“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
“I’d be worried about a massive economic slowdown. You know, the impact of Wall Street on Main Street, and I’d be worried about job losses.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”

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On the recordAugust 21, 2022
He needs to keep Trump on his good side. He needs to make sure that Trump is happy with him, because, otherwise, he probably won`t have the juice to be elected speaker by his Republican colleagues.
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Kevin McCarthy
Republican · California
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msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Grace Segers discussed McCarthy's reliance on Trump's support for his ambitions to become Speaker of the House.

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