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Kayleigh McEnany

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Kayleigh McEnany is a Republican political commentator and former White House Press Secretary under President Donald Trump. She served in this role from April 2020 until January 2021, becoming known for her defense of the Trump administration's policies and her confrontational style during press briefings. Prior to her role as Press Secretary, McEnany was a national spokesperson for the Republican National Committee and a contributor for various media outlets, including CNN and Fox News. McEnany has been a prominent figure in conservative media and continues to engage in political commentary.

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Nov 21, 2016

He's trying to do everything right. I think it's unfair to suggest that he put this in a blind trust which would mean take it away from his children.

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Nov 21, 2016

But I think that kind of makes the point. Look, we have had statesmen come in with all the degrees that Errol mentioned, come in and tried this and they failed at it.

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Nov 20, 2016

I want someone who doesn't underestimate the threat of ISIS, that, to me, the biggest problem over the last eight years, last four years certainly.

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Nov 20, 2016

He can't unilaterally repeal Obamacare, for instance. He can make that a priority going forward when he works with Congress.

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Nov 17, 2016

It's completely unfair to say that he called Islam a cancer, because when you actually listen to the whole statement in context, he says, look, this ideology is being used for people to cut off other people's heads, to commit mass…

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Nov 17, 2016

My response is that Mike Flynn is the exact person who needs to be in this role.

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Nov 16, 2016

I couldn't agree with Van more. I think that's absolutely right everything that he just said.

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Nov 16, 2016

I think he wants a flawless smooth transition and flags are raised.

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Nov 13, 2016

We have an obligation to correct falsehoods. And President Barack Obama stood up there and said it's time to unite and that means getting rid of these rumors and dispelling these rumors.

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Nov 13, 2016

I have no concerns about Steve Bannon because he was appointed by Donald Trump who's a leader I believe in, who's someone who's called for unity time and time again.

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Nov 13, 2016

Those of us who supported Donald Trump supported him because he's not a politician, because he's anti-establishment.

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Nov 13, 2016

I think we should all be doing ... let's give this guy a chance, let's come together, let's unite.

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Nov 9, 2016

A lot of these people are millennials and I'm here to tell you as a millennial myself, my millennial friends, they care about jobs, they care about student loan debt.

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Nov 9, 2016

Everyone asks, you know, what is Donald Trump going to do? How is he going to deal with this? How is he going to unite the country?

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Nov 8, 2016

We need to unify this country and we don't do it by stoking the fears of those people in the streets.

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Nov 8, 2016

To unify this country, we have to see the good in one another, not the bad.

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Nov 8, 2016

The Democratic Party is four to eight years behind where the Republican Party was this election.

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Nov 8, 2016

Let me assuage these fears for a moment. What we're seeing I think in this protest is the results of an argument prosecuted by the Hillary Clinton campaign that Donald Trump was X, Y, or Z adjective that is synonymous with deplorable.

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Nov 6, 2016

It does seem a bit tone deaf when you hear President Obama up there touting the progress we've made with ObamCare, you know, weeks after we learned that premiums are going to go up by 120 percent in some places.

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Nov 5, 2016

I think Jim Comey has proven himself to not be in favor of either side.

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Nov 5, 2016

You're also neglecting the fact that -- that in -- what I see as the path to victory, which is Florida, Ohio, Nevada, Iowa, and keeping North Carolina -- that would give Donald Trump 265.

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Nov 5, 2016

I think we're underestimating the fact that Cubans have come home to Trump.

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Nov 3, 2016

Yes Hillary, you have been working on civil rights and you have been in government for 30 years but look, are you better off than you were then? No.

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