together to challenge every instinct our nation has to return to the status quo and combine the wisdom of long-time warriors for justice with the creative energy of the young…

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Aug 27, 2020

For Congressman Lewis, the brutal murder of Emmett Till is what shook loose the activist inside him. It was the start of a lifelong journey towards service and driving change, the same journey that countless young leaders are building upon…

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Aug 27, 2020

And if we would just actually get together and resource our communities in the ways that they deserve, grow strong communities from the ground up instead of over-police them from the top down, we wouldn't be having to have any of these…

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