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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 23, 2026

He now resides on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Taxpayers want to know when they’ll get their money back.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 23, 2026

A man inside our government illegally spent nearly $22 million in taxpayer dollars on bogus campaign ads praising himself.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Oct 23, 2026

That’s great, Mr. Trump. I’d like to report a theft.

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Elissa Slotkin
@elissaslotkin· Democratic · MI· Oct 23, 2026

His supporters use a coordinated play to threaten, intimidate, and silence anyone who speaks up. It's a play to distract us from his failed economy, high gas prices, and the disastrous war he started with Iran. But if I've learned one…

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Elissa Slotkin
@elissaslotkin· Democratic · MI· Oct 23, 2026

Now, if you take a breath, this is all pretty crazy. A president from the Oval Office is weaponizing our justice system against an American who clearly gets under his skin. And if he can do it to me, he can do it to anyone.

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Chuck Schumer
@chuckschumer· Democratic · NY· Oct 23, 2026

As Trump and his cronies attempt to steal this election, we are fighting them at every turn. Our elections must always belong to the voters — not Donald Trump.

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Shelley Moore Capito
@shelleymoorecapito· Republican · WV· Oct 23, 2026

This was an act of Congress that we had worked with the White House on.

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Elizabeth Warren
@elizabethwarren· Democratic · MA· Oct 23, 2026

My office developed a 'food misery index' to measure how much the combination of rising food prices and declining SNAP participation is costing American households.

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Mike DeWine
@mikedewine· Republican · OH· Oct 22, 2026Verified

In regard to telling the truth, my experience with her and working closely with her every single day was that she certainly told the truth; that’s my experience.

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Mike DeWine
@mikedewine· Republican · OH· Oct 22, 2026Verified

Look, I believe, as I just said, that people I’ve worked with on that ticket are very, very good people.

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Mike DeWine
@mikedewine· Republican · OH· Oct 22, 2026Verified

It’s deeply, deeply, deeply troubling. It needs to come down; it’s just wrong to continue to run it.

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Doug Jones
@dougjones· AL· Oct 22, 2026

That’s what’s important about this campaign. That’s what we’ve been talking about.

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Doug Jones
@dougjones· AL· Oct 22, 2026

My goal, one of my goals, has always been to just have a competitive two-party system in this state.

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Doug Jones
@dougjones· AL· Oct 22, 2026

That we will not just shirk, but we will abandon our duty to children in this state to get them educated in the best way, and we abandon it in favor of political pandering.

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Doug Jones
@dougjones· AL· Oct 22, 2026

I make no illusions about the challenges. I’ve said that in my town halls. This is not going to be, ‘These are the things that we want to do, and we’re going to do everything we can to try to find a way to do them.’

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Doug Jones
@dougjones· AL· Oct 22, 2026

I think narrowing the gap in many places, which I think we can do, is success. Success is a building process.

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Doug Jones
@dougjones· AL· Oct 22, 2026

We’ve just got to grind it out, and we’ve got to stick to what we believe is the right thing in terms of what we want to do with state government.

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Amy Klobuchar
@amyklobuchar· Democratic · MN· Oct 22, 2026

People just should have noticed when you had a line item in the budget go from hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions and millions and millions of dollars — that should have been a red flag.

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Amy Klobuchar
@amyklobuchar· Democratic · MN· Oct 22, 2026

Right now in state government we need to make it more effective and accountable and that actually does include getting the details right and having higher expectations.

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Kevin Cramer
@kevincramer· Republican · ND· Oct 22, 2026

I prefer debt limit to not have to be reconciliation. But if Democrats are going to be reckless enough to not help, I’m open to that.

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Kevin Cramer
@kevincramer· Republican · ND· Oct 22, 2026

We have to do debt limit. I don’t care how we do it, necessarily.

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