He's got himself in a corner. He is desperately looking for a way out. He's turning to this ridiculous idea of taking money away from Puerto Rico and California and other places and putting it on what is not a serious crisis.
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It is so hypocritical that I think you're going to see that the Republicans will pay a price at the polls this November over this issue.
With these rallies, we are staggering from one obscenity to the next, and it is very clear that the rally haven't helped him very much politically. His numbers have been going down since all this nonsense started.
I think, basically, this is about power. I think he wants to cripple Joe Biden before he ever gets started.
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