I have issued a record number, and record amount, of fines since becoming Insurance Commissioner, to the tune of more than $42 million. We need to be able to do more, but the truth is that the Insurance Commissioner’s office is extremely…
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The Democrats are trying to find their way and trying to find their voice right now, which is why they're even debating whether they should show up or whether they should protest or whether they should shout at him.
The material that has come from the administration so far has been chaotic and also vague and confusing.
You have a president of the United States saying he will forcibly resettle people who live on land. The international community says is theirs. It's a violation of international law.
Democracy is based on the idea of self-determination, one person, one vote. He essentially just said the Palestinians don't count, right?
Both candidates have a lot of paths to 270. The question is, can they execute them?
Whoever wins Pennsylvania wins 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and gets to be president of the United States.
Trump has changed the Republican Party and changed the electoral map in some ways as that has trended over.
Joe Biden won 63 percent of the vote here, right? These suburbs, when I started doing this, used to be Republican or Republican leaning. They are safe blue territory now.
You do not want that man standing back here. You did not want him living in that House, right there. You do not want him effecting what happens up there and you point to the monuments and you just say, think about this.
This election might well be settled in the suburbs just like 2020 was.
Donald Trump got 32 percent nationally among Latino voters in 2020. He's around 40 percent in our poll.
Biden got 87 percent of the black vote in 2020 in the exit polls. Harris is getting 79 percent.
If she can answer that question and get narrow on that, she has a chance. But that's their number one issue. It's not immigration. It's not abortion. It's the economy.
This is why he lost the last election because a sliver of people, many of whom right now think they might vote for him because they're worried about inflation.
This race is as competitive as can be, which means the stakes tonight in this debate are as big as they could be.
The reason both campaigns are spending way more money there than anywhere else is because they think it is what's going to tip the scales.
It's about trying to show respect which Hillary Clinton did not for people who worked with their hands, not just in the oil and gas industry.
The stakes heading into this debate are just so enormous because the race is just so close.
People want new and different. They're tired after COVID, after inflation, after Biden and Trump.
The question is, do the rules apply anymore? This is the question I ask myself all the time.
If Kamala Harris were to win Pennsylvania, win Michigan, win Wisconsin, in the last five presidential elections, those three states have gone together.





