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Ron Klain

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Ron Klain is an American lawyer and political advisor who served as the White House Chief of Staff under President Joe Biden from January 2021 to February 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, Klain has had a long career in public service, including roles in various administrations and as a key advisor on significant policy issues. He is known for his expertise in crisis management and has played a pivotal role in handling major events during his tenure in government.

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Aug 13, 2024

I think the president had won the nomination fair and square. 14 million people went and voted for him and the vice president as vice president.

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Aug 13, 2024

The way to beat down Trump is to unite the Democratic Party, and he had lost the ability to do that.

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Aug 13, 2024

She has united the party behind her forcefully and effectively, and that's what we need to win this fall.

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Aug 13, 2024

I think he's absolutely up to the job. If you saw after the debate -- he had a bad night at the debate, I won't deny that. But after the debate, he gave an hour-long press conference. After the NATO Summit, where he talked about world…

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Oct 19, 2022

So my focus isn't so much on the polls, but on us continuing to do our job, delivering for the American people, doing things that are at the top of people's agenda, like the President's announcement yesterday to try to bring down the price…

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Oct 19, 2022

I think the polls do show a very, very close midterm election as a whole. I think on inflation, look, prices are high and the President is working to bring them down.

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Oct 19, 2022

Well, look, Anderson, I'm covered by the Hatch Act, I have to be careful what I say about electoral politics here at the White House.

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Oct 19, 2022

So I don't think rallies have proved effective for candidates in the midterms. And so we're trying something different that we think will be effective.

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Oct 19, 2022

The Republicans have said if they get control of the Congress, what they are going to do is repeal the President's plan to let Medicare negotiate for the price of prescription drugs.

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Oct 19, 2022

I think what people need to look at is the choice between what the President -- what congressional Democrats have done are doing, and what Republicans are talking about this season.

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Oct 3, 2022

He views them as very responsible efforts to get to the bottom of a real threat to our democracy. So the hearings Congress is holding, I think is part of what should be a national reexamination of whether or not this country is dedicated…

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Sep 13, 2022

The president said on the day the Dobbs decision came down, and rolled back Roe v. Wade, he said, this is going to go one of two ways. Either there would be a pro-choice majority in the House and Senate, and we would enshrine Roe versus…

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Aug 25, 2022

The fact that we’ve got the unemployment rate down to 3.5 percent, which matches the lost in years.

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Aug 25, 2022

Voters have to see the clear difference between the two political parties.

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Aug 25, 2022

But we -- what we are clearly seeing on the campaign trail are MAGA Republicans engaging in the big lie, refusing to accept the outcome of elections, threatening to overturn the will of the voters in subsequent elections.

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Aug 25, 2022

You heard the president talk about abortion tonight.

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Aug 25, 2022

Look, what Tim Ryan and Joe Biden share in common is a dedication to making sure that every person in this country, whether they went to college or not, has a chance for a better life.

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Aug 25, 2022

Ultimately, the way we’re going to protect a woman’s right to choose is to pass a federal law to enshrine Roe v. Wade into the law of the land.

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Aug 25, 2022

The contrast, the gap between what Joe Biden and the Democrats are fighting for, what Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans are fighting for, that gap just couldn’t be wider.

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Aug 25, 2022

We’re doing our jobs. We’re going to let the Justice Department do its job.

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Aug 25, 2022

That difference just I guess I said before it just couldn’t be a wider difference.

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Aug 25, 2022

He and the Democrats are fighting for standing up to special interests, saving our democracy, bringing down costs, protecting a woman’s right to choose, getting guns off our streets.

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Aug 18, 2022

We now have a presidency where the president has delivered the largest economic recovery plan since Roosevelt, the largest infrastructure plan since Eisenhower, the most judges confirmed since Kennedy, the second largest health care bill…

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Aug 9, 2022

The president did two things here that have led to one of the fastest declines in gas prices in history.

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