“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”
“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.”
“Here is what you need to know: The 2020 election was not stolen; we won and he lost.”

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Ron DeSantis

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Ron DeSantis is an American politician currently serving as the Governor of Florida. A member of the Republican Party, he has been in office since January 2019. DeSantis previously served as a U.S. Representative for Florida's 6th congressional district from 2013 to 2018. His tenure as governor has been marked by a focus on conservative policies, including education reform, environmental issues, and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. DeSantis has gained national attention for his stances on various issues, including his support for the Trump Presidential Library in Miami and his administration's initiatives on wildlife management.

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Nov 17, 2014

I was shocked when we received this report on the Judiciary Committee: Fiscal Year 2013, ICE released 36,700 convicted criminals who were in the country illegally rather than have them detained.

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Sep 30, 2014

His imprisonment is unjust, and the length of his detention is a national disgrace.

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Sep 9, 2014

Simply removing a dictator, no matter how unsavory that individual is, is not, in this part of this world, going to lead necessarily to anything better.

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Sep 9, 2014

I think it creates a lot of unintended consequences.

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Sep 9, 2014

I mean, that may have been the initial pretext.

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Sep 9, 2014

I think Libya really represents a catastrophic failure in policy.

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Sep 8, 2014

They built terrorist tunnels. They purchased rockets.

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Sep 8, 2014

They raised and destroyed rather than use that.

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Sep 8, 2014

Hamas wants an Islamic caliphate, correct?

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Sep 8, 2014

The idea that somehow they just--they are fighting against occupation is what people will somehow say.

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Sep 8, 2014

They had a chance to govern themselves. They chose to elect Hamas.

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Sep 8, 2014

What did Hamas do? Did they try to turn it into a Singapore on the Mediterranean? No.

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