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Adam Kinzinger

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Adam Kinzinger is a former U.S. Representative for Illinois's 16th congressional district, serving from 2013 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, Kinzinger gained national attention for his outspoken views on various political issues, particularly his criticism of former President Donald Trump. He was one of the few Republicans to support the impeachment of Trump and served on the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riot.

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Jun 9, 2024

This is threatening the very fabric of democracy, because all we have to have for a democracy to survive is a basic compact that your vote, you can vote, your vote will count and the person that wins, wins.

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Jun 9, 2024

I mean, it's sick and disgusting, obviously. I think we have to be careful to not allow this outrage to just numb us. Like this really should be - and thank you for putting this at the top of the show - this should be at the top of every…

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Jun 9, 2024

He's turned these people that violated the rule of law into martyrs. And by the way, if we don't have rule of law in this country, democracy can't survive either.

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Jun 5, 2024

He's a con artist, he's a scammer and we saw that even in MAGA fundraising.

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Jun 5, 2024

This is abuse of the American people, convincing them that their very existence in life is at stake so you can extract one more dollar from them every day.

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May 21, 2024

She said in the thing you played that we won't survive four more years of Trump. She said, we will not survive four more years of Trump and just endorsed him.

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May 21, 2024

So, she is putting her career and her interests over the country. I know it sounds dramatic. I'm just so passionate about the fact that Donald Trump would be nothing but terrible for the United States of America.

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Apr 7, 2024

It's clear that what Donald Trump is trying to do is utilize them to buy time simply to get past an election.

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Apr 7, 2024

We fought a revolution against the British because we believe that no person is above the law.

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Apr 7, 2024

The whole point is not to argue deep legal theory and not to get an answer of deep legal theory. It's to stall and delay so that Donald Trump in his mind hopefully wins and then he can direct the Department of Justice to dismiss this case.

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Apr 2, 2024

the GOP is ungovernable right now and it's because Kevin McCarthy agreed to the rule that just one person could bring forward a motion to vacate the chair.

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Apr 2, 2024

This is a moment for the president, Mr. Biden, to actually double down on Ukraine, to come out every day and attack the Republicans.

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Apr 1, 2024

He's not going to win. He's not going to be president. But he could easily give this to Donald Trump.

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Mar 18, 2024

Oh, there's a lot at stake. I mean, not just in terms of what it means for this election. Obviously, if the Supreme Court comes back with what they expect - we expect and say you don't have absolute immunity, then potentially this trial…

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Mar 7, 2024

What this shows me, Anderson, is that it was a really good speech for them to have to now turn around and focus on the fact that it was political, because they had all their talking points set for Joe Biden is unable to govern.

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Feb 11, 2024

Joe Biden, I think can be pretty funny. And I think it's -- it's, you know, talk about it, be serious, be a serious man which he is. But I think fine times to joke about it. And then obviously pivot back to the fact that his opponent is…

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Feb 11, 2024

I think it is the way to handle it. I think they need to -- look, this isn't something that is going to go out of the minds of voters. It's not like if you talk about something else, people are going to forget that he's advanced age.

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Feb 11, 2024

He's the one making the decisions and, you know, fair or unfair. And I think it's unfair, obviously, in comparison to Donald Trump, but Donald Trump appears very energetic.

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Jan 18, 2024

I don't know. She should have said this a long time ago, by the way. She's been asked this question many times before.

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Jan 18, 2024

There's people that are just wanting to gain the world right now, and Donald Trump has done a masterful job of convincing people that they can't stand up against him, and so they won't.

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Jan 18, 2024

The problem is we really need to reverse the clock back to August or September whenever the first debate was, and that's when those people running for president needed to be taking on Donald Trump.

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Jan 18, 2024

But I'm going to tell you, if he did, she would say yes in a heartbeat.

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Jan 18, 2024

I mean, you know, it was implied by Stuart, maybe he even said it, like, Nikki Haley appointed Tim Scott to the Senate. She made him a US senator where he could then become a national figure and then launch his campaign for president that…

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