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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 30, 2024

Today's Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity that fundamentally changed for all practical purposes. Today's decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what a president can do. This is a fundamentally…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 30, 2024

I know I'm not a young man but I know how to do this job. I know right from wrong. I know how to tell the truth. I know like millions of Americans know, when you get knocked down, you get back.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 30, 2024

This nation was founded on the principle that there are no kings in America. Each, each of us is equal before the law. No one -- no one is above the law, not even the president of United States.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 30, 2024

This decision today has continued the court's attack in recent years on a wide range of long established legal principles in our nation, from gutting voting rights and civil rights to take it away, a woman's right to choose to today's…

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 30, 2024

The public has a right to know the answer about what happened on January 6 before they ask to vote again this year.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 30, 2024

The presidency is the most powerful office in the world. It's an office that not only tests your judgment -- perhaps even more importantly, it's an office that could test your character.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 30, 2024

He said the former President Donald Trump sat back and watched a violent mob attack the Capitol.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 29, 2024

I know I'm not a young man, to state the obvious. I don’t walk as easy as I used to, I don't speak as smoothly as I used to. I don't debate as well as I used to. But I know what I do know — I know how to tell the truth.

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Joe Biden
@joebiden· Democratic · DE· Jun 29, 2024

The only person on this stage who’s a convicted felon is the man I'm looking at right now.

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Raphael Warnock
@raphaelwarnock· Democratic · GA· Jun 29, 2024

This is our moral assignment in this moment: to demonstrate to our children that we are – we are better than a people who would reelect somebody who is a pathological liar, a malignant narcissist.

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Raphael Warnock
@raphaelwarnock· Democratic · GA· Jun 29, 2024

We have a man who has the competence – and the character to lead this great nation and who loves this nation. We have another man who thinks he's better than the nation.

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Raphael Warnock
@raphaelwarnock· Democratic · GA· Jun 29, 2024

Donald Trump lied the entire 90 minutes. One analysis said that he told about 30 lies. I'm not real good at math, but I think that's about a lie every 90 seconds. That's real talent.

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Raphael Warnock
@raphaelwarnock· Democratic · GA· Jun 29, 2024

America is better, a whole lot better, than Donald Trump.

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Raphael Warnock
@raphaelwarnock· Democratic · GA· Jun 29, 2024

The question is, 'Who has Donald Trump ever shown up for other than himself and people like himself?' I'm with Joe Biden, and it's our assignment to make sure that he gets over the finish line come November, not for his sake but for the…

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Raphael Warnock
@raphaelwarnock· Democratic · GA· Jun 29, 2024

We can't have somebody like that in the Oval Office. That's – that’s not a talent we need leading the free world.

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Raphael Warnock
@raphaelwarnock· Democratic · GA· Jun 29, 2024

Oh, absolutely not. ... he's been showing up for the American people.

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