“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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On the recordDecember 2, 2009
I view this, really, not as a Republican problem or a Democrat problem; this is an American problem.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho
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Editor's note · Context

Risch emphasizes the need for bipartisan cooperation on national issues.

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