“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”
“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.”
“Here is what you need to know: The 2020 election was not stolen; we won and he lost.”

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On the recordJanuary 19, 2022
Despite multiple requests by the committee Democrats to hold hearings on election security, the Republican Chairman largely declined to do so.
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Yvette Clarke
Democratic · New York
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Clarke criticizes the previous Republican leadership's inaction on election security.

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