“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“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.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”

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On the recordOctober 4, 2021
He is using this as a partisan weapon. And that is what people hate about politics and we are not going to let him get away with it.
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Tina Smith
Democratic · Minnesota
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msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Smith asserts that McConnell is manipulating the debt ceiling for political gain and vows to resist it.

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