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If this is how Donald Trump is going to treat our allies. Then we are in for a hell of a ride these next four or so years.

Growing up, like many people in this room, I suspect, I watched as mostly--as straight politicians, many of them White, many of them men, used my basic human rights as a political football to further their careers.

This was a stunning defeat for Donald Trump because he insisted that something be done about the debt ceiling and it is nowhere to be found.

I mean, I think we're probably going to be the closest we'll ever -- we will have ever gotten, to a default, in the history of this country. And that's unfortunate, and it is a direct function of how extreme the Republican Party is.