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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 5, 2026

Because they have the guts to talk to the issues that are on the minds of ordinary Americans. It’s not more complicated than that.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 5, 2026

You know, ‘the donor class said you or you should be the candidate for the Senate,’ that’s what the ‘donor class’ says.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 5, 2026

Maybe the Democratic establishment should begin to understand they are way, way, out of touch with where the American people are.

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John Cornyn
@johncornyn· Republican · TX· Aug 5, 2026

Ultimately, it’s just speculation as to who might actually make a claim for immunity.

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John Cornyn
@johncornyn· Republican · TX· Aug 5, 2026

That order has been rescinded, and so that’s gone away.

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Thom Tillis
@thomtillis· Republican · NC· Aug 5, 2026

Some bonehead in North Carolina thinks that that’s a crime. Well, they better damn sure have information to back it up because if all it is is a picture, that person should lose his job,

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Thom Tillis
@thomtillis· Republican · NC· Aug 5, 2026

But folks, we got to end this stuff. We do. I’m going to support Mr. Blanche’s nomination, but what I hope I see out of him is a bending of the curve of this absurdity.

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Thom Tillis
@thomtillis· Republican · NC· Aug 5, 2026

Maybe it’s a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one, and that a little bit more intense in the prior administration, and so on and so forth,

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Rand Paul
@randpaul· Republican · KY· Aug 5, 2026

I think there is possibility for a peace, but there are some in my party that don’t want any peace.

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Rand Paul
@randpaul· Republican · KY· Aug 5, 2026

The Constitution says that the declaration of war, the initiation of war, is a vote of Congress.

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Rand Paul
@randpaul· Republican · KY· Aug 5, 2026

This is a war of choice, and it wouldn’t have been my choice.

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John Cornyn
@johncornyn· Republican · TX· Aug 5, 2026

All we had the authority to do what we did, and I think did the best we could.

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John Cornyn
@johncornyn· Republican · TX· Aug 5, 2026

We didn’t have the authority to sort that out.

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John Cornyn
@johncornyn· Republican · TX· Aug 5, 2026

The fact of the matter, it’s dead, and that’s all we could do under these circumstances.

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John Cornyn
@johncornyn· Republican · TX· Aug 5, 2026

Well, there’s nothing we could do to rein in the president when he said he likes the fund and he wishes it still exists.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Aug 5, 2026

The National Guard are not pawns and taxpayer dollars are not a piggy bank for Trump’s political stunts.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Aug 5, 2026

While American families are getting flattened by skyrocketing costs, Donald Trump is spending $1.4 billion to keep troops on the streets in Washington for years on end.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Aug 5, 2026

We’re going to keep fighting to bring down Americans’ costs and bring an end to Trump’s failed agenda that’s driving those costs up and up and up.

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Roger Marshall
@rogermarshall· Republican · KS· Aug 5, 2026

I guess we're trying to not need to do that. That's what our hope is, is that they won't need to do that. Leader McConnell was super helpful last time. So, you know, they're keeping tabs on this. We got to, you know, we're all one big…

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Roger Marshall
@rogermarshall· Republican · KS· Aug 5, 2026

Well, this is probably why my staff tells me, no matter what the polls show, they tell me that we're down by three points, and we did get outspent about four to one last time around. Regardless, we're gonna keep working hard.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Aug 5, 2026

The denuclearization of Iran is the ultimate deal.

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