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Michael Steele

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Michael Steele is a prominent Republican political figure from Maryland, known for his role as the first African American chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), serving from 2009 to 2011. During his tenure, he focused on expanding the party's outreach to minority communities and modernizing its image. Steele has also been a vocal commentator on political issues, frequently appearing on various media platforms to discuss Republican strategies and policies. His insights often reflect a blend of traditional conservative values with a call for inclusivity within the party.

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Mar 6, 2021

The arrogance of power, the arrogance of being isolated and insulated from reality, the fact that you would go on FOX and claim one thing, but then say something different later on, as the governor of the state, just gives you a sense of…

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Mar 5, 2021

The only thing Donald Trump has done for Republicans is lost elections.

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Mar 5, 2021

Because those voters that are part of that 60 percent don`t vote in Republican primaries.

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Mar 5, 2021

What`s ironic about that, and it`s actually rather insulting, because we know probably John McCain would have voted to increase the minimum wage.

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Mar 2, 2021

We have never had to worry about our own citizens this way. Even at the height of the great protests throughout our history, whether it was over labor or civil rights, we never had to worry about citizens actually arming themselves to kill…

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Feb 24, 2021

There will always be an excuse in Trump world to remake the --continued the remaking of the Republican Party because that ultimately, that`s what this is about.

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Feb 24, 2021

Donald Trump has commanded the stage. Donald Trump will be the center of attention.

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Feb 24, 2021

Well, once the former president lost or was finished a second term and moved on, then the reins of the party would return to the party leadership, meaning the national chairman and the state party elected representatives at the National…

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Feb 19, 2021

Ted Cruz won the week because this brother has given every aspiring and currently serving elected official a primer on what your responsibilities are and are not in a storm.

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Feb 19, 2021

The governor of Texas try to blame a nonexistent Green New Deal, which has never been enacted as law, tried to blame Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has nothing to do with Texas, other than raising $2 million for Texas, and doing more than…

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Feb 19, 2021

A party, leadership should be about the very thing that Victoria touched on. And that`s governing. How do you govern?

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Feb 19, 2021

If our response to the people of Maryland was, get over it, stop complaining about the cold snap or all the water in your basement, you don`t survive that.

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Feb 12, 2021

If you don’t let it go, you don’t heal and you don’t heal, you just get sicker.

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Feb 11, 2021

That’s why he tweeted what he tweeted.

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Feb 11, 2021

Yes, let’s be clear with what we’re talking about with respect to Donald Trump and Mike Pence.

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Feb 8, 2021

It`s going to take that kind of in-your-face leadership, Joy, to push back on this. And it does not exist among the men in the party. It has always existed largely with the women. And, clearly, Liz has shown it.

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Feb 8, 2021

If Kevin McCarthy thinks he`s going to be speaker, he really does not understand his caucus, because that is just not happening. They don`t want you to be speaker, Kevin.

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Feb 8, 2021

This moment is not about traditional politics and the back and forth that we saw play out in the first impeachment. This is about our country, this is about the sanctity and the sacredness, if you will, of the constitutional foundings that…

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Feb 8, 2021

While the Democrats hope that, you know, this trial will just lead to Trump just going away and never running again and the Republicans hope that, OK, we just don`t poke the bear. Both of those are wrong.

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Feb 2, 2021

But the problem is, you have 140 some members of that House caucus, who stand with her who are just as QAnon crazy and Trump obsessed as she is.

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Feb 2, 2021

If you continue on the road, you`re on it. And if you believe that, that you`d rather have Marjorie Taylor Jones, over a Liz Cheney, that you would prefer to embrace QAnon, and Proud Boys and white nationalism, if you would prefer to…

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Feb 2, 2021

If bowing before all things Trump is the litmus test for being a loyal Republican, the party should get used to continued losses in the suburbs.

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Feb 2, 2021

This is not complicated.

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Feb 2, 2021

They think that their political calculation as they begin to set up 2022 is that by just letting it go away, ignoring it, not drawing a lot of attention to it, it will keep Trump relatively at bay.

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Feb 2, 2021

Well, that is very likely, Brian that he won’t face consequences, because members of the U.S. Senate will sit at those very same desks.

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