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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Oct 27, 2026

Right now, short-term, you have the gas price issue. But I think we have done the kinds of things that have set the economy up, and job creators up, for success … I think the conditions for growth are there.

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John Thune
@johnthune· Republican · SD· Oct 27, 2026

Nothing's a guarantee. There are no layups.

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Tim Scott
@timscott· Republican · SC· Oct 27, 2026

One of the reasons why we will be in the majority is because he has invested the time and the energy on the campaign trail.

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Cindy Hyde-Smith
@cindyhydesmith· Republican · MS· Oct 27, 2026

Endorsements don't win elections, votes win elections.

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Kamala Harris
@kamalaharris· Democratic · CA· Oct 27, 2026

We've been going through that range of emotions from anger to sadness to depression, all of that for a year and a half.

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Jack Reed
@jackreed· Democratic · RI· Oct 26, 2026

This is a forward-looking project that is both economically and environmentally responsible.

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Tom Cotton
@tomcotton· Republican · AR· Oct 26, 2026

(These) are the popular things that Arkansans want their senator to be doing: putting money back in their pocket through tax cuts, supporting our military, supporting our law enforcement, securing our border, keeping them safe and helping…

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Ron Wyden
@ronwyden· Democratic · OR· Oct 26, 2026

Otherwise, the American people will rightly question whether a government that so flagrantly violates basic legal requirements, like the statute requiring declassification, can ever be trusted to not abuse a powerful surveillance tool like…

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Cynthia Lummis
@cynthialummis· Republican · WY· Oct 26, 2026

It will be very challenging to sync up with the House and the Senate on what should be included.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 26, 2026

Likely voters are essentially where they were a month ago, with 46% in favor of Proposition 40 and 43% opposed—despite a recent push by backers of the measure, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, to rally support.

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Chris Murphy
@chrismurphy· Democratic · CT· Oct 26, 2026

The biggest issue of trust is the lack of trust the people have that we’re going to actually protect them from the poison, protect them from the potential enormous downside of unregulated, unchecked AI.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Oct 26, 2026

They will use division, and they may even use your name or your faith to somehow suggest that you are dangerous and less than trustworthy and less patriotic and less American than they are.

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Amy Klobuchar
@amyklobuchar· Democratic · MN· Oct 26, 2026

For a U.S. senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team — which I knew, knowing my Midwestern sports — and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what…

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Thom Tillis
@thomtillis· Republican · NC· Oct 26, 2026

I'm not sure why they thought they had to file a lawsuit, other than as Todd said earlier, make sure that you have the ballots right so we can be certain that the Democrats were not successful in confusing candidates to vote for someone…

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 26, 2026

All they can do is foment hatred and divisiveness.

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Sherrod Brown
@sherrodbrown· Democratic · OH· Oct 25, 2026Verified

The billionaires, the trillionaires, and shady corporations all know John Husted is for sale.

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Sherrod Brown
@sherrodbrown· Democratic · OH· Oct 25, 2026Verified

You work harder than ever, but no matter how hard you work, your pay doesn’t keep up.

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Barack Obama
@barackobama· Democratic · IL· Oct 25, 2026Verified

What’s up with the gold? Everything more gold. He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.

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Adam Schiff
@adamschiff· Democratic · CA· Oct 25, 2026

It’s not the federal government’s business to run Alaskan elections. It’s Alaska’s business to do that.

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Thom Tillis
@thomtillis· Republican · NC· Oct 25, 2026

This sort of 'who's on first' game being played with who actually called this, who's responsible for it's unacceptable.

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Thom Tillis
@thomtillis· Republican · NC· Oct 25, 2026

We like the other Western European nations, need to support them, expand capabilities, and defeat Putin. Putin is no friend.

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Thom Tillis
@thomtillis· Republican · NC· Oct 25, 2026

You can't have an oligarch pay tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for the president's son's wedding and not make it look odd, particularly when that oligarch is aligned with Putin.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Oct 25, 2026

Likewise, we expect all political actors to support these talks which represent the best chance Venezuela has had in thirty years to peacefully achieve not just a free and fair election but an enduring democracy.

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