Political Quotes

“If the Senator would yield, as long as there is no fraud, if a person in a nursing home can't get to the polling place and wants to vote and someone collects their ballot, there is nothing wrong with that. In fact, that is good. That makes it easier for them to vote. With all of these things that they bring up, there has been no evidence of fraud--none. Donald Trump has not produced any evidence of fraud. He lost by 7 million votes. Yet he is saying he won the election. We all know what is motivating our colleagues on the other side of the aisle--obeisance to Donald Trump. I would guess most of them know that the election was not stolen, that the Big Lie doesn't take effect, but Trump has such power over the Republican Party--such power--that they do what he wants in the legislatures and here in the Senate. I would remind my good friend from Texas that his fellow Texans George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush proudly supported an extension of the Voting Rights Act. They proudly did that. It was bipartisan until Donald Trump came over and, in my opinion, poisoned the Republican Party on voting rights. We could use a little resistance to Donald Trump. We see it from a good number of Republicans out in the country, and we see it from a good number of Republican commentators, but we don't see it here in the Senate, and that is unfortunate. I am not going to yield for a further question. Mr.…”